Joint Customers Benefit from Reporting, Analysis and Monitoring Enhancements in MicroStrategyâs Newest Release
McLean, Va., (February 09, 2005) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its newest product release, MicroStrategy 8, is receiving high praise from MicroStrategy alliance partners. MicroStrategy 8 provides significant enhancements for business decision making with improved access to data, an easy-to-use Web interface and seamless integration of reporting, analysis and business performance monitoring.
MicroStrategy has relationships with approximately 150 alliance partners, including technology partners, consulting/systems integrators, resellers, OEMs, and VARs. Many of these partners previewed MicroStrategy 8 beta software and provided positive feedback on its ability to extend BI to a broader business user population. The technological advancements in MicroStrategy 8 will allow MicroStrategy customers to deploy business intelligence to more users and derive more value from their existing BI investment. Specifically, the innovations in MicroStrategy 8 will allow alliance partners to attract new customers looking for a BI platform that is simple to use and can connect to all enterprise data sources.
“Demand for BI platforms that can support large user populations with high performance has surged in the past few years,” said Tom Villani, MicroStrategy’s Vice President of Global Alliances. “The additional features, capabilities and advancements in MicroStrategy 8 address two of the most important business intelligence issues facing companies today – accessing all their enterprise data and providing an easy-to-use interface for large populations of business users. Our global alliance partners will benefit by having MicroStrategy 8 in their portfolio.”
MicroStrategy’s alliance partners praise MicroStrategy 8:
Ascential Software
“We congratulate MicroStrategy on the launch of MicroStrategy 8 because it brings innovative functionality to the market including interactive reporting and analysis, rapid report design and development, and smoother integration with operational systems,” stated Bob Zurek, Vice President of Product Management and Advanced Technologies, Ascential Software. “Customers can maximize their BI application initiatives by combining MicroStrategy’s next-generation BI Platform with the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM), our complete, end-to-end data integration solution.”
Ascertane
“The new features in MicroStrategy 8 further extend MicroStrategy’s technology advantage over the competition,” said Eric Reid, Ascertane’s President of Business Intelligence. “In addition to making fully featured report design available in a zero footprint Web client, the new product allows access to ERP data, including direct access to SAP Business Information Warehouse. MicroStrategy has set the standard for open, server based architecture and common metadata, allowing one version of a performance metric to be shared across all information delivery channels.”
Capgemini
“MicroStrategy 8 unveils the power of Business Intelligence by supporting all the five styles of Business Intelligence,” said Mark Vreeland, Technology Services Senior Manager, Capgemini. “With its reporting and analysis techniques, MicroStrategy 8 empowers the user with on-demand information intelligence to make informed and efficient business decisions. MicroStrategy is well positioned to rise to the next level in serving their customers’ needs.”
Claraview
“Customers turning to Claraview for a BI strategy that leverages their SAP BW investment will embrace the new functionality of MicroStrategy 8,” explained Sid Banerjee, CEO of Claraview, Inc. “By delivering direct access to SAP BW for easy-to-use MicroStrategy reporting, rich analytical capability, and full drill-anywhere functionality, SAP users now have a powerful tool to make critical business decisions in real time.”
Cognizant Technology Solutions
“Among the new features in MicroStrategy 8, the heterogeneous data access will be one of the most beneficial to our customers,” said Srini Krishnan, Data Warehouse Practice Manager, Cognizant Technology Solutions. “Users who have organizational constraints and the need to store data across various databases will find MicroStrategy 8 to be a seamlessly integrated, cost effective, and extremely feature-rich business intelligence tool.”
Conversion Services International (CSI)
“CSI’s clients are always searching for new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business operations and to capitalize on new opportunities,” said Tim Furey, Data Warehouse Practice Director for CSI. “They will be extremely pleased with the technical advancements incorporated into MicroStrategy 8, as this richer, more unified, industrial-strength business intelligence infrastructure will be able to accelerate the time to market for their BI solutions.”
