Under this long-term strategic partnership, Tiara Consulting, which offers consulting services to build business application solutions using ERP, Business Intelligence (BI) and web technologies, will use its fully-owned India subsidiary to facilitate the distribution and sales of Pervasive data integration products to meet the integration needs of customers across India.

Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems across a broad range of diverse integration scenarios, including prepackaged out-of-the-box integration solutions. Through this partnership, Tiara Consulting will utilize its technology expertise to help customers successfully integrate their IT systems using Pervasive data integration products and gain competitive business advantage. "India's high growth rate continues to challenge companies in India to adapt quickly to new opportunities and brings with it the need for having an integrated IT platform to support their business. With Pervasive, we can help companies adopt flexible integration that can be rapidly implemented with higher return on investment," says V.A. Venkatesh Babu, President and CEO of Tiara Consulting.

As an International MDP for India, Tiara Consulting will focus on selling Pervasive Data Integrator, a data integration product that can improve the business capabilities of all Indian companies by integrating their business data across different IT systems quickly and efficiently in a cost-effective fashion. In addition, Tiara Consulting adds great value by providing local customer and product support on Pervasive data integration products for all the customers in India.

Educational institutions are early adopters for Pervasive Data Integrator, helping students develop a deep understanding of and hands-on experience with data integration and business intelligence while executing academic projects to a better level on these emerging technologies. Dr. R.