Data Integration ‘App Store’ Launched By Pervasive

Pervasive Software has launched a new marketplace for data integration processes during its annual Metamorphosis Cloud Integration Summit.

Pervasive Galaxy, which had been running in beta for a few months, puts a different spin on the app store concept by offering a community platform for data integration needs.

Interactive Store For Developers

Galaxy will enable users to request, build, buy, preview, and rate items such as data integration packages, connectors, plug-ins or templates. In addition, users can post projects and participate in community project builds, Lance Speck, senior director for Pervasive Integration, told eWEEK.

“Galaxy is designed to enable profitable convergence between business-to-business integration producers and consumers through faster market and social connection,” Speck said.

“Just about everyone needs data integration, especially with so many systems moving to clouds, but until now they haven’t had a simple way to express their needs and easily connect with the experts who can meet those needs.”

The monetary arrangement is clear-cut: 70 percent of the income from a sale goes to the developer or process creator, and 30 percent goes to Pervasive for the overhead of running the marketplace.

“Partners seek ecosystems to share, deliver, and monetise innovation to customers,” said Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group.

Pervasive, based in Austin, Texas, is a global data systems integrator that develops software to manage, integrate and analyse data, in the cloud or on-premises, throughout the entire data lifecycle. An increasing amount of its business is now being done inside public, private and hybrid cloud systems.