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Pervasive PSQL 

PSQL Summit v10 - 64-Bit Technology Overview
Pervasive PSQL Summit v10™ now includes platform support for all 64-bit editions of Windows operating systems, as well as support for the latest Intel® and AMD® dual-core processors. Your PSQL applications can take advantage of the new faster hardware, more memory, and larger address space available in the latest 64-bit systems.

Delivering Embedded Database Solutions for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Learn about the benefits of a low cost, high performance Embedded Database from the perspective of analyst firm Hurwitz and Associates. Designed for ISV and OEM partners, Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 delivers a complete solution to meet the needs of Small and Medium-sized Businesses.

Pervasive: A Great Low-IT Database
This paper outlines the value of Pervasive PSQL as a database of choice for the SMB (small-to-medium-sized business) market users. With Pervasive’s 25-year history of delivering reliability, high performance, and low TCO in a near zero database administration environment. You will understand why this database stands up on its own for Low-IT to Enterprises operations.

Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 Highlights
Leading analyst Curt Monash provides an independent view of Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 and the features and value that is available in this new release from Pervasive. Learn how to leverage some these new features for accelerated performance, business intelligence, and relational functionality. Monash Information Services is known for their unbiased view of technology and database centric reviews.

Pervasive PSQL Performance – Key Performance Features of Pervasive PSQL
A key value of Pervasive PSQL is its ability to scale from small concurrent users to 1000’s of user across a large enterprise. With emerging technology shifts in the move to 64-bit computing and high volume transaction servers, you can learn how to optimize your PSQL database for optimal performance and processing.

Pervasive PSQL Xtreme I/O: Delivering Performance for 32-Bit Applications
This white paper highlights the technical benefits of the new Xtreme I/O system driver introduced in Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 Server Edition. This new technology feature allows users to maximize performance through an advanced caching mechanizes that extends memory utilization while reducing disk latency caused by I/O. This paper provides a better understanding of the technology included with 32-bit editions of Pervasive PSQL Summit v10.

Upgrading Btrieve 6.15 to Pervasive PSQL v10
This paper describes the simple steps required to upgrade your Btrieve 6.15 based application to Pervasive PSQL Summit v10. We provide an easy to follow outline in migrating to the latest Pervasive database product. With support for Windows Vista™, 64-bit platform support and accelerated performance, you will see the value of Pervasive PSQL Summit v10. Learn how to take advantage of 10 years of product improvements.

Pervasive PSQL v9 Compatibility with Windows Vista
This special report summarizes Pervasive's testing and recommendations for running the various Windows Vista™ editions with Pervasive PSQL™ v9 database engines (server and workgroup). As discussed in the report, Pervasive will be able to provide supported, recommended solutions and work-arounds for existing versions of Pervasive PSQL v9 running with Windows Vista. Also touched upon in the report is the next release of Pervasive PSQL (likely called PSQL v10), scheduled for the second half of 2007. The next release will incorporate full Windows Vista support and compatibility, offering customers a smooth and seamless transition to Microsoft's Vista and Longhorn platforms.

Pervasive Software, Inc.s PSQL v9: Expert at Low-Cost, High-Performance Databases
A large class of database users exists that is distinct and different from the traditional large enterprise database customer-- "Low-IT" organizations. This paper shows some of the key database characteristics that these organizations seek.

Aberdeen Cost-of-Ownership Database Study Proves Pervasive.SQL Still The Clear Leader
As a valuable comparison resource, this Aberdeen Group study focuses on the total cost of ownership between Pervasive.SQL and other databases for small to mid-sized enterprises and departments within large corporations. The study also provides a set of important considerations that users find helpful when assessing databases for the Low-IT market. When considering the areas most important to customers such as overall cost, ease of use and the amount of deployment and administration resources needed, Pervasive.SQL V8 emerges as the clear leader with a "25-to-1" cost advantage over Oracle 9i, a "7-to-1" cost advantage over Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and a "2.5-to-1" cost advantage over Sybase SQL Anywhere Studio V7.

Pervasive Software’s Pervasive.SQL: Expert at Low-Cost, High-Performance Embedded Databases from Aberdeen Buyers Guide
Recent years have seen a new database market formed by a distinct and growing set of users from small to mid-size businesses (SMBs), workgroups and departments within larger businesses. The problem is that these users are not well served by databases aimed at large data stores and large corporate IT departments of major enterprises, yet are still running applications that are critical to their business success. This Aberdeen research presents application developers with the top evaluation criteria for successful database selection and deems Pervasive.SQL V8 a superior choice!

Data Security 

The 7 Levels of Highly Effective Security
The 7 Levels of Highly Effective Security is a briefing with thought provoking questiosn that application software vendors should considerat regarding responsibilities, strategic and tactical considerations in offering products in today's marketplace. Addressing availability, accountability and integrity of data in relation to an application must be addressed to ensure customers have the tools they need to protect data and provide quality solutions.

Embedding Security in Data Management Applications
Knowing what steps to take to keep data secure can be confusing: between new laws, new technology and new customer demands, it can be hard to keep up. This paper was developed to help you stay ahead of the trends in data security, so you can make the right decisions to ensure your success.

Baroudi Bloor’s Who’s Been Futzing With My Data?
In today's information-hungry climate, sharing data is critical to business success. Unfortunately, it can also spell danger if mission-critical information is inadequately secured. What steps should you take to avoid disaster? Let this complimentary analyst report be your guide.

