In many respects I’ve been using this blog as a place to showcase integration concepts and approaches that should prove valuable to those who make data integration work within enterprises.  So, I was more than happy to approach the topic of the integration community’s value. Indeed, one of the more innovative concepts in the data [...]

Andrew Leigh, Director of Product Marketing for the Force.com Platform at salesforce.com, spent some time with us at Metamorphosis 11 in San Francisco to talk about how the partnership with Pervasive helps force.com users build a new generation of applications that run on mobile devices and interact with people in a fundamentally different way. “We [...]

  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 [...]

If you are an independent software vendor or a service provider, automation of your integration process for on-boarding customers needs to be slick, seamless, and manageable. If customization needs to happen, it needs to be accessible. If customers demand configurable run times, it needs to be flexible (without a brand new project containing a huge [...]

When we speak of data, most of the time we’re talking about well-behaved and well defined data that is stored conveniently in databases. We refer to this proudly as “structured data,” and well we might because unstructured data is far less convenient. An often quoted statistic is that “only 20 percent of data is structured.” [...]