Pervasive Software Announces Universal CONNECT! Initiative to Connect and Integrate Data Sources and Applications

Data Integration Veteran Offers Industry’s First Comprehensive Connectivity Program to Connect Virtually Anything

• Press Release
• Source: Pervasive Software Inc.
• On 8:00 am EDT, Thursday October 1, 2009

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pervasive Software^® Inc. (NASDAQ:PVSW - News), a global value leader in embeddable data management and agile data integration software, announces the launch of a new corporate initiative aimed at connecting virtually all on-premises and on-demand applications and data sources. Universal CONNECT!™ is the industry's first initiative to provide comprehensive connectivity to essentially anything - from legacy to SaaS applications, data files to databases, Web to mainframe. Universal CONNECT! delivers total connectivity to nearly every on-premises or on-demand application or data source. Already offering the industry’s broadest array of pre-built adapters and connectors, Pervasive is uniquely poised to offer what few other vendors can – speed, accuracy, connectivity and flexibility to many markets including healthcare, financial services and CRM/ERP.

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Currently, Pervasive provides out-of-the-box connectivity to thousands of on-premises and on-demand applications and data sources. However, occasionally out-of-the-box is not enough. Due to a lack of pre-existing commercial connectors or the inability to connect to certain formats, business processes or computing engines, some applications and data sources are not compatible with one another. Universal CONNECT! solves this problem by offering extremely easy to use, extensible and rapid connectivity to virtually anything – no matter how unusual, tricky or obscure the data source. Pervasive end-users and partners can now conquer even the most difficult connectivity problems, typically in less than a day.

“We wanted to extend our Planview OpenSuite offering, in a short timeframe, with an embedded connector for Planview’s applications,” said Louise K. Allen, Planview vice president of product management. “Pervasive Universal CONNECT! delivered for us with extensive connectivity and a rapid development environment. Our enhanced integration enables us to win in a very competitive enterprise market, with faster ROI for our customers and predictable timelines for integration to applications including SAP and Oracle Financials.”

Universal CONNECT!, the industry’s most comprehensive program for integration connectivity, includes:

• 400+ reusable connectivity components and solutions
• Connectivity to thousands of popular on-premises and SaaS applications and data sources
• Extensible connectivity to everything else

Pervasive offers comprehensive connectivity options for many categories of data and applications including:

• SaaS and cloud applications

• Databases

• Data files (structured and unstructured)

• Legacy data

• Infrastructure

• Web services

• EDI

• B2B

• CRM

• ERP

• Accounting applications

• Many other popular applications

“Pervasive’s Universal CONNECT! is changing the integration game,” said Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and general manager for Integration Products at Pervasive Software. “With more than 20 years of experience solving the most difficult integration challenges, Pervasive has become the industry expert at integrating data sources, from the most common to the most unusual, and has developed a range of cutting-edge tools and strategies to connect data – regardless of format, platform or interface.”

Pervasive is also developing all of its own new adapters internally using the Universal CONNECT! standards-based product which dramatically reduces its own production time. Packaged as a software development kit, the complexity of building an adapter has been simplified and can be completed within hours to a few weeks rather than months. Customers can access Universal CONNECT! to build their own adapters or retain the services of Pervasive.

“The proliferation of new applications, data sources and delivery models, such as software as a service, combines with the persistence of legacy applications to present many IT organizations with ever-increasing data and application integration complexity,” said Ted Friedman, VP of Gartner Research. “Such organizations will require data integration architectures that reliably support connectivity to diverse data sources and applications, whether they are on-premises or cloud-based.”

About Pervasive Software

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW - News) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management, agile data integration software and by enabling revolutionary next generation analytics. The embeddable Pervasive PSQL™ database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. Pervasive DataRush™ is an embeddable high-performance software platform enabling data-intensive processing applications such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. Robin Bloor, founder of Bloor Research and partner at Hurwitz and Associates recently cited Pervasive as one of the 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2009. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com.

Cautionary Statement

This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

All Pervasive brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pervasive Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Pervasive Software Inc.
Kim Daugherty, 512-231-6507
kimberli.daugherty@pervasive.com