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Information Builders Helps Reform Healthcare by Enabling a Performance-Oriented Culture at Maasstad Hospital

Sep 02, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

KPIs and Dashboards Provide Actionable Healthcare Metrics to Managers, Physicians, and Administrators at Leading Dutch Hospital

NEW YORK, NY (September 02, 2009) –

national healthcare reform initiatives grab headlines throughout the U.S., Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is quietly demonstrating how physicians, nurses, and administrators can be held accountable to national performance standards. Using business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions from Information Builders, an independent leader in BI solutions, the 600-bed primary care facility is delivering current clinical and administrative data to help managers steer the hospital on a daily basis. Each department adheres to a set of daily metrics, encouraging a culture of performance and establishing best practices for common procedures, so doctors can be consistently compared to their peers.

The Netherlands has increased accountability and reduced healthcare costs over the last four decades. The ultimate goal is to introduce incentives for efficiency to guarantee sustainable health care expenditures over the long term – a familiar rallying cry for today’s U.S. politicians.

“No matter how healthcare is regulated, we must perform within our strategy to provide the best care at the lowest cost,” said Henri de Wit, manager of finance and business intelligence at Maasstad Hospital. “Strategic tools like Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework help us meet our goals. We want to have satisfied patients as well as satisfied employees, so we are using this software to benchmark our critical processes and create quality of care standards.”

With help from Information Builders Professional Services department, Maasstad used WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework (PMF) to capture more than 100 key performance indicators (KPIs) and present them to authorized personnel via secure, customizable dashboards. Built on top of Information Builders popular WebFOCUS BI platform, PMF includes pre-set roles for analysts, administrators, and information consumers. It also features more than 100 reports and graphs, hundreds of pre-built metric rules, and a variety of dashboards, which made it easy to deploy quickly. Users can personalize the dashboard environment by deciding which reports they wish to see and how they want them to be displayed.

“WebFOCUS PMF was easy to get up and running quickly,” de Wit said. “It is designed to quickly capture metrics and deploy dashboards.”

Maasstad’s performance information comes from a diverse set of sources. A ChipSoft transaction system gathers information from radiology, dialysis, administration, pharmacy, salary, financials, and other business domains. This information is loaded into a Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse, which serves as a staging point for delivering current information to the performance management system. Armed with this information, Maasstad uses a dual-management system, which places responsibility on the shoulders of both administrators and clinicians. WebFOCUS PMF enforces this management strategy with targeted dashboards that help each administrator, nurse, and doctor monitor the hospital’s cost and quality of care.

“Maasstad Hospital is proving that there is truth in the old adage: ‘You can’t improve what you can’t measure,'” said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. “This innovative institution is making hospital performance information easier to access, analyze, and comprehend in an effort to provide the best healthcare at the lowest possible cost.”

Watch Henri de Wit discuss how Maasstad Hospital leveraged WebFOCUS PMF to provide the best care at a lower cost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLoRGRmJHA

About Maasstad Hospital
Maasstad Hospital is a leading healthcare facility in Rotterdam, Holland. The hospital has 600 beds and grosses EUR230 million annually.

About Information Builders

Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.

Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners.

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Farmer Brothers Selects MicroStrategy for Greater Insights into Operational Performance

Sep 01, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Integration of MicroStrategy and RapidDecisionâ??s Data Marts Enables Farmer Brothers to Accelerate BI Deployment

McLean, Va., (September 01, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Farmer Brothers Co. (Nasdaq: FARM) has selected MicroStrategy for operational reporting and analytics. Farmer Brothers is the nation’s largest direct-store delivery business for coffee and allied products.

MicroStrategy reports and information dashboards will provide Farmer Brothers employees with detailed insights into financials, sales order processing, manufacturing, procurement, inventory, and human resources. MicroStrategy will be used by Farmer Brothers personnel across the organization, including the CEO, COO, CFO, Controller, VP Finance, VP Sales, Sales staff, as well as by manufacturing, financial, HR, and operations users.

