Longview Solutions

Infobox_Company
company_name = Longview Solutions
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1995
location = Markham, ON, Canada
key_people = John Power, President
industry = Business Performance Management
homepage = [http://www.longview.com.com/ www.longview.com]

Longview is a Canadian software company with products for performance management including planning, consolidation, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and tax provisioning.

In September 2006 Longview acquired UK based Runservicenet in an effort to move towards an SOA architecture.

In September 2007 Dutch ERP Vendor Exact Software announced plans to acquire Longview Solutions. Unlike other acquisitions happening in the performance management / business intelligence industry, Longview & Exact have no product overlap. In November 2007, the acquisition by Dutch ERP Vendor Exact software was completed.

Other notable vendors in the performance management space include SAP, Oracle, Business Objects and Cognos.

External links

* [http://www.exactamerica.com/exact/read_release.php?release=111 Exact Completes Acquisition of Longview Solutions]
* [http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/schiff/archives/2007/09/another_one_bit.php#more Another One Bites the Dust: Longview to be Acquired]
* [http://www.longview.com/ Longview Solutions website]
* [http://www.aberdeen.com/summary/report/market_alert/MA_Longview_PK_3535.asp Longview Acquisition Marries CPM with BPM] - Aberdeen Group