For Sixth Consecutive Year, MicroStrategy Customers Analyzed Largest Data Volumes
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that The OLAP Survey 6, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has recognized the large data handling capabilities of MicroStrategyâ??
McLean, Va., (February 20, 2007) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that The OLAP Survey 6, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has recognized the large data handling capabilities of MicroStrategy’s software. For the sixth consecutive year, MicroStrategy customers reported the largest data volumes, as compared to customers of other business intelligence products, including Business Objects, Cognos Analysis, and Oracle Discoverer.
The OLAP Survey 6, conducted annually by independent analyst Nigel Pendse and Survey.com, compiled real-world BI experiences of 1,679 organizations and found that MicroStrategy customers accessed the largest data volumes by a significant margin. MicroStrategy customers are accessing a median of 315.5 Gigabytes (GB) in this latest survey. These median data volumes are larger, by more than a factor of 4, than that of customers of SAP BW, the second-place product, and larger, by a factor of 65, than that of customers of Cognos.
Median Reported Data Input Volumes of Peer Group
BI Vendor Input Data Volume (GB)
MicroStrategy 316
SAP BW 68
Business Objects 12
Hyperion Essbase 9
Oracle Discoverer 8
Cognos Analysis 5
The cube-based OLAP technology employed by most BI providers is optimized for small volumes of data and is not well-suited for high data volume, transaction-level BI applications. In contrast, MicroStrategy’s proprietary Relational OLAP (ROLAP) technology allows interactive analysis of terabyte-sized relational databases.
“For the sixth consecutive year, MicroStrategy sites have reported the largest data volumes of all, with a substantial gap between MicroStrategy and the second place product,” said Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Survey 6. “Despite most vendors claiming to be able to handle large, detailed applications, it is clear that only MicroStrategy’s customers are actually implementing such transaction level BI databases. MicroStrategy continues to be the clear leader in the enterprise-scale BI segment.”
“We are delighted that, once again, MicroStrategy’s customers reported that they analyzed, by far, the largest amounts of data,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s technology is an excellent choice for enterprise-wide business intelligence deployments, enabling customers to efficiently access large data volumes to improve business performance.”
To view a summary of The OLAP Survey 6 results, go to: http://www.microstrategy.com/OLAPSurvey6.
The OLAP Survey
The OLAP Survey, conducted annually by Nigel Pendse and Survey.com, is the leading independent survey of the BI market space. This year marks the 6th release of The OLAP Survey, compiling the BI experiences of 1,679 organizations across 87 countries. For more information, visit http://www.survey.com/olap.
About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.
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Source: MicroStrategy