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US Army’s PM J-AIT Implements MicroStrategy Software for Logistics Reporting and Analysis

Jul 19, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the US Army’s Product Manager, Joint – Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT) has implemented the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ to report on and

McLean, Va. (July 19, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the US Army’s Product Manager, Joint – Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT) has implemented the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to report on and analyze logistics data for a radio frequency identification (RFID) solution implemented by Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS).

The Radio Frequency In-Transit Visibility (RF-ITV) program provides government and contractor personnel across four continents with instant access to critical information on military cargo, equipment, and supplies. MicroStrategy software was selected to improve the ability to access and analyze data, and provide better decisions to enhance the Department of Defense’s worldwide logistics tracking system. Timely access to mission-critical information will enable decision makers throughout the logistics pipeline to plan, prioritize, and redirect logistics operations to improve warfighter readiness.

“We are impressed with MicroStrategy’s technology, especially its integrated platform, intuitive report development, and interactive, full-featured Web interface,” said Jim Hayes, Program Manager RF-ITV, of Unisys. “Unlike claims we heard from other BI providers, MicroStrategy has a true zero-footprint interface, with no plug-ins required, which provides a self-service reporting environment for the RF-ITV Program’s diverse user population.”

“We are extremely proud to support the RF-ITV program, the US military, and deployed forces around the world,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “MicroStrategy is well-suited for the most demanding BI applications, and it has been selected by federal, state, and local government organizations for its reliability, scalability, security, and intuitive Web interface.”

Some of MicroStrategy’s government customers include: US Postal Service, US Air Force, US Army, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Ohio Department of Education, Texas Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, US Census Bureau, State of Tennessee, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Department of Homeland Security.

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 UK Honors Two Companies for Their Business Intelligence Achievements

Jul 11, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga Recognized at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London

McLean, Va., (July 11, 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 UK Honors Award winners for 2007 are Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga. The awards were announced today at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London, England.

The companies selected for the MicroStrategy Honors Award have successfully used business intelligence throughout their organizations to enhance business performance, improve productivity, and strengthen customer relationships. “We congratulate these companies for demonstrating best practices in their MicroStrategy business intelligence deployments,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga have each taken a unique approach to delivering business intelligence in their organization with remarkable results in business efficiency and customer service. We are delighted to recognize their accomplishments by presenting them with the MicroStrategy Honors Award.”

The following is a brief description of the MicroStrategy UK Honors Award recipients and their BI applications:

Biffa Waste Services
Biffa Waste Services is a leading integrated waste management business in the UK, which provides services to around 75,000 local and national customers in the industrial, commercial, and municipal sectors. MicroStrategy presents the Honors Award to Biffa for its enterprise-wide BI deployment, speed of implementation, and the business improvements achieved from its use of business intelligence. With MicroStrategy, Biffa provides reports and analyses to users in multiple departments across the company, helping them to make informed decisions in a timely fashion, while reducing reliance on the IT team. As a result, Biffa employees have greater insights into their customers and can make important business decisions related to expanding services and managing customer expectations.

Quadriga
Europe’s market leader of digital IP-based entertainment and Internet services for hotels, Quadriga operates in over 50 countries in Europe and the Middle East and has an annual audience of 100 million guests. MicroStrategy recognizes Quadriga for the speed of its BI implementation, which was operational within 2-3 weeks, as well as its outstanding implementation team and the business improvements achieved as a result of its BI applications. Quadriga personnel use MicroStrategy reports for financial metrics, guest revenue metrics, and content performance metrics. Using MicroStrategy, they also provide their customers with greater insights into the value derived from Quadriga’s entertainment and Internet services.

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MicroStrategy Introduces Business Intelligence for the Mobile Workforce

Jul 09, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Mobile Delivers Timely Business Intelligence Reports Directly to BlackBerry Smartphones

McLean, Va. (July 09, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced its plans to launch MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), a new product that delivers timely BI information directly to BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM and TSX: RIM). MicroStrategy Mobile will be introduced tomorrow at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London.

MicroStrategy Mobile provides mobile workers with access to BI reports on their BlackBerry smartphones. With MicroStrategy Mobile, business users will receive the same reports on their BlackBerry smartphone as they receive on their desktop, without the need for reformatting or retrofitting existing reports. The report manipulation features available in MicroStrategy Mobile allow users to view even the largest reports within the compact screen size of the BlackBerry smartphone.

