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MicroStrategy Certifies MicroStrategy 8 with Oracle

Oct 09, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Additional Performance Optimizations for Oracle Customers

McLean, Va., (October 09, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has certified MicroStrategy 8 with Oracle® Database 11g. MicroStrategy’s certification of the latest Oracle Database is part of MicroStrategy’s recent software release, which became generally available in September 2007.

With its certification of Oracle Database 11g, MicroStrategy continues its long-standing commitment to provide a high performance, highly-scalable BI platform. MicroStrategy has developed several query performance optimizations for Oracle Database 11g that are incorporated into MicroStrategy’s very large database (VLDB) driver for Oracle Database 11g. With these optimizations, MicroStrategy generates SQL that leverages Oracle’s query rewrite and materialized view features, uses Oracle’s date-based functions to perform more efficient date-based calculations, and enhances the efficiency of multiple table outer joins.

MicroStrategy customers have some of the largest and most sophisticated business intelligence applications in the world, and MicroStrategy continues to expand its query performance optimizations to meet its customers’ BI requirements. In the OLAP Survey 6, an independent survey compiling the real-world BI experiences of 1,679 organizations, MicroStrategy was a top performer in query performance when compared with its peer group.

“MicroStrategy has a proven track record of providing optimizations to support our customers’ enterprise-scale business intelligence deployments,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “We are proud that our query performance continues to receive high marks, given the vast amounts of data that our customers analyze.”

About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle’s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today’s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world’s largest enterprise software company. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.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.

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MicroStrategy Fall Symposium to Showcase Business Intelligence Best Practices

Oct 03, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Event to Feature Speakers from McDonaldâ??s, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Things Remembered, Payless ShoeSource, Spartan Stores, and Quixtar

McLean, Va., (October 03, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host its Fall Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, at The Westin Chicago River North on October 16-17, 2007. The event will offer a content-rich agenda of business and technology sessions to provide participants with practical tools to enhance business intelligence performance.

MicroStrategy product managers and engineers will lead the technical sessions and demonstrate advanced BI development techniques as well as proven strategies for optimizing BI application usage and performance. In addition, attendees will see demonstrations of the latest advances in the MicroStrategy platform, including MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM), MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), and MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM). Symposium participants can also schedule a one-hour complimentary consultation with a member of the MicroStrategy Technical Advisory Services Team to discuss their most challenging BI questions.

A highlight of the Fall Symposium will be the case study presentations from MicroStrategy customers who have successfully deployed enterprise BI applications to improve business performance. Some of the companies scheduled to present at the Fall Symposium in Chicago include McDonald’s, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Hallmark, Things Remembered, Payless ShoeSource, Spartan Stores, and Quixtar.

“The Symposia are excellent venues for learning new BI strategies, meeting with MicroStrategy experts, and hearing first-hand BI experiences from industry-leading companies,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “We have an outstanding line-up of speakers scheduled for the Fall Symposium and we look forward to another successful event.”

To find out more about the MicroStrategy Fall Symposium in Chicago, visit: www.microstrategy.com/ChicagoSymposium2007

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, MicroStrategy Mobile 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.

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MicroStrategy Announces Availability of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager

Oct 02, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Webcast Featuring MicroStrategy Integrity Manager Scheduled for October 18, 2007

McLean, Va. (October 02, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the availability of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM), a new product that tests the accuracy of BI applications by validating data and report integrity. Introduced as part of MicroStrategy’s latest software release in September 2007, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automates the report comparison process and verifies the consistency of reports as changes are made to the BI ecosystem.

Despite the increasing importance of BI applications, BI support teams may fail to validate report and data integrity because the validation process is too labor intensive and time consuming. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automates this process and identifies inconsistencies and errors, enabling business people to rely on the accuracy of their BI reports and analyses.

MicroStrategy Integrity Manager can detect, compare, and present inconsistencies in reports caused by changes in the BI environment. A BI system is composed of many technologies ranging from operational applications, ETL tools, DBMSs, BI tools, and server operating systems. These technologies are managed by different people including DBAs, ETL engineers, BI architects, BI administrators, BI developers, and system administrators. Any of these people can make a change that can cause an inadvertent error to be introduced in a report. With MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, data inconsistencies can be captured early in the development cycle, saving time in report testing, end user support, and issue resolution.

