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, [...]

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).

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 [...]

Adaptive Planning will be presenting at IntegratioNEXT 2010, and has been nominated for the InnovatioNEXT award in the Best SaaS/Cloud Solution category.  I had the chance to  interview them at our last conference, Metamorphosis 2010, and ask them about their creative use of small-footprint agents to make that bridge across the firewall from a SaaS application to on-premise [...]

I really enjoyed Planview’s presentation at Metamorphosis 2010 that discussed how using the Pervasive embedded integration platform helped Planview go up against some of its biggest competitors. Below is a video interview with Louise K. Allen, VP of Product Management for Planview, where she talks about her presentation. Here is an excerpt: “We did a deep technology review [...]