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Pervasive Software Inc.
10725
North De Anza Boulevard,
Cupertino, California 95014
(408) 973-7171
www.pervasive.com
Data Management Software - Category
Directory
Sales
$50
million
Business Description
Pervasive Software is a global value leader in data infrastructure software.
Thousands of businesses worldwide rely on our solutions to help manage,
integrate, analyze and secure their critical data. Our data management and
integration product lines are designed specifically for small to mid-sized
businesses and departments of large enterprises where high performance,
flexibility, rapid deployment and low total cost of ownership (TCO) are
paramount. In addition, significant portions of our product line are
embeddable into commercial applications for sale predominantly to small to
mid-size enterprises (SMEs) through a well-developed channel of independent
software vendors (ISVs), value-added resellers (VARs) and systems
integrators.
Our data management solutions combine high performance and low TCO to
provide superior value for ISVs, VARs, our distributors and departments
within larger enterprises. Our flagship Pervasive.SQL database, offering
unparalleled data management technology combined with very low TCO, has more
than 6 million server seats licensed since inception in 1994. The full data
management product line also includes specific solutions for data movement
and synchronization and addresses security challenges related to data
integrity, accountability, continuity and availability throughout the data
life cycle. The product line is designed for integration by ISVs into
client/server, Web and mobile applications and is predominantly sold to SMEs,
which typically have environments with little to no information technology
(IT) infrastructure and require self-tuning, low-administration products.
Our data and application integration solutions feature a comprehensive set
of visual design tools to rapidly build and test integration processes,
regardless of size and complexity, across hundreds of data formats and
applications within and outside of the enterprise. The Pervasive Integration
product line is designed to grow and scale for the diverse data and
application integration needs of mid-sized businesses and departments of
large enterprises. Our focus on rapid implementation and ease of use helps
reduce the complexity, costs and risks associated with traditional
labor-intensive integration methods.
Our strength is evidenced by the size and diversity of our customer base,
serving tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry and
market around the world. We sell products worldwide in more than 150
countries through direct sales and channel distribution. Our customer base
of more than 35,000 customers includes a distribution channel of more than
10,000 ISVs, developers, VARs, systems integrators and partners who have
built or deployed applications on top of our data management platform. We
also have a customer base of more than 25,000 end users for our integration
products and services.
Products
Our software products offer customers a proven, cost-effective way to
manage, integrate, secure and analyze their data. Delivered both directly
and through ISVs, VARs, systems integrators and other vendors, our products
are designed to provide solid business value while reducing the time,
complexity and cost associated with data infrastructure projects. Our focus
on high value solutions that provide low TCO, reflects our belief in the
strategic importance of this value proposition for our customers, where high
performance, flexibility for growth, and time to market are paramount.
Data Management Product Line
We offer a wide range of products for secure data management that deliver
faster ROI, greater business flexibility, enhanced revenue opportunities and
proven accountability for data infrastructure investments at a lower total
cost of ownership.
Pervasive.SQL™, our core database product offering, combines the high
performance associated with enterprise-class databases with numerous
low-maintenance features and is ideally suited for client/server, Web and
mobile mission-critical applications deployed on a variety of the most
popular operating systems.
Our offerings allow a broad range of customers to:
• Build low total cost of ownership applications for use in SME environments
characterized by little to no IT infrastructure or in departments within
large enterprises;
• Develop, upgrade or migrate applications that support a broad range of
operating systems, including Windows, Linux and NetWare; and
• Embed our database inside their commercial or internally developed
application, permitting development of a tightly integrated application.
Our most-recent version, Pervasive.SQL V8, was released in December 2002.
Development began in 2003 on the next major release of Pervasive.SQL, which
is slated for release in fiscal year 2005. Pervasive.SQL 9 will incorporate
many of the most-requested customer features and benefits, as well as a
boost in SQL performance, providing compelling reasons for upgrades and
competitive wins in the marketplace.
