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DM Review Names MicroStrategy to Data Warehouse 100
October 14, 1998 08:33 AM
VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1998--
60,000 Subscribers of Data Warehousing Publication Vote in Poll, Ranking
MicroStrategy As a Leading DSS Vendor
MicroStrategy Incorporated MSTR , a leading worldwide provider of
mission-critical decision support systems, today announced top placement
in DM Review's "Data Warehouse 100," a result of a comprehensive
readership study independently conducted by Market Perspectives research
group. Sixty thousand readers were polled to identify their preferred data
warehousing and business intelligence products, and MicroStrategy ranked
No.15 as a leading provider of decision support software.
"MicroStrategy is committed to delivering the best business intelligence
solutions on the market, " said Michael J. Saylor, president and CEO of
MicroStrategy Incorporated. "This ranking illustrates that DM Review's
readers recognize the power of our software in answering business
questions critical to their bottom line, whether at a departmental, enterprise,
or even consumer level. We are honored to have been selected and named
to the Data Warehouse 100."
DM Review magazine, voted the No.1 Data Warehousing publication by the
Palo Alto Management Group, conducted the survey from April through July
1998. Vendors of over 440 data warehousing and business intelligence
products were considered for the survey, and the top 100 were listed on
August 17, 1998, in DM Review magazine . MicroStrategy joins other major
industry players at the top of the list including IBM, Microsoft, and NCR.
MicroStrategy was ranked No.15 overall, the highest ranking among
dedicated relational on-line analytical processing (ROLAP) vendors.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
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.
For more information, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site:
strategy.com.
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or changes after the date of this release.
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