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Beefed Up Integration Platform Offers Increased Connectivity and Agility for SaaS, SOA and Traditional Packaged Applications AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pervasive Software(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data management and integration software, today announced the release of Pervasive Data Integrator(TM) and Pervasive Business Integrator(TM) version 8.12 to solidify its leadership in delivery of embeddable data integration. The latest release boasts a growing range of CRM, SaaS and enterprise connectivity, SOA enablement features, easier and faster embeddability with SDK enhancements, simplified data mapping, and easy-to-use OEM rebranding capabilities. Release 8.12 also features Easy Loader, a simple mapping GUI that ISVs can distribute to their end users for wizard-driven creation of data loaders that feed their software as a service (SaaS) or packaged software applications. Pervasive integration continues to become increasingly popular with SIs, ISVs, ASPs and BPOs due to its light footprint, embeddability, rich feature set, robust functionality and tremendous breadth of connectors. The new release adds adapters to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and Oracle Siebel CRM On Demand, ACUCOBOL GT v. 7 and SQL Server 2005 in addition to the existing family of more than 150 adapters including salesforce.com, Oracle BPEL, Sage- SalesLogix, and SAP. "Pervasive is building out the integration tools to include adapters to more CRM and SaaS products. This makes a lot of sense, since SaaS applications are becoming part of the IT landscape, and of cross-application process automation initiatives," said Martin Schneider, senior analyst with The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation, in his report. Schneider added, "As the SaaS movement gains wider acceptance among all kinds of businesses, somebody has to gain from offering simple, inexpensive data and application integration both within and in between firewalls." (1) "Integration has always been a tough problem, and now, as integration landscapes expand to the edge of the enterprise and beyond, whole new classes of integration pain emerge. Dealing with those highly varied and constantly changing landscapes, and making integration easier, is where Pervasive excels," said Mike Hoskins, chief technology officer for Pervasive Software. "We've been able to successfully manage deployments for scenarios ranging from migration of massive data sets of millions of records to on-demand, real-time bidirectional integration in highly heterogeneous environments - and we deliver quickly and affordably. We continue to help partners and customers benefit from paradigm shifts such as the rapid adoption of SaaS within complex, heterogeneous environments including packaged, custom and hosted applications." Many IT organizations leverage Pervasive integration and welcome the new product release. ZC Sterling is a leader in providing hazard insurance tracking and outsourcing services, voluntary homeowners insurance, customized real estate tax services, customer care solutions and Hispanic call center services for the mortgage and insurance industry. It recently upgraded to Pervasive Business Integrator 8.12 to leverage the expanded capabilities. "We consider ourselves 'power users' of Pervasive Business Integrator, and the robustness and scalability is there when we need it," said Adam McPherson, team lead, data conversion at ZC Sterling. "We have to meet a number of exacting data specifications, and Pervasive allows us to rapidly create the processes to achieve this. In many ways, Pervasive has given us a lot of flexibility to meet our data demands and to grow the business." "The integration obstacles that businesses of all types and sizes must tackle requires an agile and flexible solution from a provider and partner that is poised to quickly respond to changes in an organization's business processes and technology landscape," said Hoskins. "Pervasive's long history of providing organizations with flexible, 'buy once, use many' embeddable integration solutions will continue to be uniquely valuable as new business models such as SaaS, integration on demand and SOA adoption gain traction." About Pervasive Integration Pervasive's embeddable integration software takes the agony out of moving and sharing data within and between organizations. It allows users to quickly and easily share information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems. The capability is lightweight and fits into virtually any environment while adapting quickly to change. Combining robust technology and more than 20 years of data integration expertise, Pervasive delivers a multi-purpose integration platform that allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. With more than 150 data and application connectors within a single product, Pervasive helps customers achieve accelerated ROI. In addition, Pervasive's technology and business model supports low-cost adoption by non-programmers for small data volumes all the way to complex, high-volume multi-processor implementations that handle millions of transactions. For more information, visit http://www.pervasive.com/solutions . About Pervasive Software Pervasive Software provides embeddable data management and integration software to help companies grow and extend the value of their data investments. For more than two decades, Pervasive has delivered value with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Today, Pervasive is leading its chosen markets by defining and accelerating the inevitable transition from high cost to high value. Pervasive's hallmark is the size, diversity and loyalty of its customer base, partners and channels: tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry, in more than 150 countries, rely on Pervasive to manage, integrate, analyze and secure their critical data. For additional information, go to http://www.pervasive.com/ . Cautionary Statement This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Note to Editors: The 451 Group's report, "Pervasive's channel strategy anchors its embedded integration business," referenced above, is an independently-produced report that was neither sponsored by nor otherwise funded directly by Pervasive Software. The report and its entire contents are the sole property of The 451 Group, copyright 2006, and are reproduced here by permission. The entire contents of this report are available at http://www.the451group.com/ . All Pervasive brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pervasive Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Kim Daugherty Pervasive Software 512.231.6507 (1) "Pervasive's channel strategy anchors its embedded integration business," The 451 Group, M. Schneider et. al., Oct. 19., 2006 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040503/PVSWLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Pervasive Software Inc. CONTACT: Kim Daugherty, of Pervasive Software Inc., +1-512-231-6507, or Web site: http://www.pervasive.com/ http://www.pervasive.com/solutions http://www.the451group.com/

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