Data Integration has garnered lots of attention in the IT press for several years.  People write about techniques, protocols and standards all the time.  But aren’t the real reasons that we need integration often overlooked? What business problem are we solving by integrating?  How much data do we need integrated?  How often do we need [...]

CR Software staff Chris Hausman, Don Rhoads and Yan Chen. Integrating data can be hard to do, but it doesn’t have to be.  CR Software has helped almost 400 companies integrate accounts receivable data to increase collections, and streamline the collections process. This experience has illustrated some best practices that are critical for ETL success. [...]

I had an opportunity to hear and meet the CIO of a fascinating non-profit organization, called the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), at IntegratioNEXT.  MIX’s mission is to provide detailed financial and social information which enables microfinance institutions (MFIs), market facilitators, leading donor organizations and investors to make better investments in the segment of the population [...]

Every year at IntegratioNEXT, Pervasive spotlights a few of our customers and partners whose creative use of our software really breaks new ground.  We give out the InnovatioNEXT Award for Integration Innovation (See last year’s award winners here). Given the sheer number of customers who are doing new and innovative integration projects this year, we have blown up the InnovatioNEXT Awards, creating nine [...]

Ceridian Tax Technology, a leading provider of tax, payroll and other financial processing, needed an integration solution that could handle the complexity of their business, the compliance requirements, and the one constant in the financial industry – change.  Ceridian Tax Division has to deal with over 9000 federal, state, and local regulations that must be tracked [...]