Pervasive Software Launches 'Universal Connect!' Initiative

Pervasive Software, a provider of embeddable data management and agile data integration software, announced the launch of a new corporate initiative aimed at connecting virtually all on-premises and on-demand applications and data sources.

Pervasive explained that Universal Connect! is an initiative to provide comprehensive connectivity to essentially anything - from legacy to SaaS applications, data files to databases, Web to mainframe. The company said that Universal Connect! delivers total connectivity to nearly every on-premises or on-demand application or data source. Already offering a broad array of pre-built adapters and connectors, Pervasive stated that it is poised to offer what few other vendors can - speed, accuracy, connectivity and flexibility to many markets including healthcare, financial services and CRM/ERP.

"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."

Pervasive reported that Universal Connect! includes:

- 400+ reusable connectivity components and solutions

- Connectivity to thousands of on-premises and SaaS applications and data sources

- Extensible connectivity to everything else

Pervasive said it 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

"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."

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