“MicroStrategy Integrity Manager reduces the need for resource-intensive manual testing, and automates regression tests for all planned changes in the entire BI ecosystem,” said Natalie Pikouliak, Business Intelligence Manager at Katz Group Canada.

“Integrity Manager goes beyond simple impact analysis, providing full regression testing for any number of potential system changes,” said Cindi Howson, founder of BIScorecard and author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App. “Integrity Manager will do before-and-after report comparisons to tell an administrator the impact of the change, warning if there are differences in the data values, if the SQL generated is different, or if the output format is affected. Not only will Integrity Manager tell you that there is a difference, it also highlights the differences in the numeric values, SQL, or display. Of leading BI vendors, MicroStrategy is first to market in providing such an important capability to managing enterprise-class BI.”

“MicroStrategy Integrity Manager reflects the company’s product strategy of providing industrial-strength business intelligence suitable for the entire enterprise,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy Integrity Manager joins an array of other powerful administrative and security features within the MicroStrategy platform designed specifically to allow a small number of IS professionals to provide business intelligence to thousands of users across their company.”

MicroStrategy will host a Webcast on October 18, 2007, featuring demonstrations of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager and insights from industry analyst Cindi Howson. For more information on the Webcast, visit Click Here .

To find out more about MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, visit Click Here

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager 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.

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MicroStrategy Mobile Delivers Business Intelligence to BlackBerry Smartphones

Oct 02, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Webcast Showcasing MicroStrategy Mobile Scheduled for November 15, 2007

McLean, Va (October 02, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the general availability of MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), a new product that delivers BI information directly to BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM, TSX: RIM). MicroStrategy Mobile was included in MicroStrategy’s September 2007 software release.

MicroStrategy Mobile offers powerful features that enable business users to receive the same reports on their BlackBerry smartphone that they receive on their desktop, without the need for reformatting or retrofitting existing reports. Each user can design and save his own personal report preferences to ensure optimal viewing of even the largest reports on his BlackBerry smartphone. Reports can also be accessed while offline or when the BlackBerry smartphone is not within connectivity range.

“After evaluating building our own mobile solutions as well as other commercially available products, we found MicroStrategy Mobile to be intuitive and feature rich, and we plan to use it for a large deployment all the way up to our CEO,” said Len Nicolas, COO and CTO at Nygard International. “The fact that Nygard’s existing reports can be viewed on a mobile device without modification is a major advantage for both our Business Intelligence team and, more importantly, for the users. We are working on several different mobile applications for BlackBerry smartphones, and we anticipate that this will save us time and money. MicroStrategy has really set the standard on this one.”

“Today’s workers are on the go but they don’t want to leave their data behind,” said Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute. “Mobile BI technology is the next wave in advancing the delivery of analytical information to business users via wireless devices. Delivering interactive reports to BlackBerry smartphones and other mobile devices is the next step in making BI truly pervasive. MicroStrategy is on the forefront of this new wave with its latest release.”

MicroStrategy Mobile leverages the same security features of the MicroStrategy platform, as well as the security and connectivity infrastructure provided by the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. MicroStrategy Mobile dynamically optimizes the use of network bandwidth, based on the quality of the signal and usage by other mobile applications.

“In the development of MicroStrategy Mobile, we focused on making the user interface highly intuitive so that no training would be required,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “We also paid close attention to underlying issues of efficient memory management, data compression, security, and network bandwidth optimization to ensure that MicroStrategy Mobile would work well for mission-critical applications at high scale.”

MicroStrategy plans to host a Webcast, “Introducing MicroStrategy Mobile: Supporting the Data Needs of a Mobile Workforce” on November 15, 2007. The Webcast will showcase MicroStrategy Mobile and include demonstrations, insights from MicroStrategy customer Nygard, and commentary from a RIM representative. For more information on the Webcast, visit Click Here .

To find out more about MicroStrategy Mobile, visit Click Here

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MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Mobile 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.

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MicroStrategy to Host Webcast Featuring Latest Breakthroughs in Information Dashboards

Sep 25, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Webcast Will Feature Speakers from Corporate Express and The Data Warehousing Institute

McLean, Va. (September 25, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host a Webcast on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 highlighting the latest breakthroughs in information dashboards. Dashboards provide valuable information at-a-glance to help companies monitor business performance and enhance decision making.

