Planview Teams with Pervasive Software for Easy Integration of Planview Enterprise and Core Business Applications

Out-of-the-box integration capability accelerates deployment and time to value

Austin, TX — April 23, 2007 — Planview, the leading independent provider of comprehensive portfolio management solutions, today announced a partnership with leading data and application integrator, Pervasive Software Inc., to accelerate integration of Planview Enterprise with its customers' core business and financial applications.

As IT departments face increasing demands to align with business initiatives, the adoption of portfolio management solutions has grown exponentially. But for these solutions to provide visibility into business functions, it is critical that they interoperate with existing ERP, HR and financial systems. Using Pervasive's extensive suite of integration products, Planview can offer its customers out-of-the-box interoperability with a wide variety of business applications.

High quality, rapid integrations in existing environments reduces the time and complexity required to deploy Planview Enterprise, while accelerating customers' time to value. Tools like Pervasive's integration suite make it easy and practical to select among best-of-breed applications, providing organizations an alternative to the 'supermarket-style' vendor approach.

"As an independent leader in the enterprise software arena, we support our customers' decision to invest in a wide range of software applications in addition to a core platform," said Patrick Tickle CMO of Planview. "We want to make it as easy and seamless as possible for these solutions to integrate with each other. The quicker we can make our software interoperate with existing applications, the faster our customers will see the true business value Planview Enterprise can provide."

Instead of a developer spending several days or weeks to build a customized integration solution, Pervasive allows Planview Enterprise to integrate out-of-the-box with more than 150 business applications and data sources via its Connector Library.

"With the tremendous growth in the portfolio management space, we are delighted to be working with Planview, and think there are significant opportunities for both companies to benefit from the relationship," said Mike Hoskins, CTO for Pervasive Software. "Pervasive's ability to ease integration with best-of-breed software-as-a-service and on-premises applications is ideal for a company devoted to providing its customers with the flexibility to choose what works best for their needs."