Fernando Labastida’s Integration Blog

As a follow-on to my late Thanksgiving announcement of the release of Version 9.0 of Pervasive’s Data Integrator, Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and General Manager of the Integration Division, was interviewed in IT Week out of the UK. The FIRST thing they asked him was about the SDK that allows partner companies or corporate clients to build their own adapters. It seems as though the opening up of the Pervasive platform is getting some attention in the media.

Hoskins also commented on the integration market in general. Despite the fact that integration software has existed for a long time (Pervasive’s integration platform has been around for more than 20 years, having gotten it’s start as Data Junction), Hoskins noted that the vast majority of companies out there are still using custom code to integrate their disparate applications. That’s changing, he said, as upper management recognizes the inefficiencies of this model, and ISVs continue to do battle with the integration problem.

Finally, IT Week mentions software-as-a-service (saas) applications and their integration challenges, to which Hoskins replies:

“The Achilles heel for the SaaS model is that people assume that because software is easy to discover, install and understand, integration will be easy as well.”

Read the article at: http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2204237/integration-platforms-steal

Prominent blogger on data and application integration issues, as well as SOA issues, Loraine Lawson at her blog Mergers and Integrations, picked up on the IT Week UK article, asking if automated integration for saas was a Holiday Miracle.

She added additional street cred to Hoskins’ comment about the growth of demand for integration by saas vendors, pointing to two other blog posts that comment on the increasing role of business executives in acquiring software, as well as the increasing challenges for IT of integrating saas applications.

Read Loraine’s blog post here: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/mia/?p=260