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Yahoo! Expands Deployment
Yahoo! employees will use MicroStrategy for valuable insights into marketing
campaigns, online advertising, web traffic, online store activity, search
effectiveness, and other critical business data. MicroStrategy provides robust
reporting and analytical capabilities, scalability for large databases, and
ease-of-use for a diverse user population.
"Working with MicroStrategy for many years, we found that they offer us the
flexibility, scalability, and powerful analytics that we need to support our
growing business intelligence applications. Our employees will be using MicroStrategy to help them make strategic, analytically-based decisions to
improve our business performance."
Laurie Mann, Senior Vice President of Engineering Operations,
Yahoo!
McDonald's Credits BI for Recent Growth
McDonald's established a BI strategy, which it termed "Plan to Win,"
with key metrics centered around place, people, products, and promotions. From
there, McDonald's built standard questions and scorecards for mystery shoppers.
"It's not all about sales... We needed a way to accurately measure the
customer experience. We wanted to review everything from top to bottom
from an internal perspective."
Julio Ortiz, Senior Director of IT Business Intelligence,
McDonald's
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