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Amid its 39^th quarter of consecutive profitability, Pervasive has launched a new SaaS version of its flagship Data Integrator (DI) product called DI “Cloud Edition”. In short, as part of a process described by CTO Mike Hoskins as “innovating below the water line,” the Pervasive software development team has service-enabled the platform for SOA. This enables the DI product to bring its extensive connectivity to the cloud, either on the Pervasive DataCloud onAmazon’s EC2, or on any cloud.

At the same time the architecture was undergoing a major upgrade, innovation was also occurring above the waterline. Significant functionality was added in the areas of data profiling and data matching. Both profiling and matching are now exploiting the DataRush parallel processing engine. According to Jim Falgout (DataRush Chief Technologist), DataRush continues to set records for high performance.The latest record broken was on September 27, 2010 as it delivered an order of magnitude greater throughput than earlier biological algorithm results, performing 986 billion cell updates/second on 10 million protein sequences using a 384 core SGI Ultrix UV1000 in 81.1 seconds. Wow! This enables the entire platform to deliver the basics for a complete data governance infrastructure to those enterprises that know the answer to the question “What are your data quality policies and procedures?” When combined with the data mining open source offering called “KNIME” (Konstanz Information Miner), which featured prominently in numerous use cases at the conference, Pervasive is now a triple threat across data integration, quality, and predictive analytics.

In addition to software innovation, end-user enterprises will be interested to learn that Pervasive is also delivering pricing innovations. Client (end user) enterprises will be unambiguously pleased to hear about this one, unlike some uses of the phrase “pricing innovations” that have meant gaming the system to implement price increases. Instead of per connector pricing, the classic approach for data integration vendors, according to which each individual connector costs an additional fee, Pervasive provides all of its available connectors in DI v10 Cloud Edition for a single reasonable monthly charge. The figure that was given to me was $1000 a month for the software, including all the available connectors. And remember, Pervasive is famous since its days doing business as Data Junction for the diversity of connectors, across the entire spectrum from xbase class to high end enterprise adapters. For those enterprises confronting the dual challenges of a short timeline to results and a large number of heterogeneous data sources, the recommendation is clear: check this out.