Integration with Leading Directories Leverages Investments in Security Systems
McLean, Va., (December 18, 2002) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 7i(TM), supports Microsoft® Active Directory for Windows® 2000, Sun ONE Directory Server from Sun(TM) Microsystems, Inc. and Novell® NDS eDirectory. MicroStrategy 7i integrates with these Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers to enable companies to make full use of their existing investments in user repositories and security systems. This integration also can facilitate and speed the deployment of the MicroStrategy 7i platform.
“Our support for LDAP servers enables our customers to quickly deploy MicroStrategy 7i with minimum administration requirements,” said Sanju K. Bansal, vice chairman and chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “With MicroStrategy’s out-of-the-box integration with leading LDAP servers, customers can immediately use their existing Sun, Microsoft or Novell user directories and security privileges for their business intelligence applications instead of creating new sets of users. End-users can easily log in to MicroStrategy using their existing directory server user IDs and passwords to access MicroStrategy 7i’s analysis capabilities.”
“Our customers are extremely pleased with MicroStrategy’s LDAP integration as it allows them to save on both initial investments as well as ongoing maintenance costs,” said Brook Detterman, Partner at Atlantic Intelligence. “Additionally, deployment time is significantly reduced and the end user experience is seamless because there is no need to remember additional passwords or security levels.”
MicroStrategy 7i’s integration with LDAP servers reduces administrators’ workloads and allows registered users to log in to business intelligence applications simply by using their assigned user IDs and passwords. Since MicroStrategy authenticates against the LDAP repository, users are automatically provided with appropriate data security authentication and access.
MicroStrategy 7i (version 7.2.2) supports the following versions of LDAP: Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Microsoft Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server SP2 and Novell® NDS eDirectory 8.6.2, 8.6.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6.1. For more information on LDAP, business intelligence administration and security, join MicroStrategy for a MicroStrategy 7i online seminar:
http://www.microstrategy.com/Events/Online_Seminars/
register.asp?TopicID=5.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations — in virtually all facets of their operations — with user-friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.
Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i’s configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.
Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,700 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and JD Edwards.
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Alka Nayyar
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 847-4897
anayyar@microstrategy.com
Source: MicroStrategy