Off Subject..MSTR, has things going. I like this company, they have good connections and excellent management too. They are a Sand partner and Sand should benefit from these shows too.
Leading Corporations Share Data Warehousing and Decision Support Best Practices at
MicroStrategy's DSS World
September 29, 1998 08:35 AM
VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1998--
World-Class Companies in Banking, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Public Sector, Retail Supply Chain
and Telecommunications Industries Reveal Strategies Behind Success
MicroStrategy Incorporated MSTR , a leading worldwide provider of mission-critical decision support
systems, today announced the leading companies that will be speaking at DSS WorldTM, one of the
industry's most comprehensive events focused on data warehousing and decision support solutions,
products, and technology trends. Conference attendees will have the unique opportunity to interact
and share knowledge with experts from around the world, including Bell South, Best Buy, Estee
Lauder, Inc., First Union Corporation, J.P. Morgan and Co., Incorporated, The Limited, Inc., Monsanto
Company, Nielsen Media Research, Premier, Inc., ProVantage, The U.S. Postal Service, and VISA
International will be among the companies represented. These leading organizations will offer
real-world experience on how to generate significant value using MicroStrategy's(R) decision support
technology, providing conference attendees with valuable insight for implementing successful
enterprise-wide DSS and E-Business Applications. This year's DSS World will be held October 26 -
30, 1998, in the new Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center located in downtown
Washington, D.C., near the White House.
"MicroStrategy customers and prospects will hear from companies that are realizing tremendous
business value from implementing decision support solutions," said Michael J. Saylor, CEO and
president of MicroStrategy. "Integrated into DSS World is the right combination of business
relationships, planning methodology, software, customer insight and implementation success
stories--information that is vital for companies to compete in a global business environment."
Organizations Realizing Solid Returns on Their Technology Investment Speak Out at DSS World
Many of MicroStrategy's top customers will be on-hand to provide advanced skills and knowledge on
how to use and deploy MicroStrategy technologies. A number of Global 1000 companies in the
banking, pharmaceutical, healthcare, public sector, retail supply chain and telecommunications
industries will address strategies used to identify and solve common business problems, and unveil
specific methodologies used to achieve solid returns on their technology investments. Those
conference attendees who want to obtain business intelligence from their data warehouses and gain a
competitive advantage in their industry will hear from:
-- Best Buy, discussing how supply chain applications create value-added content for true business
intelligence.
-- Bell South, addressing how MicroStrategy's decision support tools have been used to optimize key
resources, including marketing budgets, sales force, call centers, the network, and most importantly,
its customer base.
-- Estee Lauder, Inc., discussing how it is using MicroStrategy's decision support technology to
redefine the utilization of pertinent business data at Estee Lauder's personal care and cosmetics
lines--enhancing its business processes through the positive implementation of automated
replenishment.
-- First Union Finance, a division of First Union Corporation, the sixth largest financial institution in the
U.S., sharing its business knowledge on how its analysts and managers have been able to analyze
financial information to measure sales force performance and track product deployment using
MicroStrategy's decision support technology.
-- Monsanto Company, revealing its strategies behind the creation of its procurement data warehouse
application and how MicroStrategy's decision support technology is helping Monsanto's procurement
community to negotiate better contracts for goods and services and make better spending decisions.
-- Nielsen Media Research, addressing how it is using MicroStrategy's decision support technology
to put immediate and insightful information about TV viewing habits on the desktops of industry
analysts, so that clients better understand media trends in a fast and intuitive manner.
-- Premier, Inc., discussing how it uses MicroStrategy's decision support technology as the
centerpiece of Premier's strategy to deliver the industry's most comprehensive healthcare
comparative databases to hospitals, health systems and healthcare industry suppliers.
-- ProVantage, unveiling its technology strategies behind its enterprise-wide decision support tool
(ProVmed) to prosper in the competitive healthcare industry, discussing requirements for direct and
easy access to 75 million patient years of U.S. and international healthcare encounter data to
improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
-- The U.S. Postal Service, discussing real world experiences using MicroStrategy's product suite to
access some of the largest data stores in development across the globe.
DSS World Provides Real-World Examples of Highly Successful DSS Implementation
"DSS World is the richest, most comprehensive event of its kind that will deliver the industry
knowledge and implementation methodology organizations need for planning and building powerful
data warehousing and decision support solutions," said Saylor. "With expert guidance furnished by
some of the leading organizations in the world, MicroStrategy customers and prospects will focus on
the issues that will yield significant business returns and prepare them for the E-Business era."
Along with the knowledge-sharing aspects of the conference, DSS World will host an industry awards
event honoring those companies that have gained a solid return on their technology investment and
have realized tremendous business value and greater efficiency with a DSS solution. At DSS World,
the companies that have been featured on MicroStrategy's website will be honored with the
"Customer of the Month" award.
About MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise decision support system ("DSS") software
and related services. MicroStrategy's suite of products ("DSS Suite") enables both active and passive
delivery of information from large-scale databases, providing Global 2000 enterprise user communities
with timely answers to mission-critical questions.
MicroStrategy's decision support platform enables users to query and analyze the most detailed,
transaction-level databases, turning data into business intelligence. In addition to supporting internal
enterprise users, MicroStrategy's products extend DSS beyond corporate boundaries to customers,
partners and supply chain constituencies through a broad range of pull and push technology such as
the Internet, e-mail, telephones, pagers and other wireless communications devices. MicroStrategy
also offers a comprehensive set of consulting, training and support services for its customers and
partners.
MicroStrategy has over 500 customers across such diverse industries as retail, telecommunications,
finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods. MicroStrategy's
customers use DSS Suite to perform mission-critical activities such as: customer segmentation and
profitability analysis; supply chain management; one-to-one customer marketing; financial analysis;
customer acquisition, retention, and churn analysis; merchandising and inventory analysis; product
category management; and customer risk profiling. Representative MicroStrategy customers include
American Express Travel Services, CVS Pharmacy, Harris Teeter, IMS America, Kmart, MCI,
Merck-Medco, Nike, Ralston Purina, and WorldCom. MicroStrategy has also entered into
relationships with more than 80 system integration, application development and platform partners,
including Acxiom, Andersen Consulting, IBM, Intrepid Systems, NCR, and Oracle.
To register or to learn more about DSS World, please call 1-800-696-8811 or visit MicroStrategy's
Web site: strategy.com
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release.
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