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MicroStrategy Reseller partners bieden Business Intelligence-toepassingen voor JD Edwards Klanten

intelligencesoftware — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:45:01 +0000

Utrecht, 3 december 2009 – MicroStrategy ® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), een toonaangevende wereldwijde leverancier van business intelligence (BI) software, kondigd vandaag aan dat een aantal van haar Value-Added Reseller (VAR) partners kant-en-klare business intelligence toepassingen hebben ontwikkeld voor de JD Edwards gebruikerscommunity met behulp van het MicroStrategy BI-platform. JD Edwards is een software suite voor Enterprise Resource Planning.

Het MicroStrategy BI-platform biedt bedrijven gemakkelijke toegang tot hun JD Edwards gegevens in een omgeving met verbeterde rapportage en analytische mogelijkheden. Talloze MicroStrategy VAR-partners hebben rapportage en analyse toepassingen voor JD Edwards-klanten ontwikkeld. Deze toepassingen, die vooraf gedefinieerde dashboards, rapportages over de belangrijkste KPI’s omvatten, stellen JD Edwards klanten in staat om toegang te krijgen tot belangrijke zakelijke informatie, deze te analyseren en waardvolle inzichten te verkrijgen.

De BI-applicaties die geleverd worden via MicroStrategy’s VAR partners stelt JD Edwards klanten in staat extra waarde toe te voegen aan hun JD Edwards investering. JD Edwards is geoptimaliseerd voor high-speed transactie verwerking. Aangezien gebruikers vaak een meer business georienteerd overzicht van hun prestaties wensen op basis van deze informatie hebben een aantal van onze MicroStrategy reseller-partners diverse rapportage en BI-toepassingen voor de JD Edwards World en EnterpriseOne user community ontwikkeld:

Lancet Software
Lancet Software levert business intelligence en rapportage toepassingen, voor onder andere grootboek, verkooporder verwerking, Human Resources, productie, inkoop en voorraadbeheer. Lancet voorziet ook in rapportagemogelijkheden over Salesforce.com en is gespecialiseerd in het werken met de gezondheidszorg, productie en diverse andere verticale industrieën.

“Lancet heeft samengewerkt met tal van JD Edwards klanten om hoogwaardige MicroStrategy dashboards te ontwikkelen”, zegt Tom Niccum, President en CEO van Lancet Software. “De dashboard mogelijkheden binnen MicroStrategy 9 stelt ons in staat om managers en leidinggevenden meer inzicht te geven in hun gegevens op een manier die invloed kan hebben op hun zakelijke beslissingen.”

ManageForce
ManageForce heeft meerdere BI-toepassingen voor de JD Edwards markt ontwikkeld, uitsluitend met behulp van het business intelligence-platform van MicroStrategy. De applicaties bieden rapportage en dashboard mogelijkheden voor veel van JD Edwards meest gebruikte modules.

“We hebben nauw samengewerkt met MicroStrategy om business intelligence toepassingen voor onze JD Edwards klanten te ontwikkelen,” zei John Hughes, Managing Partner, ManageForce. “Met onze opgedane kennis in het bedienen van JD Edwards klanten de afgelopen jaren, identificeerden we een kans om betere rapportages en analyses met behulp van het MicroStrategy-platform te bieden. MicroStrategy biedt ons één platform om de vele rapportagewensen van onze JD Edwards klanten op te lossen. “

RapidDecision
RapidDecision heeft meer dan 200 JD Edwards-klanten en 18 BI-toepassingen voor de JD Edwards-markt. RapidDecision biedt real-time rapportage over JD Edwards en levert tegen een vaste vergoeding implementaties in vijf tot tien dagen per applicatie.

GSS Group
De GSS Group levert data integratie mogelijkheden aan de JD Edwards-markt. Het product VIGILANCE XpressTM van de GSS Group, optimaliseert de gegevens voor rapportage en analyse met behulp van een eenvoudige en intuïtieve gebruikersinterface.

“Veel van onze trouwe reseller partners bedienen de JD Edwards community al jaren en zij begrijpen de eisen die gesteld worden aan een BI-functionaliteit op dit alomtegenwoordige platform”, zegt Sanju Bansal, COO bij MicroStrategy. “We blijven er aan werken om samen met ons reseller partner netwerk geïntegreerde BI-toepassingen voor JD Edwards te ontwikkelen, alsmede andere bedrijfssystemen.”

