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The Importance of Security to Mitigate Risk
How do organizations avoid the compromised position of unsecure data when integrating data between systems during data warehousing, data migration, system consolidation or synchronization projects? There are four major components of security that an organization should consider when initiating a project to integrate sensitive information: authentication, authorization, auditability and data protection. [28 February 2005]
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Q&A: Informatica CEO on Data Integration Trends
After 20 years with database giant Oracle Corp., Sohaib Abbasi took the helm as CEO at Informatica Corp. last July. Abbasi inherits a company that has struggled to complete the transition from ETL powerhouse to data-integration specialist. What’s more, even though Informatica leads the ETL space in most market research surveys, the company has sometimes been out-marketed by its foremost data-integration competitor, according to one prominent analyst. [28 February 2005]
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Forrester Research: Enterprise ETL
According to the report's executive summary, "As no surprise, Ascential and Informatica are still the technology leaders, with Business Objects, DataMirror, Oracle, and SAS trailing. However, the research uncovered a few surprises. ETL scalability is higher, yet more attainable. Vendors provide rich connectivity options, but users employ very little of it. And collaboration is driving changes in ETL development tools and best practices." [28 February 2005]
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MicroStrategy Wins $3 Million Contract with European Medicines Agency
More than 40,000 users including regulators, pharmaceutical companies and health care professionals analyze safety information for drugs before and after they are introduced to the market. The MicroStrategy reporting and analysis applications will be used for the EudraVigilance database and will access pharmacovigilance data residing in an Oracle(R) data warehouse. [28 February 2005]
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MicroStrategy 8 Receives SAP(R) BI Warehouse (BW) Certification
Using MicroStrategy 8, business users can intuitively and easily report, analyze, and monitor data contained in SAP BW data marts. Users can also combine data from multiple SAP and non-SAP sources in scorecards, dashboards, and reports. With MicroStrategy's advanced information distribution and collaboration features, business users can create, share, and subscribe to information alerts. Additionally, MicroStrategy 8 provides high performance reporting for SAP users through the use of advanced caching and report scheduling features. [28 February 2005]
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MicroStrategy 8 Praised by Alliance Partners
MicroStrategy has announced that its newest product release, MicroStrategy 8, is receiving high praise from MicroStrategy alliance partners. MicroStrategy 8 provides significant enhancements for business decision making with improved access to data, an easy-to-use Web interface and seamless integration of reporting, analysis and business performance monitoring. [28 February 2005]
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Federal Court Finds Business Objects Guilty of Misappropriating MicroStrategy Trade Secrets
A Norfolk, Virginia federal judge has found Business Objects guilty of misappropriating highly confidential MicroStrategy documents. The court has ordered Business Objects to cease and desist from further use of MicroStrategy's trade secrets. [10 September 2004]
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Harvey Jones appoints KID as ProClarity reseller
The ProClarity Analytics Platform provides a component-based approach to building custom business intelligence applications, with all of the functionality exposed via application programming interfaces. With a Web-based multi-tier component object model (COM) architecture, ProClarity supports online analytical processing (OLAP) with its desktop, Web and rich clients, which have common analysis functionality. It is a preferred option for the Microsoft platform, with SQL Server as its analytics server. [10 September 2004]
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First American Corporation’s Interactive Division Selects MicroStrategy’s Software for Extensive Deployment
Interactive Division of The First American Corporation, the nation’s largest data provider, has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ as its business intelligence standard. MicroStrategy was selected over a field of five major business intelligence competitors. MicroStrategy will be adopted for extensive applications involving real estate and lender products and services, including an extranet for more than 30,000 customers. [2 June 2004]
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Cap Gemini Technologies LLC to Resell MicroStrategy Software
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (CGE&Y), a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has formed a strategic alliance with Microstrategy. As a result of this agreement, CGE&Y will more than double the number of consultants trained on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) by mid-2004. Cap Gemini Technologies LLC will also resell MicroStrategy software, allowing CGE&Y to provide a true end-to-end technology solution to clients around the MicroStrategy platform. [26 January 2004]
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MicroStrategy Chosen Over Cognos and Business Objects
LoanPerformance (formerly MIC) is a San Francisco-based research and analytics company that provides data, software, and analytics to the mortgage industry. MicroStrategy was selected over Cognos and Business Objects. [26 January 2004]
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Meredith Corporation Chooses MSTR for Enterprise-Wide Customer Analysis Applications
Meredith Corporation is one of the nation's leading media and marketing companies with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, and interactive and integrated marketing. Together, Meredith media properties reach more than 75 million Americans each month. [26 January 2004]
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MSTR Report Services Wins Praise From BI Systems Integration Specialists
Numerous business intelligence consultants and systems integrators have endorsed MicroStrategy Report Services(TM). MicroStrategy Report Services provides content-rich, user- friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of new ones. [26 January 2004]
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MSTR Certifies on New Teradata Database V2R5.1
