Move to Cloud Prompts Companies to Give Up on Custom Integration
Cloud is driving growth for data integration vendor Pervasive Software — which isn’t surprising. But what is surprising is that 65 percent of the integration work is still on-premise, according to Lance Speck, general manager for integration at Pervasive Software.
How’s that again?
It seems the cloud becomes the last straw on custom code. "A lot of these people who were satisfied with whatever clunky custom code they had built to hold them together for the last decade or two are now forklifting pieces of that to the cloud and when they do, they break their integrations and their infrastructure, so they have to rethink how they do it," Speck said. "So they’re saying, ‘Well, we’re not building ourselves again because that was a mess’ or maybe ‘There wasn’t an option at the time, but now we’d like some place where they have subject matter expertise on how to build it in an extensible way that will scale and give them things they’ve had on their wish list for the last 10 years.’ For us, it’s opened tons of conversations."…
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