MicroStrategy Dashboards and Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Provide Retailers with Actionable Insights into Sales Performance
McLean, Va., (October 14, 2008) –
MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, and Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced that they will collaborate to provide dashboards for selected industries to make decision-making easier and faster.
The industry-specific dashboards will showcase the combined power of Teradata analytics and MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM). MicroStrategy’s dashboards display large volumes of data in an intuitive and highly visual manner, allowing users to quickly identify trends and issues.
Teradata’s retail business intelligence solution includes the Teradata active enterprise data warehouse, Teradata RetailDecisions, Teradata’s Retail Logical Data Model, and MicroStrategy’s dashboards. The new retail dashboards provide retailers with a data-driven view of sales performance, allowing them to access, predict, analyze, interpret, and act on data by store, customer, and sales channel. With report templates based on industry best practices, retailers can more readily address campaign planning around special holidays and seasons, enabling users to perform market basket and affinity analyses, and evaluate campaign effectiveness.
“The combination of MicroStrategy and Teradata provides a powerful business intelligence solution at Roundy’s,” said Greg Lisiak, Director of Business Solutions at Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. “Our users rely on our information dashboards to quickly access and interpret critical business activity, and to improve business and operational performance.”
“MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards in a Teradata environment provide intelligence at first sight,” said Darryl McDonald, Teradata Chief Marketing Officer. “Users can analyze information about their business at-a-glance and act immediately with confidence. MicroStrategy dashboards truly bring the power of Teradata-driven enterprise information to life.”
“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Teradata and collaborate on these industry-specific dashboards,” said Sanju Bansal, Chief Operating Officer of MicroStrategy. “By integrating MicroStrategy’s expressive dashboards with Teradata’s logical data model and enterprise data warehouse, our customers can efficiently manage their data and rapidly gain actionable insights to make analytically-based business decisions.”
Teradata and MicroStrategy have a long-standing marketing and technology relationship, which includes MicroStrategy’s participation in Teradata’s beta program for more than 10 years. The two companies have over 200 joint customers spanning a wide range of industries including retail, financial services, communications, manufacturing, transportation, and government.
About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world’s largest company solely focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing, consulting services and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the web at www.teradata.com.
Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.
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 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.
Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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wcover@microstrategy.com
Source: MicroStrategy