The one-hour Webcast, “8 New Dashboard Breakthroughs,” will feature next-generation advances in dashboards and demonstrations of MicroStrategy’s highly intuitive Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, which became generally available in March 2007. Webcast participants will hear insights from Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute and author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. In addition, MicroStrategy customers Corporate Express and Hallmark will share their real-world experiences and the business benefits of using dashboards across their organizations.

There is no fee to participate in the Webcast, and it will be offered at four different times throughout the day to accommodate a global audience. For more information on MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and to register for the Webcast, visit www.microstrategy.com/DashboardBreakthroughs.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards 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.

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MicroStrategy to Provide Enterprise Business Intelligence to Starwood Hotels to Enhance Customer Service and Loyalty Programs

Sep 18, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has expanded its deployment of MicroStrategy for business intelligence reporting and analytics to enhance its customer relationships a

McLean, Va. (September 18, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has expanded its deployment of MicroStrategy for business intelligence reporting and analytics to enhance its customer relationships and loyalty programs. Starwood is one of the world’s leading hotel and leisure companies with approximately 870 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties.

MicroStrategy will enable Starwood personnel to analyze customer information to uncover purchasing patterns, identify profiles of loyal customers, and ensure that its customer service and Starwood Preferred Guest® program are closely aligned with customers’ preferences. Nearly 3,700 Starwood personnel will use MicroStrategy’s highly visual information dashboards and content-rich reports for valuable insights into its customers and key business areas, including revenue management, reservations, property management, and brand analysis. Starwood currently uses MicroStrategy for market performance analysis, owner relations, operations, strategic account management, and global sales analysis.

“We are embarking on a significant technology transformation to improve our quality and level of customer service, and MicroStrategy will provide us with important insights to help us build more meaningful, long-term relationships with our guests,” said Todd Thompson, Chief Information Officer of Starwood Hotels. “With MicroStrategy, our business users can create reports and disseminate them across the organization, enabling us to make strategic, data-driven decisions to improve the guest experience at our properties around the globe.”

“Industry leaders in the travel and hospitality sector choose MicroStrategy to analyze customer transactions and uncover customer behavior patterns to enable them to provide guests with personalized services based on their specific profiles and requirements,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “We are delighted that Starwood Hotels selected MicroStrategy to support its customer service initiatives. MicroStrategy’s platform provides scalability to thousands of users and terabytes of data, which is highly useful for global companies, like Starwood, who are interested in identifying key trends and opportunities to improve business performance and customer service.”

About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 870 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, Sheraton®, Westin®, Four Points® by Sheraton, W®, Le Meridien® and the recently announced Aloft(TM) and Element(TM) Hotels. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com

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Tata Consultancy Services Signs Global Consulting Agreement with MicroStrategy

Sep 12, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

TCS is India’s Largest Information Technology Consulting Organization

McLean, Va., (September 12, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced a global consulting agreement with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS). TCS is a leading global information technology services company with headquarters in India and 2006-07 global revenues of $4.3 billion.

Under the new agreement, TCS plans to train and certify more than 200 of its consultants on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) in the next 12 months. The agreement will enable TCS to use MicroStrategy software for development and demonstration purposes, and to promote MicroStrategy-based solutions to its enterprise customers. TCS operates in more than 45 countries and works with companies across a wide range of industries, including financial services, energy, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and telecom.

“TCS is delighted to partner with MicroStrategy,” said Akther Ahmed, VP Global Alliances and Strategic Business Development for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. “The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform is an excellent choice for our global customers with volumes of data and thousands of employees. MicroStrategy’s dashboards, reports, and analyses provide valuable business insights that help enterprises make timely, data-driven decisions to improve corporate performance.”

“We are pleased to forge this new agreement with TCS,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The agreement will broaden MicroStrategy’s reach into key vertical markets and enable us to leverage the breadth of TCS’ global IT experience.”

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is a world leading technology consulting, services, and outsourcing organization with more than 89,000 associates operating in 47 countries, and serving over 1,000 clients, including seven of the U.S. Fortune Top 10. TCS reported consolidated revenues of $4.3 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2006-2007.

