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MicroStrategy Placed In Visionary Quadrant Of Gartner BI Report

MicroStrategy Inc announced that Gartner Inc has placed it in the visionary quadrant of both the Enterprise Business Intelligence Suites (EBIS) and BI Platform segments of Gartner's 2004 "Magic Quadrants for Business Intelligence"
report.

"We are honored to be positioned so prominently in both the EBIS and BI Platforms Magic Quadrants," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's COO. "We believe inclusion in both business intelligence quadrants highlights MicroStrategy's exceptional ability to support a complete spectrum of business users and a wide variety of reporting and analysis applications from a single, integrated architecture."

Recently, MicroStrategy introduced two new innovative products for business people to access and explore information stored in corporate databases.

• MicroStrategy Report Services allows business users to retrieve information from corporate databases for display in boardroom-quality documents over the web or in email. MicroStrategy Report Services is innovative because business people can link from high-level performance scorecards documents to more detailed information for further investigation, all within the same product.

• MicroStrategy Office allows business users using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, to instantly call up information stored in corporate databases without starting another program.

Using these two products, non-technical business employees can exploit corporate information to make better informed business decisions that ultimately benefit the bottom line.