Birmingham, UK and Lansing, MI. July 23, 2009 – Ridgian, a provider of information management solutions in the UK, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with software maker IDV Solutions. Ridgian will incorporate IDV's Visual Fusion platform in business intelligence solutions for its clients, predominately in the financial, government and health sectors.

"Our goal in every customer engagement is to ensure our customers turn their business data into appropriate decision making information," Jason Betteridge, Managing Director at Ridgian commented. "By partnering with IDV Solutions, we can offer our customers the ability to consume and analyze their information in a visual context utilizing platforms such as Bing Maps."

The Visual Fusion platform allows Ridgian to add location intelligence to their enterprise solutions, and deliver map-based, interactive applications tailored to each client's needs.

“IDV is very pleased to partner with Ridgian as they will be in a better position to directly respond to the growing demand we have seen in UK market,” said Scott Parker, Vice President of Sales and Channels for IDV Solutions. “Our goals are very similar: to enable our customers to combine data from many sources in ways that spark new insights, enable collaboration, and support informed decision making."

About IDV Solutions
IDV Solutions is an enterprise software company committed to helping Global 2000 and government organizations make their information more accessible, understandable, and contextual. Their suite of products, Visual Fusion, forms an enterprise mashup platform for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of SharePoint. This software empowers everyone in an organization to create interactive, geospatial mashups from unlimited sources of data. It provides a streamlined platform for building Enterprise 2.0 apps that drive agility, collaboration, and insight. Contact IDV Solutions at http://www.idvsolutions.com.

About Ridgian
Ridgian is an information management and IT services firm that enables customers of all shapes and sizes to capture, move, manipulate, analyze and deliver information around their organization in order to help them achieve their business goals. For more information on Ridgian, visit their website at http://www.ridgian.co.uk.