Pervasive DataExchange™ Real-Time Backup Edition, our core replication
offering, offers targeted solutions to data movement and synchronization
problems like maintaining an offsite warm backup, driving transactional data
into a data portal, and connecting remote databases. DataExchange solutions
feature a combination of product and services customized for the business
problem to be solved:
• Data Continuity—augments end-of-day tape backups by maintaining an
up-to-date warm standby at an offsite location;
• Data Synchronization—automates the near real time sharing of data between
locations, supporting the growth in the number of offices and locations and
related increase in the geographic distribution of data; and
• Data Portal—bridges the gap between existing transactional systems and the
Web portal or the data warehouse, allowing system access for
non-transactional activities, such as query and analysis, without
disrupting, modifying or taxing the performance of the transactional system.
While Pervasive DataExchange™ Real-Time Backup Edition is most appropriate
for organizations that handle constantly changing data requiring
up-to-the-minute replication, Pervasive Backup Agent™ is best suited for
customers needing weekly or nightly copies and protection of their data. The
two products address different needs driven by the desired backup frequency,
but, in many situations, both products will be run side-by-side since they
do have separate strengths. As a technology extension to our core database,
Backup Agent can be completely embedded into applications. This simple to
deploy, low-cost product is tailored for SMEs that require regular backup of
their business data. Backup Agent helps provide the integrity and
consistency of replicated data by keeping the Pervasive.SQL™ database up and
running in continuous operations mode while a duplicate copy is being made.
When installed directly onto a server along with Pervasive.SQL, the product
requires no configuration settings and no database administrator
maintenance. Pervasive Backup Agent can be integrated into existing backup
processes and should be run in conjunction with complementary third-party
backup products.
Pervasive AuditMaster™, our core security product offering, monitors and
reports all activity occurring in a Pervasive.SQL database, leveraging
deep-level capture, report and alert technology to enable monitoring of
mission critical data without the high costs of application redevelopment
and deployment, training, or on-going maintenance. This technology is
particularly relevant in the accounting and healthcare markets, both of
which are presently dealing with increased regulatory requirements brought
about by the Sarbanes Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA). AuditMaster provides data access accountability
by means of three modules:
• Capture—The Capture module is an easily installed database plug-in. It
serves somewhat like an all-seeing flight recorder, trapping every event in
the database in a detailed trail. It is installed at the database level, so
when the database is running, AuditMaster Capture is running, maintaining a
complete log record of events occurring in the database;
• Report—Once the Capture module establishes the audit trail, the Report
module allows queries on it, enabling a security administrator to perform
audits on the activity within the application by verifying past activities
or analyzing patterns and trends; and
• Alert—While Reports are historical in nature, the Alert module offers
proactive surveillance of future data activity. Once defined in AuditMaster,
alert triggers wait for specified events of interest based on the entire
range of user actions, including creating, updating and deleting data, or
even simply reading it. When a watched for event occurs, AuditMaster
immediately triggers an Alert, which can take the form of an email to one or
more recipients, a call to another application, or the start-up of a new
application.
In response to the growing need for ad hoc search capabilities in
Pervasive.SQL powered software applications, we acquired a license to search
engine technology in June 2003 for release to the global market of
Pervasive.SQL ISVs. Slated for inclusion in Pervasive.SQL 9, our new search
functionality will allow application developers to incorporate powerful text
and numeric search capabilities directly into their Pervasive.SQL-based
applications with a minimum of development effort. With our search
functionality, developers can build custom search User Interfaces directly
into their applications allowing the application’s end user to quickly
search for any data in the Pervasive.SQL database using simple text queries
rather than complicated SQL syntax. Matching results are returned through
XML allowing the application developer to determine the best way to display
those results to the end user.
Data and Application Integration Product Line
Based on technology acquired from Data Junction Corporation, Pervasive’s
integration product line now augments the company’s industry-leading low-TCO
data management software offerings. Our integration products for data
infrastructure management have been developed on a single, open integration
platform designed to grow and scale for diverse integration projects,
providing the industry’s best combination of performance, flexibility and
total cost of ownership.
