Data Management Solution: Pervasive Software Provides Real-Time Database Solution For GPSNet Technologies To Gain ROI By The Truckload
Leading Transportation Software Provider Enhances Customers' Tracking and Productivity with Pervasive PSQL and Data Exchange
Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data management and integration software, today announced it has joined with application service provider GPSNet Technologies to meet and exceed GPSNet's and its customers' strict scalability, load balancing and availability requirements. GPSNet is a leading provider of ASP solutions for expedite, full truck load and truck brokerage services to regional trucking companies in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
With more than 5,000 trucks in its partner network program, Windsor, Ontario-based GPSNet Technologies provides an ASP solution to regional trucking companies in the United States, Canada and Mexico, each with its own regional presence. Subscribers to GPSNet have shared access to all members' fleets, enabling them to take advantage of opportunities they otherwise could not meet. Members therefore can keep trucks moving with paying loads and higher utilization rates. To meet their fast growing data management requirements, GPSNet turned to Pervasive Software's PSQL as the database platform of choice. With Pervasive PSQL, GPSNet created an innovative load-balancing solution, spanning multiple server farms, to route and track transactions across multiple customer databases for complete order synchronization. As a result, during peak times, a server farm can manage thousands of loads per day, representing millions of dollars of revenue to member trucking companies. GPSNet is able to comfortably handle the traffic and meet customer expectations for performance while participants are able to access and view a single version of their ‘sharable data' reliably and securely, in real time.
GPSNet also looked to Pervasive to provide a robust disaster recovery and business continuity framework for the Data Center. Using Pervasive® Data Exchange™ Real-Time Backup, GPSNet is able to ensure that all client transactions are seamlessly replicated to the off-site backup data center. Member companies benefit from access to an up-to-date copy of their data even in the event of a major system or communication failure to the primary site.
GPSNet has partnerships with many well-known transportation vendors, including Metro Express, ExpressOne, Allstate Express and Bolt Express. Leveraging Pervasive's PSQL data management platform, GPSNet has become an industry innovator whose unique approach is yielding significant returns and more confident, satisfied customers. "With our subscribership expanding by more than 50 percent per year, the Pervasive-powered application has enabled us to grow with our customer base without redeploying employees or resources," said Stuart Sutton, president of GPSNet Technologies. "Moreover, the solution runs on an affordable commodity server, which saves us significant hardware expenses. Pervasive gives us the scalability and flexibility we need to maximize the market opportunities for our ASP services."
"GPSNet has captured the power of the Pervasive data management platform to scale its business, deliver high-value solutions and provide its customers with an innovative, reliable and secure hosted application," said Gilbert van Cutsem, general manager, Database Products at Pervasive Software. "As more software vendors move to the ASP model to provide new and innovative solutions to their industries, choosing the right underlying data management platform is key. GPSNet is a good example of an ASP bringing a creative solution to market to meet a previously unaddressed need. GPSNet has leveraged the PSQL platform to create a unique solution relevant to the entire trucking industry."
About GPSNET
GPSNet Technologies, Inc.'s vision was rather unique. Take a group of competing companies that share similar business issues and get them to make more money by selling each others products. For the companies that have bought into this business philosophy, the rewards have been handsome. Subscribers to the GPSNet Technologies software have shared access to a much larger fleet ... thereby allowing them to say YES to their customers more often. Likewise, they share the availability of their own fleet with other subscribers so that their drivers keep moving with better paying loads.
The premier product of GPSNet Technologies is their AlliancePro Dispatch Software. It combines customer management, fleet management (including compliance testing), order entry (integrated with mileage and mapping), NLM integration, Active Aero PTM integration, rating, billing, driver pay, direct deposit, document imaging, Qualcomm integration, GPS Cell Phone tracking and communication, customer track and trace, Virtual Fleet, automatic ETA calculations, street level routing and directions, automatic customer e-mail notifications, integration with accounting tools like QuickBooks, Peachtree, Accpac, Great Plains or Platinum and much, much more. For more information, visit their website at www.gpsnettech.com.
About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) provides embeddable data management and integration software to help companies grow and extend the value of their data investments. For more than two decades, Pervasive has delivered value with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Today, Pervasive is leading its chosen markets by defining and accelerating the inevitable transition from high cost to high value. Pervasive's hallmark is the size, diversity and loyalty of its customer base, partners and channels: tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry, in more than 150 countries, rely on Pervasive to manage, integrate, analyze and secure their critical data. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com.