Many have characterized the strategic ‘executive dashboard’ as the CEO’s killer app. The goal is to make intelligence and insight clear and accessible at a glance, in uncluttered layouts, where everything is highly relevant and distinct in purpose. Critical executive decisions are made partly based on the information that dashboards deliver. A strategic dashboard can [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Purpose-built data integration is designed to meet a specific business need, with very specific capabilities bundled in the solution. Frequently, purpose-built data integration has come as an appliance. For enterprises with broad needs, purpose-built data integration quickly becomes less useful as business needs change and types of projects proliferate. For such enterprise needs, a broad [...]