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MicroStrategy Signs 50th OEM Partner in North America

Sep 06, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Technology Day Event to Feature OEM Track

McLean, Va., (September 06, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has entered into agreements with 50 OEM Partners since 2004. These OEM Partners are leveraging the MicroStrategy platform to augment their own products and solutions with dashboards, reporting, and analysis capabilities. By enhancing their product capabilities with business intelligence, OEMs can differentiate their products from competitors, increase customer satisfaction, and create new revenue streams.

MicroStrategy’s portfolio of OEM Partners includes a broad range of companies across vertical industries:

Blazent is a pioneer in automated solutions for aligning and analyzing IT and business-oriented functions. Using MicroStrategy technology, Blazent has created out-of-the-box guided analytics and business scenarios to support decision making for an organization’s financial, operational, and strategic goals, enabling organizations to leverage data to drive actionable business decisions.

InQuira, Inc. improves the quality of customer interactions through web sites and contact centers with integrated applications for intelligent search, knowledge management, analytics, and user experience. Using MicroStrategy, InQuira provides its customers with analyses on visitors and web site content, allowing them to adopt customer-centric business processes to manage critical customer interactions.

SchoolNet, Inc. provides Internet applications that help K-12 school systems improve efficiency and increase achievement. SchoolNet’s solutions are used by some of the nation’s largest school districts. SchoolNet’s Analyze product, incorporating MicroStrategy technology, will enable school district users to build dynamic reports and dashboards accessing school district data in key areas, including assessments, curriculum, attendance, human resources, operations, and finance.

Target Software, a division of Cegedim, offers value to pharmaceutical companies utilizing costly and inefficient paper-based processes. Target Software uses MicroStrategy to provide a hosted solution for analyzing field sales force ROI, promotional channel response, market share, competitor activity, and sampling.

MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform provides integrated reporting and analytics, allowing OEM Partners to easily add reporting, dashboarding, analytical, and alerting applications to their existing software solutions. These new reporting and analytic components can be added with minimal development costs or resources. The MicroStrategy platform is engineered using an open standards-based architecture for reliability, scalability, security, and central administration, enabling seamless integration into an OEM’s application. MicroStrategy provides a Software Development Kit to its OEM Partners to allow them to deeply embed and white-label MicroStrategy within their own interfaces.

MicroStrategy’s flexible, affordable pricing options, including a Software-as-a-Service pricing model, allow OEM Partners to offer BI capabilities on a metered basis. MicroStrategy’s pricing flexibility, coupled with the strength of its technical architecture, enables MicroStrategy’s OEM Partners to offer solutions ranging from on-premise deployments for fewer than five users up to hosted solutions for thousands of users.

“We are delighted that even with a significant variance in the user counts of our customers’ implementations, MicroStrategy’s flexible pricing models enabled us to offer a comprehensive BI solution at a reasonable cost,” said Eric Keith, Vice President of Market Development for SirsiDynix. “With MicroStrategy, we only need one partner to meet the wide range of reporting and BI requirements across our entire customer base.”

“Using MicroStrategy as the embedded BI engine in our product has given us a significant competitive differentiator,” said Rod Bayless, Product Director at Activant Solutions. “We have a new and strategic revenue stream that we didn’t have before, plus we are seeing higher levels of customer satisfaction by offering MicroStrategy’s reporting and analytic capabilities.”

“With MicroStrategy’s multiple pricing options, including Software-as-a-Service and term licenses, we’re able to deliver our Rivermine Clarity module based on our customers’ individual reporting and analytics needs,” said John Shea, CMO, Rivermine. “This flexible pricing structure allows us to offer our customers a top-notch business intelligence tool that complements our market-leading telecom expense management solutions.”

MicroStrategy’s Technology Day event, to be held September 12, 2007 in San Francisco, will include a track for OEM Partners. The sessions will provide informative presentations targeted to prospective OEM Partners on how they can leverage the open MicroStrategy platform to add dashboards, reporting, analysis, and monitoring to their solutions. The OEM presenters include Mihir Choudhary, Chief Technology Officer of Fathom Online, and Rod Bayless, Product Director of Activant.

For more information about MicroStrategy Technology Day, visit www.microstrategy.com/TechDayOEMTrack.

