Pervasive Software Announces Universal CONNECT! Initiative to Connect and Integrate Data Sources and Applications

Data Integration Veteran Offers Industry`s First Comprehensive Connectivity
Program to Connect Virtually Anything
AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--
Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ:PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data
management and agile data integration software, announces the launch of a new
corporate initiative aimed at connecting virtually all on-premises and on-demand
applications and data sources. Universal CONNECT! is the industry's first
initiative to provide comprehensive connectivity to essentially anything - from
legacy to SaaS applications, data files to databases, Web to mainframe.
Universal CONNECT! delivers total connectivity to nearly every on-premises or
on-demand application or data source. Already offering the industry`s broadest
array of pre-built adapters and connectors, Pervasive is uniquely poised to
offer what few other vendors can - speed, accuracy, connectivity and flexibility
to many markets including healthcare, financial services and CRM/ERP.

Currently, Pervasive provides out-of-the-box connectivity to thousands of
on-premises and on-demand applications and data sources. However, occasionally
out-of-the-box is not enough. Due to a lack of pre-existing commercial
connectors or the inability to connect to certain formats, business processes or
computing engines, some applications and data sources are not compatible with
one another. Universal CONNECT! solves this problem by offering extremely easy
to use, extensible and rapid connectivity to virtually anything - no matter how
unusual, tricky or obscure the data source. Pervasive end-users and partners can
now conquer even the most difficult connectivity problems, typically in less
than a day.

"We wanted to extend our Planview OpenSuite offering, in a short timeframe, with
an embedded connector for Planview`s applications," said Louise K. Allen,
Planview vice president of product management. "Pervasive Universal CONNECT!
delivered for us with extensive connectivity and a rapid development
environment. Our enhanced integration enables us to win in a very competitive
enterprise market, with faster ROI for our customers and predictable timelines
for integration to applications including SAP and Oracle Financials."

Universal CONNECT!, the industry`s most comprehensive program for integration
connectivity, includes:

* 400+ reusable connectivity components and solutions
* Connectivity to thousands of popular on-premises and SaaS applications and
data sources
* Extensible connectivity to everything else

Pervasive offers comprehensive connectivity options for many categories of data
and applications including:

• SaaS and cloud applications

• Databases

• Data files (structured and unstructured)

• Legacy data

• Infrastructure

• Web services

• EDI

• B2B

• CRM

• ERP

• Accounting applications

• Many other popular applications

"Pervasive`s Universal CONNECT! is changing the integration game," said Mike
Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and general manager for Integration Products at Pervasive
Software. "With more than 20 years of experience solving the most difficult
integration challenges, Pervasive has become the industry expert at integrating
data sources, from the most common to the most unusual, and has developed a
range of cutting-edge tools and strategies to connect data - regardless of
format, platform or interface."

Pervasive is also developing all of its own new adapters internally using the
Universal CONNECT! standards-based product which dramatically reduces its own
production time. Packaged as a software development kit, the complexity of
building an adapter has been simplified and can be completed within hours to a
few weeks rather than months. Customers can access Universal CONNECT! to build
their own adapters or retain the services of Pervasive.

"The proliferation of new applications, data sources and delivery models, such
as software as a service, combines with the persistence of legacy applications
to present many IT organizations with ever-increasing data and application
integration complexity," said Ted Friedman, VP of Gartner Research. "Such
organizations will require data integration architectures that reliably support
connectivity to diverse data sources and applications, whether they are
on-premises or cloud-based."

About Pervasive Software

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data
investments through embeddable data management, agile data integration software
and by enabling revolutionary next generation analytics. The embeddable
Pervasive PSQL database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new
technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database
reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. Pervasive's
multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information
between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and
allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios.
Pervasive DataRush is an embeddable high-performance software platform enabling
data-intensive processing applications such as claims processing, risk analysis,
fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and
marketing analytics. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have
delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries
with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low
total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also
invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data
analysis and data delivery challenges. Robin Bloor, founder of Bloor Research
and partner at Hurwitz and Associates recently cited Pervasive as one of the 10
IT Companies to Watch in 2009. For additional information, go to
www.pervasive.com.

Cautionary Statement

This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon
information available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes
no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

All Pervasive brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Pervasive Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other
marks are the property of their respective owners.

Pervasive Software Inc.
Kim Daugherty, 512-231-6507
kimberli.daugherty@pervasive.com

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