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 [...]

Those who promote data integration within the enterprise typically consider the use of this approach and technology as common sense.  After all, we want to link our business critical systems together so they can exchange and externalize data.  The benefits are obvious to us. However, for those who are running the budgets, the movement to [...]

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, [...]

I work in the healthcare vertical quite a bit these days.  What I see has really opened my eyes to the need for a sound data integration strategy and a good base of data integration technology.  In many cases the amount of information in silos is not only undesirable from the standpoint of healthcare providers, [...]

Application developers tend to prefer working in our own little worlds. We put our heads down, write code and everything is fine. Integration developers can’t afford that luxury.  We have to communicate or the project dies before it even has a chance to get going. And that’s just scary. For integration specialists, effective communication with [...]