Microstrategy Swaps With NCR

This week, NCR and MicroStrategy announced a joint marketing and technology transfer agreement. NCR will resell MicroStrategy's business intelligence (BI) suite, and MicroStrategy will assume development of NCR's TeraCube, rolling the technology into MicroStrategy's BI suite. Both companies will push Strategy.com, MicroStrategy's online information provider service. In doing this, NCR unloads a costly development effort, while gaining a BI solution for its data warehouse (DW) deals. MicroStrategy gains another channel, particularly into DW sites. MicroStrategy's technology (along with Strategy.com) will also enable NCR to offer outsourced analytical services. For details, connect with http://www.metagroup.com/.

Above is a research trend written by META Group Application Delivery Strategies Program Director Mark A. Smith. Mark A. Smith is an authority in analytic applications and related areas of business performance management such as online analytical processing (OLAP), enterprise reporting, information portals, and data mining. He also covers Web-enabled solutions, tools, frameworks, and architectures to access enterprise information, including data warehouses, ERP/ERM, and OLAP servers. Prior to joining META Group in May 1999, Mr. Smith was director of product marketing and product management at WhiteLight Systems and held management-level positions in marketing and development for AlphaBlox, InfoSpace/Viador, Oracle, and IRI Software. He has led development and marketing of such technologies as Web-based query and OLAP tools, component-based frameworks, ERP-based ETML tools, and interactive geographic analytic components. Mr. Smith attended several institutions for an advanced degree in Computer Science.