AUSTIN, TEXAS, November 13, 2009 – Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global value leader in data integration and data management software, today announced a partnership with FPX, a leader in SaaS-based sales intelligence, to expand FPX on-demand product configuration integration connectivity to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications and allow FPX customers to more quickly realize ROI.
FPX will utilize the robust connectivity of Pervasive Data Integrator™ to connect data between FPX’s CPQ On-Demand application and CRM and ERP applications. In addition, FPX will partner with Pervasive to create an automated process so that an entry in CPQ On-Demand creates a validated purchase order in the customer’s CRM application. These increased integration capabilities will speed and expand customers' opportunity-to-order processing, making the sale of complex product and service offerings across multiple channels easier, faster, more accurate and more efficient.
“With Pervasive’s vast connectivity capabilities, FPX can maintain a strong focus on providing ease of deployment and flexibility of configuration management to order products for our customers,” said Jim Scheper, FPX vice president of business development. “We are eager to see the increase in ROI that Pervasive Data Integrator can provide for our customers.”
“I believe FPX customers will benefit greatly from our joint solutions, and we are looking forward to helping FPX advance their business opportunities,” said Lance Speck, senior director of sales for Pervasive Software. “Our partnership further demonstrates Pervasive’s strong commitment to enabling our partners’ SaaS initiatives and our longtime leadership in data integration as the most widely deployed integration solution in the SaaS market.”
About FPX, LLC
FPX, a minority owned company, is the leading provider of multi-tenant, on-demand Configure-Price-Quote® applications that automate and simplify product pricing and configuration. FPX solutions provide a rapid ROI through improved order accuracy (100% of submitted orders have accurate specifications and pricing), improved proposal generation time and high user acceptance. For additional information about FPX, visit www.fpx.com.
About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management, agile data integration software and by enabling revolutionary next generation analytics. The embeddable Pervasive PSQL™ database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. Pervasive DataRush™ is an embeddable high-performance software platform enabling data-intensive processing applications such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. Robin Bloor, founder of Bloor Research and partner at Hurwitz and Associates, recently cited Pervasive as one of the 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2009. For additional information, go to 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.
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