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Premier Inc. Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy to Enhance Hospital Performance Tools
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy software to enhance its performance improvement tools for hospitals
McLean, Va., (October 07, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy software to enhance its performance improvement tools for hospitals. Premier Inc. operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation’s most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information.
Premier plans to augment its suite of hospital performance tools and has selected MicroStrategy to provide detailed analytical and reporting capabilities. The more than 2,000 members of the alliance use the Premier suite of analytic tools for greater insights into physician performance, clinical performance, financial performance, and compliance.
Premier currently uses the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to offer its member hospitals comparative healthcare information services to help drive performance improvements. MicroStrategy supports a wide range of Premier data applications, including ClinicalAdvisor(TM), a clinical efficiency and quality performance benchmarking application. Hospitals use ClinicalAdvisor to access critical performance measures against comparative benchmarks to help make data-driven decisions to improve processes and performance in their organizations.
Premier Senior Director Architecture and Applications Development Todd Wilkes said, “As our business intelligence requirements have expanded over the years, MicroStrategy has grown with us. After evaluating other BI technologies for this new application, we found that MicroStrategy’s advanced analytics, user and data scalability, and intuitive Web-based reporting were an excellent fit.”
“MicroStrategy is proud of its ongoing relationship with Premier,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The MicroStrategy platform is used across the healthcare industry for analyzing claims, monitoring safety, enhancing resource utilization, and improving service quality. In fact, 7 of the top 10 global healthcare companies rely on MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software.”
About Premier Inc.
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation’s most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation’s largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Premier is a 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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NTT America Selects MicroStrategy’s Information Dashboards to Enhance Customer Service
MicroStrategy Chosen Following Thorough BI Products Evaluation
McLean, Va., (October 02, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, has selected MicroStrategy to analyze and monitor key customer service performance metrics.
NTT America chose MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM) to monitor customer service data, including response times to trouble tickets. NTT America executives and managers will use the MicroStrategy information dashboards for at-a-glance insights into customer service performance to help them make data-driven decisions. With MicroStrategy, NTT America expects to be able to improve its service response times, allocate resources more efficiently, and address other critical service areas to improve customer satisfaction and retention.
“Following a thorough evaluation of the leading business intelligence products, we found MicroStrategy’s interactive dashboards to be the best choice to ensure high user adoption across the enterprise,” said Sho Kikuchi, Director of IT, NTT America, Inc. “MicroStrategy’s robust architecture allows us to deliver valuable data to a broad user population and it requires significantly less overhead than any other BI tool in the market.”
“NTT America is a valued new MicroStrategy customer,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards empower business users of all levels to interact with their data in compelling new ways, providing actionable insights to help them make more effective decisions, streamline operations, and better serve their customers.”
About NTT America
NTT America is North America’s natural gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide. For additional information on NTT America, visit us on the Web at www.nttamerica.com.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Cabela’s Chooses MicroStrategy as Enterprise Reporting Standard
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Cabelaâ??s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB) has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise reporting standard. Cabela’s is a leading specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, and
McLean, Va., (September 30, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Cabela’s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB) has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise reporting standard. Cabela’s is a leading specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear through its legendary retail stores, world-famous catalogs, and popular www.cabelas.com Web site.
MicroStrategy’s integrated business intelligence platform will support a wide range of reporting applications for Cabela’s. MicroStrategy will be used across the organization for enhanced insights into key business areas, including inventory planning, customer service, sales administration, forecast analysis, and category management. In addition, MicroStrategy will be used to help Cabela’s improve its online business by enabling Cabela’s employees to review every item purchased online and better understand the items that customers typically purchase together. With this insight, Cabela’s will be able to present complementary product offerings to its online customers.
“We evaluated numerous BI products and were particularly impressed with MicroStrategy’s integration with Teradata, our enterprise data warehouse,” said Jon Crowe, Director of Enterprise Technology Services of Cabela’s. “In addition, MicroStrategy’s user-friendly reports and dashboards will help us to be more responsive to the needs of our organization by empowering our users to create their own reports and eliminating the need for custom report development by IT.”
“MicroStrategy and Teradata have a significant joint customer base of more than 200 customers and we are pleased that Cabela’s values the integration of our technologies,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s intuitive Web interface, advanced reporting capabilities, and data scalability are an excellent fit for Cabela’s and other leading retailers with large volumes of data and diverse user populations.”
About Cabela’s
Cabela’s Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is a leading specialty retailer, and the world’s largest direct marketer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the Company’s founding in 1961, Cabela’s has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World’s Foremost Outfitter. Through Cabela’s growing number of retail stores and its well-established direct business, it offers a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer service. Cabela’s also issues the Cabela’s CLUB Visa credit card, which serves as its primary customer loyalty rewards program. Cabela’s stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CAB.”
