Raley's Registers Success with MicroStrategy's BI Platform

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that Raley's Supermarkets & Drug Centers has successfully implemented a business intelligence application on version 7.1 of the MicroStrategy 7 platform that has led to improved gross margins of nearly 15 percent. Headquartered in West Sacramento, Raley's is a northern California and Nevada chain of supermarkets that employs more than 18,000 and posted revenues approaching $3 billion last year.

"MicroStrategy 7 is a revolutionary business intelligence platform that solves all of our query and reporting needs -- regardless of the hardware platform we utilize -- and provides our employees with real-time insight into our daily operations for rapid and effective decision-making," said Tom Jones, CIO at Raley's Supermarkets & Drug Centers. "MicroStrategy works with us like a true partner and its technical support and consulting services continue to be outstanding."

Raley's employees are making better business decisions by using MicroStrategy Web daily to perform gross margin analysis, track shipping, examine sales trends, streamline budgeting and eliminate inventory inefficiencies. Key decision-makers rely on the MicroStrategy platform to react to real-time inventory updates and reconcile daily movement with payment out to vendors, resulting in a 99.999 percent match with bookkeeping's figures. "Our category managers and category analysts have an easy-to-use, Web-based interface that helps them to better market, merchandise and price our products at any time of the day," added Jones. "MicroStrategy is helping us to perform our jobs more nimbly and efficiently."

"We are pleased to provide Raley's with an intuitive query and reporting solution that will deliver strategic insight across its enterprise," said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. "This is a perfect example of MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform being adopted by a MicroStrategy customer to solve its business needs and make fast, critical decisions that impact the bottom line."

About Raley's

Raley's Supermarkets & Drug Centers is a northern California, Nevada and New Mexico chain of supermarkets. Headquartered in West Sacramento, CA, Raley's has 97 Superstores, employs more than 18,000 and has revenues approaching $3 billion. Always dedicated to its customers, Raley's is deeply involved in the communities it serves. In the arts, in education and in community service, Raley's is a leader in encouraging strong family values and community responsibility. Food For Families, a non-profit organization directed by Joyce Raley Teel, has contributed more than $10 million to help feed hungry people in the communities served by Raley's.

About MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy is a leading provider of business intelligence software for Global 5000 organizations. Since 1990, the company has specialized in helping businesses transform their extensive operational data into actionable information. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform gives organizations solutions to their query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes insight to users via Web, wireless, and voice. MicroStrategy 7, the company's scalable business intelligence platform, is built specifically for the Internet. Its pure-Web architecture provides the reporting, security, performance, and standards that are critical for deployment over the Web. Within intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions. In extranets, extended enterprises use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

MicroStrategy has approximately 1,100 enterprise-class customers including Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, First Union Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 200 systems integrators, application development, and platform partners including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica, and JD Edwards. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy's software, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

Contact Aaron Radelet, MicroStrategy Incorporated, 703-848-8600, pr_info@microstrategy.com.