Voor meer informatie over deze JD Edwards-oplossingen, bezoek www.microstrategy.com/jdesolutions.

Over MicroStrategy
Opgericht in 1989, is MicroStrategy een wereldleider in business intelligence (BI) technologie. MicroStrategy levert geïntegreerde rapportage-, analyse en monitoring software die wereldwijd toonaangevende organisaties helpt om betere zakelijke beslissingen te nemen, elke dag. Ondernemingen kiezen voor MicroStrategy vanwege de geavanceerde technische mogelijkheden, geraffineerd analytisch vermogen en superieure gegevens en gebruikersschaalbaarheid. Meer informatie over MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is beschikbaar op www.microstrategy.nl.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 9, en MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform zijn handelsmerken of geregistreerde handelsmerken van MicroStrategy Incorporated in de Verenigde Staten en bepaalde andere landen. Andere product-en bedrijfsnamen die hierin vermeld worden kunnen de handelsmerken zijn van hun respectievelijke eigenaren.

LinkedIn Chooses MicroStrategy as its Enterprise Business Intelligence Provider

intelligencesoftware — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:20:55 +0000

World’s Largest Professional Network to Use MicroStrategy for Enhanced Insights into Member Dynamics

McLean, Va., July 15, 2009 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that LinkedIn has selected MicroStrategy for reporting and analytics. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with more than 41 million members.

“LinkedIn is an extremely popular business networking site, and we are pleased to support its BI deployment,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s advanced analytics, scalability, and intuitive reporting features serve as critical tools for Web 2.0 companies that are committed to improving business performance and customer service.”

About LinkedIn
LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful business network. Currently, over 41 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, fashion, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn is backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, the European Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and now Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and SAP Ventures.

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.

Microstrategy introduceert de gratis Reporting Suite speciaal geschikt voor BI initiatieven op afdelingsniveau

intelligencesoftware — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:24:16 +0000

Utrecht, 10-06-2009, MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), één van de grootste Business Intelligence Software producenten ter wereld, kondigt vandaag een gratis BI Platform aan voor het bouwen van Business Intelligence applicaties. Speciaal geschikt voor het ontwikkelen van BI applicaties op afdelingsniveau. De MicroStrategy Reporting Suite stelt bedrijven in staat om hoogwaardige web based rapportage applicaties te bouwen en te gebruiken op basis van MicroStrategy’s geïntegreerde BI platform, zonder dat daar investeringen voor hoeven worden gedaan.

Met de introductie van de Reporting Suite, heeft MicroStrategy de obstakels van tijd en kosten weggenomen die bij het initiëren van nieuwe rapportage applicaties meestal in de weg staan. Eindgebruikers hoeven slechts naar de MicroStrategy Reporting Suite Web site te gaan, waar zij de software kunnen downloaden en direct aan de slag kunnen gaan met het bouwen van hun rapportage applicaties.
Zie: http://www.microstrategy.nl/freereportingsoftware

De gebruiksvriendelijke Business Intelligence software van MicroStrategy zorgt ervoor dat eindgebruikers snel en eenvoudig rapporten kunnen creëren waardoor ze een beter inzicht krijgen in hun bedrijfsgegevens. Hierdoor zijn ze in staat op het juiste moment, op analyse gebaseerde beslissingen te nemen. Eindgebruikers kunnen de resultaten bekijken in de vorm van onder andere gridrapporten of deze grafisch weergeven, om vervolgens een drill-down te kunnen doen voor nog gedetailleerdere analyse. Verder kunnen eindgebruikers zeer eenvoudig ad-hoc queries bouwen, business performance monitoren met behulp van gedefinieerde KPI’s en resultaten exporteren naar Excel of PDF. Wanneer de behoefte voor bijvoorbeeld meer functionaliteit ontstaat, kunnen organisaties aanvullende licenties aanschaffen voor meer geavanceerde rapportagemogelijkheden.

Door gebruik te maken van de MicroStrategy Reporting Suite voorkomen bedrijven het ontstaan van zogenaamde ‘BI silo’s’. Deze BI silo’s ontstaan doordat een BI oplossing op afdelingsniveau normaal gesproken niet ontsloten kan worden binnen een organisatiebrede BI omgeving, waardoor deze als een eiland blijft functioneren. Hierdoor bestaat de kans dat de data niet langer consistent is en ondermijnt het de betrouwbaarheid van de gegevens.
Met MicroStrategy kunnen organisaties de diverse BI applicaties van afdelingen samenvoegen tot één samenhangende BI omgeving, waarbij de consistentie van de data door de gehele organisatie gewaarborgd is.