MicroStrategy Mobile is designed to work cooperatively with other BlackBerry applications, including phone, e-mail, and text messages. The product dynamically optimizes the use of network bandwidth, based on the quality of the signal and usage by other mobile applications. BlackBerry memory and network bandwidth are minimized through the use of a compression algorithm that can achieve compression ratios of 10 to 1.

Designed for all levels of users, MicroStrategy Mobile reports are displayed in an easy-to-view and easy-to-navigate format, enabling users to review, analyze, and interact with important data at their convenience. Users can also access reports while they are offline, or when their BlackBerry smartphone is not within connectivity range. MicroStrategy Mobile leverages the same robust security features of the MicroStrategy platform, as well as the security infrastructure provided by the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.

MicroStrategy Mobile is well-suited to meet the BI needs of a broad range of mobile workers:

* An executive from a large financial services company can monitor the organization’s top financial metrics and make time-sensitive decisions that impact the company’s bottom line while out of the country.
* A retail buyer can access merchandise sales data to determine what is selling and not selling in specific stores to support purchasing and inventory reallocation discussions with store managers.
* A pharmaceutical salesperson can review the latest market share reports, prescription sales, and inventory data to prepare for sales calls.
* A manufacturer’s field technician can provide enhanced customer service on-site by checking the customer’s historical service record and product availability before scheduling a follow-up service call.
* A marketing executive from a Fortune 500 company can evaluate the latest marketing campaign analytics while meeting with the advertising agency to make key decisions on future expenditures.

“We are excited about MicroStrategy Mobile and the many ways it will help us work more efficiently at Guitar Center,” said John Zavada, CIO of Guitar Center. “The reports are remarkably easy to read and navigate, even on the compact screen of the BlackBerry.”

“A large amount of business operates in a mobile world where the importance of taking actions and making decisions more rapidly is greater than ever before,” said Mark Smith CEO & EVP Research of Ventana Research. “MicroStrategy has introduced a significant step forward with MicroStrategy Mobile, where BI is now available in full interactive form on the BlackBerry, utilizing reports, dashboards, search, and other capabilities to simplify BI for large numbers of business professionals.”

“MicroStrategy Mobile enables executives and mobile workers to boost productivity and make timely, informed decisions while away from their computers,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “Users can intuitively access, navigate, and analyze reports without special training, allowing organizations to quickly put BI into the hands of their mobile personnel.”

Availability of MicroStrategy Mobile
MicroStrategy Mobile is currently in beta-testing and expected to be generally available in the second half of 2007, as part of the MicroStrategy 8.1.1 release.

To find out more about MicroStrategy Mobile, visit: http://www.microstrategy.com/Software/Products/User_Interfaces/Mobile/

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 8, and 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. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images, and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 8, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, 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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MicroStrategy Announces New Product to Automate Validation Testing for Data and Report Integrity

Jul 09, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Verifies Business Intelligence Reports Contain Complete and Accurate Data

McLean, Va. (July 09, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced its plans to launch MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM), a new product that tests the accuracy of BI applications by validating data and report integrity. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automatically compares and verifies the consistency of reports as changes are made to the BI ecosystem, and then highlights issues and discrepancies to monitor the overall reliability of the BI content used by business decision makers. This product will be introduced tomorrow at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London.

Companies typically monitor the integrity of their BI data through manual data validation. However, despite the increasing importance of BI applications, BI support teams often lack the necessary resources to ensure that data or software integrity problems have not been unexpectedly introduced during data loads or software upgrades. Additionally, in self-service BI systems where end users create their own reports, many companies fail to perform validation testing on the large number of user generated reports. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automatically reviews the integrity of data across an organization’s BI system, verifying that BI reports and analyses are based on reliable data.

MicroStrategy Integrity Manager reduces the need for resource-intensive manual testing by comparing versions of reports after data updates and throughout the BI development cycle, thereby automating report regression testing. Data inconsistencies can be captured much sooner in the development cycle, saving time in report testing, end user support, and issue resolution. With MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, companies can increase the scope, effectiveness, and accuracy of their data validation efforts, and free developers to focus on content creation rather than manual testing.

