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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