De MicroStrategy Reporting Suite bestaat uit de volgende componenten:

Tot 100 licenties van de MicroStrategy Intelligence Server en MicroStrategy Web Reporter – 1 CPU limiet
Twee licenties op naam voor de ontwikkelsoftware: MicroStrategy Desktop en MicroStrategy Architect
Twee licenties op naam voor de volgende MicroStrategy experience licenties:
MicroStrategy Web Analyst and Professional, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy Office, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy Distribution Services en MicroStrategy OLAP Services
Gratis Online Support, waaronder toegang tot onze uitgebreide kennisdatabase, onze online gebruikers community, video handleidingen en online educatiemiddelen
Gedurende 60 dagen gratis ondersteuning via e-mail voor maximaal twee contactpersonen met onze MicroStrategy Technical Support.
Een quickstart handleiding en toegang tot onze productdocumentatie.

“In deze economisch spannende tijden zijn bedrijven op zoek naar nieuwe manieren waarmee ze kosten tot een minimum kunnen beperken en de productiviteit van hun medewerkers kunnen maximaliseren” zegt MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “Onze nieuwe Reporting Suite is een hoogwaardig BI Platform dat inclusief online support en extra additionele tools, kosteloos aan gebruikers beschikbaar gemaakt wordt om deze te helpen hun rapportageapplicaties binnen no-time operationeel te hebben. Met MicroStrategy kunnen bedrijven starten met kleine applicaties en deze vervolgens eenvoudig migreren naar een samenhangend, consistent en organisatiebreed BI raamwerk“

Voor meer informatie over de MicroStrategy Reporting Suite kunt u kijken op:
http://www.microstrategy.nl/freereportingsoftware

Hieronder kunt u de diverse reacties lezen van diverse buitenlandse analisten met betrekking tot de MicroStrategy Reporting Suite:

Rita L. Sallam, Research Director, Gartner Inc.
Gartner’s Research Director Rita Sallam recently evaluated the MicroStrategy Reporting Suite. To learn more about Gartner’s findings and how you can benefit from this new software package, visit www.microstrategy.com/GartnerVol3 to read the complete report.

Cindi Howson, Founder, BIScorecard
“Given the product capabilities, migration path, and support, it seems like a deal too good to be true…. The appealing aspect [of the MicroStrategy Reporting Suite free offering] is that it provides customers with an easy entrée into BI, without that entrée being a total throw away. If customers later want to add dashboards or multi-source, for example, they don’t have to start over or migrate to a new product as is often the case with many departmental BI tools.”

Wayne Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research
“MicroStrategy recently created a major stir in the industry by offering its fully functional MicroStrategy Reporting Suite for up to 100 business users at no charge! This bold move will allow MicroStrategy to change the market perception that it only offers high-end BI tools, expand its footprint into smaller applications, and thereby grow the number of companies it does business with.”

Mark Smith, CEO and EVP Research, Ventana Research
“MicroStrategy is dramatically simplifying the adoption of enterprise strength reporting by providing organizations the ability to download and quickly deploy a set of free reporting software that is easy to use. By providing departments and workgroups with a reporting package that is quick and easy to deploy, MicroStrategy allows organizations to start small and easily transition to more advanced and sophisticated BI applications as their needs grow beyond their initial deployment and require more robust analytics.”

Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
“Now MicroStrategy is taking the concept of free BI one step further. MicroStrategy announced that it is making its Release 9 software available for up to 100 users/consumers of info at no cost! Now that’s a whole different story. Now we are talking about not just individual components, but a complete BI solution. We are also not talking about a small use case for just testing groups or QA or prototyping. With 100 users you can roll a BI application out for free to a whole department in a large enterprise or to a small business.” Excerpt from April 17, 2009 Forrester Blog: http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2009/04/free-bi-is-still-no-free-lunch.html

Over MicroStrategy
Opgericht in 1989, is MicroStrategy een zelfstandige marktleider van Business Intelligence (BI) technologie. MicroStrategy levert geïntegreerde rapporten, analyses en monitoring software die wereldwijd, toonaangevende organisaties in staat stelt iedere dag betere beslissingen te nemen. Organisaties kiezen voor MicroStrategy vanwege haar geavanceerde technische mogelijkheden, verfijnde analyses en superieure data- en gebruikers- schaalbaarheid. Meer informatie over MicroStrategy kunt u vinden op www.microstrategy.nl.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Web Reporter, MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Architect, MicroStrategy Web Analyst, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy Office, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy Distribution Services, en MicroStrategy OLAP Services zijn handelsmerken danwel geregistreerde handelsmerken van MicroStrategy Incorporated in de Verenigde Staten en diverse andere landen. Andere producten en bedrijven hierboven genoemd zijn mogelijk handelsnamen van hun eigenaren.

MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9

intelligencesoftware — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:21:49 +0000

McLean, VA, March 26, 2009 − MicroStrategy^® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the release of MicroStrategy 9™, the company’s most significant software release in nearly a decade. MicroStrategy 9 was introduced in January 2009 at the Company’s annual user conference and was made generally available on March 20, 2009.

MicroStrategy 9 delivers new technology and features to:
·         Extend the performance, scalability, and efficiency of enterprise BI;
·         Enable the rapid deployment of departmental BI applications; and
·

Provide a seamless consolidation path from departmental BI to enterprise BI.

Extending Enterprise BI

As BI systems grow to thousands of users and hundreds of terabytes of data, maintaining fast query performance can be a tremendous challenge. MicroStrategy 9 includes new adaptive caching technology called In-memory ROLAP, which takes advantage of the large addressable memory now available on 64-bit Unix, Linux, and Windows computer servers, and provides a performance-optimized middle-tier database that can respond directly to data requests from reports, dashboards, and OLAP analyses. MicroStrategy 9 also introduces new SQL generation optimizations that can greatly improve performance for sophisticated queries involving complex metrics.

As companies merge and expand, there is an increased urgency for business intelligence to span all operations, across business units, across departments, and across the globe. This expansion introduces new requirements on BI systems to support global deployments. MicroStrategy 9 offers the ability to present reports, dashboards, or OLAP analyses in the local language of business users viewing the information. In addition, MicroStrategy 9 offers numerous capabilities to streamline coordination between development teams working around the globe on the same BI applications.

Enabling Rapid Development and Deployment of Departmental BI

MicroStrategy 9 includes significant new architectural components and features designed specifically to support the needs of smaller-scale BI systems for departments. MicroStrategy 9 enables departmental BI applications to be set up quickly, providing end users with the ability to create reports and dashboards, and to distribute information among themselves with little or no IT support.

MicroStrategy’s new Multi-source ROLAP, In-memory ROLAP, and rapid metadata creation enables business departments to quickly set up small BI environments, accessing multiple databases without the time-consuming and technically-intensive work of first creating a data mart or data warehouse.

MicroStrategy 9 offers numerous new features that make assembling reports simpler and faster. Business users can quickly create their own dashboards using new features in MicroStrategy 9, including out-of-the-box dashboard templates, support for custom-designed templates, and new design assistants that aid novice users in creating their own dashboards.

Because of its ROLAP architecture, one of MicroStrategy’s long-standing strengths is the ability of business users to freely investigate the data or ‘surf’ through the data warehouse without having to design a new report for each new combination of data they want to see. MicroStrategy 9 has extended this ability by allowing users to perform these same OLAP manipulations such as pivoting and drilling directly on graphs.

MicroStrategy 9 gives users greater control of report and dashboard distribution with its new Distribution Services product. Users can set up report distributions for themselves or for other users, sending reports via e-mail, networked printers, or directly to recipients’ computers or servers. Business users are empowered to create and manage their own information subscriptions, without the intervention of a centralized IT administrator.

Providing Seamless Consolidation from Departmental BI to Enterprise BI

Organizations often have a mix of departmental and enterprise BI systems, and face the problem of having multiple ‘versions of the truth’ across these BI islands that can undermine the credibility of its BI systems. A solution to this problem is to merge the islands of BI into a more cohesive, enterprise-wide BI system gradually and incrementally.

MicroStrategy 9 was designed to enable the easy merger of independent islands of MicroStrategy BI into a more expansive enterprise BI system. Using the new Multi-source ROLAP capability, metadata and reports from departmental BI islands can be gradually merged into larger enterprise BI metadata, without also having to move any of the original data into data warehouses or data marts. As a next step, MicroStrategy 9 also enables companies to gradually move their data from disparate databases into the data warehouse simply by ‘re-pointing’ the metadata to access the same data, but at its new location, with no disruption to reports or redesign required.

