Experian said it has acquired Decisioning Solutions and is integrating that company's hosted software to Experian's consumer and commercial analytical and authentication platforms.

Decisioning Solutions is a Toronto-based provider of SaaS-based multi-tenant and multi-lingual software that will now allow Experian to offer small, medium and large organizations the ability "to make secure, on-demand, analytics-based customer decisions so they can achieve and sustain significant growth," said Experian, a UK-based company with American headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Experian said the integrated offering will become its global SaaS platform for clients in telecommunications and financial services, helping them to reduce acquisition costs and risks by authenticating potential customers, automating processing and decisioning and managing customer accounts.