Pervasive Software® Inc.(NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, today announced Jim Falgout, chief technologist for Pervasive Big Data and Analytics Products, will present at the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) Inc. Fall Conference 2012 on big data and data analytics within the global oil and gas industry, taking place September 13 at the Four Oaks Place in Houston, Texas.

The Fall Conference, which will focus on ways to leverage big data technologies and architectures in the oil and gas industry, provides a great opportunity for PIDX members and other industry executives to network with peers, and learn best practices for solving big data management challenges that arise within the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas industry.

Falgout’s presentation, “Oil & Gas Industry Big Data Challenge - Speeding up the Oil & Gas Data Discovery and Delivery Process,” will take place at 10:25 a.m. CDT, and will discuss how to utilize new programming paradigms and tools to develop a visual workbench for big data analytics on Apache™ Hadoop™, enabling oil and gas data managers and analysts to build and execute complex big data workflows for Hadoop with minimal training and without MapReduce knowledge. It will be followed by scheduled presentations from speakers including Ross Jennings, senior consultant in Chevron’s Corporate Procurement Strategic Capabilities Group; Bill Tuzin, solution architect for the SAS Global Oil & Gas business unit; Michael O’Connell, director of analytics for TIBCO; and Jay Hollingsworth, director of Oil & Gas Technology Solutions at Oracle.

For more information on the PIDX Inc. Fall Conference 2012, go to http://www.pidx.org/future-meetings.htm.

About PIDX Inc.

PIDX Inc. is the oil and gas industry managed non-profit standards body for eBusiness in the global oil and gas industry. PIDX Inc., known as PIDX International has a mission to provide a global forum for delivering and maintaining the process, information and technology standards that facilitate seamless, efficient electronic business within the oil and natural gas industry and its eBusiness community.

About Pervasive Big Data and Analytics

Pervasive Big Data and Analytics provides a single, unified platform for high-performance end-to-end data access, transformation, analytics and reporting, ensuring that data scientists and business analysts derive rapid insight from terabytes of data running on commodity hardware, high-performance servers or the Hadoop framework. For additional information, go to http://bigdata.pervasive.com.

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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