MicroStrategy Business Partners Support MicroStrategy 9

MicroStrategy works with a broad range of business partners, including technology partners, consulting partners, systems integrators, resellers, and OEMs. Many of these business partners have previewed MicroStrategy 9 beta software and provided positive feedback on its new features and enhancements.

“The innovations in MicroStrategy 9 will enable our business partners to attract new customers looking for a BI platform that extends performance and scalability at the enterprise-level and is easy to deploy for smaller BI applications,” said MicroStrategy’s COO, Sanju Bansal. “We are delighted that MicroStrategy 9 has been well received by our business partners.”

Fujitsu Consulting

“MicroStrategy 9 supports our view of BI as a strategic enterprise asset, which is central to our approach to driving real and measurable change in the organization through the deployment of BI and Performance Management solutions,” said Norm Mackay, VP Business Intelligence, Fujitsu Consulting. “By leveraging this enterprise-caliber BI technology for departmental BI requirements, Fujitsu enables our clients to consolidate all their departmental applications into a single, integrated BI system. This truly represents a technological breakthrough that will allow our clients to maximize the returns on their BI investment.”

Harris Corporation

“MicroStrategy 9 is a huge jump from previous releases,” said Peter Wickwire, Product Manager, Broadcast Communications Division Report Services, Harris Corporation. “The features in MicroStrategy 9 will allow us to deliver the best business intelligence implementation possible to our very demanding clients.”

HP
“Customers want the ability to respond to business events faster with current and relevant information,” said Giuliano Di Vitantonio, director, marketing and alliances, Business Intelligence Solutions, HP. “The combination of HP platform and services and MicroStrategy software gives customers an integrated solution that supports and improves the decision making process with greater scalability, performance, and efficiency.”

Informatica

“MicroStrategy 9 sets a new standard for reporting and analysis for the enterprise as well as for departmental implementations,” said Don Tirsell, Senior Director Technical Alliances, Informatica. “The redesigned interfaces and many new self-service features of MicroStrategy 9 make information easily available to all levels of users across the organization.”

Marketing Direct

“The enhancements in MicroStrategy 9 are very exciting and will deliver instant value to our customer base,” said Chad Wainscott, Business Intelligence Analyst, Marketing Direct. “The features such as multi-source data access, personal prompt answers, and In-memory ROLAP address several of the demands from our user community. These enhancements will make all of our users more efficient and productive.”

Sybase

“MicroStrategy 9 sets a new standard for reporting and analysis decision-making when used in tandem with the Sybase® IQ Analytic Server,” said Dan Lahl, Director of Analytics at Sybase. “Using completely redesigned interfaces, hundreds of new features and optimizations for Sybase IQ 15, MicroStrategy 9 and Sybase IQ 15 quickly turn raw data into decision-ready information for all business owners throughout the enterprise.”

Teradata Corporation

“As a business intelligence Partner, MicroStrategy ensures that their business intelligence software easily integrates with all members of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform family to leverage the data within our customers’ data warehouses,” said Randy Lea, vice president, products and services, Teradata Corporation. “MicroStrategy 9 will extend and improve the ability of our joint customers to make better, faster decisions by infusing real-time intelligence into frontline operations and long-range strategic planning.”

For more information on MicroStrategy 9, visit www.microstrategy.com/9/

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, and MicroStrategy 9 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.

Oce Business Services Selects MicroStrategy to Provide Enhanced Reporting and Analytics for its Oce MAX Advanced Offering

intelligencesoftware — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:28:22 +0000

McLean, Va., March 12, 2009 – MicroStrategy^® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Océ Business Services, a leader in document process management and electronic discovery, has selected MicroStrategy for its Océ MAX™ Advanced document performance management system.

Océ MAX Advanced is a next-generation Internet application that enables clients to use information to reduce document management costs and improve operational efficiency. Using MicroStrategy software, Océ Business Services can offer its clients interactive, customizable reports and dashboards for deeper insights into document management. Some of the capabilities available in Océ MAX Advanced include near-real-time volume and performance reports, customizable dashboards with “stop light” performance management of key metrics, and automated e-mail alerts when metrics deviate from established performance standards.

With MicroStrategy’s information dashboards, Océ Business Services’ clients can monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), view a detailed breakdown of a specific SLA at the enterprise or location/user level, and monitor performance by month or day. The actionable insights from MicroStrategy-based dashboards enable Océ Business Services’ clients to pinpoint problems quickly, improve efficiencies, and reduce costs.

