Exact Software, which owns Vanguard Business Analytics, has acquired Longview Solutions a leading provider of corporate performance management (CPM) software which helps companies manage the business of finance with speed, visibility and financial integrity. Hundreds of the world's most respected companies use the Longview Solutions software to create a single repository of financial truth from which Statutory Consolidation, Management Reporting, Financial Planning, Modeling, Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Tax processes can be performed simultaneously, enterprise-wide. PSGI’s PRISM BI solution is powered by Vanguard Business Analytics Graphical Performance Series™ (GPS) software.

Vanguard Business Analytics™, a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions and a division of Exact Software™, today announced the availability of Version 4.6 of the Vanguard Graphical Performance Series® (GPS), an enterprise business intelligence solution that offers seamless integration with leading third-party ERP systems, enabling organizations to transform the transactional data in their installed systems into information for managing and improving business performance. Vanguard GPS 4.6 includes a number of new features and enhancements designed to streamline IT administration and improve the end-user experience.

Pandol Brothers, Inc. announced that they have chosen Solzon Corporation to participate in their RFID initiative. Pandol, a leading supplier of high quality produce to global markets is planning to implement RFID.

Demand Planning customers are gaining a competitive edge with the Graphical Performance Series® (GPS) business intelligence and analytic reporting software. The newly released Dashboard Plus provides strategic, graphical views of enterprise system information.

Exact Software™, a leading provider of solutions that connect the people, processes and knowledge essential to an organization, announced that the company has completed the acquisition of Vanguard Solutions Group, a Glen Ellyn, IL-based provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions.

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Enterprise performance management (EPM) and business intelligence (BI) supplier, Vanguard Solutions Group's business strategy focuses on selling with and through enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise application vendors.

Over the last few years, the strategy has proven to be successful: however, the ongoing industry consolidation continues to shrink the prospective partner list - is this an opportunity or a challenge to Vanguard and its partners?