In recent testing performed on Teradata Warehouse 7.1 software, the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) worked out-of-the-box, ensuring that customers can run MicroStrategy with Teradata Warehouse 7.1 without making any changes to their analytic applications. New capabilities in the Teradata database provide customers with the ability to store and retrieve large objects, and a User Defined Function (UDF) library that provides programming shortcuts used to customize database functions saving businesses time and money. [26 January 2004]
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MSTR to Analyze Ticket Sales Data
Trenitalia, a subgroup of the Italian State Railroads, has deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to analyse railroad ticket sales data.Trenitalia employees are using the MicroStrategy platform to compare sales information against a variety of indice, such as kilometers travelled, routes, client categories, transportation categories, marketing campaigns, payment methods and times of purchase. They access secure, highly detailed and personalized reports to gain a deeper understanding of Trenitalia's customer base and to monitor loyalty through the types of purchases made. [26 January 2004]
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AutoTrader.com - New Technology to be Deployed to Over 800 Users
Created in 1997, AutoTrader.com is the Internet's leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information Web site."MicroStrategy Report Services provides an easy-to-use, integrated reporting and analytics platform that provides our end-users greater business insight," said Rebecca Watson, Chief Information Officer, of AutoTrader.com. [6 December 2003]
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New 'Report Services' Technology Gaining Momentum
Schultz International, Inc. has selected MicroStrategy Report Services for enterprise- wide reporting and analysis. Headquartered in Atlanta, PRG-Schultz International, Inc. is the world's leading provider of recovery audit services. [26 November 2003]
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UK Financial Services Company Kensington Mortgages Selects MSTR for Business Intelligence
London-based Kensington Mortgages has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform as its business intelligence standard. Kensington Mortgages is a leading UK specialist mortgage lender. It provides mortgages to borrowers who generally do not conform to the underwriting criteria of traditional suppliers of mortgages in the UK, such as the self-employed, contractors, older borrowers, those who require larger loans and those with an adverse credit history. [21 November 2003]
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MSTR Unveils Breakthrough Business Intelligence Reporting Technology
In a milestone for the industry, MicroStrategy announced the release of a breakthrough business intelligence reporting technology, MicroStrategy Report Services. MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization - to all its employees, customers, and suppliers. It provides content-rich, user- friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of numerous new ones. [21 November 2003]
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MicroStrategy Wins Two 2003 DM Review Readership Awards
MicroStrategy has won two 2003 DM Review Readership Awards for the categories of Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management and Web Analytics and Business Intelligence. MicroStrategy was the only company to win multiple awards. [21 November 2003]
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Telephia Chooses MicroStrategy to Power Client Extranet For Market Intelligence Data
MicroStrategy today announced that Telephia, Inc., the leading provider of marketing and service quality intelligence to the mobile industry, has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to power its client portal for business intelligence. Telephia will utilize the MicroStrategy platform to anchor its extranet, which provides marketing and service quality data to wireless carriers. [27 October 2003]
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Patterson Dental Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy Platform for Sales Analysis & Reporting
Patterson Dental Supply Inc., which is growing significantly faster than its market, has the largest direct sales force in the industry, totaling over 1,300 sales representatives and equipment/software specialists serving the United States and Canada. [20 October 2003]
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Leading Global Retailer METRO Group Deploys MicroStrategy Platform Enterprise-Wide
MicroStrategy, today announced that the fifth-largest global retailer, METRO Group, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) enterprise-wide. [13 October 2003]
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MSTR and IBM to Present 'The Evolution to Enterprise-Scale Business Intelligence'
MicroStrategy today announced that it will co-sponsor an executive seminar series with IBM this fall. The seminar series will focus on the decision to deploy business intelligence on an enterprise scale, the architectural requirements of such a deployment and the process for integrating business intelligence into an organization. Executives in attendance will have the opportunity to hear presentations by featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., MicroStrategy and IBM [8 October 2003]
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MicroStrategy and CRS Retail Systems Enter Strategic Alliance
MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced a strategic alliance with CRS Retail Systems, Inc. CRS Retail Systems provides retail management software, hardware, and services to help its customers drive sales, improve customer service, and reduce operating costs, all with more ease and flexibility. With more than 100,000 in-store systems installed in 32 countries and 10 languages, CRS is a trusted leader in the retail industry. [6 October 2003]
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Gartner Report: MicroStrategy Overall Rating - Promising
MicroStrategy has made significant steps toward getting things back on track. With strong technology, good technical support, healthier financials and an improving organization, MicroStrategy is in a position to close a difficult chapter in its history and is positioned to re-emerge as a market leader. Overall, we rate MicroStrategy as "promising." [17 July 2003]
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World Class BI award goes to Tennessee
The state of Tennessee has been awarded one of the world’s top business intelligence awards for its financial data warehouse application - the Financial Data Access System (FDAS). It won a DM Review World Class Solution Award for its MicroStrategy-based business intelligence application (www.dmreview.com/wcs). [9 June 2003]
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Slash costs by using one tool to cover the five styles of BI
Using one tool that integrates all five styles of business intelligence (BI) results in lower total cost of ownership (TCO), ease of integration, reduced need for training, improved load balancing and tighter security.Charl Barnard, MicroStrategy GM in South Africa, says IT departments are increasingly asking for a single BI platform with the infrastructure to deliver the right reporting and analysis for every user. [5 June 2003]
