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Pervasive Powers Real-Time, OAGIS-Compliant Integration for Industry-Leading Advertising E-Commerce Exchange ASItransact advances ASP business model using Pervasive Business Integrator(TM) for real-time XML integration of trading partners AUSTIN, Texas, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pervasive Software(R) Inc. , a global value leader in data infrastructure software, today announced that ASItransact, a collaborative advertising industry e-commerce exchange, is successfully using Pervasive Business Integrator(TM) to assimilate distributors and suppliers into its online order management system via XML, enabling greater flexibility to conduct business in compliance with OAGIS (The Open Applications Group Integration Specification), a widely accepted supply-chain standard for passing data in and out of applications in an XML format. ASItransact.com is an electronic order entry and management system that streamlines order processing for more than 3,000 suppliers in the promotional products industry. "Customers rely on ASItransact.com to make processing orders and serving clients easier and quicker so they can focus on selling," said Dale Denham, senior vice president of ASItransact, Trevose, Pa. "Pervasive has become a critical component of our architecture, advancing our strategy to a more agile and competitive ASP business model. Pervasive offers customers reliable, easy interaction with the most widely used online order management system for the $16 billion dollar advertising specialty industry. The Pervasive design-time tools provide a more flexible product and far richer programming interface than the other vendors we evaluated." ASItransact needed an integration solution that would allow them to make global changes in their application data model without having to change transformations hard-coded in Java. ASItransact employs Pervasive to quickly and reliably translate data, in nearly every format, between each trading partner and into the OAGIS compliant, XML-based specifications used by ASItransact.com. The automated B2Bi (business to business integration) project, which took two developers only two weeks to map and deploy, complements ASItransact's straight-through processing capabilities in order to efficiently extract, transform and load immense volumes of real-time partner data, all while speeding up turn-around times and reducing document errors. "Application service providers in particular require much more flexible and cost-effective solutions to overcome the complexity of B2Bi involving trading partners outside their firewall," said Mike Hoskins, vice president and general manager, Integration Products Division, Pervasive Software. "Pervasive Business Integrator provides a comprehensive solution that allows ASPs like ASItransact to effectively realize their B2B e-commerce strategies by delivering industry-leading XML integration services such as real-time data exchange and straight-through processing." Pervasive's integration products feature a comprehensive set of easy-to- use visual design tools to rapidly build and test data integration processes, regardless of size and complexity, across hundreds of data formats and applications within and outside of the enterprise. Offering an open XML-based metadata layer that obviates dependency on proprietary design environments and a deployment platform that can easily grow and scale for projects of all sizes across virtually any platform, the Pervasive architecture allows developers to create or modify executable integration logic within any XML development environment. About ASItransact ASItransact.com is a division of Advertising Specialty Institute, the business information center for the promotional products industry for more than 50 years. Using the Internet, ASItransact.com provides a technology solution to streamline the industry's business activities, order management and communications. More than 8,000 promotional products professionals using ASI software are e-commerce-enabled with ASItransact.com. More information can be found at http://www.asitransact.com/ and http://www.asicentral.com/. About Pervasive Software Pervasive Software is a global value leader in data infrastructure software. The company's award-winning products enable customers to manage, integrate, analyze and secure their critical data, providing the industry's best combination of performance, reliability and cost. Pervasive's strength is evidenced by the size and diversity of its customer base, serving tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry market around the world. With headquarters in Austin, Texas, Pervasive was founded in 1994 and sells its products into more than 150 countries. More information may be found on the Web at 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. Forward-looking statements are generally preceded by words such as "may," "plans," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "estimates" or "intends." 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. Investors are cautioned that actual results could differ materially from Pervasive's current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the risk that the data infrastructure software does not achieve market acceptance, that the future plans with respect to the data infrastructure software do not materialize and the factors and risks discussed in Pervasive's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission including, without limitation, the risk that Pervasive may face problems in connection with license arrangements, the risk that Pervasive may face problems in connection with product line expansion, the risk that Pervasive depends on third-party technology in its products, and the risk that current revenues are substantially dependent upon continued market acceptance of and revenues from the company's data infrastructure products. 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: Marian Kelley Director of Corporate Communications 512.231.6033 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040503/PVSWLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Pervasive Software, Inc. CONTACT: Marian Kelley, Director of Corporate Communications of Pervasive Software, Inc., +1-512-231-6033, Web site: http://www.pervasive.com/ http://www.asitransact.com/ http://www.asicentral.com/

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