For more information about MicroStrategy’s OEM Program, visit www.microstrategy.com/Partners/OEM/index.asp

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Belgacom Group Selects MicroStrategy as Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform

Sep 04, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Belgacom Group has selected MicroStrategy as its enterprise-wide platform for business intelligence. The Belgacom Group is a leading Belgian provider of integrated teleco

McLean, Va., (September 04, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Belgacom Group has selected MicroStrategy as its enterprise-wide platform for business intelligence. The Belgacom Group is a leading Belgian provider of integrated telecommunications services. The Belgacom Group and its subsidiaries Proximus, Telindus, and Skynet, provide a wide range of fixed and mobile network solutions.

In response to an increasingly competitive telecom market, Belgacom plans to use business intelligence to enhance its product offerings, grow the long-term value of its customer base, improve cost management, and increase market value. Belgacom selected MicroStrategy for its ability to deliver robust business intelligence applications that will be able to provide Belgacom users with greater insights to rapidly adapt to market conditions and implement market-leading business strategies.

Belgacom plans to deploy MicroStrategy across its entire organization. Belgacom expects its initial deployment will include management dashboards, sales reporting and analysis, campaign management, marketing intelligence, and an extranet billing reporting system.

“We are pleased that Belgacom has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform for its BI initiatives,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “MicroStrategy’s ease-of-use, sophisticated analytical capabilities, and scalability for thousands of users and terabytes of data, offer a powerful BI solution for dynamic companies like Belgacom.”

About Belgacom
Belgacom Group [Euronext Brussels: BELG] is the benchmark Belgian provider in the field of integrated telecommunications service. Underpinned by its experience as the country’s national operator, matched by a capacity to innovate, the Belgacom Group, through its strong brands (Belgacom, Proximus, Telindus and Skynet), provides a full range of offers, solutions and expertise in fixed and mobile networks. This is why Belgacom can ensure reliable, high-quality service for all its customers, regardless of whether they are private individuals, professionals, companies or institutions. For the fiscal year ending 31 December 2006, the Group posted a total revenue of EUR6,100 million and a net operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of EUR2,149 million, including non-recurrent items.

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Gander Mountain Expands Use of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software

Aug 28, 2007 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Gander Mountain Company (Nasdaq: GMTN) has expanded its use of MicroStrategyâ??s BI software. Gander Mountain is the nation’s largest retail network of stores for hu

McLean, Va., (August 28, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Gander Mountain Company (Nasdaq: GMTN) has expanded its use of MicroStrategy’s BI software. Gander Mountain is the nation’s largest retail network of stores for hunting, fishing, camping, boating, marine and outdoor lifestyle products and services.

Gander Mountain recently expanded its use of MicroStrategy for sales and inventory management. Product managers, planners, allocators, buyers, and merchandise assistants at Gander Mountain use MicroStrategy for valuable insights into inventory, merchandise, and product sales across its network of retail stores. Using MicroStrategy on top of its Netezza data warehouse provides Gander Mountain users with the scalability and flexibility to analyze large volumes of transactional data.

“With MicroStrategy, we are able to produce consistent reports that help us to make timely and data-driven decisions,” said Kerry Graskewicz, VP Merchandise Planning and Replenishment of Gander Mountain. “MicroStrategy’s intuitive Web interface gives our users the ability to easily report on data across essential areas of the business.”

“MicroStrategy is an excellent fit for industry leading retailers like Gander Mountain,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s scalable platform enables retailers to analyze vast amounts of data for vital intelligence into business areas such as sales trends, inventory management, store operations, and customer loyalty. We are delighted that Gander Mountain continues to achieve success using MicroStrategy.”

About Gander Mountain Company
Gander Mountain Company (Nasdaq: GMTN), headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is the nation’s largest retail network of stores for hunting, fishing, camping, boating, marine and outdoor lifestyle products and services. Since 1960, the Gander Mountain brand has offered an expanding assortment of competitively priced outdoor equipment, technical apparel and footwear, as well as gunsmith, archery, ATV and marine services. The stores feature national, regional and local brands as well as the company’s owned brands. Focused on a “We Live Outdoors(R)” culture, Gander Mountain dedicates itself to creating outdoor memories. There are currently 108 conveniently located Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle stores in 22 states. For the nearest store location call 800-282-5993 or visit http://www.GanderMountain.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.

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