8.8 Now Available! Hot-Pluggable Java Components and SAP R/3 Integration and More

Now that release 8.8 is available for licensing and trial downloads, many of our customers are asking themselves the all-important question, "What's in it for me?" It might be useful to first take a quick look at our feature comparison matrix that outlines features added since 7.5.5. You should also consider these benefits described from the point of view of different users in your organization.

THE JAVA DEVELOPER
"I can now help make the Data Conversion Specialist's life easier by building commonly used transformations, document iterators, document aggregators, and external invokers. All my Java components are automatically shown in the Process Designer."

THE DATA CONVERSION SPECIALIST
"I can now access customer, order and product data from my SAP R/3 system when generating Business Intelligence Data."

THE INTEGRATION ARCHITECT
"I can now use Pervasive's data integration tools in SAP R/3 business process automation and Customer Data Integration projects. Moreover, my third party consultants can be leveraged to pre-build common data transformation and data access operations that my data analysts will use for years to come."

THE BUSINESS USER
"As time goes one, the IT group is turning around Data Warehouse, Data Migration/Integration, and Business Intelligence projects faster and faster. Component reuse between projects is really speeding things up."

Looking Forward To Release 8.10
I want to wrap up with a sneak peek at some really useful features in our upcoming 8.10 release.

• XML Mapper: a graphical tool for mapping one XML schema to another
• Web Services Invoker: a graphical tool for invocation of WS-I compliant Web Services from Pervasive's Process Designer tool
• Siebel On Demand Connector: fully integrated into Pervasive's Process Designer and Map Designer, a method for reaching out over the Internet and access CRM data in Siebel's OnDemand system
• Microsoft CRM Connector: fully integrated into Pervasive's Process Designer and Map Designer, a method for accessing MS CRM business objects
• XQuery/XPath Components: Process Designer components that can be click-n-dragged into process flows that help traverse and parse XML documents
• Email components: Process Designer components that can be click-n-dragged into process flows to parse or build SMTP email messages
• Much improved integration engine SDK documentation and code examples

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on our current and future product directions. Please send in your feedback!

Regards,

Emilio P. Bernabei
Director Worldwide Product Marketing

P.S. We invite you to visit our Integration online Demo Center, where you can select from different online demos providing you with an extensive overview of our Integration products and solutions. Feel free to contact us directly for more details.

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MessageStore Data Hubs

Pervasive's high value, cost effective data hub solutions integrate disparate standards and non-standards-based data into a central repository for a single, unified view of critical business data. Coupling Pervasive's proven data integration technology with an optional free, open source database Pervasive Postgres™, Pervasive MessageStore provides rapid, cost-effective design and implementation of compliance solutions for HIPAA, HL7 and ACORD. The Pervasive MessageStore HIPAA Module for healthcare is available immediately. View our Healthcare online demo, Integration for HIPAA Compliance, by clicking here.

In association with IDG and DataMonitor, Pervasive is sponsoring a study of the insurance sector in Europe. Click here to take part in this survey. All participants will receive a complimentary copy of the new IDG report "Integration in the Insurance Sector" as well as the survey results. Visit Pervasive's Insurance Integration portal that addresses integration challenges that IT professionals in the Insurance sector are facing today.

To learn how to quickly, and accurately apply the ACORD standard to existing disparate data, take a look at the online demo ‘Integration for partners in ACORD formats’ by clicking here.

Pervasive's versatile integration software enables organizations to create flexible data integration hubs that take disparate data and consolidate pertinent information into a single target repository.

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How Leveraging Integration Can Accelerate Your Success

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• Discover new approaches and revenue opportunities
• Accelerate your time to deploy and your sales cycle
• Unleash your technology and your competitive advantage

At this business and integration summit, you’ll get insights that produce competitive advantages.

• Learn how to capture more customers, reduce costs, and increase margins.
• Hear directly from C-level ISV, SI, and ASP peers about the challenges they mastered and the benefits they gained from Pervasive integration technology.
• Turn changing business environments into a competitive advantage instead of a resource drain.
• Hear from Pervasive and industry experts and have a chance to meet Pervasive executives face-to-face.
• Make existing customers even more profitable.

Situated at the W Lakeshore, Chicago October 20-21, qualified attendees will be guests of the W at Pervasive’s expense.

