Longview Solutions Continues to Deliver Innovative Functionality with the Latest Update of Longview 7.1

TORONTO, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Longview Solutions, a leading provider of corporate performance management (CPM) and tax reporting software, announced today the general availability of Longview 7.1 Update 3. With each new release, Longview strives to elevate the user experience by empowering users to improve efficiencies, transparency, and processes. This Update enhances Longview CPM and Longview Tax by improving their open architecture platform to deliver greater functionality, usability, and performance. It offers better design and navigation, improved administrative editors and tools, and enhanced reporting capabilities.  Longview 7.1 Update 3 also introduces support for mobile dashboards which enable users to view Longview Dashboards, Optix visualizations and web reports on Apple iPads.

"With Longview's investment in Smart Client technology, I believe users will be amazed by the new innovations made possible in this Update," said Wayne Stevens, Chief Software Architect, Longview Solutions. "New capabilities, such as dynamic modeling (immediately performs calculations as users enter data) are now available through this web deployed technology, and can bring the user's interaction with the system to a whole new level.  Smart Client technology has allowed us to make Longview Tax even easier to use and administer, and our continuous attention to performance will provide noticeable benefits in several areas of the platform with this Update."

The latest update includes functional enhancements in the following key areas:

• Smart Client Usability—Enhancements to the Longview Smart Client, a Longview platform component which combines powerful rich client functionality with easy web deployment, provides greater data grid capabilities with increased data entry and formatting options, new file browser options, and printing capabilities.
  
  
• Administrative Editors and Tools – For Longview Tax, a number of new editors and tools have been added to the product to create greater ease of use when administering system settings, currencies, interim accounts, users, and user groups.
  
  
• Usability – Enhanced end-user capability in the areas of analysis and reporting, including upgraded Optix charts, as well as more opportunities for Longview Tax users to export data to Excel spreadsheets for additional analysis. In addition, users now have the option of using the Longview for Excel component in a hosted or non-hosted environment, providing an alternative to installing additional components and reducing the requirement for Citrix.

Understanding the changing needs of finance departments and the ways they interact with our products to address these needs allow Longview Solutions to continually deliver innovative, world-class technology for performance management and tax.

About Longview Solutions
Longview Solutions provides a corporate performance management (CPM) and tax data management platform that leading companies such as Aon, Brunswick, Lexmark, The Home Depot, and Trustmark use to drive performance with speed, visibility and financial integrity. Since 1994, Longview has been helping clients create a single repository of financial truth from which all, or any one of the following key financial processes can be performed: financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, disclosure management/XBRL reporting, statutory consolidation, management reporting, profitability analytics, tax data collection, tax provision/reporting and tax planning. Longview is an Exact company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Philadelphia, Chicago (USA), London (UK), and Amsterdam (NL).

For more information please visit www.longview.com.

Longview Solutions
Andrea Sewell
905-940-1510 ext 5342
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