Even minor changes in the BI ecosystem may impact data accuracy and lead to inconsistencies across versions of BI reports. Common types of BI ecosystem changes that require report and data validation include:

* Software upgrades – MicroStrategy Integrity Manager ensures that database and BI software upgrades designed to address defect fixes and enhancements do not impact report integrity, and that inconsistencies are identified so they can be corrected prior to being viewed by business users.
* BI project migrations – As part of the normal BI development life cycle, developers continuously migrate entire BI projects or project objects across the development, test, and production environments. Administrators need to confirm that migrated objects perform as expected and do not negatively impact existing BI reports.
* Data warehouse ETL processes – Data loads and ETL scripts can modify or even corrupt existing information within the data warehouse. Database administrators require certainty that the ETL processes are successfully completed, without altering previously loaded data and introducing inconsistencies to BI reports and content.
* Database optimizations – System tuners can alter existing database objects and report parameters, or add new objects such as indexes and aggregate tables to improve report performance and system throughput. Developers need to ensure that subtle SQL changes and database alterations made for performance do not alter query results.
* User profile modifications – As BI applications are modified to provide richer capabilities or as end users move roles within companies, administrators must modify user and user groups’ application privileges and data security profiles. Validation testing ensures that user profile changes do not improperly alter users’ BI reports.

“Data integrity is paramount to the success of any business intelligence application,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The more mission critical the business intelligence system, the greater the need for validation testing. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager is an important new product that can give our customers a high degree of confidence that the data in their BI environment is complete and accurate.”

Availability of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager
MicroStrategy Integrity Manager is currently in beta-testing and expected to be generally available in the second half of 2007, as part of the MicroStrategy 8.1.1 release.

To find out more about MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, visit: http://www.microstrategy.com/Software/Products/Dev_Tools/IntegrityManager/

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 8, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager 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 to Host Business Intelligence Symposium in S

Jul 05, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

ANVISA, Avon Brazil, Comafi Bank, General Motors Brazil, SERPRO, Teeleap, Visa Argentina, and Yell Argentina Scheduled to Present

McLean, Va. (July 05, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host a Symposium in São Paulo, Brazil, July 31-August 1, 2007, at the Grand Hyatt São Paulo. The two-day event will provide an interactive forum for participants to exchange ideas with peers and industry experts, learn best practices in business intelligence from successful companies, and meet with MicroStrategy’s top technology leaders to gain valuable technical insights.

The Symposium’s agenda will feature dozens of sessions covering business intelligence solutions and best practices. MicroStrategy product managers and engineers will lead the technical sessions and demonstrate advanced BI development techniques, provide strategies for optimizing BI application usage and performance, and demonstrate MicroStrategy’s new Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards. Symposium participants can also schedule a one-hour complimentary consultation with a member of the MicroStrategy Technical Advisory Services Team to discuss their most challenging BI issues.

The Symposium will feature real-world case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organization. Some of the companies scheduled to present in São Paulo include ANVISA, Avon Brazil, Comafi Bank, General Motors Brazil, SERPRO, Teeleap, Visa Argentina, and Yell Argentina.

“The Symposium is an excellent venue for learning the latest BI strategies, meeting with MicroStrategy experts, and hearing first-hand BI experiences from industry-leading companies,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The 2006 São Paulo Symposium was well attended and we look forward to another successful event this year.”

To find out more about the MicroStrategy Symposium in São Paulo, visit: www.microstrategy.com/SaoPauloSymposium2007

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Corporate Express US Receives TDWI Best Practices Award for MicroStrategy-based Business Intelligence Application

Jun 28, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Corporate Express US received the 2007 Best Practices Award from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) for a MicroStrategy-based business intelligence application

McLean, Va., (June 28, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Corporate Express US received the 2007 Best Practices Award from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) for a MicroStrategy-based business intelligence application. Corporate Express US Inc., part of the Dutch-based Corporate Express NV and one of the world’s largest business-to-business suppliers of essential office and computer products and services, took top honors in the predictive analytics category.

Corporate Express built a market basket application, leveraging MicroStrategy’s business intelligence technology, to improve its online business. The application looks at each item purchased and determines a list of complementary items to recommend to purchasers. The market basket application uncovered insightful new data about the items that customers typically purchase together, enabling Corporate Express to present these items as complementary offerings to online customers. As a result, the average order size for orders with the market basket pairings is more than twice the average order size for orders without pairings. In addition, the information has helped Corporate Express to better serve its customers, with a deeper understanding of purchasing preferences.

