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Pervasive Software Inc.
Company typePublic (NASDAQ: PVSW)
IndustrySoftware & RDBMS & Data Integration
FoundedTexas (1994)
HeadquartersAustin, Texas
Key people
John Farr, CEO
Mike Hoskins, CTO, Gen Mgr Integration Division
ProductsPervasive Data Integrator
Pervasive Data Rush
Pervasive Data Profiler
Pervasive PSQL
Revenue$40.8 million USD (2005)
Websitewww.pervasive.com

Pervasive Software develops and distributes data infrastructure software and ETL tools that integrate, analyze, secure, manage and harvest data from disparate sources. Pervasive® Data Integrator™, and Data Profiler™ are the flagship integration products, and the PSQL relational distributed database 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 like accounting & finance, retail, CRM, government, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and education.

Pervasive software is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and sells its products into more than 150 countries with market development partners in UK, Europe, Japan, ASEAN territories, Mexico, Korea, and China.

Pervasive CTO, Mike Hoskins is a recognized expert on data integration issues who frequently publishes articles in industry magazine DMReview and various white papers in other venues, as well as presenting on integration topics at industry conventions. He was named Austin Information Technologist of the Year for 2007 for his work with the Pervasive DataRush multi-core Java development tool.

History:

Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft with the Btrieve 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.

A far more detailed history of the company is available on the featured article, Btrieve

Key Products:

Pervasive PSQL, which is based on Btrieve

Pervasive Data Integrator