I read an article yesterday by R “Ray” Wang on his Software Insiders Point of View blog: Research Report: How The Five Pillars Of Consumer Tech Influence Enterprise Innovation, and while it’s an excellent article, and makes some good points, I took exception to the first line: Most Enterprise Software Vendors Fail To Deliver Innovation.  Hey, wait a minute.  [...]

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 [...]

Lately, there has been interest in leveraging hybrid clouds, or an architecture that allows you to leverage a combination of private and public clouds, sharing the processing load inside and outside of the firewall. The idea is that you can have your private cake and eat it too, allowing certain processes to take advantage of public cloud services during times when the on-premise systems are saturated.

I get asked fairly frequently to give metrics on Pervasive performance, particularly as it relates to integrating SaaS applications such as NetSuite and RightNOW. Just today, a customer asked me what Pervasive’s performance metrics around SalesForce were. This is a very difficult question for me to answer…

We recently posted a new video interview with Benefit Concept’s Greg Hussey, CIO and Bhupesh Saini, Director of Software Development. Greg and Bhupesh discuss their integration challenges around dealing with widely varied trading partner data feeds …