MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it is extending its relationship with Microsoft Corporation with support for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
McLean, Va. (June 06, 2007) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it is extending its relationship with Microsoft Corporation with support for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
MicroStrategy has a long-standing commitment to the integration of its platform with the Microsoft platform. By combining the 2007 Microsoft Office system with MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy delivers an Office Business Application (OBA) that empowers its business users to satisfy their own business intelligence requirements using familiar and powerful tools.
MicroStrategy Office(TM) expands the use of business intelligence across an organization by enabling business users to run, edit, and format any MicroStrategy report directly within the 2007 Microsoft Office system applications, including Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. MicroStrategy Office supports multiple data presentation modes, including grid, live graph, graph image, document, PivotTable, and PivotChart. The MicroStrategy platform provides users both on-line and off-line analysis with powerful refresh capabilities in a zero-footprint work space. As a Smart Client, MicroStrategy Office supports the Microsoft .NET Framework, XML, Web Services, and Smart Tags.
“We are excited to work more closely with MicroStrategy to support our customers’ business intelligence needs,” said Eddie Amos, senior director of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. “As a result of the deep integration, our customers are able to benefit from the robust analysis capabilities of the MicroStrategy BI solution from within the familiar and powerful tools of the 2007 Office system. OBAs are a key component of the future of integrated business intelligence. Using OBAs from companies such as MicroStrategy, customers are able to deliver functionality to the information workers in their organizations, who are truly impacting business performance.”
“We are proud of our strong relationship with Microsoft and the extensive integration between our technologies,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy Office expands the capabilities of the MicroStrategy BI platform to all users of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, providing seamless access to critical enterprise data for reporting, analysis, and monitoring.”
About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.
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MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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