AUSTIN, Texas, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pervasive Software(R) Inc. , a global value leader in data infrastructure software, today announced FAMIS Software, a provider of world-class Integrated Workplace Management solutions, has embedded Pervasive Business Integrator(TM) in its flagship product, FAMIS. FAMIS applications must be able to quickly and affordably integrate with other systems such as financial, ERP, facilities management and various other legacy and IT systems. With Pervasive Business Integrator, FAMIS Software can offer ease of integration and the ability to transfer information between disparate systems as a key competitive differentiator. In addition, FAMIS Software is equipped to deliver more agile and cost-effective integration capabilities to customers that have come to expect flexibility in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.

FAMIS Software's innovative integrated workplace management software has a growing presence in three distinct markets -- education, public and corporate, where there is an emphasis on maintenance and operations, facilities management, real estate administration, project management and performance management. Typically, all new FAMIS customers require data migration and about 80 percent need ongoing integration. FAMIS Software relied on proprietary integration technology to link with an array of business-critical, sector-specific applications, but it was difficult to maintain across different vertical markets.

Rather than focus the time, expense and resources to update and maintain its current tool, FAMIS Software explored more efficient third-party tools and quickly discovered Pervasive Business Integrator, which is well suited to the demands of FAMIS Software's current markets while offering the flexibility to expand effectively into new market segments. With Pervasive's embedded integration solution, FAMIS Software is now able to allocate technical resources to focus on the company's core competencies, enhancement of its industry-leading solutions and development of solutions for market expansion.

"We have already had successful deployments for both the University of Connecticut and Northwestern University. Pervasive's agile, embeddable integration leapfrogs all our earlier integration approaches, and it gives us cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions for customers in all three of our major market sectors," said Dave Levenstein, manager of business development for FAMIS Software. "Customers and prospects today expect a new vendor to integrate seamlessly with all their systems, including SOA-based applications. We need a solution that can affordably speed data exchange between disparate systems and applications without placing any burden on the customer. Pervasive Business Integrator allows us to deliver on that expectation and turn integration into a competitive advantage, today and in the future."

"Innovative ISVs like FAMIS Software are looking for an integration approach that will give them a competitive edge in their integration offering but that won't break the bank or create a high-maintenance, monolithic brittle stack," said Mike Hoskins, CTO of Pervasive Software. "By delivering highly flexible, agile integration, we've designed an embeddable solution that meets the needs of a growing number of ISVs, SaaS vendors and systems integrators."

About Pervasive Integration

Pervasive's embeddable integration software takes the agony out of moving and sharing data within and between organizations. It allows users to quickly and easily share information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems. The capability is lightweight and fits into virtually any environment while adapting quickly to change. Combining robust technology and more than 20 years of data integration expertise, Pervasive delivers a multi-purpose integration platform that allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. With more than 150 data and application connectors within a single product, Pervasive helps customers achieve accelerated ROI. In addition, Pervasive's technology and business model supports low-cost adoption by non-programmers for small data volumes all the way to complex, high-volume multi-processor implementations that handle millions of transactions. For more information, visit http://www.pervasive.com/solutions/.

About FAMIS Software, Inc.

FAMIS Software, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California, is the developer of FAMIS, an integrated workplace management solution. A 100% Web-Architected system, FAMIS unites all aspects of your facilities management into one, fully adaptable and scalable solution. Since 1982, FAMIS has been managing the entire facilities lifecycle in a single suite of software, allowing your facility to remain agile as FAMIS adapts to changing IT environments and your business processes. For more information, visit http://www.famis.com/.

About Pervasive Software

Pervasive Software provides embeddable data management and integration software to help companies grow and extend the value of their data investments. For more than two decades, Pervasive has delivered value with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Today, Pervasive is leading its chosen markets by defining and accelerating the inevitable transition from high cost to high value. Pervasive's hallmark is the size, diversity and loyalty of its customer base, partners and channels: tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry, in more than 150 countries, rely on Pervasive to manage, integrate, analyze and secure their critical data. For additional information, go to http://www.pervasive.com/.

Cautionary Statement

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Contact: Kim Daugherty Pervasive Software 512.231.6507 kdaugherty@pervasive.com

CONTACT: Kim Daugherty of Pervasive Software, +1-512-231-6507,
kdaugherty@pervasive.com

Web site: http://www.pervasive.com/
http://www.famis.com/