Dataspace
“With the release of MicroStrategy 8, MicroStrategy has exceeded the expectations of even their most demanding customers,” stated Benjamin Taub, CEO of Dataspace. “The new interactive analytical and design features within the web reports and documents, along with capability to seamlessly analyze data across the enterprise, from data warehouses and SAP BW sources to operational databases, will give companies the confidence and motivation to truly standardize on a single reporting product suite.”
DBWorks Technologies
“DBWorks Technologies has had the pleasure of working with MicroStrategy and our respective clients for many years,” said Tim Nickason, President, DBWorks Technologies. “We have experienced nothing but excellence in regard to functionality, analytical depth, reporting style and ease of use from the 7i platform. With version 8, MicroStrategy has clearly raised the BI reporting bar even further. In addition to existing capabilities, the web enabled WYSIWYG report design and presentation is utterly astounding. By providing reporting directly against SAP BW and other ERP vendor’s data, MicroStrategy has opened up new reporting opportunities for us and our clients.”
High Impact Technologies
“With MicroStrategy 8, we can now implement critical management scorecards and operational reports in real-time,” said Tom Dennis, Director of High Impact Technologies. “Key to our success is the ability of MicroStrategy 8 to connect directly to operating systems and to seamlessly integrate with heterogeneous databases. The intuitive Web interface lets us deploy fully interactive scorecards and reports that senior health care managers and physicians can readily use.”
MapInfo
“The enhancements in MicroStrategy 8, including a much more productive and simple-to-use web interface, familiar windows-based environment and clean, one-click feel, make it even easier for MapInfo’s “Location Intelligence Component for MicroStrategy” to provide organizations with the added dimension of geographic querying and visualization,” said Mike Agron, MapInfo Managing Director, Channel Sales, OEM & Enterprise Partners. “The potential to further maximize ROI on a MicroStrategy 8 platform investment is outstanding.”
MIIX Business Intelligence Systems Limited
“With MicroStrategy 8, our retail customers will be able to make better business decisions with the ability to import the most sophisticated data mining models into any report or analysis, such as merchandise optimization, price optimization and customer segmentation,” explained Roger Johnson, CTO, MIIX Business Intelligence Systems Limited. “In addition, MicroStrategy 8’s increased interactivity and ability to draw real-time information directly from our Merchandise Management package provides realizable benefits to our retailers.”
Netezza
“MicroStrategy 8 now makes it even easier for employees across an enterprise to access and analyze data better than ever before, whenever and wherever they need it,” stated Bill Doyle, VP Channel Sales, Netezza. “This functionality, when combined with the breakthrough performance of the Netezza database warehouse appliance, makes it possible for organizations to discover new insights and make smarter business decisions every day. We are confident that this release will extend the benefits of our joint solution and add to the success of our customers.”
Sybase
“Sybase has experienced a great number of joint customer successes with MicroStrategy for nearly 10 years,” said Steve Capelli, Senior VP and GM, Sybase North America Operations. “We look forward to building on that customer success by providing our customers an even richer and more user friendly BI experience, as MicroStrategy 8 allows a diverse range of business users to dig into the full depth and breadth of the largest data warehouses.”
Teradata
“The combination of the Teradata warehouse with MicroStrategy 8 offers our joint customers a single view of their organization’s data and enables them to deliver decisioning data access, from scorecards and indicators to data mining, to users at all levels in their organization with a single tool,” said Todd Walter, CTO, Teradata.
XeoMatrix
“MicroStrategy 8 sets a new standard for web-based BI reporting,” said Chris Monahon, President, XeoMatrix Incorporated. “Business users now are empowered to design and refine their own Report Services reports using MicroStrategy Web’s WYSIWYG interface. This new achievement can translate into an immediate project cost savings by reducing report development cycles, decreasing project deployment timelines, and increasing overall end-user productivity.”
About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are increasingly integrating MicroStrategy’s business monitoring, reporting, and analysis software into their operations. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital insight to help drive cost-efficiency, revenue-generation, and productivity. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively empower thousands of employees, partners, and suppliers with the business insight they need to make better business decisions everyday.
MicroStrategy has over 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including Aventis, eBay, General Motors, Lowe’s Companies, Pfizer, Sprint, Telecom Italia, U.S. Postal Service, Visa International, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo!. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 300 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including HP, IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.
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Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com
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