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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m doing a Webinar for Tech Target’s Search SOA website this month, and it will focus on using data integration for cloud-based systems.  The core issues are not about what’s different when using clouds, it’s about the slight change in integration patterns and a few new issues that you need to consider. My guidance to [...]