Profile: Pervasive Software Inc (PVSW.O)

Pervasive Software Inc. helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management, agile integration software and scalable, data-intensive data services and analytics capabilities. The embeddable PSQL database engine allows organizations to embrace technologies while maintaining application compatibility and database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. The Pervasive PSQL database offering data management technology has millions of server seats licensed. 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 lifecycle. The data and application integration offering, Pervasive Data Integrator, features a set of visual design tools to build, test and deploy integration processes, regardless of size and complexity, across hundreds of data formats and applications within and outside of the enterprise. On July 31, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of ChanneLinx, Inc.

Pervasive PSQL

Pervasive PSQL, the database offering combines the enterprise-class databases with numerous low-maintenance features and is ideally suited for client/server, standalone or hosted applications deployed on a range of operating systems and access methods. The offerings allow a range of customers to build low-total cost of ownership (TCO) applications for use in small and medium enterprises (SME) environments characterized by little to no information technology (IT) infrastructure or in departments within large enterprises; develop, upgrade or migrate applications that support a range of operating systems, including Windows and Linux, and embed the database inside their commercial or internally developed application, permitting development of an integrated application.

Pervasive DataExchange

Pervasive DataExchange Real-Time Backup Edition, the Company’s replication offering features targeted solutions to data movement and synchronization problems like maintaining an off-site warm backup, driving transactional data into a data portal, and connecting remote databases. Pervasive DataExchange solutions feature a combination of product and services customized for the business problem to be solved. Data high availability provides a real-time backup of data to a secondary local or remote server for reliable protection and availability of application data. Data continuity augments end-of-day tape backups by maintaining an up-to-date warm standby at an off-site location. Data portal bridges the gap between existing transactional systems and the Web portal or 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.

Pervasive Backup Agent

Pervasive Backup Agent is designed to complement existing, traditional weekly or nightly backup solutions. Pervasive Backup Agent helps provide improved integrity and reliability to traditional backups by allowing the Pervasive PSQL database to be in use and operational while buffering all changes to the database while it is accessed by third-party backup software. This allows the backup software to complete a full Point-in-Time image of the database while avoiding file access issues associated with users interacting with the system while files are being modified. When installed directly onto a server along with Pervasive PSQL, the product requires no configuration settings and no database administrator maintenance. Pervasive Backup Agent can be integrated into existing backup processes and can run in conjunction with complementary third-party backup products.

Pervasive AuditMaster

Pervasive AuditMaster, the security product offering, monitors and reports activity occurring in a Pervasive PSQL database, leveraging deep-level capture, report and alert technology to enable monitoring of mission-critical data without the costs of application redevelopment and deployment, training, or ongoing maintenance. This technology is particularly relevant for users needing compliance, monitoring and notification of personal data or information. Pervasive AuditMaster provides data access accountability by means of three modules: Capture, Report and Alert.

The Capture module is an easily installed database plug-in. It provides a real-time monitoring Capture agent that records every event in the database in a detailed trail. It is installed at the database level, so when the database is running, AuditMaster captures and records to a secure log record of events in the database. Once the Capture module establishes the audit trail, the Report module allows for the activity log to be queried enabling a security administrator to perform audits on the activity within the application by verifying past activities or analyzing patterns and trends. 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 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.

Pervasive Data Integrator

Pervasive Data Integrator is available in Universal, Professional, Standard and software-as-a-service (SaaS) editions. Pervasive Data Integrator aggregates and integrates data for legacy migrations, as well as continuous processing, targeting the needs in the traditional extract, transform and load (ETL), market as a feed for data warehouses and ultimately business intelligence tools. The product also is ideal for integrating multiple business applications within or across organizations for real-time, event-driven integration closely. Pervasive Data Integrator, through the UniversalCONNECT! Strategy, provides a range of connectivity to both data sources and targets, including all databases, flat files and legacy formats, as well as SaaS and on-premises applications and formats, including Salesforce, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics (CRM, GP and AX), SAP, HIPAA, SWIFT, EDI, message queues (JMS and Websphere MQ) and enterprise service buses. The product is offered in both perpetual and subscription-based licensing models.

Pervasive Data Profiler

Pervasive Data Profiler is designed to reduce the complexities, risk, and expense associated with manually checking data, improving information technology (IT) productivity, eliminating rework, and increasing returns on investment (ROI) around applications and business processes. It allows assessment, profiling and validation of complete data sets rather than relying on sampling. Pervasive Data Profiler has an engine specifically designed for testing/auditing transactional data, creating positive effects on business processes, reducing expenses, and lessening risk to IT departments and their companies. Pervasive Data Profiler’s highly scalable, data-intensive throughput is built on the Pervasive DataRush technology, designed to scale automatically to deliver parallel data processing on multi-core servers.

Pervasive Data MatchMerge

Pervasive Data MatchMerge allows for identification of data redundancies and data quality issues, such as duplicates that cause inaccuracies within various data applications. The solution leverages Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive DataRush as the underlying technology platforms. Pervasive Data MatchMerge is equipped with tunable algorithms for identifying duplicate records and a means to rectify them within the Merge user-interface. The solution is capable of incorporating third-party and standardization applications by using application programming interface (APIs). Its tunable fuzzy matching algorithms allow analysts to iterate through multiple combinations of matching and scoring properties.

Pervasive Integration Hub

Pervasive Integration Hub provides a solution to a common integration scenario a centralized hub needs to integrate with large numbers of business or trading partners, typically using different data file formats and protocols and employing different data semantics and rules. The Pervasive Integration Hub provides organizations with a central location and master process to manage profiles, define rules, and organize and validate customer data. In addition, reaching data sources behind the business partner firewall is often a challenge. Pervasive Integration Hub includes distributed intelligent agents that can be used to both extract data from business partner systems, as well as update and insert data back into business partner applications.

Pervasive Metadata Manager

Pervasive Metadata Manager is a metadata warehouse solution. In addition to automating the capture of application and integration metadata, Pervasive Metadata Manager provides reporting for lineage and impact analysis for data integration groups. It also has search capabilities to discover metadata across all artifacts within its repository. The product extensions capture granular details for all the applications that are touched by integration processes, as well as capture the details of the process logic and transformation that takes place for every data element that is moved between systems.

Pervasive Integration Manager

Pervasive Integration Manager is a browser-based management console, providing single-point administration, performance monitoring, integration engine deployment and job scheduling of integration processes running on remote integration engines. With the ability to remotely administer any number of integration points throughout the organization, customers can build out their integration infrastructure as required, using a flexible and scalable architecture designed for manageability.

Pervasive WebDI

Pervassive WebDI is a Web-based, business-to-business electronic data interchange solution that provides supply-chain management and internal and external data exchange and integration functionality. Pervasive WebDI is a hosted solution to connect businesses intelligently and provide supplier management, sales and customer service and enterprise integration and data exchange, both internally and externally. The Web-based solution allows suppliers to connect with customers and streamline business processes.

The Company competes with Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, Progress, Business Objects/SAP, Informatica and Information Builders.