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Pervasive Software Helps Cure Zimmer Switzerland's SAP-to-salesforce.com Data Integration Plan

AUSTIN, TEXAS – April 17, 2007 – Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data management and integration software, today announced Zimmer Switzerland GmbH, a worldwide leader in orthopedics, has deployed Pervasive Business Integrator™ to leverage the powerful reporting capabilities and ease of use of its hosted CRM, salesforce.com, while fully utilizing the rich data and full ERP capabilities of its existing on-premises SAP application. Bringing the best of both SAP and salesforce.com together in one robust, powerful solution has given Zimmer confidence in real-time sales reporting capabilities, improved quality and immediacy of business information and delivery of higher ROI on both integrated applications.

As a global orthopedics supplier, Zimmer’s sales force relies heavily on its CRM system to process orthopedic devices and joint replacement solutions for hospitals and physicians in more than 80 countries. Prior to implementing Pervasive, Zimmer sought a flexible CRM solution to complement its SAP enterprise application. Systems integrator SAM Communications helped Zimmer assess its options, and the process resulted in selection of salesforce.com’s hosted CRM system. SAM also worked with Zimmer to assess integration options, which led to the selection of Pervasive Business Integrator to integrate incoming customer data from SAP into salesforce.com. Pervasive Business Integrator’s light footprint was uniquely positioned to simplify the complexity of SAP to salesforce.com integration challenge at an affordable price. The Pervasive solution implemented by SAM Communications delivers Zimmer real-time, nightly, weekly or monthly updates – whatever the need. Zimmer now has the flexibility and full confidence that the underlying data is current and complete.

“Zimmer had an aggressive deadline. The company wanted multiple levels of integration from the SAP data to salesforce.com including a full transfer of more than 18,700 Zimmer products and 74,000 invoices related to some 950 accounts, which must then be updated on a regular basis,” said Stephan Meyer, principal at SAM Communications. “Pervasive and SAM worked closely together to create an innovative solution for Zimmer that allows its sales force to better plan account activities using current and accurate information.”

Using Pervasive Business Integrator, Zimmer management has a clear overview of invoices, the ability to generate reports and view dashboards of sales by region and business unit. By having a consistent, integrated source of data, Zimmer experiences ease of use and administration in salesforce.com and the ability to make informed decisions based on complete, accurate customer data.

“Pervasive’s flexible and scalable integration infrastructure allows us to leverage our existing legacy implementation and reap the benefits of salesforce.com’s low-cost solution,” said Oliver Sieber, project manager at Zimmer. “With Pervasive and salesforce.com, we now have the capability to update our system daily and ensure our sales force has the tools they need to complete sales transactions.”

“Today’s fast-changing business environment demands easy-to-use, agile integration, and Pervasive has unique breadth of connectivity and low total cost of ownership,” said Mike Hoskins, CTO at Pervasive Software. “Pervasive and SAM Communications were able to provide Zimmer an integration solution that can be embedded in applications throughout the enterprise and customized to fit the needs of their business. This scenario is indicative of the future of integration – partnering to affordably maximize the expertise and value of SIs, ISVs, BPOs and the end customer IT staff so a robust integration solution doesn’t have to be out of the reach of a customer. Pervasive is committed to fully supporting its channel partners to bring this type of success to every customer our partners bring to our door.”

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.

About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) 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 products have 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 www.pervasive.com.

About DSCallards
Established in 1993, DSCallards brings together and harnesses the power of the world’s leading technologies to bring added value to organisations that include Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd, Geotechnical Instruments, Kellogg Company, N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd, Southampton City Council, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, Virgin Media and Zurich Financial Services. In addition, DSCallards is a specialist development resource, providing developers and businesses with advanced software technologies, an exclusive portfolio of training and consulting services and an application development capability. For more information, visit DSCallards at www.dscallards.com.

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