Pervasive Software

Pervasive(R) Software Inc.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: PVSW)
Industry	Software & RDBMS & Data Integration
Founded	Texas (1994)
Headquarters	Austin, Texas
Key people	John Farr, CEO Mike Hoskins, CTO, Gen Mgr, Integration Products Randy Jonkers, CFO Gilbert Van Cutsem, Gen Mgr, Database Products
Products	Pervasive Data Integrator Pervasive DataRush Pervasive Data Profiler Pervasive PSQL
Revenue	$47.2 million USD (Fiscal 2010)[1]
Employees	~250
Website	www.pervasivesoftware.com

Pervasive Software develops and distributes data infrastructure software and ETL tools that integrate, analyze, secure, manage and harvest data from disparate sources. Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Data Profiler are the flagship integration products, and the Pervasive PSQL relational distributed database is the primary offering on the data storage side. These embeddable data management products deliver business-to-business integration between corporate data, third-party applications and custom software in a broad array of markets including accounting & finance, retail, CRM, government, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and education^[2].

Pervasive Software is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and sells its products internationally with market development partners in the UK, Europe, Japan, ASEAN territories, Mexico, Korea, and China.^[3]

The company is also heavily involved in Cloud computing through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering ^[4] along with its long-standing relationship with SaaS giant, salesforce.com. ^[5]

Pervasive DataRush developers are engaged in work on a parallelized multicore-powered data-intensive high performance computing Java development platform. ^[6][7] The results of a study done in cooperation with the University of Texas on NetFlix data mining using DataRush was presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-09) June 28-July 1, 2009, in Paris, France.^[8]

History

Main article: Btrieve

Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft with the Btrieve database technology. Acquired by Novell in 1987, Pervasive later spun out as Btrieve Technologies. The company name was changed to Pervasive Software in 1996 and went public in 1997. Flagship database product Pervasive PSQL was launched in 1999.

In 2003, Pervasive acquired Data Junction Corporation, makers of Data Junction^[9], a suite of data and application integration tools now known as Pervasive Data Integrator. DJCorp, founded in 1985, was a privately held company also headquartered in Austin, TX.

Pervasive also acquired B2B data interchange service Channelinx in 2009^[10]. ChanneLinx is based out of Greenville, SC. It will continue operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange^[11].

Key products and solutions

• Pervasive PSQL, which is based on Btrieve
• Pervasive Data Integrator
• Pervasive Integration Hub
• Pervasive Data Metadata Manager
• Pervasive Data Profiler
• Pervasive Data MatchMerge
• Pervasive DataRush
• Pervasive DataCloud
• Pervasive DataSolutions
• Pervasive Business Xchange

Directors

• David A. Boucher
• David R. Bradford
• Shelby H. Carter Jr.
• John Farr
• Jeffrey S. Hawn
• Mike Hoskins
• Nancy Woodward

References

1. ^ "Pervasive Software Reports Results for its Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010". http://www.pervasivesoftware.com/PervasiveNews/PressReleaseArchive/tabid/196/EntryId/452/Pervasive-Software-Reports-Results-for-its-Fourth-Quarter-of-Fiscal-Year-2010.aspx. Retrieved 2010-07-27. 
2. ^ "Pervasive Industry Solutions". http://www.pervasiveintegration.com/industry/Pages/industry_data_integration.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
3. ^ "Pervasive Partner Listing by Country". http://www.pervasiveintegration.com/partners/Pages/find_a_partner.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
4. ^ "Cloud Integration". http://www.pervasiveintegration.com/scenarios/Pages/cloud_integration.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
5. ^ "Salesforce Integration". http://www.pervasiveintegration.com/data_connectors/Pages/salesforce_integration.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
6. ^ "An Introduction to the Pervasive DataRush Framework". http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45126. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
7. ^ "First Look – Pervasive DataRush". http://jtonedm.com/2009/06/04/first-look-pervasive-datarush. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
8. ^ "Pervasive Software to Present Groundbreaking High-Performance Massively Parallel Data Mining Results at KDD-09" (pdf). http://www.pervasivedatarush.com/Documents/Press%20Releases/ILabs%20and%20KDD%20Release%20FINAL%205-28-09%203.pdf. 
9. ^ "Pervasive completes acquisition of Data Junction". http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-111029611.html. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
10. ^ "Pervasive Software Completes Acquisition of ChanneLinx Assets". http://www.pervasivedb.com/Corporate/press/Pages/PervasiveSoftwareCompletesAcquisitionofChanneLinxAssets.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. ^{[dead link]}
11. ^ "www.ChanneLinx.com". http://www.channelinx.com/. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 

External links

• DMReview Article on SOA Integration by Mike Hoskins