Farmer Brothers has acquired multiple companies over the last several years and is leveraging MicroStrategy along with RapidDecision’s pre-built data marts to rapidly deploy its business intelligence applications and to ensure that its acquired companies have consistent enterprise reporting across all operational constituencies. With Farmer Brothers recent acquisition of the direct-store delivery service from Sara Lee, MicroStrategy and RapidDecision will be used to optimize sales routes and identify operational inefficiencies and redundancies from the acquisition.

“We selected MicroStrategy because it offers us a low total cost of ownership,” said Bob Ing, IT Director of Farmer Brothers. “We were excited to find a BI provider that delivered dashboards, reports, alerting, and advanced analytics all from one platform. In addition, MicroStrategy integrated easily with RapidDecision’s data marts, which enabled us to deploy our BI applications very quickly and provided fast time-to-value.”

“We are delighted that Farmer Brothers selected MicroStrategy to support its enterprise BI applications,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s BI platform has the scalability and flexibility to analyze large volumes of data and provide valuable insights on essential business areas, such as financial management, supply chain monitoring, inventory management, sales forecasting, and customer loyalty.”

About Farmer Brothers Co.
Farmer Bros. Co. is the nation’s largest direct-store delivery business for coffee and allied products such as cappuccino, cocoa mixes and spices. It roasts and packages coffee for more than 10 brands; it processes and packages allied products; it directly delivers its products and services to food service operators and retailers in all 48 mainland states. It also provides private-label coffee programs to retailers through Coffee Bean Intl., one of the nation’s leading specialty coffee roasters. Farmer Bros. has paid a dividend in every year since 1953, and its stock price has risen on a split-adjusted basis from $1.80 a share in 1980. For more information, go to: www.farmerbroscousa.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.

Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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“Productivity Drain” Survey Finds That Many Employees Feel Productivity was a Casualty of the Recession

Aug 26, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

A new survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute� at Kronos® Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that 40 percent of respondents whose workplaces experienced layoffs in the past year feel that the overall productivity of their organization has been negatively impacted

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (August 26, 2009) –

A new survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute(TM) at Kronos® Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that 40 percent of respondents whose workplaces experienced layoffs in the past year feel that the overall productivity of their organization has been negatively impacted. The “Productivity Drain” survey examines what this means for employees and what they think their employers should be doing to be positioned for success as the economy rebounds.
News Facts

* 38 percent of respondents employed full or part-time said there had been layoffs in the past year at their primary place of employment.
* Of those respondents who said that productivity had been negatively impacted by layoffs:
o 66 percent said that morale has suffered and people are less motivated;
o 64 percent said that there is too much work and not enough people to do it;
o 37 percent said the wrong people or departments were laid off, leaving inefficient systems and workflows; and
o 36 percent said they are concerned that as the economy picks up, they won’t have the right resources to meet demand.
* Despite feeling overworked, a surprising majority — 53 percent — of respondents said they felt the right number of people were laid off at their organization. Thirty-two percent said they felt too many were laid off and seven percent said not enough were laid off.
* Employees also have some advice for employers on how to improve productivity in their workplace:
o 50 percent said employers should look for ways to improve morale;
o 46 percent said their employers have processes that should be automated to be more efficient;
o 36 percent said their organizations should invest in new technology to help manage productivity — interestingly enough, more men (42 percent) than women (30 percent) believe this would help; and
o 36 percent of employees believe that organizations need to take a fresh look at how to redistribute the workload among those employees who are left.

Supporting Quotes

* Joyce Maroney, director of The Workforce Institute, Kronos
“In the midst of a downturn like the one we are experiencing, the time is right for employers to re-examine existing practices: from how work is distributed among the organization; to whether or not new hires need to be made; to what kinds of technology might enable the workforce to become more productive. In this survey, we hear loud and clear from employees that these issues need to be addressed now, so that businesses are positioned for success when the economy kicks back into high gear.”
* Andy Brantley, president and chief executive officer of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources
“No one would argue that the last several months have been incredibly difficult for most organizations. Employees who ‘survive’ layoffs are left with more work and fewer resources. Employers should look for ways to keep employees focused on contributing to the success of the organization while providing them with rewards and recognition for the exceptional work being done under difficult circumstances.”