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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MicroStrategy Symposium in S
Event to Feature Customer Speakers from Banco Central do Brasil, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Contax, Falabella, Famiq, PepsiCo, PREVI, Suramericana de Seguros, and Swiss Medical Group
McLean, Va., (September 24, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host its Business Intelligence Symposium in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Grand Hyatt São Paulo, October 7-8, 2008. The two-day event will provide attendees with the opportunity to interact with BI experts and hear how successful organizations use BI software to improve decision making and enhance business performance.
The Symposium will offer a content-rich agenda with informative technical sessions and customer best practices. The technology track will feature presentations on reporting, analysis, and monitoring solutions, with an emphasis on the latest advances in the MicroStrategy platform, including MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM), MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), and MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM).
The customer track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Some of the companies scheduled to present in São Paulo include Banco Central do Brasil, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Contax, Falabella, Famiq, PepsiCo, PREVI, Suramericana de Seguros, and Swiss Medical Group.
“MicroStrategy Symposia provide attendees with practical tools to enhance business intelligence performance,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “The highly collaborative format of the Symposia enables participants to engage in lively discussions with MicroStrategy experts, hear first-hand BI experiences from industry-leading companies, and exchange ideas with peers.”
To learn more about the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium in São Paulo, visit www.microstrategy.com/SaoPauloSymposium2008.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, MicroStrategy Mobile are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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iQ4bis Builds Momentum in APAC Region with Key Customer Wins
NHP Electrical Engineering Products and Jetset Travelworld Group Select Industry Leader in Midmarket BI Solutions IRVINE, Calif.â??(Business Wire)â?? iQ4bis Software Incorporated a global, software provider that offers an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solution for business managers and execu
USA (September 22, 2008) –
NHP Electrical Engineering Products and Jetset Travelworld Group Select Industry Leader in Midmarket BI Solutions IRVINE, Calif.-(Business Wire)- iQ4bis Software Incorporated a global, software provider that offers an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solution for business managers and executives in midmarket enterprises, today announced that NHP Electrical Engineering Products and Jetset Travelworld Group (recently acquired by Qantas Group) have selected industry leading iQ4bis as their business intelligence solution, further expanding iQ4bis growth in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, each organization will utilize the iQ4bis solution for increased visibility into the transactional and operational information for competitive advantage in their respective industries.
“NHP wanted a BI solution that would be easy to use and deploy, yet would still be a powerful BI tool,” said Vic Wotherspoon, general manager -IT&T process improvement, NHP Electrical Engineering Products. “The iQ4bis solution fits the bill and has been the right choice for us. After a very pleasing proof of concept, achieved in a relatively short time, we now have sales and supplier views about to go live.”
Asia Pacific is one of the fastest growing markets for iQ4bis worldwide. Acceptance of iQ4bis in this region has rapidly grown in the past year to include a customer base of more than 50 customers in seven countries and multiple partnerships with well-known organizations like HP, Tectura and Fusion5. Customer adoption of iQ4bis has been phenomenal across the globe and the recent additions of NHP Electrical Engineering Products and Jetset Travelworld Group acknowledges both the impact and potential of the APAC market.
“IT departments are under extreme pressure to do more with less money and staff, yet are still required to deliver sophisticated analysis and reporting that business users can utilize autonomously,” said Siegfried Plommer, president of iQ4bis Software Inc. “Because our solutions are rapidly deployed, and flexible enough to seamlessly integrate in different environments, we offer a low-cost alternative to traditional expensive BI projects, providing interactive analysis to meet the end requirements of the business user.”
With the easiest-to-use browser interface in the business intelligence industry, iQ4bis offers robust, intuitive analysis solutions that empower business managers and executives to understand and identify business trends, variances and issues at their root cause. Utilizing standard Microsoft technologies and platforms, complex data is aggregated on the back end then presented in a simple, easily viewable format through a standard browser interface. Rapid and fixed-price deployments allow midmarket enterprises to realize the value of business intelligence at a fraction of the cost of similar products used by larger companies.
