From MSTR PR:
DM Review Names MicroStrategy to Data Warehouse 100
Business Wire - October 14, 1998 09:01
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 (NASDAQ: 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
(http://www.dmreview.com/top100). 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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