More and more organizations are realizing that data integration done RIGHT can be a key differentiator.  But, with the ever-changing integration landscape, how can IT professionals be sure they are taking the right approach?  Has the democratization of integration services thanks to Cloud and SaaS-based services made the lives of business and technology innovators easier, [...]

  The announcement came on April 28, 2011, during Pervasive’s Cloud Integration Summit, Metamorphosis, in Redwood, Ca. The news that Pervasive Software had launched a community platform for data integration, called Pervasive Galaxy soon rippled throughout the data management universe.  “Partners seek ecosystems to share, deliver, and monetize innovation to customers,” said Ray Wang, principal [...]

Ray Wang, Principal Analyst with Constellation Research shared his views on the future of SaaS application integration strategies with Paige Roberts at IntegrationNext. “Companies are looking for a way to manage complex environments in a simple way,” Wang observed. When Roberts asked his opinion of free integration connectors, Wang answered, “Its about time we bundled [...]

“In a time when data is so scattered, APIs are so very numerous, and data volumes are exploding, data integration has become essential. More than that, it has become expected.” Information Management published an article yesterday, co-written by Pervasive’s own CTO, Mike Hoskins, and Marketing Mgr, Paige Roberts, on the “5 Laws of Data Integration in the [...]

At Planview, Louise Allen has taken on a huge challenge. The company is offering a Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution which competes with the largest companies in the industry—Microsoft, Oracle, HP, CA and SAP. Planview doesn’t only compete with these major players, its solutions have to interoperate with many of their applications and databases as well. Compounding these competitive challenges is the fact that Planview is also in the midst of migrating to a SaaS model, one of the toughest tasks for an established, independent software vendor (ISV).