About NHP Electrical Engineering Products
NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty Ltd brings together leading products, systems and solutions from across five key electro technology sectors – Motor Control, Power Distribution, Hazardous Area Equipment & Control, Enclosure Systems & Power Quality and Automation & Safety. An Australian owned company, NHP is committed to serving Australasian industry with quality products and the best in customer support. NHP celebrates 40 strong years in the electrical engineering industry. In the NHP business today there is 650+ staff located in 18 locations throughout Australia & New Zealand. www.nhp.com.au/
About The Jetset Travelworld Group
The Jetset Travelworld Group operates one of Australia’s largest integrated travel businesses, providing wholesale, retail and specialist business travel products and services across Australia, consisting of: Jetset and Travelworld (One of Australia’s largest retail agency networks), QBT Australia’s largest corporate travel management company and Qantas Holidays (including Viva! brand) Australia’s largest travel wholesaler. www.jetsettravelworld.com.au/ ASX Code: JET- Shares
About iQ4bis Software Incorporated
iQ4bis is an independent software provider with a well-earned international reputation for intuitive business analytics solutions for midsized companies. Recognized for its ease-of-use, flexibility and rapid implementation times, the iQ4bis solution is sold, implemented, and supported through offices in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Asia. Recently, growing demand for efficient and effective data warehousing for the midmarket has encouraged iQ4bis to increase efforts in the U.S. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, iQ4bis provides a data source and application neutral analysis, charting and reporting solution for business users including iQ4bis Analysis(TM) and iQ4bis DataServer(TM); solutions for a wide variety of ERP systems including Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, CRM as well as JD Edwards and SharePoint Enterprise Portal integration. For more information, visit www.iQ4bis.com.
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Bank Austria Selects MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software for Reporting and Analytics
MicroStrategy to Offer Extensive Analytical Capabilities to Bank Austria
McLean, Va., (September 16, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Bank Austria has selected MicroStrategy to enhance its reporting and analysis capabilities. Bank Austria, a member of UniCredit Group, one of the leading European banking groups, is the leader in the Austrian banking sector.
Bank Austria plans to build a more efficient enterprise data warehouse for its business and its subsidiaries, Österreich AG and functional subsidiaries. With the new data warehouse, Bank Austria expects to increase user efficiency, as well as improve business performance and customer satisfaction. The MicroStrategy platform will enable Bank Austria end users of all levels to report on and analyze large volumes of data without requiring deep understanding of the data model or SQL knowledge.
Bank Austria compared MicroStrategy to several other BI vendors and MicroStrategy provided Bank Austria with a successful prototype that demonstrated its high performance and its ability to seamlessly integrate with Bank Austria’s new Teradata data warehouse.
Mr. Zdrazil, Bank Austria Manager, is very happy with the decision for MicroStrategy: “During the performance tests, the MicroStrategy software platform delivered a superior reporting system for Bank Austria, with greater efficiency and extensive functionality as compared to the other BI products we reviewed.”
“MicroStrategy is pleased that Bank Austria selected MicroStrategy for its reporting and analytics,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “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 Bank Austria.”
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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NEC Signs Reseller Agreement with MicroStrategy Japan
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NEC Corporation has signed a reseller agreement with MicroStrategy Japan.
McLean, Va., (September 10, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NEC Corporation has signed a reseller agreement with MicroStrategy Japan.
Under this agreement, MicroStrategy Japan and NEC will jointly develop business in the manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and financial industries, as well as cooperative marketing programs that include seminars and expos.
“We value this new relationship with NEC and are pleased that they plan to introduce the benefits of MicroStrategy’s BI software to their customer base,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “We look forward to working with NEC to identify new business opportunities.”
Information about NEC is available at www.nec.com.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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iDashboards Announces Next Generation Dashboards
Now Featuring Real-Time Analytics, Version 6.0 Establishes a Higher Benchmark
TROY, MI (September 08, 2008) –
iDashboards (http://www.idashboards.com), the leader in Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, today announced the availability of iDashboards 6.0, which features enhanced capabilities for next generation BI. With this enterprise dashboard application, users can identify trends at a glance and drill down into data sets to view more detailed information, facilitating quick, easy and well-informed decision making.
The increasingly complex and expensive BI solutions market, coupled with the need to leverage growing amounts of data, has led companies to seek more user-friendly and cost-effective solutions. iDashboards 6.0 meets this demand with its ability to integrate as a standalone or bolt-on application, ultimately providing an alternative to complex, end-to-end BI suites.
With real-time analytics, a key enhancement of iDashboards 6.0, users gain greater insight through real-time statistics and benchmarking. For example, users can apply mathematical expressions to perform calculations on their existing data sets, to create derived analytics. Computations can be based upon a variety of standard expressions, such as mean, standard deviation and total, or on a user’s custom expressions. As a result, users can easily identify trends and outliers, forecast outcomes, and make strategic decisions.
Other enhanced customization capabilities of iDashboards 6.0 include:
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Flex®-based architecture — significantly accelerates the responsiveness of iDashboards’ Flash animation, especially in situations with large amounts of underlying chart data
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Embed images and Flash® capabilities — extend the diversity of data that can be displayed in a dashboard, enabling the inclusion of Flash-based content, and offering a richer experience and enhanced functionality
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Robust charting options — offer three new categories, including thermometer, bullet and report, which provides users with a library of over 100 charting and mapping options featuring iDashboards’ unique interactive animation
“Our customers face the ongoing challenge of assimilating large data sets to track organizational performance while also remaining focused on what is vital to running the day-to-day operations,” said Shadan Malik, president and CEO, iDashboards. “To ease this pain, we enhanced our best-of-breed software with powerful features like real-time analytics, enabling us to provide user-friendly dashboard technology that offers quick ROI.”
