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MicroStrategy Customer of the Month: Boots |
 The company:
Boots The Chemist is the UK's leading health & beauty retailer
and one of the best known names in the UK. Boots The Chemist
employs 68,000 people, owns world famous brands and sells its
products in 130 countries.
The situation: Boots The Chemist uses the MicroStrategy platform to deliver improved analysis and reporting of loyalty data to a wide range of users. Part of the Boots Group Plc, Boots The Chemist is the UK's leading health and beauty retailer and one of the best known names in the UK. The solution: Boots already uses MicroStrategy for a variety of applications including basket analysis, customer segmentation and direct marketing, using the vast amount of data collected from its Advantage Card loyalty program. By upgrading its MicroStrategy platform, Boots will provide more sophisticated analysis to its existing user base and allow more internal users to gain access to its core marketing database. |
The benefits:
The retailer aims to improve its one-to-one marketing efforts
and increase the profitability and lifetime value of each
customer. Boots is also considering providing access to loyalty
information through the MicroStrategy Web interface to external
parties in its supply chain.
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MicroStrategy UK Signs Reseller Agreement with Kognitio |
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New agreement to combine industry leading BI platform with
software and services expertise MicroStrategy UK, a leading
provider of business intelligence software, today announced that
it has signed a reseller agreement with Kognitio, a specialist
BI and data migration software and services company. Through this alliance, Kognitio will combine MicroStrategy's business intelligence reporting with Kognitio's powerful and scalable analytical database, WX2. Organisations will be able to analyse multi-billion row data sets within seconds, as opposed to hours or days, and deliver results effectively to a wide range of users, enabling enhanced data-driven decision-making for key operational activities. The Kognitio WX2 analytical database delivers fast, direct responses from queries run on large volumes of data, giving up to a 60x improvement in query times when compared to large-scale, highly-tuned systems running standard relational databases. MicroStrategy's flexible reporting complements WX2 by empowering business users to create and refine their own web-based reports on query results, without IT involvement, and move between related scorecards and dashboards, dramatically reducing the report development cycle. |
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