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1. What is MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server is a software product that monitors and delivers individualized information to users via email, web portals, and wireless devices such as PDAs, pagers, and phones. Through a easy-to-use web page, users specify what information they want, when and how they want to receive it.

2. What are the business benefits of MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server provides an easy and inexpensive way to send corporate information to employees, partners and customers. As a result, decision-makers have the information they need to maximize revenue generation and streamline business processes that cut operating costs.

3. Why do businesses need to send information out to users proactively?
People do not have time to search through information to identify information that requires immediate action. An intelligent alerting system understands and constantly monitors the information users need, and delivers information only when users need it. Users save time and take action when required.

4. What is the Information Radar?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server extends your BI system to automatically deliver business critical information regularly or event based directly to your business users. It also allows the creation of personalized business rules that will alert end users of change in business conditions. In this case the BI system acts like a personalized Information Radar that takes the burden off the user to stay in sync with all the ever changing business parameters.

5. How do users receive only information that they want?
Through an easy-to-use subscription web page, users specify what information they want. Personalization options include language choices and specific information criteria such as certain products, customers, geography or time. Using this user profile, MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server sends only the information that the user has requested.

6. Can users unsubscribe?
Yes, users can switch on and off their own information delivery subscriptions.

7. Can users be automatically sent information without their input?
Yes. Administrators can set Administrators can also set up some ‘non-optional’ informationusers to automatically receive information without any user actions delivery so that everyone receives the informationin accordance with their job responsibilities or manager requests. . As a result, users can obtain information without having to wait for IT to develop the reports.

8. How does the MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server support enterprise-wide, mission-critical applications?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server's world-class clustering and fail-over ensures support for mission-critical 24x7 systems. Rigorous in-house testing has proven that Narrowcast Server can personalize and deliver millions of messages a day. The system tracks fail-over down to each message.

9. What languages does MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server support?
The following languages are supported by MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server: English (US), English (UK), Spanish, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (simplified). MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server also allows organizations to quickly add support for other languages.

10. Can MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server functionality be incorporated into other applications?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server can be integrated into any application in order to incorporate proactive information delivery functionality. Through a Software Development Kit that includes sample code, businesses can easily add new information sources, file formats, devices and email types.

11. How long does it take to set up MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server?
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server installs in minutes, and automatically presents a wizard to help administrators through the setup. Within an hour, the installation and setup are completed.