Fernando Labastida’s Integration Blog

Pervasive Software on Tuesday announced the launch of Pervasive DataCloud, a hosted, on-demand integration offering that allows integration to be delivered as a service. For full disclosure, Pervasive software is my employer, but I can’t help get excited  by the fact that this is something that I think everbody can get behind!  Now companies that use a strictly Saas model for all their applications, such as Netsuite for their ERP & CRM, Salesforce.com for their CRM, Google Apps for corporate email and productivity tools, and a host of other Saas applications, can also deploy integration between all these apps “in the clouds,” so-to-speak. They’ll have nothing on-premise but a bunch of wireless laptops!

It will also, of course, be useful for those who are slowly migrating to a Saas computing model for their corporate apps, but still run traditional on-premise applications that they need to connect to their Saas applications.

 This story has been picked up my many sources, such as eWeek, Data Monitor, and Curt Monash, to name a few, and is generating lots of buzz.

QuickArrow, a SaaS services automation vendor out of Austin, TX recently announced an embedded integration solution called QuickConnectIT.  Powered by Pervasive’s Data Integrator V9, QuickConnectIT enables companies to connect their QuickArrow hosted professional services automation application with other SaaS or on-premise applications, such as CRM, ERP, and accounting applications.  QuickArrow is one of many SaaS vendors who are embedding integration tools into their SaaS applications.  Why are these software-as-a-service companies embedding integration?  As elucidated by QuickArrow’s press release,

“The partnership (with Pervasive)…enables QuickArrow to better focus on it’s core competency, Professional Services Automation (PSA).”

They’d prefer to do what they do best instead of getting bogged down on custom-coding one-off integrations everytime they implement a solution at a new customer site.