Composite Software's Application Data Services for Salesforce.com Now on AppExchange

Business Wire, Dec 19, 2006

Customers Can Now Deploy Composite's Technology via the ApexConnect Category to Integrate Salesforce With Enterprise and Back-Office Applications as Data Services

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Composite Software, the leader in Data Services, announced today that it is expanding distribution channels for its popular product lines. Composite is offering its entire suite of products--the flagship Composite Information Server (CIS) as well as Composite Application Data Services--on salesforce.com's AppExchange for optimized access into salesforce.com and other popular applications.

With Composite's technology now available on the AppExchange, salesforce.com customers have instant access to the world's leading data services solutions. Customers will be able to tap their CRM data within salesforce.com, as well as combine this data with other information from across disparate corporate IT silos, delivering this aggregated information as data services within their enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Composite offers vendor-neutral, best-of-breed technology ideal for customers with heterogeneous IT environments seeking to deploy a SOA or other solution that requires data from multiple, enterprise systems including SAP, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite.

"Customers are integrating salesforce.com with all kinds of applications throughout their enterprises for every kind of business need," said Adam Gross, vice president, Developer Marketing, salesforce.com. "We have launched the ApexConnect integration category on the AppExchange in response to this specific demand. Composite's best-of-breed data services technology will help customers to integrate and deliver salesforce.com data with their other enterprise data for business intelligence (BI) and analytic purposes."

"We're pleased to make Composite technology available on AppExchange," said Robert Eve, vice president of Marketing, Composite Software. "Customers will have easier access, via our best-of-breed technology, to help them with SOA, BI and custom-built solutions. By providing the ability to access disparate data, combine information with salesforce.com data, and abstract data location and complexity, our technology enables customers to achieve their business initiatives quickly and easily."

Built using Apex, the world's first on-demand language and programming platform, Composite Application Data Services for salesforce.com is immediately available through AppExchange. For more information, please go to http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.> ABOUT APEX: Apex provides ease of customization and integration enabling a new generation of on-demand applications to extend the capabilities of CRM. All Apex components and applications can be shared, exchanged and installed with salesforce.com's AppExchange directory. Composite Application Data Services for AppExchange is one of more than 430 applications currently available on salesforce.com's AppExchange, which is found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The Apex platform, formerly known as the AppExchange platform, is available now. As previously announced, the next release of the Apex platform is scheduled to be available in conjunction with the release of The Winter '07 release; the Apex programming language is currently scheduled to be available during the first half of 2007.

About Composite Software: Composite Software, Inc.[R] is the SOA data services leader. Composite data services are the fastest path for delivering existing data to next-generation applications. With Composite's award-winning Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology, high performance information server, easy-to-use data services development suite, and pre-built applications services, enterprises can build applications faster without worrying about data location and complexity. And only Composite lets users leverage existing data assets and reusable data services across both SOA and legacy environments, simplifying SOA migration and improving business responsiveness while lowering costs and SOA risks. Composite's products are proven at more than 100 large enterprises, including four of the top five US investment banks. Composite's technology is embedded by Cognos, Informatica, BMC and others. Founded in 2002, Composite Software Inc. is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com.

Composite Software, Composite Information Server and Composite Application Data Services are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies.