BPM software.Longview Solutions Longview is a Canadian software company with products for performance management including planning, consolidation, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and tax provisioning. In September of 2006 Longview acquired UK based Runservicenet in an effort to move towards an SOA architecture. , a provider of Business Performance Management (BPM (Business Process Management) A structured approach that models an enterprise's human and machine tasks and the interactions between them as processes. BPM software provides users with a dashboard interface that offers a high-level view of the operation that typically ) solutions, has acquired Runser-vicenet Ltd., based in London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. , England, which has developed a unique performance management-focused, service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) development platform known as "DecisionX." The acquisition will allow Longview to further optimize optimize - optimisation its technology architecture and accelerate the development and delivery of its strategic product vision. "The whole area of performance management (PM) software is evolving, and the flexibility of the architecture is becoming more important as customer requirements mature," said Kathleen Wilhide, research director of BPM and Compliance at IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice. "A service-oriented architecture facilitates the flexibility to enable organizations to build more robust performance management processes that integrate with operations and optimize decision support. In the longer term, basing performance management solutions on a[n] SOA will become the standard." Runservicenet's code base will be integrated with Longview's BPM platform, allowing Longview to integrate with other enterprise applications, develop new products and enhance existing functionality to fully leverage the power of BPM. The resulting Longview Performance Management Platform will provide significant advantages to Longview customers, including flexible applications that can be defined and developed based on customer-specific business processes, faster implementation times and more flexibility to incorporate additional functionality. The acquisition will also enable Longview to expand its product portfolio, create new partnering opportunities and expand into new market segments. Web: www.longview.com Content for this column has been developed in most cases from promotional materials supplied by the companies, which have not paid to appear. |
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