“We were looking for an intuitive reporting solution to augment the services that we provide to our clients with advanced reporting requirements,” said Elizabeth Halaki, chief marketing officer for Océ Business Services. “MicroStrategy’s flexibility, robust reporting capabilities, and ease-of-use for our diverse user population were all factors in our decision.”

“We are pleased to count Océ Business Services as a new MicroStrategy customer,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “Our highly visual information dashboards empower business users to interact with their data in compelling new ways, providing at-a-glance insights to help users make data-driven business decisions.”

About Océ Business Services
Océ Business Services is a leading international provider of document process outsourcing services and technology to businesses and the public sector. By improving and managing non-core yet critical document processes, Océ Business Services enables organizations to reduce costs, increase efficiency, mitigate risk and improve operational performance. Océ Business Services’ solutions span the document lifecycle, from creation through disposal, including business records, eDiscovery, imaging, print and mail management. Proprietary service delivery methodologies apply Six Sigma^® to improve results. To learn more, visit http://www.obs-innovation.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 and 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.

Fujitsu launches Business Analytics for Retail service

intelligencesoftware — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:56:09 +0000

London, 10th February 2009 — Fujitsu Services, one of Europe’s leading IT services companies, is launching a new cost-effective business analytics service aimed at helping retailers turn valuable business data into actionable reporting and analysis.

In the current tough economic climate, retailers need to exploit the data they possess internally to help maximise sales across multiple channels. Business reporting and analytics hold the key to identifying and understanding customer behaviour; this intelligence is vital for converting more customers and improving their experience with a retailer’s brand. The challenge for retailers today is to deliver reporting and analysis which is on time, actionable and cost-effective.

‘Business Analytics for Retail’ is a low cost one-stop shop solution designed specifically for the retail sector. As a service-led model, it will enable retailers to exploit data garnered from across the business to provide timely intelligence to facilitate knowledge-driven decision-making.

Richard Clarke, practice lead for retail consulting at Fujitsu Services said: “Success in retailing is all about making the right decisions: every day retailers are making thousands of planning, ranging, pricing, inventory, logistics and staff scheduling decisions. The Business Analytics solution will help retailers make smarter decisions; vital in order to attain and protect competitive edge. We have developed Business Analytics for Retail in response to retailer demand for a more cost-effective solution which can systematically capture, analyse and action data to improve performance.”

Offering a multi-channel analytics capability to measure and manage an integrated multi-channel customer experience across web, store, call centre and catalogue, Business Analytics for Retail industrialises the decision support process, integrating disparate data pools to deliver faster, cheaper and more reliable business insight to those who need it.

Fujitsu has signed agreements with key partners to provide the infrastructure required to offer an end-to-end multi-channel business intelligence managed service that embraces IT infrastructure, analytics reporting and portal-based decision workflow.

* Data warehouse appliance leader Netezza will be providing a best-of-breed data warehouse solution to deliver high-performance analysis of transaction-level sales, inventory and customer data in real-time
* MicroStrategy, a leading provider of business intelligence software will offer a comprehensive reporting and dashboard solution
* Site Intelligence, a leading supplier of multi-channel analytics will offer business intelligence across channels
* Microsoft SharePoint™, the leading portal solution to provide a one stop shop business intelligence interface for specific users and roles

About Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is a leading European information technology services company. Its business is helping its customers realise the value of information technology through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed service contracts. It serves customers in the private and public sectors across Europe including retail, financial services, healthcare and government. With an annual turnover of £2.56 billion (€3.22 billion), it employs over 21,000 people across 20 countries. Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European IT services arm of the US$53 billion (€32.9 billion) Fujitsu Group. Visit uk.fujitsu.com for more information.
Retail Customers

In the retail sector, Fujitsu Services’ customers in the UK include The Co-operative Group, Vodafone, Mid-Counties Co-operatives, Royal Mail, Whitbread and Carpetright. In Europe its retail customers include La Rinascente (Italy), Auchan (France), The EDEKA Group (Germany) and Kesko (Finland).

Fujitsu Services lanceert data-analyse service voor retailers

intelligencesoftware — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:54:31 +0000

‘Business Analytics for Retail’ meet, analyseert en optimaliseert multi-channel klantervaringen

Retail

03 maart 2009 — Fujitsu Services, wereldwijd specialist in IT-infrastructuurbeheer en outsourcing-services, lanceert ‘Business Analytics for Retail’. Deze dienst stelt retailers in staat om hun beschikbare bedrijfsdata te meten, analyseren en in te zetten voor optimalisering van hun multi-channel verkoopstrategie.