Demos of version 6.0, are available at:
http://live.idashboards.com/president2008/?guestuser=fun
http://live.idashboards.com/beijing2008/?guestuser=guest
Flash and Flex are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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About iDashboards
Through its award-winning engineering and patented software, iDashboards helps companies leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized business intelligence dashboards to analyze, track, and drill-down through a wealth of information. iDashboards’ global customer base consists of organizations ranging from large, fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized businesses, all of which are making quicker, well-informed business decisions with the help of iDashboards. The company is privately held and headquartered in Troy, Michigan. To find out more about iDashboards’ solutions, please call (248) 952-0840 or visit www.idashboards.com.
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MicroStrategy Announces New OEM Partner, ABB Switzerland Ltd.
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that ABB Switzerland Ltd.(ABB) has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy. ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies.
McLean, Va., (September 04, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that ABB Switzerland Ltd.(ABB) has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy. ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies.
ABB Switzerland’s “Center of Excellence Printing,” based in Baden-Dättwil, plans to use MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software as an embedded BI solution together with its Web-based production tracking and analysis solution for newspaper printing. ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing provides integrated IT automation systems that enable newspaper publishers and printers to manage and optimize their daily production. The ABB system supports production needs from page planning to the distribution of the finished newspapers, and from controlling the printing presses to planning and tracking the entire production process.
By embedding MicroStrategy into its MPS Insight solution, which tracks newspaper production from the prepress to the delivery of the product, ABB will be able to provide its customers with a decision support system based on enhanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Specifically, MPS Insight customers will be able to track key metrics along the newspaper production process, including material consumption, paper quality, production deadlines, and process costs.
“MicroStrategy allows us to minimize our development time and enhance our product with a fully integrated and easy to use business intelligence solution creating benefit for our customers,” said Philipp Kaufmann, Product Manager with ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing.
“MicroStrategy is pleased to work with ABB and provide enhanced reporting and analytics for their solution,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy is embedded as the BI technology of choice by OEMs across a wide range of industries because of its integrated platform, user-friendly reporting features, and scalability.”
About ABB
ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. ABB employs about 115,000 people in over 100 countries with about 6,000 employees in Switzerland. The focus of the enterprise is primarily the core areas of power transmission and automation technology. ABB’s web site address is www.abb.com. The web site of ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing is www.abb.com/printing.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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MicroStrategy Announces New Visualization Widgets for Improved Data Comprehension and Decision Making
Advanced Visualizations Include Data-driven Movies to Uncover Business Trends
McLean, Va. (August 27, 2008) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the latest release of advanced visualization widgets for its Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM).
MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards enable large volumes of data to be displayed and understood in ways that cannot be accomplished with standard graph and table formats. MicroStrategy offers a library of advanced visualization widgets that present data in a highly visual and interactive manner to augment data comprehension and enhance decision making.
“MicroStrategy’s advanced visualizations help C&S Wholesale Grocers communicate data-rich information more effectively to our users,” said Christine Curtis, Vice President of Corporate Systems at C&S Wholesale Grocers. “Interactive graphs enable C&S users to quickly and easily find the information relevant to them.”
MicroStrategy leverages Adobe® Flash® to incorporate visualization, interactivity, and animation into its widgets. For example, MicroStrategy’s Interactive Bubble Graph widget allows time series data to be displayed as a data-driven movie, showing how data changes over time.
MicroStrategy customers can use Adobe® Flex(TM) 2 and Flex 3 to create their own MicroStrategy-compatible visualization widgets to include in dashboards and reports. Some of the newest advanced visualization widgets include:
* The Bubble Grid widget, which enables users to plot metric values as bubbles of different colors and sizes within a grid
* The Funnel widget, a variation of a stacked percent bar chart in a funnel shape, which is well-suited for a variety of business purposes, including pipeline analyses for sales forecasts and sales process analysis
* The Waterfall widget, which displays a series of increments and decrements that users can modify to perform a scenario analysis on the data and identify causes for fluctuations in the business
“MicroStrategy dashboards deliver an engaging user experience that can improve data analysis and decision making,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “Our library of advanced visualizations has continued to grow, offering users new graphical ways to view their data.”
To see a demonstration of MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and the advanced visualization capabilities, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/digital-dashboard/demos.asp.
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.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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Source: MicroStrategy