“In a time when data is so scattered, APIs are so very numerous, and data volumes are exploding, data integration has become essential. More than that, it has become expected.” Information Management published an article yesterday, co-written by Pervasive’s own CTO, Mike Hoskins, and Marketing Mgr, Paige Roberts, on the “5 Laws of Data Integration in the [...]

1to1 Media covered “10 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2011,” which is not that surprising.  However, in the world of marketing, this item on the list was unexpected: “2. Data integration becomes mission critical.  Now that there’s so much more data with the advent of social media, marketers must look beyond their traditional sources of [...]

In my last posting I discussed the data centric and process centric view of IT. Let’s now take this a little further and put these two views of the IT world on an equal footing. If we do that, then just as there is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), there also needs to be an [...]

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).

Amid its 39th quarter of consecutive profitability, Pervasive has launched a new SaaS version of its flagship Data Integrator (DI) product called DI “Cloud Edition”. In short, as part of a process described by CTO Mike Hoskins as “innovating below the water line,” the Pervasive software development team has service-enabled the platform for SOA. This enables the DI product to bring its extensive connectivity to the cloud, either on the Pervasive DataCloud onAmazon’s EC2, or on any cloud…