“Corporate Express is honored to receive this prestigious award from TDWI,” said Jay Mutschler, Chief Operating Officer for Corporate Express US. “Our MicroStrategy-based market basket application removes the guesswork and enables us to make analytically-based decisions that enhance the online customer experience.”

“We are delighted that Corporate Express was selected for this outstanding recognition from TDWI,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The Corporate Express market basket application is an excellent example of the strategic value of business intelligence and its ability to improve business performance and customer service.”

TDWI’s Best Practices Awards program is designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated excellence in developing, deploying, and maintaining BI and Data Warehouse (DW) applications. Winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges who have expertise in BI and DW.

About Corporate Express
Corporate Express provides customers with a single source of business products and services, so that they can focus their resources, energy and time on their core business. Corporate Express helps organizations to save time and maximize their productivity.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, Corporate Express NV generated 2006 annual sales of EUR 6.3 billion. The Company has a widespread global distribution network spanning North America, Europe and Australia, has close to 19,000 employees, and operations in 20 countries. Corporate Express is listed on Euronext Amsterdam (Euronext: CXP) and in New York (NYSE: CXP). For more information, please visit www.CorporateExpress.com.

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MicroStrategy Announces Business Intelligence Symposium in New York City

Jun 26, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Liz Claiborne, Massachusetts General Hospital, Herbalife, Guy Carpenter & Company, Rite-Hite Corporation, Forest Laboratories, and Aperity Scheduled to Present

McLean, Va., (June 26, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host the MicroStrategy Summer Symposium on July 17-18, 2007, at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York, New York. The event will offer an interactive venue for exchanging ideas and learning practical techniques to optimize BI performance.

MicroStrategy Summer Symposium attendees can choose from dozens of sessions covering a wide range of business and technical topics. MicroStrategy product managers and engineers will demonstrate advanced BI development techniques, provide strategies for optimizing BI application usage and performance, and demonstrate MicroStrategy’s new Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards. Participants can also schedule a one-hour consultation, at no charge, with a member of the MicroStrategy Technical Advisory Services Team to discuss their most challenging BI issues.

A highlight of the Summer Symposium will be presentations from MicroStrategy customers that have successfully deployed enterprise BI applications to improve business performance. Some of the companies scheduled to present at the Summer Symposium include Liz Claiborne Inc., Massachusetts General Hospital, Herbalife, Guy Carpenter & Company, Rite-Hite Corporation, Forest Laboratories, and Aperity.

“The MicroStrategy Symposia have been highly successful in providing participants with a collaborative venue where they can share best practices, learn practical ideas to enhance BI performance, and network with other BI professionals,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “We look forward to another excellent event in New York City.”

To find out more about the MicroStrategy Summer Symposium in New York City, visit: www.microstrategy.com/NewYorkSymposium2007

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Stage Stores Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy for Merchandising Reporting and Analysis

Jun 19, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Stage Stores, Inc. is expanding its deployment of MicroStrategy for reporting and analysis of sales and inventory data. Stage Stores, Inc. operates 667 retail stores loca

McLean, Va., (June 19, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Stage Stores, Inc. is expanding its deployment of MicroStrategy for reporting and analysis of sales and inventory data. Stage Stores, Inc. operates 667 retail stores located in 33 states.

MicroStrategy will provide Stage Stores with key reporting and analysis capabilities to evaluate sales and inventory performance across its network of stores. The Stage Stores user community will include buyers, planners, and allocators evaluating operational performance with transactional reports. Stage Stores has also deployed MicroStrategy to assess vendor performance, analyze point-of-sale transactions, and produce financial reports.

“MicroStrategy is a powerful tool that provides excellent analysis capabilities, especially for organizations with enormous amounts of data,” said Jeff Kish, CIO of Stage Stores. “By streamlining the analysis of our transactional data, our users will have the information they need to make strategic, data-driven decisions.”

“We are delighted that Stage Stores has selected MicroStrategy for its merchandising analysis,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The MicroStrategy platform enables retailers to gain valuable insights into essential areas such as store operations, product sales, marketing campaigns, merchandise management, and customer loyalty.”