Supporting Resources

* About Harris Interactive

Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted via telephone within the U.S. by Harris Interactive® on behalf of The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated between August 13 and August 16, 2009 among a nationwide sample of 2,005 U.S. adults aged 18 and over among whom 956 were employed full-time or part-time. Data were weighted to be representative of the total U.S. adult population on the basis of age, sex, geographic region, and race.
About The Workforce Institute

The Workforce Institute was founded by Kronos Incorporated in 2006 as a think tank to provide research and education on critical workplace issues facing organizations around the globe. By bringing together thought leaders, The Workforce Institute is uniquely positioned to empower organizations with the knowledge and information they need to manage their workforce effectively and provide a voice for employees on important workplace issues. A hallmark of The Workforce Institute’s research is balancing the needs and desires of diverse employee populations with the needs of organizations. For additional information, visit www.workforceinstitute.org.
About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

© 2009 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos is a registered trademark and The Workforce Institute is a trademark of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Boehringer Ingelheim’s Swiss Branch Improves Sales Reporting and Efficiency with MicroStrategy Software

Aug 26, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim (Schweiz) GmbH (named here as Boehringer Switzerland) has selected MicroStrategy to improve its sales reporting and efficiency. Boehringer Switz

McLean, Va., (August 26, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim (Schweiz) GmbH (named here as Boehringer Switzerland) has selected MicroStrategy to improve its sales reporting and efficiency. Boehringer Switzerland is the Swiss branch of the international pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim.

Boehringer Switzerland selected MicroStrategy for reporting and analysis of sales productivity data. With MicroStrategy, sales data can now be supplied more rapidly to field sales and management, which helps the company to streamline operations. With MicroStrategy’s flexible, user-friendly reports, individual users can create their own reports and work more efficiently. In addition, the reports give Boehringer Switzerland management greater insights into market data to help them plan sales activity and analyze the productivity of regional sales groups.

As part of its extensive selection process, the Boehringer Switzerland management team defined 10 Key Performance Indicators and asked selected BI providers to create several reports with this information. “MicroStrategy made an excellent impression during our evaluation process. In addition, our team in Australia has already deployed MicroStrategy for reporting and has had positive results,” said Mr. Gregor Brunner, Department Manager IT of Boehringer Switzerland.

“MicroStrategy provides greater reporting capabilities than other BI suppliers and is very user-friendly,” explained Alexander Herter, Business Analyst at Boehringer Switzerland and Project Manager for the evaluation of the new BI solution. “Data can be supplied rapidly and more clearly with MicroStrategy, and the reports serve as a basis for operational and strategic decisions.”

“We are pleased to have the Swiss branch of Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, as our new customer,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO.

About Boehringer Switzerland
The Boehringer headquarters is in Ingelheim, Germany and the enterprise Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.

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.

Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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Information Builders Delivers Support for IBM zIIP Chip

Aug 25, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Enables Customers to Optimize Mainframe Environments

NEW YORK, NY (August 25, 2009) –

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced support for IBM System z/OS computer Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) in FOCUS 7.6.10 and WebFOCUS 7.7. Information Builder’s zIIP chip support represents the first and only BI platform optimized for the popular mainframe environment.

The zIIP chip was designed to handle BI workloads and other data intensive applications. Specialized mainframe processors like the zIIP allow users to offload work that might otherwise run on the mainframe’s general purpose chips.

“By extending support for the IBM zIIP, Information Builders is providing mainframe users a dramatic performance and cost advantage to expand their operations in the zIIP mainframe environment,” said Robert Hoey, general manager, Major Markets, Systems and Technology Group, IBM. “It represents the latest of many levels of support and interoperability Information Builders offers to IBM customers.”

For mainframe operations that need to drive greater value and performance, Information Builders has optimized FOCUS and WebFOCUS for the zIIP environment. The new versions perform the same mission-critical tasks, while maximizing processing power and reducing execution and response times, as well as delivering consistent application performance and solid customer service. By enabling efficient BI operations on the mainframe, Information Builders gives customers real-time, dynamic reporting with enough processing power to deliver large customer-facing applications, without incurring extra costs for setting up infrastructure or buying new machines or databases.

