Sprint Selects MicroStrategy As Its Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Standard
Over 16,000 Employees Use MicroStrategy for 27 Critical Applications
McLean, Va., (April 13, 2004) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that telecommunications giant Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) has significantly expanded its deployment of MicroStrategy’s platform, adopting MicroStrategy Report Services(TM), and making MicroStrategy its enterprise-wide business intelligence standard.
Sprint’s deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) is extensive, encompassing multiple critical projects, anchoring 27 applications, and supporting more than 16,000 employees. Sprint is harnessing MicroStrategy for such areas as call-traffic analysis, marketing analysis, financial performance assessments, and Web-traffic analysis.
Sprint, with approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. Sprint’s Target State Architecture is a key initiative within the Information Technology Services (ITS) organization to perform more efficiently, and reduce costs by consolidating operations into a centrally managed environment.
“We’re pleased that MicroStrategy’s unique infrastructure and exceptional capabilities have scaled to our ever-growing requirements, satisfying the business requirements of our widespread end user community,” said Sprint’s Manager of Systems Development John Bentley. “MicroStrategy will offer exceptional uptime and reliability, while offering flexibility and responsiveness as Sprint solidifies its standing as a world-leading customer-centric company.”
For more than eight years, Sprint has been using the MicroStrategy platform to provide employees with large-scale availability of information, enabling them to recognize new revenue streams, streamline operations and deliver value-added customer experiences. MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization – to all its employees, customers, and suppliers – and delivers a range of enterprise report types that companies need.
“We’re very proud that Sprint is now making MicroStrategy its business intelligence standard. This will allow Sprint to deliver high-value business intelligence to its employees across its global enterprise,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Sprint will benefit still further from MicroStrategy Report Services, as that combines the best in business analytics and reporting to bring customers an integrated technology that can fulfill their analytical data and reporting requirements enterprise-wide.”
About Sprint
Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States’ first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local voice and data services in 18 states and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.
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 2,500 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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Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com
Source: MicroStrategy