BPM software.

• Position: TechnologyTOOLS - Business Performance Management - Longview Solutions' acquisition of Runser-vicenet Ltd. - Brief article

Longview Solutions, a provider of Business Performance Management (BPM) solutions, has acquired Runser-vicenet Ltd., based in London, England, which has developed a unique performance management-focused, service-oriented architecture (SOA) development platform known as "DecisionX." The acquisition will allow Longview to further optimize 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...