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, [...]

Paige Roberts sat down with James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions at IntegrationNext to get his take on the impact of Pervasive’s DataRush on BI analytics. With the explosion in the analytics market, a big concern is how the behavior of automated information infrastructure can be changed. “DataRush enables developers to build the analytics [...]

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).

I had an opportunity to hear and meet the CIO of a fascinating non-profit organization, called the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), at IntegratioNEXT.  MIX’s mission is to provide detailed financial and social information which enables microfinance institutions (MFIs), market facilitators, leading donor organizations and investors to make better investments in the segment of the population [...]