Implementing Security Best Practices for HIPAA with Pervasive.SQL
Applications developers implementing technology for healthcare organizations must follow best practices to ensure adequate security to meet regulations including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) in the United States. The best practices guidelines are focused on the implementation of Perasive.SQL V8 and other considerations to meet privacy and security requirements.

Pervasive DataExchange 

Btrieve 

Integration 

The Keys to Successful Integration for Outsourced Service Providers
Organizations increasingly wrestle with the need to build sophisticated data pipelines to quickly and efficiently handle data feeds coming from customers and going to customers, suppliers, and trading partners. They most often require an integration platform that will allow them to quickly and efficiently convert pertinent information from customer data feeds. However, to ensure success, major concerns must be addressed in building, maintaining, and leveraging customer data feeds that revolve around data demands, mapping needs, communication protocols, and reformatting for business partners.

Pervasive Integration Architecture
Users of Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Business Integrator will benefit from understanding the design-time and run-time aspects of the technology behind these products. Pervasive integration products are built upon a common integration architecture that enables ETL, EII, EAI and SOA deployment models. The white paper discusses how this common architecture brings together the best in productivity tools for maximizing developer efficiency, project scalability, and ease of project management with open repositories to house large-scale, organic integration designs.

Uncovering the Hidden Costs in Data Integration
In this paper, Yankee reveals groundbreaking research on the insidious costs in the integration lifecycle and explores strategies for IT executives to assess and reduce the total cost of data, application and business integration based on more than 400 implementations of data and application suites from enterprises using products from more than 20 vendors.

Designing for Variety and Change in an Oracle Integration Project
Oracle Integration projects need to accommodate a high level of variety and change involving a large number of systems, applications, data formats, standards, and connectivity types - all existing in a perpetual whirl of change for both legacy systems, unstructured data sources, and new applications. Driven by business and technical factors, this growing volatility makes the goal of establishing a workable and maintainable SOA infrastructure hard to achieve. A new mechanism for managing the “last mile” adaptation problem is needed.

Designing for Variety and Change in SOA: Composite Service Adapters
For Service Oriented Architecture projects to be successful, they must accommodate a high level of variety and change. Using Composite Adapter Services as the key building blocks of a flexible integration strategy, SOA can accommodate variety and change, and deliver on the promises of the agile enterprise. Composite Adapter Services provide a layer of abstraction between Service Requestors and Service Providers, enabling enterprise integration that is cost-effective, loosely coupled, extensible, and can bridge the new world of SOA with the old world of IT infrastructure built over the last 30 years.

The Integration Imperative: The ISV Business Opportunities of Pervasive’s Integration Products
The application software market is mature and most of the business applications that an organization needs are already deployed. The major area from which business benefit will now come is through building on this foundation and the major requirement for most IT organizations now is integration.

Closing the ISV Integration Gap: Embedded Integration, the catalyst to ROI
The challenges that face organizations are ever evolving and today’s business climate is no exception. Many of yesterday’s challenges have been met and now organizations face new hurdles in an effort to improve margins, increase revenues per customer and grow market share. Among the latest generation of challenges is integration of business processes, applications and systems across the extended enterprise, which includes employees, customers, partners and suppliers. IT departments must be able to respond to current and future business demands. They need to leverage current investments in infrastructure, applications, people and processes, as well as identify new business opportunities. This requires data access anywhere, at anytime, on any device, across organizational boundaries in order to create a value proposition that drives sales and revenues across the entire customer base. Needless to say, this is a daunting task.

Developing SOA Solutions to Accommodate Variety and Change
Successful integration for today's business must accommodate a high level of variety and change involving a large number of systems, applications, data formats, standards, and connectivity types—all existing in a perpetual whirl of change for both legacy systems and new applications. Driven by business and technical factors, this growing volatility makes the goal of enterprise integration a complex, hard-to-reach moving target for today's IT professionals.

Evaluators Guide: Pervasive Integration Products
This guide describes the unique Pervasive integration architecture and is designed to facilitate a thorough, easy-to-follow evaluation of Pervasive’s integration product set, providing a clear understanding of its real-world applications through product tutorials and various integration project scenarios. Test-drive these tutorials today to empower your organization with a flexible, reusable, cost-effective integration solution that will accommodate your frequently changing business needs and requirements.

Build vs. Buy
An organization that wishes to integrate disparate computing resources can either build an integration solution in-house or buy a packaged integration software application. While building a custom application may seem the most cost-effective route, this approach is fraught with problems. Gartner Group estimates about 30% of the cost of an ERP project arises from the need to build integration links with existing applications. Packaged integration software applications now offer a compelling alternative to the expensive, time-consuming quagmire of in-house development.

Making HIPAA Compliance Work For You
HIPAA transactions and HIPAA privacy requirements are generating the need for a higher level of integration than ever before.

Tackling Todays Biggest Integration Cost Driver: Labor
Today’s mid-size organizations have disparate applications and require software integration functionality similar to much larger enterprises. However, traditional approaches to integration are prohibitive for smaller businesses due to development and maintenance costs associated with labor. By choosing packaged solutions, mid-size companies can experience all of the benefi ts of data and business integration and dramatically minimize costs.

Web Services: The New Generation of Application Integration
Get a fresh perspective on Web services with this thought piece.