Persistent Teams up With Microsoft SSIS as its Connector Factory; Deploys First SSIS Oracle Bulk Load Connector at Moffit Cancer Centre.

REDMOND, Wash. -- Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. a leading provider of Custom Software Product Development services and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announced that it has teamed up with Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) group to help customers connect with various ISV products like Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, Essbase, LDAP servers among others.

For this, Persistent has developed the High speed Oracle Destination connector with SSIS that gives a 100 times performance improvement over the existing OLEDB connector. Persistent's SSIS Oracle Destination Bulk Load Connector will help in addressing the market requirement of slow data transfer speed of Oracle OLE base Database connector (OLEDB). The connecter will address pain points of Microsoft customers and help Microsoft sale the SQL Server Interface to Customers who need to transfer huge amount of data at high speed to Oracle, like Data warehouse etc.

Mr. Donald Farmer, Group Program Manager of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) at Microsoft says, "One of the key design goals for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) was to deliver a heterogeneous data integration platform that partners could extend with new functionality. Persistent's native adapter for Oracle is a great example of a partner developing on the SSIS platform for our mutual customers. We are excited at Persistent's commitment to build a host of other connectors for SSIS. It really shows the potential of the Microsoft partner ecosystem to deliver even more powerful data integration capabilities on the SSIS platform."

Commenting on the connector Mr. Milind Tendulkar, Vice President, Persistent Systems said, "Persistent has developed the Oracle Destination Bulk load connector using its extensive enterprise data integration & business intelligence expertise. The SSIS Oracle Bulk Load Connector has been built as a component to be available inside Business Development Studio environment. As a data flow Destination Component, it can be used in Data Flow tasks of SSIS to bulk load data into Oracle Server."

Moffit Cancer Centre, a leading Cancer research Institute in South Florida was the first to be deployed with the SSIS Oracle Bulk Load Connector. Commenting on the experience Scott Barrett, Team Leader, Data Warehousing, Moffit Cancer Centre said, "Persistent has been engaged right from the Alpha release and we are really impressed with the performance of their SSIS -- Oracle destination connector -- over 100 times faster than OLEDB connector. This has helped us speed up our overall ETL process."

About Persistent:

Persistent Systems (www.persistentsys.com) pioneered the Custom Software Development model over 15 years ago and has over 150 customers worldwide. Leveraging on its expertise in Connectors, Persistent to date has built more than 80 custom connectors.