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Dreamforce '05: Pervasive Introduces New Integration Solution for AppForce and Earns HERO Award

Pervasive announced the availability of a comprehensive synchronization solution for key business information between Salesforce and enterprise software applications like SAP. Pervasive delivers full function adapters for both Salesforce and SAP R/3 along with pre-built integration processes for common integration tasks in a ready-to-configure solution.

The Pervasive solution provides a comprehensive offering that includes integration software licenses, pre-defined business processes, installation, and configuration services. Everything needed to synchronize, update, and download key data elements between systems is included. For more information on regarding Pervasive integration solutions, click here.

With our online demos, you can take a firsthand look at how to use the Pervasive integration product line to address your needs. Click here to view the SAP overview demo and the SAP technical demo.

At Dreamforce '05, Pervasive's IT Team were awarded the HERO award in the AppForce category. Salesforce.com's CRM Success Heroes program recognizes SFDC customers whose outstanding success has "made them heroes in the workplace".

We invite you to contact us directly for more information about our new integration solution for AppForce. Please visit here for a complete list of our contact details.

Challenges and Benefits of Integration in an SOA

In the eBizQ article, Mike Hoskins discusses the obstacles surrounding successful integration, including legacy environments, complex client/server computing, and hard-wired applications, among others. He also presents an overview of the benefits of in an SOA environment, as well as the benefits of using integration middleware in a data environment where variety and change are the norm. Click here to read the eBizQ article in full.

In addition to this article, we invite you to download the newly released white paper, 'Designing for Variety and Change in the SOA Environment'. This white paper provides you in-depth information about composite data services and how Pervasive Software can help you move toward a highly functional and efficient SOA infrastructure. Also, you can read more about our SOA solutions by visiting here.

Contact us directly for more information at info@pervasive.com. For a complete list of contacts, please visit here.

Webinar Discusses Disparate BPO Data Feeds

Get better connection, synchronization, and delivery, despite the challenges surrounding disparate data feeds from customer networks. Here's how: Join us for this webinar, as seen in DM Review BI newsletter, which is geared for Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and other providers of business solutions and data aggregation services, who want to deliver more value to their clients while increasing their capacity to take on additional customers. This webinar offers you an in-depth explanation of how the right data integration tools can enable you to turn the variety and change found in customer data feeds into a competitive advantage. Visit here for full details on this webinar and to register today!

For information on this webinar, contact us directly at info@pervasive.com. For a complete list of all of our webinars and online demos, click here.

Pervasive Takes Adapters for SOA to Oracle OpenWorld

As part of this commitment, Pervasive attended Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CA where the Pervasive Adapters for SOA demonstration in our booth showed just how easy it is to extend Oracle Fusion Middleware's reach to more than 200 data and application adapters -- all from the Oracle JDeveloper development environment using Oracle's BPEL engine.

The event was capped off with CTO Mike Hoskins interview by Oracle and PROFIT magazines - two of the largest business and technology magazines in the world. We thank all our valued customers who stopped by to see us in San Francisco and hope to see you there next year as well.

Learn how to quickly and easily integrate Oracle BPEL Process Manager with your existing systems, watch our online demo here.

Pervasive Customer Success Compelling at Gartner MidSize Enterprise Summit

Pervasive was a Platinum Sponsor at the Gartner MidSize Enterprise Summit where Pervasive integration customer Russ Snella, IT Director from Art Line, presented the evolution of their use of Pervasive Software integration solutions. Mr. Snella received strong positive response through his presentation, which mapped out Art Line's integration of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with Point of Sale (PoS) systems, and progressed to Art Line's integration of high-demand processes involving the exchange of EDI transactional data with trading partners such as Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Home Depot.

As Mr. Snella explained in an earlier Art Line Case Study, "Less than two weeks after Art Line downloaded its free Pervasive trial, we went into full EDI production with Pervasive Business Integrator. That's an amazing feat for any company, especially given the tremendous volume of documents we process every day. Subsequently, by putting Pervasive to work on EDI and UCCnet standards compliance, we have optimized our own IT resources and reduced staff requirements by two people."

If you'd like to learn more about the types of solutions Mr. Snella shared with the Gartner audience, please contact us directly. Additionally, we invite you to download the integration white paper, "The Keys to Successful Integration for Outsourced Service Providers" which addresses building, maintaining, and leveraging customer data feeds while meeting data demands, mapping needs, communication protocols, and reformatting for business partners.

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