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Announcing MicroStrategy 9 Release 2

MicroStrategy 9 Release 2, the latest software release from MicroStrategy, is a fully integrated BI platform that makes Business Intelligence faster, easier, and more user-friendly. Specific enhancements in the newest release yield significant benefits to MicroStrategy customers, including:

• Higher Performance – work faster and more efficiently
• Faster Deployment of New BI Applications – launch BI applications quickly
• Next Generation Dashboard Applications – more data per dashboard plus faster, larger scale dashboard distribution
• Easier Administration – deliver more BI with less effort

MicroStrategy’s Jump-Start Project and MicroStrategy Health Center are new Business Intelligence offerings for MicroStrategy customers in MicroStrategy 9 Release 2, enabling rapid application development and automatic system upkeep, respectively.

This release builds on the new products and major platform enhancements of the MicroStrategy 9 Platform, which is uniquely engineered for enterprise BI performance and scale. It also serves the rapidly changing business needs of smaller, departmental BI applications. MicroStrategy 9 provides a seamless path to migrate workgroup and departmental BI applications into an integrated enterprise BI operation.

About Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is a set of software systems and practices that helps business people make more informed decisions by providing timely, data-driven answers to their business questions. BI software runs against data stored in data warehouses, operational databases, ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft), and MDX cubes (e.g. Microsoft Analysis Services, SAP BW, and Essbase) and transforms the data into attractive and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports.  

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence provides organizations with greater insights to:

• Enhance cost-efficiency and productivity
• Build stronger customer relationships
• Optimize revenue-generating strategies
• Monitor trends and discover anomalies
• Forecast business opportunities

Why MicroStrategy?

More than one million people worldwide and thousands of leading companies across all industries use MicroStrategy Business Intelligence software every day for better business decisions.

	Gartner: MicroStrategy Positioned in Leader's Quadrant in Latest Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms
	The BI Survey 7: MicroStrategy is the Top Product to Standardize on with 91.3% of Customers Indicating that They Would Select MicroStrategy as Their Enterprise BI Standard
	Ventana Research: “MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 introduces enhanced performance and power to deliver interactive analytics that are easily architected, assembled, and deployed via dashboards and new forms of information applications.”  —Mark Smith, CEO and EVP, Ventana Research
	TDWI: “In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, the ability to quickly deploy new applications is critical.  I am impressed with MicroStrategy's auto-modeling heuristics, which make project setup far easier." —Wayne Eckerson, Director, The Data Warehousing Institute
	BIScorecard: “MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 brings improvements to its in-memory algorithms that improve both real time query performance, load times to OLAP caches, and memory required. While MicroStrategy 9 had excellent data scalability, the latest enhancements allow for more user scalability, even with complex analytic queries.” —Cindi Howson, Founder, BIScorecard

Find out how industry leaders are using MicroStrategy software to manage their business performance.

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Products

MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 includes multiple new performance improvements that enable BI users to work faster and more efficiently. Higher performance is delivered throughout the software suite, including:

• Dashboard response times – up to 10x faster
• Report delivery – 4x faster
• Project creation − 3x faster
• Business answers – 2x faster
• Web performance for end users’ interactions – up to 2x faster
• Administrative tasks – 5x faster
• In-memory performance – 30% faster

Now easier than ever:

• Rapid application development – easier to start with MicroStrategy’s Jump-Start Project and DashboardApps
• Rapid application deployment – easier to architect with auto-modeling heuristics
• Enhanced system performance – easier to operate with automatic system checks

Organizations can start small, for example with MicroStrategy’s free reporting suite, and quickly and easily scale as needs and requirements evolve.

