MicroStrategy Wins Excellence Award in International Technical Publications Competition
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won an Excellence Award for the software guide category in the International Technical Publications Competition (ITPC) for the MicroStrategy 7i Advanced Reporting
McLEAN, VA (May 27, 2004) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won an Excellence Award for the software guide category in the International Technical Publications Competition (ITPC) for the MicroStrategy 7i Advanced Reporting Guide. None of MicroStrategy’s leading competitors were among the award winners.
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) sponsors ITPC to determine, recognize, and encourage excellence in communication through printed media. The ITPC honors technical writers and editors who set the standards for published technical communication. All entrants in the international competition were also winners in their respective local chapters; MicroStrategy received a Distinguished Technical Communication award in the DC Chapter.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.
MicroStrategy has over 2,600 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.
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Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com
Source: MicroStrategy