Pervasive RushAnalyzer" Integrates Seamlessly with ActuateOne^® via BIRT to Deliver Big Data Visualization to Business Users

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pervasive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, today announced it has teamed with Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The people behind BIRT^® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, to enable business users to interactively visualize the results of big data analytics.

Through the alliance, Pervasive RushAnalyzer users will have access to ActuateOnes compelling data visualization and reporting tools to understand and explore actionable insights more quickly. Actuates suite of products, built on BIRT, provide powerful visualization for the insights distilled by Pervasive RushAnalyzer.

Massive amounts of machine-generated data are being created every second. Business analysts can help organizations make important, proactive decisions and remain one step ahead of the competition if they can rapidly analyze these massive data sets, said Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and general manager of Pervasive Big Data Products and Solutions. Through the combined capabilities of RushAnalyzer and ActuateOne, a range of business and technical users not just the most skilled data scientists can identify key trends and predict future developments to increase their competitive advantage.

The visual design environment of Pervasive RushAnalyzer lets analysts build and deploy predictive analytics solutions on Hadoop clusters and high-performance servers to rapidly discover data patterns, build operational analytics and deliver predictive analytics. Its drag-and-drop graphical interface speeds up data preparation, with direct access to multiple databases and file formats, as well as a prebuilt library of data mining and analytic operators, leading to simpler data manipulation, mining and visualization. ActuateOne, an integrated suite of standard and cloud software built around BIRT, enables easier visualization of data trends through customizable dashboards and Google-standard plug-and-play gadgets.

Big data analytics has traditionally been the realm of data scientists, said Nobby Akiha, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Actuate. By teaming with Pervasive, we are changing the game to expand the power of big data for business users so that they can operationalize and deliver insights to everyday users.

Pervasive RushAnalyzer Analyst Edition is free (for development and test uses), along with optional paid support plans. For more information and access to the download, visit http://bigdata.pervasive.com/Products/Download-Center.aspx. To download the ActuateOne products, visit http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/products/.

About Pervasive Big Data Products

Pervasive Big Data Products deliver strategic advantage through extreme performance and extreme economics to customers around the globe for applications spanning claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics. With a single, unified platform for end-to-end data access, transformation, analytics, visualization and reporting on both Hadoop and high performance servers, Pervasive Big Data ensures that data scientists and business analysts derive rapid insight from terabytes of data on commodity hardware. For additional information, go to pervasivebigdata.com.

About Pervasive Software (PVSW)

Pervasive is a global data innovation leader, delivering software to manage, integrate and analyze data, in the cloud or on-premise, throughout the entire data lifecycle. Pervasive products deliver value to tens of thousands of customers worldwide, often embedded within partners software, with breakthrough performance, flexibility, reliability and return on investment. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com.

About Actuate The people behind BIRT

Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project. ActuateOne^® is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate any data source - including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational performance.

Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

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.

All Pervasive brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pervasive Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Pervasive Software Inc.
Lacy LaBorde, 512-231-6507
lacy.laborde@pervasive.com
@Pervasive

Source: Pervasive Software Inc.

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