Integration Goes Beyond Typical Reporting to Include OLAP Analysis, Scorecards, and Alerting
McLean, VA., (February 10, 2005) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its new Business Intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 8, has been certified by SAP® to access content in SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW).
Using MicroStrategy 8, business users can intuitively and easily report, analyze, and monitor data contained in SAP BW data marts. Users can also combine data from multiple SAP and non-SAP sources in scorecards, dashboards, and reports. With MicroStrategy’s advanced information distribution and collaboration features, business users can create, share, and subscribe to information alerts. Additionally, MicroStrategy 8 provides high performance reporting for SAP users through the use of advanced caching and report scheduling features.
“SAP’s Business Information Warehouse (BW) is becoming further entrenched as a data warehouse (DW) for many enterprises,” said Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). “Making BW and other operational and DW data more easily available to an expanded number of mainstream users is a major priority for these organizations. MicroStrategy 8’s SAP certified BW integration will allow SAP customers to provide highly intuitive integrated reporting and analysis to an expanded base of their mainstream business users.”
MicroStrategy 8 incorporates a high-performance Dynamic MDX (multi-dimensional expression) engine that accesses information in SAP BW cubes via SAP’s OLAP BAPI interface. Because queries are dynamically generated using the multidimensional models in SAP InfoCubes, QueryCubes, and ODS, MicroStrategy users can automatically and transparently drill back into SAP BW for more data, without any prior programming or prior design of drill paths.
“MicroStrategy 8 is becoming the enterprise BI utility of choice for many SAP customers,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “By leveraging customers’ existing SAP investments, valuable business information stored in SAP can be quickly deployed to thousands of business users in scorecards, dashboards, and reports. In addition, since MicroStrategy 8 has an enterprise-caliber architecture that supports all five styles of business intelligence, organizations can finally standardize on a single BI platform for both their SAP and non-SAP data.”
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
Source: MicroStrategy