Pervasive Software to Present on Big Data Analytics at 5th KNIME Users Group Meeting and Workshop

Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, today announced that Pervasive CTO and Big Data Products and Solutions General Manager Mike Hoskins will keynote and lead a partner track presentation at the 5^th KNIME Users Group Meeting and Workshop taking place at the Technopark in Zurich, Switzerland January 30 – February 3, 2012.

On February 1, Hoskins will lead off the KNIME Applications plenary at 1:00 p.m. Central Europe Time with a presentation titled "Big Data and KNIME,” followed by a partner session the afternoon of February 2. Pervasive provides Pervasive DataRush™ for KNIME, a KNIME-certified plug-in that provides data scientists with extreme performance and scalability within the KNIME environment.

"The Pervasive Big Data team is delighted to deepen and extend our four-year relationship with KNIME,” said Hoskins. "Our KNIME plug-in allows big data analytics to be processed with breakthrough performance without any extra coding, and we remain committed to delivering the high performance and scalability of Pervasive DataRush to the KNIME community.”

KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) is a user-friendly and comprehensive open-source data integration, processing, analysis, and exploration platform. From day one, KNIME has been developed using rigorous software engineering practices and is used by professionals in both industry and academia in over 60 countries. For more information on the user conference, visit http://www.knime.org/UGM2012.

About Pervasive Software

Pervasive is a global data innovation leader, delivering software to manage, integrate and analyze data, in the cloud or on-premises, 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.

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