ABI Helps Customers Score Big on Bottom Line
"The success of ABI is dependant on the reliability and speed of our solutions. We must provide our customers as close to 100-percent uptime as possible and easy access to their data. Pervasive has never let us down, and in return, we don't let our customers down."
David Schwartz, President & CEO, Advanced Business Integrators, Inc.
About ABI, Inc
Established in 1990, Advanced Business Integrators, Inc. (ABI) is a software development and professional services company based in Sacramento, Calif. Although its clients span a wide range of markets, a large concentration are in the public assembly industry, such as the Staples Center, Coors Field, Heinz Stadium and Pacific Bell Park. ABI personnel have years of experience designing and successfully implementing custom business information systems to clients in accounting, payroll and human resources, custom software (developed in-house), physical client networks (local and wide area) and Internet connectivity.
Business Challenge
All ABI customers share one trait in common – they expect their solutions to work as flawlessly as possible. Whether it's an accounting system for Oil Changers, Inc. or the California State Teachers Retirement System, or a complete workforce management solution for the Staples Center in Los Angeles, each depends on the availability of their business infrastructures, and easy and quick access to data. Downtime and slow data access can have disastrous consequences on their organizations' viability. Therefore, as a software, professional services and networking provider, ABI must ensure consistent reliability and accessibility of its solutions in order to meet client expectations. The reputation and success of ABI rest, in part, on the technologies that serve its clients.
Pervasive's Solution
ABI has always relied on Pervasive's technology to deliver outstanding performance and reliability to its customers. Although other solutions were analyzed for consideration, the innovative features of Pervasive, as well as President and CEO David Schwartz's previous experience as an end-user, made Pervasive the only choice for ABI.
Now utilizing Pervasive.SQL 2000i on a Windows 2000 platform, ABI has built more than 400 custom applications, reports and queries, and stand-alone business systems for its clients. Using Magic Software for programming and Pervasive as the back-end database, prototyping, building and deploying applications takes half as long compared to other visual programming tools. And since Pervasive is ODBC compliant, these custom applications are able to seamlessly share data with most existing database applications. Once the upgrade to Pervasive.SQL V8 is completed, ABI expects its reporting and processing speeds to dramatically increase, as well – offering even greater results to its clients.
With more than 60 public assembly facilities now relying on ABI's TMSS2000® solution, scalability is a necessity. Pervasive.SQL has proven its scalability and performance aptitude by easily adapting to an increasing flood of data created each day. In fact, in four years with this system, one ABI client has gone from thousands to hundreds of thousands of records with no measurable slow down or purging required.
ABI also values Pervasive's need for low administration. While other database options require close attention to ensure they function at maximum levels, the Pervasive data management solution is self-monitoring – automatically allocating memory as needed. Additionally, when infrequent questions do arise, the 24/7 Pervasive technical support team is standing by to help ABI.
Bottom Line
The robust capabilities of the Pervasive data management solution, combined with ABI's own team of highly skilled professionals, has helped the business continue to see substantial growth year after year based on reputation alone. ABI is well known in the field as having one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and dependable solutions on the market. Its clients have noted significant improvements to their bottom lines thanks to more accurate and quickly referenced accounting, workforce management and payroll data. According to Schwartz, the fact that most of his clients don't know they're running Pervasive is a testament to its performance. Because it's so reliable, they don't think about how it works, they just know that it does work – whenever they need it.
About Pervasive Software®
Pervasive Software is a leading global data-management company powering the success of application developers by providing solutions that deliver the industry's best combination of performance, reliability and low administration costs. Pervasive's strength is evidenced by the size and diversity of its customer base, serving tens of thousands of customers with hundreds of thousands of end-users in nearly every vertical market around the world. Founded in 1994, Pervasive sells its products into more than 150 countries and is based in Austin, Texas, with offices in Europe. More information may be found on the Web at http://www.pervasive.com.
For more information
To learn more about Pervasive Software and our solutions, please visit www.pervasive.com. To reach the North American sales office, call 1.800.287.4383, extension 2. For Latin, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand, call +1.512.231.6000. In Europe, for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, call +800.12.12.34.34. For any other European, Middle Eastern, African or Asian countries (excluding Japan), call +32.70.23.37.61. For Japan, please call +81.3.3293.5300, or visit www.pervasive.co.jp.
