Pervasive Software
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Pervasive Software develops and distributes data infrastructure software and ETL
Extract, transform, load
Extract, transform and load is a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that involves:* Extracting data from outside sources* Transforming it to fit operational needs...

 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
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

 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.

Pervasive Software is headquartered in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

, and sells its products internationally with market development partners in the UK, Europe, Japan, ASEAN territories, Mexico, Korea, and China.

The company is also heavily involved in Cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

 through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering
along with its long-standing relationship with SaaS giant, salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

.
Pervasive DataRush developers are engaged in work on a parallelized multicore-powered data-intensive high performance computing Java development platform.
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.

History

Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft with the Btrieve
Btrieve
Btrieve is a transactional database software product. It is based on Indexed Sequential Access Method , which is a way of storing data for fast retrieval...

 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, 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
Business-to-business
Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 data interchange service Channelinx in 2009. ChanneLinx is based out of Greenville, SC. It will continue operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange.

Key products and solutions


Directors

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

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