Fairfax & Culpeper, VA, and Lansing, MI – January 20, 2010
IDV Solutions, maker of Visual Fusion enterprise mashup and data visualization software, today announced a new partnership with Virginia-based Competitive Innovations, LLC (CI), a leading provider of Microsoft SharePoint solutions.

CI will incorporate Visual Fusion into situational awareness and business intelligence solutions for clients in the government, defense, security and education sectors. Visual Fusion is a platform for creating applications that integrate enterprise data, Web services, and unmanaged workgroup files into a single view. It enables multiple types of visualizations, including maps, timelines, heat maps, data grids and charts.

"I'm very excited about our partnership with IDV Solutions since our customers have been searching for an enterprise-class data visualization solution," said Michael Kennedy, President and CEO of CI. "We use SharePoint internally and are now able to unite this data in interactive, map-based applications allowing us to quickly analyze data more thoroughly. This capability is especially critical for organizations that need to quickly pull together security, logistics, situation awareness, and other areas to get a 'big picture' view of a vast array of information."

“IDV is very pleased to partner with Competitive Innovations," said Richard Whisner, Partnership Manager at IDV. "Their expertise in SharePoint solutions complements Visual Fusion's deep SharePoint integration and our goals are similar: to empower clients with applications that promote situational awareness and support informed decision making."

About Competitive Innovations, LLC
Competitive Innovations delivers Information Technology and management solutions to customers in both the private and public sectors. Founded in 1999 and based in Virginia, CI focuses on developing, delivering and managing classified Knowledge Management, Information Assurance, Cyber Security and Network Operations solutions to customers where security and citizen service are mission critical requirements. CI is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint and related technologies.

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 www.idvsolutions.com.