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Shaw Selects Microstrategy As Reporting Standard

MicroStrategy Inc, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that Shaw Industries Inc has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform as its enterprise-wide reporting standard. Shaw Industries, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, is the world's largest manufacturer of carpeting.

"After an in-depth evaluation of many of the competing products in the industry, we selected the MicroStrategy platform for its flexible, userfriendly reporting features, its enterprise scalability and superior analytical capabilities," said Jim McCormick, director of sales administration & market research for Shaw. "With the MicroStrategy platform, we're able to anchor applications that help us gain better insight into our sales and marketing operations to enhance efficiency and improve productivity."

Approximately 1,000 Shaw employees, including sales, marketing and accounting personnel, will perform reporting and analyses of sales and marketing information against a Teradata data warehouse. The company will also be able to more effectively monitor and manage inventory levels in order to improve product sales and profitability.

"Shaw Industries' adoption of MicroStrategy is another example of how critical business intelligence software has become to the success of large corporations," said MicroStrategy's COO Sanju K. Bansal. "The MicroStrategy platform is enabling Shaw's decision makers to gather more timely and accurate information, thus improving marketing and sales operations."

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy's industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities -- excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to: cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.