Business Analytics for Retail – dat als managed service wordt aangeboden – is een speciaal voor de retailsector ontworpen totaaloplossing. IT-infrastructuur, analystische rapportage en een portal-gebaseerde besluitvorming-workflow maken onderdeel uit van de dienst. Hiermee kunnen retailers hun zakelijk verkregen data benutten voor het nemen van onderbouwde beslissingen.

De nieuwe service van Fujitsu Services biedt analysemogelijkheden voor het meten en beheren van een geïntegreerde multi-channel klantervaring via het web, de fysieke winkel, het call center en de catalogus. Business Analytics for Retail optimaliseert de verkoopstrategie door de integratie van verschillende databronnen, waarmee een sneller en betrouwbaarder zakelijk inzicht wordt gegeven.

Fujitsu is een samenwerkingsverband aangegaan met enkele belangrijke partners voor het leveren van de end-to-end multi-channel business intelligence-oplossing:

* Netezza, leverancier van data warehouse-systemen, levert een data warehouse-oplossing die uitgebreide real-time analyses van verkoop, voorraad en klantendata mogelijk maakt
* BI-leverancier Microstrategy levert een uitvoerige rapportage- en dashboard-oplossing
* Site Intelligence, leverancier van multi-channel analyseoplossingen, levert business intelligence voor de verschillende verkoopkanalen
* Microsoft Sharepoint™ levert de portal waarmee een one-stop-shop BI interface geboden wordt voor specifieke gebruikers en rollen

“Succes in retail draait volledig om het nemen van de juiste beslissingen. Retailers nemen dagelijks vele beslissingen op het vlak van planning, prijsbepaling, voorraadbeheer, logistiek en inzet van personeel”, zegt Eric Bouwer, algemeen directeur van Fujitsu Services. “De Business Analytics-oplossing helpt retailers om slimmere beslissingen te nemen door het systematisch vastleggen, analyseren en inzetten van data om de verkooppresaties te verbeteren. Een goede inzet van de beschikbare gegevens is essentieel voor het behalen en behouden van concurrentievoordeel.”

Fujitsu Services zoekt 200 nieuwe collega’s
De nieuwe medewerkers zijn onder te verdelen in zes profielen: IT-consultant, graduate, netwerkbeheerder, customer support technician (helpdesk), projectmanager en systeembeheerder. Voor een overzicht van alle profielen kijk op www.fujitsujobs.nl of www.fujitsu.com/nl/werkenbijfujitsu
Over Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is het Europese IT-servicesonderdeel van de Fujitsu Groep: met een omzet van 32,5 miljard euro per jaar de op twee na grootste leverancier van IT-systemen en -services ter wereld. Fujitsu Services telt 21.000 werknemers, is in meer dan 20 landen actief en genereert een omzet van 3,59 miljard euro op jaarbasis.

Fujitsu Services ontwerpt, bouwt en beheert IT-infrastructuren voor bedrijven en instellingen uit verschillende branches en specifieke business solutions voor sectoren als financiële dienstverlening, gezondheidszorg en retail. Kernactiviteit is het leveren van IT-infrastructuurbeheer en -outsourcingservices voor desktop-, netwerk- en datacentre- omgevingen, in combinatie met diverse gerelateerde services: van consulting tot integratie en implementatie. Doel is om de prestaties van organisaties te verbeteren, waardoor zij in staat zijn hun klanten sneller en efficiënter te bedienen.
Fujitsu Services heeft samenwerkingsverbanden met onder andere Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Cisco, 3Com, Fujitsu Siemens Computers en Extreme Networks.

Website: http://www.fujitsu.com/nl/news/pr/20090302-data_analyse_service_retail.html

Catalina Marketing Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy to Deliver Enhanced Reporting Capabilities to its Clients

intelligencesoftware — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:37:26 +0000

MCLEAN, Va., March 4, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Catalina Marketing plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy, which supports a wide range of business intelligence applications across its organization. Catalina Marketing has been a MicroStrategy customer for more than seven years, and is the global leader in behavior-based communications for consumer packaged goods companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and grocery, drug, and mass retailers.

