MicroStrategy Forges Strategic Alliance with CSC
CSC to Resell MicroStrategy with Global Healthcare Solution
McLean, Va. (August 04, 2005) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced a new strategic alliance with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), a leading global information technology (IT) services company. As a result of the alliance, MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) will be integrated into CSC’s Clinical Knowledge Exchange (CKE) healthcare offering.
CKE is a healthcare data warehousing and clinical informatics design platform that integrates multiple sources and varieties of healthcare data to more accurately analyze healthcare costs, quality, and efficiencies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software offers outstanding user scalability and data scalability, allowing companies to strategically analyze and infer clinical intelligence from this previously raw data. The CKE offering will be sold to healthcare organizations across the payer, provider, and federal healthcare agency markets. In addition, the alliance agreement enables the two companies to expand on their experience in the healthcare industry and develop integrated solutions for other vertical markets.
“Clinical, financial, and operational healthcare data exists in local healthcare delivery or payment systems that are not designed to interoperate,” said Dale Prestipino, CTO of CSC’s Global Healthcare Solutions. “Providing a technology solution to connect, collect, and integrate these data is an essential element of understanding where problems exist and how healthcare can be improved. By integrating MicroStrategy into the CKE offering, entities that deliver, pay for, or regulate healthcare services will have the ability to more efficiently report, analyze, and monitor critical healthcare data to make strategic decisions.”
“This alliance with CSC is based on MicroStrategy’s ability to effectively handle vast amounts of data with a large concurrent user-base,” said Tom Villani, MicroStrategy’s vice president of global alliances. “We’re proud that MicroStrategy technology will aid in the effort to improve healthcare quality and will enable organizations across the healthcare continuum to focus on data analysis instead of software installation and management issues.”
About CSC
Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information technology (IT) services company. CSC’s mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
With approximately 79,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., CSC reported revenue of $14.1 billion from continuing operations for the 12 months ended April 1, 2005. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.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
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wcover@microstrategy.com
Source: MicroStrategy