Only Company To Earn Multiple Awards
McLean, VA, (November 05, 2003) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won two 2003 DM Review Readership Awards for the categories of Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management and Web Analytics and Business Intelligence. MicroStrategy was the only company to win multiple awards. Annually, DM Review enlists a research firm to poll readers to determine the top companies serving the technology needs of the business intelligence community in specific market segments.
The Gantry Group, LLC, a Massachusetts-based strategic advisory and research firm, conducted an independent survey of DM Review readers from mid-June through July 2003. Survey participants were presented with defined product categories and asked to select the vendors of products in use in their organization. They were then asked to rate these companies using a four-point scale ranging from excellent to poor. The 2003 DM Review Readership Award winners were identified based on the ratings and number of respondents.
“Each year our highly informed readers identify the companies that provide industry-leading solutions. Our readers recognize the quality of MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for overall business intelligence, as well as for analytic applications,” said Jean Schauer, Editor in Chief of DM Review. “We sincerely congratulate MicroStrategy and commend them for their commitment to excellence.”
“This accolade from DM Review readers is a true testament of the quality and superb technology that we provide to our customers,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy is extremely proud to win this prestigious award from DM Review. We take great pride in developing industrial-strength software with exceptional, user-friendly reporting features, outstanding Web deployability, superior data and user scalability, and powerful analytics.”
The 2003 DM Review Readership Awards winners are featured in the November 2003 issue of DM Review.
About DM Review and Thomson Media
DM Review (www.dmreview.com) is recognized as the premier business intelligence, business performance management and data warehousing publication. For more than a decade, DM Review has provided thought-provoking and informative editorial covering strategic solutions for business intelligence, analytics, data warehousing and CRM across all major industries. DM Review’s authors and columnists are internationally recognized experts in a variety of business intelligence fields. DM Review editorial provides both business and technology perspectives regarding issues, trends and solutions of interest to corporate executives and IT managers. DM Review is published by Thomson Media (www.thomsonmedia.com), a division of The Thomson Corporation and a leading provider of information, data and software tools for professionals in the financial services and related technologies markets.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.
MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.
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