As someone who lives the world of channel marketing, I am constantly thinking of new ways for RightNow to engage with, communicate to and build relationships among highly credible, technology companies such as Pervasive. In October, this activity intensifies as we prepare for the RightNow Summit Americas. This event is an amazing opportunity to connect [...]

Application developers tend to prefer working in our own little worlds. We put our heads down, write code and everything is fine. Integration developers can’t afford that luxury.  We have to communicate or the project dies before it even has a chance to get going. And that’s just scary. For integration specialists, effective communication with [...]

As with Data Management, Data Integration is becoming increasingly tied to strategic business initiatives, rather than remaining primarily linked to silo’ed or one-off activity. Data Management programs help Data Integration to be seen as more strategic. In its role for Data Management, Data Integration consolidates disparate data sources and transforms that data into reliable information [...]

For too many years, people working with data have used this trite – and truly inexact — definition of metadata: metadata is data about data. It’s short, it’s sweet and it sounds clever. But it doesn’t help anyone understand Metadata and what makes it distinct from the data itself. It’s quite likely that this inexactness [...]

For many companies, the business technology that underpins those companies is going through a transition from an infrastructure of all systems on-premises to more of a “hybrid” infrastructure comprised of part cloud-based services and part on-premises systems. Turning to cloud services is not just about saving money and doing more with fewer internal resources – [...]