Catalina Marketing uses MicroStrategy to run complex analytics against 600-plus billion rows of purchase data stored on multiple petabytes of Netezza data warehouse appliances. By leveraging MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software, Catalina Marketing provides its clients with a portal to access data and insights into purchasing preferences and behaviors. Each month, Catalina Marketing’s clients run more than 10,000 MicroStrategy-based reports and dashboards.

Catalina Marketing is expanding its use of MicroStrategy to offer enhanced BI reporting capabilities for its client portal. The upgraded portal will offer users centralized access to MicroStrategy reports and dashboards, and single sign-on capabilities to streamline the process of obtaining information. In addition, MicroStrategy’s self-service reporting features will allow users to create reports faster and new expressive dashboards will provide key metrics at-a-glance to accelerate decision-making.

“Over the years, MicroStrategy’s high scalability, robust security, intuitive Web interface, and advanced SQL engine have proven to be instrumental in helping us meet our clients’ growing information requirements,” said Eric Williams, Catalina Marketing’s Chief Information Officer. “We expect the client portal enhancements will improve the current user experience, and enable additional users to take advantage of the broad range of reporting and analytical capabilities provided.”

“Catalina Marketing is a long-time MicroStrategy customer and we are delighted that they continue to achieve success with their BI applications,” said MicroStrategy’s COO, Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy’s integrated BI platform seamlessly delivers user-friendly reports and dashboards that are valuable tools for identifying key trends and making analytically-based business decisions.”

About Catalina Marketing Corporation

Based in St. Petersburg, Fla. and established in 1983, Catalina Marketing Corporation (www.catalinamarketing.com) was founded on the premise that communications to consumers targeted off actual purchase behavior would generate a more effective response. Today, Catalina Marketing is an international company that powers one of the largest and most advanced media outlets in the world- Pointer Media Network (www.pointermedianetwork.com). Pointer Media enables brand managers, marketers, advertisers, media buyers and media planners to leverage the network’s sophisticated database of 250 million weekly shopping transactions representing buying behavior of nearly 80 percent of American households with direct-to-consumer communication opportunities. This medium provides an extensive infrastructure of 23,000 retail outlets, 25-years of analytical expertise and an average 80 percent readership rate among target audiences.

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 and MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform are 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.

MicroStrategy Recognized in Consumer Goods Technology 2009 Readers’ Choice Survey

intelligencesoftware — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:03:21 +0000

Consumer Goods Companies Choose MicroStrategy for Enhanced Reporting and Analytics

McLean, Va., February 19, 2009 — MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it was recognized by Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) in its ninth annual Readers’ Choice survey.

Each year, CGT asks its subscribers to identify their most valued solution and service providers across multiple categories. MicroStrategy was recognized by CGT readers in the Business Intelligence category. Survey results are derived from feedback from consumer goods business and IT executives.

MicroStrategy’s software is used by a wide array of global consumer goods companies, including Avon Products, Chiquita Brands, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., Giorgio Armani Corporation, Groupe Danone, Gucci, Herbalife, and Levi Strauss & Co. Using MicroStrategy’s BI platform, consumer goods companies can analyze vast amounts of data to gain greater insight into their operations and make more strategic and proactive decisions. MicroStrategy is used for a broad range of BI applications, including inventory management, operational reporting, marketing and sales analysis, profit and loss tracking, performance scorecards, and supply chain management.

“We are delighted that the readers of Consumer Goods Technology have once again identified MicroStrategy as a valued business intelligence software provider,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy’s easy to use Web-based interface and scalability for large databases offer consumer goods companies a powerful analytic and reporting solution to improve operations, enhance business performance, and better serve their customers.”

Here you can find the results of the survey.

About MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy 9 – Live Roadshow

intelligencesoftware — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:40 +0000

MicroStrategy 9

Come and discover MicroStrategy’s biggest release in nearly a decade — coming to a city near you!

Join us to see how MicroStrategy 9, our most feature-rich release in nearly ten years, can help companies seamlessly extend BI from small, individual applications into a cohesive enterprise BI operation.

Find out here when we visit a city near you:
http://www.microstrategy.com/9/roadshow.asp

During this live event, you’ll learn about exciting new technology and capabilities designed to:

Support workgroup BI with technology that increases the speed and simplicity of deploying new BI applications at the workgroup level
Support departmental BI by empowering business users and departments with dramatic self-service capabilities
Support enterprise BI by extending the scale, performance, and efficiency of BI at the high end
Support the seamless evolution from workgroup BI and departmental BI to enterprise BI