Many in IT don’t understand how much better data integration software has become in recent years, and how this technology is much more cost effective.  The close comparison would be the advances and cost reductions made in consumer electronics.  These days you can buy a 40” flat screen for about $400 from any Costco, when [...]

I was very pleased to see that Pervasive’s recent Integration World conference included new thought leadership from Pervasive around Big Data, including analytics and integration.  The idea that you don’t need to adjust your data integration approaches and technology to accommodate Big Data gets many enterprises in trouble these days.  Indeed, there are a few [...]

A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

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, [...]

Data Integration has garnered lots of attention in the IT press for several years.  People write about techniques, protocols and standards all the time.  But aren’t the real reasons that we need integration often overlooked? What business problem are we solving by integrating?  How much data do we need integrated?  How often do we need [...]