Highly Intuitive Information Dashboards Praised by Customers and Industry Analysts
MCLEAN, Va., (April 23, 2007) –
MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host a Webcast on May 16, 2007, showcasing its new Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM). The one-hour Webcast, “Using Dashboards to Improve Corporate Performance: Top 10 Best Practices,” will feature demonstrations; commentary from MicroStrategy customers, Lowe’s Companies and Classic Residence by Hyatt; as well as insights from Wayne Eckerson, Director of TDWI Research, and author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business.
MicroStrategy combined advanced data visualization and animation capabilities with its industrial-strength BI platform to deliver expressive information dashboards that help companies manage business performance and improve decision making. MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards enable business users to access a tremendous amount of information in an easy-to-use, graphical format that enhances the interpretation and analysis of business data. Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards were introduced as part of MicroStrategy’s 8.1 software release, which became generally available on March 23, 2007.
Leading Industry Analysts and Customers Applaud MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards:
“With the release of version 8.1 and the Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, MicroStrategy will elevate the market’s expectations of what should be in an enterprise BI platform,” said Mark Smith of Ventana Research. “MicroStrategy has developed and embedded in its Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards a high quality graphing engine and incorporated desktop publishing-quality output so companies can build and deploy dashboards and applications that bring vivid presentation, interactive analysis, and embedded report display into one environment.”
“Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are a ‘new breed’ of dashboards, which allow business users to make better and faster decisions by visualizing and interacting with information in an easy-to-use, graphical format,” said Cindi Howson, Founder of BIScorecard. “With the introduction of features, such as push buttons, sliders, and OLAP-enabled panel layers, MicroStrategy 8.1 Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards allow users to intuitively change the context of a dashboard to analyze different combinations of information without ever leaving the dashboard.”
“MicroStrategy 8.1 offers a completely new way to present information for our users at Nordstrom,” said James Taylor, IT Program Manager at Nordstrom. “MicroStrategy’s technology is definitely moving in the right direction with its dynamic dashboards.”
“MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards represent a new caliber of dashboard,” said Ryan Osterhues, MicroStrategy Administrator at PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. “With MicroStrategy 8.1, there are many ways in which our data can be visualized and displayed to our decision-makers.”
“We are very excited about MicroStrategy 8.1, as the new Flash functionality goes above and beyond standard dashboards,” said Andreas Happel, Director BI and Portal Architecture at MACH, a leading provider of inter- operator solutions to the telecommunications and data industry worldwide. “With the Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, we will enhance the speed and quality of our decision making and offer more visually appealing dashboard capabilities to our user community.”
“We are impressed with the rich platform of MicroStrategy 8.1, especially the new graphs, panels, and selectors,” said Jordan Silvergleid, Managing Director at the Advisory Board Company. “MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are truly engaging and can be intuitively designed, built, and deployed with ease over the Web.”
For more information on MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and to register for the Webcast, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/DashboardsTop10.
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Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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