Leveraging the zIIP, Information Builders helps enhance mainframe operations of FOCUS and WebFOCUS by improving resource optimization to reduce latent workload demand, which the central processor can now absorb, and by stimulating visible performance improvement.

About 80 percent of the new FOCUS and WebFOCUS processing is zIIP-enabled, including computations, report formatting, aggregation, screening criteria, styling, and transaction processing. Information Builders’ new BI applications divert as much processing as possible to the zIIP, while monitoring and adjusting to optimize zIIP utilization. zIIP is accessible to mainframe FOCUS as of release 7.6 and WebFOCUS 7.7, available in the third and fourth quarters of 2009, respectively.

“Information Builders is dedicated to helping customers enhance value and optimize their BI deployments,” said Information Builders founder and CEO Gerald Cohen. “By extending FOCUS and Web FOCUS to support the zIIP chip, we have dramatically recalculated the economics of mainframe business intelligence. Finally, business intelligence applications can leverage the genius of the zIIP environment without compromising accessibility or performance.”
About Information Builders

Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is one of the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.

Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at http://www.informationbuilders.com.

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iDashboards Secures U.S. Federal Government Approval GSA Schedule 70

Aug 24, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

iDashboards Secures U.S. Federal Government Approval GSA Schedule 70 iDashboards reaffirms commitment to the federal market

Troy, MI (August 24, 2009) –

iDashboards, the leader in Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, today announced that it has been awarded a Schedule 70 contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The GSA Schedule is the preferred method of purchasing within government agencies, and the contract award reaffirms iDashboards’ commitment to helping government agencies gain greater insight into their data. As a result, federal government agencies will have easier access to iDashboards BI dashboard software.

iDashboards’ enterprise dashboard application enables government customers to easily identify trends at a glance and drill down into data sets to view more detailed information, promoting transparency and accountability within federal agencies. iDashboards’ technology has the ability to draw information from all standard databases and Excel spreadsheets, providing the government with a cost effective alternative to complex, end-to-end BI suites.

“On the heels of the government’s recent decision to implement a Federal IT Dashboard aimed at tracking all federal technology spending, iDashboards has seen an increase in its federal customers’ need for BI driven dashboard tools,” said Shadan Malik, CEO, iDashboards. “iDashboards’ facilitates quick, easy and well-informed decision-making, and we are thrilled that our federal clients will now have easier access to our solutions.”

Federal agencies interested in information about iDashboards’ services can visit http://www.idashboards.com or access the GSA Schedules e-Library http://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ and search by the contract number GS-35F-0610V.

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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.

About GSA
GSA is the premier federal acquisition and procurement force offering equipment, supplies, telecommunications, and integrated information technology solutions to customer agencies. Acting as a catalyst for nearly $66 billion in federal spending, it accounts for more than one-fourth of the government’s total procurement dollars. Approximately 12,000 GSA employees provide valuable support to other federal agencies and the general public.

Media Contact:
Dan Gaffney
LEWIS PR
617-226-8844
dang@lewispr.com

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Stonebridge Companies Leverages Kronos

Aug 19, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Stonebridge Companies, a leader in hospitality management and a long-standing Kronos® Incorporated customer, has upgraded to version 6.1 of the Kronos Workforce Central® suite.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., (August 19, 2009) –

Stonebridge Companies, a leader in hospitality management and a long-standing Kronos® Incorporated customer, has upgraded to version 6.1 of the Kronos Workforce Central® suite.
News Facts

* Stonebridge upgraded to the latest version because of the following enhancements:
o Improved ERP integration capabilities to help combat time and attendance tracking deficiencies of its ERP system.
o New integration and device management tools that eliminate the need for dedicated servers to lower the total cost of ownership.
o Complete automation, which minimizes the time managers spend interacting with the software.
* Stonebridge uses SAP’s human resources and payroll applications, which are tightly integrated through a certified interface to the Kronos time and attendance application. Stonebridge chose the Kronos time and attendance application — as opposed to using a similar module offered by SAP — because it recognized that Kronos could handle its complex pay rules without the need for costly customization.
* Founded in 1991, Stonebridge Companies operates nearly 40 hotels comprising approximately 6,000 guest rooms in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. The organization is using Kronos to manage 1,600 employees across 38 locations.

