MicroStrategy Certifies on New Teradata Database V2R5.1
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has validated on Teradata Database V2R5.1 a component of the Teradata Warehouse 7.1 data warehousing suite.
McLean, Va., (January 14, 2004) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has validated on Teradata Database V2R5.1 a component of the Teradata Warehouse 7.1 data warehousing suite.
In recent testing performed on Teradata Warehouse 7.1 software, the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) worked out-of-the-box, ensuring that customers can run MicroStrategy with Teradata Warehouse 7.1 without making any changes to their analytic applications. New capabilities in the Teradata database provide customers with the ability to store and retrieve large objects, and a User Defined Function (UDF) library that provides programming shortcuts used to customize database functions saving businesses time and money.
“We continually improve our database products in order to help our customers meet the challenges posed by today’s competitive environment. It is critical that an industry leader like MicroStrategy supports our latest release,” said Vickie Farrell, Vice President of Teradata Warehouse Marketing. “MicroStrategy’s proven analytical capabilities, scalability and performance enhancing techniques make its platform ideal for organizations running their business-critical applications on Teradata Warehouse 7.1.”
“MicroStrategy has long been an active Teradata supporter and participant in Teradata’s beta tests for several years and is pleased to support Teradata’s latest release,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Teradata and MicroStrategy have a history of expertise that ensures the success and satisfaction of our customers. We look forward to continuing this relationship.”
About Teradata Division
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR’s ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship TechnologyTM solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com ) employs approximately 29,500 people worldwide.
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 Hewlett-Packard. 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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Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com
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