Our integration products reduce the complexity, costs and risks associated
with traditional labor-intensive integration methods by providing a
versatile and configurable integration architecture for rapid implementation
and ease of use. This flexibility enables mid-sized businesses and
departments of large enterprises to create and fine-tune their solutions for
frequently changing business needs and requirements. Our integration
products, which feature a comprehensive set of easy-to-use visual design
tools to rapidly build and test integration processes, regardless of size
and complexity, across hundreds of data formats and applications within and
outside of the enterprise, include:
• Pervasive Data Migration Toolkit, which provides a simple, flexible and
cost-effective way to migrate data between legacy and new applications or
data stores;
• Pervasive Data Integrator, which aggregates and integrates data quickly
and cost-effectively for high volume, continuous processing, targeting the
needs in the traditional Extract, Transform and Load, or ETL market as a
feed for data warehouses and ultimately business intelligence tools;
• Pervasive Business Integrator, which is ideal for integrating multiple
business applications within or across organizations for real-time,
event-drive integration closely aligned with key business processes; and
• Embeddable versions of each, namely, Pervasive Data Migrator™ Embedded,
Pervasive Data Integrator™ Embedded, and Pervasive Business Integrator™
Embedded. These products are specifically targeted for use by ISVs worldwide
to help them to pre-wire competitive advantage into their applications to
better fit within customer infrastructure, vastly improving data and
application integration capabilities.
Pervasive Data Migration Toolkit
Designed for:
• Project-based data migrations
• Data conversion
• Legacy conversion
The Pervasive Data Migration Toolkit provides native connectivity to more
than 100 different types of data sources and targets, which reduces the time
needed to understand data structures and provides the highest processing
performance during the migration itself. The easy-to-use visual mapping
tools of Map Designer™ allow a user to quickly map and transform source
data—robust database files, COBOL data and even spreadsheets—to the target,
regardless of the target’s data structure. A rich scripting language is also
available for more sophisticated transformation needs.
With native connectivity to so many data targets and sources, no interim
file structures are needed to complete the migration, ensuring maximum
performance during the migration itself. The proven, underlying migration
engine then handles large and small data files, making the product perfect
for most migration projects around an organization. The Migration Toolkit
runs on the Windows platform, but can reach data on almost any operating
system.
Pervasive Data Integrator
Designed for:
• Continual, real-time data-level integration
• ETL (Extract, Transform and Load)
• Legacy data integration
To gain a whole-business view for analysis and improved decision-making
ability, organizations face the challenge of timely and efficiently
aggregating data from across all information sources into centralized
stores. Pervasive Data Integrator provides access to nearly any data source,
including unstructured data, and allows users to transform and load data
warehouses, data marts or other target systems.
Pervasive Data Integrator provides the developer with a collection of
easy-to-learn graphical tools fit for rapid design and maintenance of
one-off or recurring processes that move data from one format to another
leveraging more than 120 connectors to a wide variety of data sources and
targets. Pervasive Data Integrator also comes with full automation
capabilities including command line interfaces for setting up recurring,
scheduled ETL processing.
Pervasive Business Integrator
Designed for:
• Continual, real-time, message-based integration
• Application integration
• Supplier/trading partner integration
Pervasive Business Integrator attacks business integration challenges
head-on with an infrastructure specially built for cost-effective, flexible
integration of very complex application processes and data flows, both
within and outside the organization.
Specially suited for message-driven application integration, the Pervasive
Business Integrator development environment enables the developer to quickly
define and maintain message processing between multiple applications.
Pervasive Business Integrator provides the developer with a collection of
tools fit for rapid design and maintenance of processes that translate
business documents and manage their flow between business systems and those
of trading partners using a near real-time, event driven model. With over
150 different connectors, including connectivity to messaging interfaces
like SAP Idocs, message queue interfaces for MSMQ from IBM and Sonic
Software, and pre-built support for standards-based messaging such as EDI,
EDIFACT, HIPAA, HL7, FIX and more, Pervasive’s Business Integrator is the
ideal tool for building application integration projects.
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