About Stage Stores
Stage Stores, Inc. brings nationally recognized brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics and footwear for the entire family to small and mid-size towns and communities through 667 stores located in 33 states. The Company operates under the Bealls, Palais Royal and Stage names throughout the South Central states, and under the Peebles name throughout the Midwestern, Southeastern, Mid-Atlantic and New England states. For more information about Stage Stores, visit the Company’s web site at www.stagestores.com.

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The Advisory Board Company Selects MicroStrategy to Provide Hospitals with Improved Visibility Into Business Performance

Jun 14, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) has selected MicroStrategy to provide its members with enhanced visibility into financial, operational, and clinical perfor

McLean, Va., (June 14, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) has selected MicroStrategy to provide its members with enhanced visibility into financial, operational, and clinical performance. The Advisory Board Company is the leading worldwide health care research and professional services firm serving more than 2,600 hospitals and health systems.

Using MicroStrategy, the Advisory Board enables member hospitals to gain greater insights into their business and to incorporate best practices into their daily operations. The Advisory Board provides multiple, hosted business intelligence applications, each focusing on a distinct area critical to hospital margin and clinical improvement and each leveraging the Advisory Board’s deep industry expertise. Member hospitals are able to use the secure, Web-based analytical tools to improve their performance through better, faster, data-driven decision making, and have seen significant financial improvements as a result.

The Advisory Board uses MicroStrategy to create a single-host multi-tenant architecture, where the Advisory Board builds and maintains an application that is shared across its member hospitals. Even though the application is shared, MicroStrategy’s robust security infrastructure ensures that each hospital only has access to its own data. There are currently thousands of individual users – from CFOs to business analysts – accessing the applications on a daily basis.

“Hospitals have a significant opportunity to improve performance through business intelligence,” said Dennis Shin, Executive Director at the Advisory Board. “Our research shows that top performing organizations separate themselves from their peers by their ability to quickly diagnose the root cause of recurring problems and issues and spend time not on diagnosis but on driving to solutions. Our business intelligence membership programs – which include our distinctive business intelligence tools on MicroStrategy’s platform as well as our best practice research and domain expertise to drive ongoing improvement – really help our member hospitals reach and maintain the top tier of performance.”

“Many organizations across the healthcare industry rely on MicroStrategy to analyze and improve operations, service quality, resource utilization, and claims administration,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “We are proud to work with the Advisory Board and to support their BI applications that are providing exceptional value to member hospitals.”

About The Advisory Board Company
The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry, focusing on business strategy, operations and general management issues. The Advisory Board Company provides best practices and research through discrete annual programs to a membership of more than 2,600 hospitals, health systems, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, health care insurers, and medical device companies in the United States.

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MicroStrategy Symposium in London, England to Feature Business Intelligence Best Practices

Jun 12, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Virgin Retail, Yahoo!, Highways Agency, Amlin, and Cork County Council Scheduled to Present

McLean, Va., (June 12, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host a Symposium in London, England, on July 10-11, 2007, at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel. The event will offer a broad range of educational sessions and customer presentations featuring best practices in business intelligence.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with BI experts and hear how successful organizations use BI software to improve decision making and enhance business performance. MicroStrategy product managers and engineers will lead the technical sessions and discuss advanced BI development techniques, provide strategies for optimizing BI application usage and performance, and demonstrate MicroStrategy’s new Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards. Participants can also schedule a one-hour consultation, at no charge, with a member of the MicroStrategy Technical Advisory Services Team to discuss their most challenging BI issues.

The Symposium will feature presentations from MicroStrategy customers sharing their BI strategies, and how they successfully deployed multiple projects across their enterprises. Some of the companies scheduled to present include Virgin Retail, the UK’s leading entertainment retail chain; Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide; Highways Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport that manages, maintains, and improves England’s motorways; Amlin plc, a recognized leader in the London insurance and reinsurance market; and Cork County Council, a local authority that administers government services across the largest county in Ireland.

“The highly interactive format of our Symposium gives attendees the opportunity to engage in lively discussions on their most pressing business intelligence questions,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “This is the ideal venue to explore new ideas, meet with MicroStrategy experts, and hear first-hand BI experiences from industry leaders.”

To find out more about the MicroStrategy Symposium in London, visit: www.microstrategy.com/LondonSymposium2007

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