MicroStrategy Italy Honors Two Companies for Their Business Intelligence Achievements
Intesa Mediofactoring and University of Bologna Recognized at the MicroStrategy Technology Day in Milan
McLean, Va. (October 23, 2007) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today honored two companies for demonstrating best practices in their business intelligence deployments. The MicroStrategy Honors Award recognizes organizations for outstanding corporate performance improvements as a result of their MicroStrategy-based BI applications. The MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award winners for 2007 are Intesa Mediofactoring and University of Bologna. The awards were announced today at the MicroStrategy Technology Day in Milan, Italy.
By deploying MicroStrategy business intelligence applications, these companies are sharing information across their enterprises to enhance performance, improve efficiency and productivity, and strengthen customer relationships. “We applaud these companies for demonstrating best practices in their MicroStrategy business intelligence deployments,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Intesa Mediofactoring and University of Bologna have delivered business intelligence across their organizations with outstanding results, and we are proud to recognize their accomplishments with the MicroStrategy Honors Award.”
The following is a brief description of the MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award recipients and their BI applications:
Intesa Mediofactoring
Intesa Mediofactoring is part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. Intesa Mediofactoring offers its customers personalized and time-saving factoring solutions, including account receivables management, credit coverage, and pre-financing services. Using MicroStrategy to support its on-line services, Mediofactoring’s customers can subscribe to a number of reporting services to receive customized information through e-mail or on a personal Web page within the Mediofactoring portal. MicroStrategy Italy presents the Honors Award to Intesa Mediofactoring for the high level of innovation in its business intelligence applications, resulting in excellent service to both internal and external customers.
University of Bologna
Established in 1088, the University of Bologna is the oldest University in the western world. The University of Bologna was also one of the first universities in Italy to adopt an information system that gathers, integrates, and organizes data coming from different sources and makes the data available across the organization for enhanced decision making. With MicroStrategy, University of Bologna users can report on and analyze data from disparate data sources, including personnel management and salary assessments; financial, economic, and analytic accounting information; and student career and academic data. University of Bologna is recognized for its enterprise-wide business intelligence application, which helps users identify trends, control costs, and make analytically-based decisions.
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