Pervasive and SOA

Pervasive integration software simplifies many of the challenges of SOA design and deployment.  Pervasive's out-of-the-box connectivity to thousands of different applications and data sources allows developers to include older, legacy, mainframe, unstructured and nonstandard data into their projects without brittle, difficult to maintain, custom-written code.

The Pervasive SOA strategy of exposing integration processes capable of aggregating, cleansing and validating data from multiple disparate sources as reusable Web services-called data services allows incremental development. Tackle one part of the project at a time.  Build a few data services for the first project, then expand as the developer's experience with SOA challenges grows. 

It also lets the SOA integration designer choose the level of granularity, and build higher level composite data services by using multiple services together.  Most important in today's economy, Pervasive offers all of that power along with a rapid development time at a price point that makes SOA projects affordable.

How can Pervasive and a Service-Oriented Architecture benefit your company?

• Aggregate information from multiple systems for a single view of customers, orders, inventory, accounts, claims, policies, support calls and more.
   
• Complete a business process with many of the details hidden by accessing and managing multiple systems via a Web service. For example, when a sale is made, the CRM software initiates a new order in the ERP software. The warehousing software confirms available inventory and delivery date and automatically sends an email to the customer to track the package.
   
• Consolidate systems to reduce costs as part of a strategy to move away from legacy systems. 

What makes Pervasive ideal for SOA?

• Wide connectivity - Unparalleled out-of-the-box connectivity to thousands of different applications and data sources including legacy, mainframe, nonstandard and unstructured data. Hundreds of adapters packaged together at an affordable price. Pervasive removes the adapter price barrier to maximizing SOA initiatives.
• Agile and versatile - Supporting multiple platforms and systems, able to bridge the new world of SOA with the old world of IT infrastructure built over the last 30 years.
• Data services - Pervasive processes can be abstracted as Web services-called data services and those can be put together as composites. Loosely coupled and “right-grained,” supporting the independent evolution of the business process and IT infrastructure layers.
• Standards support - SOAP, WSDL, XML, JCA, MDB, UDDI, WSI compliant.
• Cost-effective - lowest long-term cost per project TCO of any integration tool set, according to Bloor.
• Extensible - with easy addition of new logic and flows via graphical tools.
• Queue support - Pervasive software is compatible with most types of message queues, including IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ Series), MSMQ, Oracle AQ, any JMS-compliant queue, and also allows file folders to be processed as if the files were in a queue.

Pervasive Enterprise Service Bus and Message Queue On- and Off-Ramps

• Deliver the "last mile" of connectivity to thousands of different applications and information sources including mainframe, file systems, COBOL, unstructured, B2B, databases and more.
• Remove the adapter price barrier to maximizing SOA initiatives.
• Provide rich composite data functionality to existing ESB, EAI, BPM, Portal and Application Server initiatives.
• Eliminate the need for custom-coded adapters, thereby dramatically reducing acquisition costs, support costs and risk.
• Deploy one solution across most operating environments, including Linux, HP-UX, Windows and Solaris.

Pervasive integration software is compatible with most types of message queues, including IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ Series), MSMQ, Oracle AQ, any JMS-compliant queue, and also allows file folders to be processed as if the files were in a queue. Pervasive is a Progress partner and an Oracle partner compatible with a variety of ESB, EAI, BPM and BPEL technologies, including Oracle BPEL and Progress Sonic ESB.

See also Message Queues.

Pervasive Data Services

• Reach difficult legacy applications successfully
• Provide high-integrity metadata
• Bring real-time applications to use faster
• Help lower integration costs
• Are highly scalable to take on growing Web services demands
• Can be used to build coarse-grained composite data services that deliver meaningful work elements to fully leverage SOA principles
• Can be used to create highly reliable aggregated data for BPM, portals and development studios
• Are fully backed by a leading value provider in the data integration software space

Pervasive Supports XML

• Rapidly builds XML-based documents and messages from disparate data sources and formats.
• Quickly transforms non-XML and XML into B2B messages including X12, EDI, EDIFACT, HL7, HIPAA, ACORD and more.
• Processes any standard-based schemas and dynamically decomposes into logical subsets.
• Improves productivity with GUI-based design studio that includes XML editor, DOM parser, mapping, transformation and XPATH querying.

Pervasive Supports FTP

• Leverages FTP as a messaging protocol for legacy applications and data sources.
• Composes complex messages from disparate sources and transfers via FTP protocol.
• Supports user name and password for security.
• Decomposes FTP messages and stores data into back-end systems.
• Enables loosely coupled integration strategies by managing the complex legacy data and application interfaces.

Pervasive Supports POP Email

• Leverages email as a messaging protocol for legacy applications and data sources.
• Aggregates information from disparate sources and sends as email messages.
• Creates or parses SMTP emails and stores attachments and metadata in back-end systems.
• Enables loosely coupled integration strategies.

See also XML Integration and Email Integration.