Belgacom Group Selects MicroStrategy as Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Belgacom Group has selected MicroStrategy as its enterprise-wide platform for business intelligence. The Belgacom Group is a leading Belgian provider of integrated teleco
McLean, Va., (September 04, 2007) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Belgacom Group has selected MicroStrategy as its enterprise-wide platform for business intelligence. The Belgacom Group is a leading Belgian provider of integrated telecommunications services. The Belgacom Group and its subsidiaries Proximus, Telindus, and Skynet, provide a wide range of fixed and mobile network solutions.
In response to an increasingly competitive telecom market, Belgacom plans to use business intelligence to enhance its product offerings, grow the long-term value of its customer base, improve cost management, and increase market value. Belgacom selected MicroStrategy for its ability to deliver robust business intelligence applications that will be able to provide Belgacom users with greater insights to rapidly adapt to market conditions and implement market-leading business strategies.
Belgacom plans to deploy MicroStrategy across its entire organization. Belgacom expects its initial deployment will include management dashboards, sales reporting and analysis, campaign management, marketing intelligence, and an extranet billing reporting system.
“We are pleased that Belgacom has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform for its BI initiatives,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “MicroStrategy’s ease-of-use, sophisticated analytical capabilities, and scalability for thousands of users and terabytes of data, offer a powerful BI solution for dynamic companies like Belgacom.”
About Belgacom
Belgacom Group [Euronext Brussels: BELG] is the benchmark Belgian provider in the field of integrated telecommunications service. Underpinned by its experience as the country’s national operator, matched by a capacity to innovate, the Belgacom Group, through its strong brands (Belgacom, Proximus, Telindus and Skynet), provides a full range of offers, solutions and expertise in fixed and mobile networks. This is why Belgacom can ensure reliable, high-quality service for all its customers, regardless of whether they are private individuals, professionals, companies or institutions. For the fiscal year ending 31 December 2006, the Group posted a total revenue of EUR6,100 million and a net operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of EUR2,149 million, including non-recurrent items.
About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.
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