Supporting Quotes

* Nasim Mansurov, vice president, IT, Stonebridge Companies
“Kronos is the only vendor that can handle the complex pay rules of our diverse and highly dispersed hourly workforce. Kronos has an aptitude for developing feature-rich products that are easy to use, and is skilled at simplifying highly complex workforce management issues.”
* Charlie DeWitt, vice president of vertical marketing, Kronos
“Stonebridge sets an example for other organizations to follow. Stonebridge fully embraces how workforce management solutions can help control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.”

Supporting Resources

* About Stonebridge Companies

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

© 2009 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos and Workforce Central are registered trademarks of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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MicroStrategy Augments OEM Program with New Product Capabilities for SaaS Companies

Aug 18, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has enhanced its OEM program with new product capabilities for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.

McLean, Va., (August 18, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has enhanced its OEM program with new product capabilities for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.

MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform provides integrated reporting and analytics, allowing software companies and technology providers to easily add reporting, dashboarding, analytical, and alerting applications to their existing product offerings with minimal development costs and resources. SaaS companies often select MicroStrategy for its scalability, open platform for customizability, and security capabilities.

MicroStrategy’s latest release, MicroStrategy 9, offers new capabilities specifically for SaaS companies. These new capabilities include enhanced end user design features, in-memory BI enabling higher data scalability to support larger multi-tenant systems, improved security integration with third-party tools, a plug-in architecture for simpler customization, and the ability for different companies to use their own reporting terminology, even across multiple languages within the same multi-tenant application.

The MicroStrategy BI platform is well-suited to meet the demands of SaaS BI deployments:

* Scalability and high performance for expanding multi-tenant environments
* Unified metadata to minimize development and maintenance efforts
* Centralized administration to reduce support costs and effort
* Comprehensive security model to distribute and protect sensitive data
* User scalability to thousands of users
* Ease of use for a diverse user community
* Open platform to accommodate customization, user personalization, and rebranding
* Development capabilities to support internationalization and dialects

MicroStrategy’s portfolio of OEM Partners has continued to expand, and companies choosing MicroStrategy for SaaS BI deployments have represented the largest area of growth within the OEM program. Some of the SaaS companies that recently joined MicroStrategy’s OEM program include Autologue (US),Claritum (UK), FreeWheel Media (US), GAPbuster (Australia), TradeBeam (US), and Xtiva (US).

“MicroStrategy’s BI platform contains the security, customization, and end user self-service Web capabilities required to offer a single hardware, software, and application solution, while still meeting customer-specific requirements,” said Daniel Schmidt, CIO of Constellation Software. “MicroStrategy’s ability to do this, while at the same time being able to scale to large numbers of users and large amounts of data, makes the MicroStrategy BI platform well-suited for multi-tenant SaaS deployments.”

“SaaS BI solutions are an increasingly appealing alternative for organizations that need to share essential business intelligence data across the organization, but lack sufficient resources to implement and maintain these technologies in-house,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “Companies that offer a SaaS model will find that MicroStrategy enables them to build a flexible and scalable, multi-tenant BI architecture in a highly cost-effective manner.”

For more information on MicroStrategy’s OEM Partner program, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/Partners/OEM

About MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 9 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.

Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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The High Companies Uses Kronos

Aug 13, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

The High® companies are using workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to standardize processes across multiple operating businesses to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (August 13, 2009) –

The High® companies are using workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to standardize processes across multiple operating businesses to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.
News Facts

* The High companies are using time and attendance, employee scheduling, absence management, labor activities, and biometric data collection solutions from Kronos.
* The High companies selected Kronos for its proven ability to fully automate workforce management business processes and deliver products that are easy to use, rich in functionality, and highly configurable.
* Prior to using Kronos, the High companies used a legacy workforce management system that did not fully automate processes and required significant middleware configuration to work across all units.
* By centralizing the management of its workforce processes with Kronos, the High companies are now minimizing payroll processing delays; reducing inefficient practices such as under- and over-staffing; and controlling overtime by better monitoring and reducing the number of indirect hours related to activities.
* By using the Kronos time and attendance solution to complement its Ultipro human resources and payroll applications and its SAP ERP system, the High companies have avoided costly customization and gained access to quality information in real time.
* The High companies have minimized compliance risk by using Kronos to centrally manage the consistent implementation of pay policies and accommodate a wide range of complex labor laws.
* Using the Kronos 4500(TM) Touch ID biometric terminal in its hotel business units, the High companies have eliminated buddy punching (the costly act of employees punching in for one another).
* The High companies operate across multiple industries in manufacturing, construction, and operations — including steel fabrication and erection, metal processing and distribution, precast/prestressed concrete building systems, air quality and safety solutions, real estate, architecture, and construction.

Supporting Quotes

* Frank Schutte, Manager, SAP Group Core Competency Center / Applications Group, High companies
“In contrast to other products that require costly customization and only provide after-the-fact reporting capabilities, Kronos delivers real-time, high-quality information about our workforce so we can make better decisions in each business unit as well as from a corporate perspective.”
* Gregg Gordon, senior director of manufacturing industry marketing, Kronos
“Not detecting critical, labor-related issues in real time can leak thousands or even millions of dollars each year. By automating and standardizing key workforce business processes, the High companies are effectively controlling labor costs. Also, by adding strategic workforce management solutions integrated with the core time and attendance system, the High companies are poised to achieve not just fast payback, but longer-term cost control and productivity improvement benefits.”

Supporting Resources

* Learn more about the High companies at www.high.net.

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

© 2009 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos is a registered trademark and Kronos 4500 is a trademark of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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MicroStrategy 9 Certified on VMware Virtualization Platform

Aug 13, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

BI Available for Private Cloud Configurations, and Achieves Greater Efficiency and Lower Total Cost of Ownership

McLean, Va., (August 13, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its latest release, MicroStrategy 9(TM), runs on the VMware virtualization platform. VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is a global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud.

MicroStrategy customers can now deploy MicroStrategy 9 BI applications on VMware-based virtual machines. This will enable applications to achieve the hardware efficiencies, streamlined operations, and low cost of operation available through virtualization. Virtual machine technology allows companies to increase processing capacity from their servers by pooling that capacity across multiple applications and operating systems. Large BI applications that have varying usage throughout the day will benefit from a virtual environment where processing power can be fully utilized during peak times and directed to other applications when BI demand is low.

With VMware-based virtualization solutions, MicroStrategy customers can operate their BI environment in an internal cloud or private cloud configuration, providing a wide range of processing flexibility. By running MicroStrategy in a virtual environment, companies will be able to use less server hardware and require fewer IT personnel to manage and maintain their BI systems, leading to overall lower capital costs and reduced operating expenses. MicroStrategy’s BI software is designed to minimize the number of IT personnel needed, and virtualization further extends that strength.

“VMware’s virtualization technologies help our customers increase their efficiencies, gain greater control over their IT environments, and have greater choice in how they manage their IT systems,” said Parag Patel, vice president of alliances for VMware. “Business intelligence applications are critical to our customers and represent a sophisticated, demanding application. Our joint efforts with MicroStrategy will empower our customers to leverage the benefits of the VMware virtualization platform with this critical function.”

“MicroStrategy customers have some of the largest and most sophisticated business intelligence applications in the world,” said MicroStrategy COO, Sanju Bansal. “We are delighted to provide our customers with the ability to achieve the high availability and low total cost of ownership that takes place in a virtual environment.”

To try MicroStrategy 9 Evaluation software on VMware, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/freeevalcd.asp.

About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter–bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 24,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.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 9 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.

Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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