AUSTIN, Texas – November 3, 2008 - Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data management and data integration software, announced the winners of the InnovatioNEXT Integration Solutions Awards at the company's annual user-conference, IntegratioNEXT. After thoughtful consideration of a strong slate of nominations, a panel of Pervasive executives named Hines Real Estate Securities, IPS-Sendero (a business unit of Fiserv) and Xactly Corporation as the 2008 winners.

"This year's winners exemplify truly innovative, game-changing implementations of Pervasive data integration technology," said Pervasive CTO Mike Hoskins. "We take pride in seeing our customers like Hines Real Estate Securities, IPS-Sendero and Xactly drive organizational success with our products. This year's winners have not only raised the bar on what can be achieved with visionary thinking and disciplined project execution, but they've also shown an inspiring willingness to share their best practices with other companies to foster industry success. These companies have designed elegant work-horse solutions based on Pervasive products that increase efficiency and contribute to the bottom line."

Hines Real Estate Securities, a fully integrated real estate investment and management firm, utilizes Pervasive Data Integrator to design for flexibility and change with a variety of targets and sources including SaaS applications, third-party data sources and on-premises systems. Today Hines Real Estate Securities nimbly supports ongoing integration of 20+ external data feeds and sources, including a hosted CRM, and a similar number of internal integrations including accounting systems amd data compilation for reporting. This innovative approach enables Hines Real Estate Securities to elegantly keep pace while maintaining lean, cost-effective staffing levels.

IPS-Sendero is a leader in technology, education and professional services for corporate performance management in financial institutions. They were recognized by Pervasive for automating and speeding onboarding of new client data with Pervasive Data Integrator™, yielding an astonishing 98% reduction in client data setup times while delivering a positive net operating profit impact by speeding conversion of deferred revenue to recognizable revenue. In addition, they created an innovative Web service-based front end to Pervasive Data Profiler™ to deliver rapid, comprehensive data quality assessment for their customers.

Xactly Corporation, the leader in automated on-demand sales compensation management, implemented Pervasive Data Integrator to provide its customers with a rapid, affordable range of integration options via an affordable multi-tenant hosted delivery model. Xactly customers now experience the full value of incentive management software by integrating seamlessly with other applications, including HR and accounting systems. Today Xactly customers enjoy rapid deployment with capabilities that can be tapped by business users with no need for IT intervention.

Pervasive customer and partner awards don't stop there, however. LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc., a leading provider of health improvement and condition management programs and services, recently won the BeyeNetwork Vision Award for Business Impact with an integration solution based on Pervasive Data Integrator.

Robert Slepin, CIO of LifeMasters, said, "Timely, accurate and secure processing of data about our program participants is critical to LifeMasters' delivery of scalable and cost-effective health improvement program offerings. We rely on data at each step of our process to meet the needs of our program participants and their physicians. Our IT professionals have become expert in using this technology, literally cutting days out of the process and achieving flawless execution in data accuracy."

About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ:PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management and agile data integration software. Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. The embeddable PSQL database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com.

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