	MicroStrategy WebFast, friendly Web interface. An interactive environment for reporting and analysis through an all-HTML and zero-footprint web client. New! Optimized code for faster reporting and analysis online.	MicroStrategy OfficeDelivers the full power and sophistication of the MicroStrategy industrial-strength business intelligence platform to the Microsoft Office suite.	MicroStrategy MobileAn interactive user interface for monitoring, reporting, and analysis for BlackBerry® devices. New! Parameterized reporting on and subscribing from smartphones.	MicroStrategy Report ServicesDynamic reporting engine delivers all report types, including dashboards, scorecards, financial reports, customer invoices, and operational reports. Pixel Perfect™ and automatic formatting. New! Faster dashboards. Faster large scale distribution.	MicroStrategy MultiSource OptionQuickly and easily deploy BI applications and connect to more databases across the enterprise. Enables users to seamlessly report, analyze, and monitor data across multiple data sources through a single business model.	MicroStrategy Distribution ServicesHigh-volume automated distribution of reports, dashboards, and alerts via email, printers, and file systems on a scheduled basis.	MicroStrategy Reporting SuiteFree! A reporting suite ideal for departments and SMBs, free for up to 100 end users, featuring core MicroStrategy software.
	MicroStrategy Intelligence ServerAn industrial-strength analytical server optimized for enterprise querying, reporting, and OLAP analysis. Enhanced, high-performance SQL Engine with optimized multi-pass SQL generation.	MicroStrategy OLAP ServicesPowerful, scalable in-memory ROLAP. Enables MicroStrategy Web, Office, and Desktop users to perform intuitive OLAP analysis with Intelligent Cubes. New! Faster in-memory, larger cubes, more users. Faster batch cube creation, data compression.	MicroStrategy Object ManagerManages business intelligence applications between development, testing, and production systems. New! Portable metadata functionality for easy migrations from disparate islands of BI into a consolidated enterprise model.	MicroStrategy Command ManagerEnables the creation and execution of text-based commands from a command line and a graphical interface.	MicroStrategy Enterprise ManagerA monitoring tool that provides usage and resource information about the business intelligence environment.	MicroStrategy Integrity ManagerA report comparison tool that provides automated information integrity assurance and regression analysis.	MicroStrategy Health CenterNew! Free standalone utility for MicroStrategy customers that automatically scans all MicroStrategy servers. Enhanced system performance, problem avoidance, improved system uptime, faster issue resolution.
	MicroStrategy DesktopAn integrated development, administration, and run-time business intelligence environment on the personal computing desktop.	MicroStrategy ArchitectA rapid development tool that maps the physical structure of the data warehouse into a logical business model. New! Easier architecting, automatic data model intrepretation.	MicroStrategy Jump-StartNew! More than 30 pre-designed reports and dashboards that can be directly connected to existing databases. Exclusive map widgets and time transformations included!	MicroStrategy SDKExposes the functionality of the MicroStrategy architecture via an open API for customization of the Web interface and integration with third-party applications.

Upcoming Business Intelligence Events

Announcing the MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 Roadshow – Free and Coming Soon to a City Near You!

We’re excited to announce that the MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 Roadshow launches in North America this month and will hit more than 60 cities worladwide. This is your chance to experience firsthand how MicroStrategy is FASTER and EASIER than ever.

• Faster Business Analysis
• Faster Dashboards
• Improved IT and Developer Efficiency
• Faster Development
• Easier Administration
• Better Starting Point for Departments

Business Intelligence Customer Spotlights

Con-way Freight Global Transportation and Supply Chain Management Services Leader Runs Performance Management Applications for Operational Reporting, Business Monitoring, and Forecasting in Sales, Operations, and Finance "Con-way is looking forward to MicroStrategy’s new Health Center product that can provide our administrators peace of mind knowing that system problems can be automatically identified and resolution information would be readily available. The new automated administrative features in MicroStrategy’s latest release will enable our IT personnel to work more efficiently, saving valuable time and resources." —Sean Devine, Vice President Pricing and Engineering of Con-way Freight

Lowe's Companies Leading North American Home Improvement Retailer Employs BI Center of Excellence to Manage Inventory, Improve Margins, Analyze Markets, and Identify Sales Opportunities "The enhanced performance in MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 will allow us to distribute more information to our BI user population in much less time. In our recent tests, we saw a 30% performance improvement for both in-memory BI and our most frequently used dashboard." —Joyce Vonada, SVP IT Business Solutions, Lowe’s Companies

eBay Global Online Marketplace Leader Analyzes Ongoing Performance of the Many Different Categories of Products and Services for Sale on its Web Sites. On Any Given Day, There Are More Than 16 Million Items Listed On eBay Across 27,000 Categories. "We look forward to using MicroStrategy 9 In-memory ROLAP technology to help us improve our user experience with faster response times and to take unnecessary pressure off our Teradata system." —Mark Govostes, Manager of BI Architecture at eBay

Yahoo! Leading Global Provider of Online Products and Services Analyzes Sales, Advertising, and Transactions via Information Dashboards "We were amazed at how much information we could consolidate into one of MicroStrategy's new dashboards. Every day, our executives rely on our information dashboards for a snapshot of our business performance." —Prashanth Narella, Engineering Manager, Data Services at Yahoo! Inc.

AmerisourceBergen Thousands of Users at Leading Pharmaceutical Services Company Report and Analyze Sales, Suppliers, Customers, Supply Chain Management, Finance, and Other Critical Areas in Large Database Environments with Real-Time Analytics	Campbell Soup Company Leading Global Manufacturer and Marketer of Branded Convenience Food Products Leverages MicroStrategy Reporting for Sales, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing Applications
Comcast Leading U.S. Cable Services Provider Uses Management Level Reporting to Improve Operational Efficiencies and Employee Productivity	Yum! Brands Leading Global Quick Service Restaurant Company Analyzes Terabytes of Transactional, Product, Market and Customer Data to Uncover Critical Business Insight Aimed at Improving Promotions, Pricing, and Product Offerings, and Strengthening Customer Relationships