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eBay chooses MicroStrategy for enterprise BI
eBay, the world's most successful online auction facility and one of the bellwethers of e-business, has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to analyse the ongoing performance of the many categories of products and services for sale on its websites. [2 June 2003]
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MicroStrategy achieves fifth straight quarter of profitability
MicroStrategy has reported its fifth consecutive quarter of profitability and earnings of $0,05 per share on a diluted basis for its first quarter ended March 31, 2003. Licence revenue rose 14% from the first quarter of the 2002 fiscal year. First-quarter 2003 revenues were $37,4 million versus $42 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and $35,7 million in the first quarter of 2002. First-quarter 2003 licence revenues were $16,5 million versus $20,5 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and $14,5 million in the first quarter of 2002. [15 May 2003]
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MicroStrategy drives Web-based advertising analytics tool
Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy has announced that Encoda Systems, a provider of media management systems, has selected its analytics to deliver enhanced productivity and efficiency to its new media analysis and reporting system. [5 May 2003]
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Retailers gain competitive edge with MicroStrategy
In today’s fiercely aggressive, commoditised environment, retailers are finding it essential to harness corporate information in their drive to deliver real competitive advantage. The demand for business intelligence solutions that enable retailers to store and retrieve enormous amounts of business data has never been greater. Without access to this data, for instance, CRM initiatives based on in-depth customer analytics become a mere pipedream. [30 April 2003]
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UK soft-drinks giant Britvic drops Oracle for MicroStrategy
Britvic Soft Drinks, one of the United Kingdom's leading soft drink companies, is using MicroStrategy to anchor its enterprise-wide business intelligence (BI) applications. The applications allow Britvic's 21 UK offices to gain insight into operations and increase profitability. [23 April 2003]
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MicroStrategy continues recovery with sustained growth
One of the few growth markets in the IT arena for the next few years will be the business intelligence (BI) space. This is good news for BI vendors, but the positive news is tempered with the reality that competition will be fiercer and more companies, such as Microsoft, are entering the field. [17 March 2003]
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MicroStrategy in fashion at Benetton
The Benetton Group, one of the world's largest designers and manufacturers of casual apparel and sportswear, is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence (BI) Platform to anchor its Web-based reporting system, the Commercial Reporting project, used to analyse sales and merchandising information. [17 March 2003]
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MicroStrategy wins accolades from industry analysts
MicroStrategy, the business intelligence (BI) application specialist represented in South Africa by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), has shown signs of continuous strength and success locally and internationally with several accolades from and recognition by prominent industry analysts and business publications. [7 Feb 2003]
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MicroStrategy runs on IBM WebSphere Application Server
MicroStrategy, the business intelligence application specialist, has made its newly announced Web Universal product available on IBM's WebSphere Application Server and AIX operating system. [20 December 2002]
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Airline giant ARC serves 10 000 travel agents and carriers with MicroStrategy
Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the airline industry's financial settlement system for the US and Puerto Rico, has helped its 10 000-plus clients to save money and enhance efficiency and productivity by providing them with quick access to transaction data through its MicroStrategy-based extranet application. [20 December 2002]
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KID, CenterField partner to provide consistent metadata
Business intelligence specialists Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) and Centerfield Software have formed a strategic alliance to bring a bundled data integration and business intelligence solution to the local market. [20 December 2002]
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MicroStrategy teams up with Oracle to drive business intelligence apps
MicroStrategy has teamed up with Oracle to provide customers with a platform for building enterprise business intelligence applications. The combined MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters offers a solid foundation for high-performance, reliable applications that can help organisations enhance efficiency, productivity and customer relations. [11 December 2002]
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IBM commits to future of Red Brick
IBM has recommitted itself to the future of the Red Brick data warehouse-specific relational database. This is the word from Peter Huber, consulting IT specialist at IBM in the US. He says the sheer success of Red Brick worldwide - including in South Africa - has ensured that the world's largest IT company will continue to develop and support it. [11 December 2002]
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MicroStrategy goes zero-footprint with Web Universal
MicroStrategy, the business intelligence specialist represented in South Africa by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), has released Web Universal, a zero-footprint scalable Web user interface that runs on Unix, Linux and Windows. [11 December 2002]
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Consors goes for broke with MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, the business intelligence application specialist represented in South Africa by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), has announced that Consors Discount Broker is using the MicroStrategy platform to anchor its global analysis platform. [22 November 2002]
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New MicroStrategy platform meets US financial reporting mandates
MicroStrategy has unveiled a new version (7.2.1) of its MicroStrategy 7i platform designed specifically to meet the demanding requirements for financial reporting and analysis imposed on business by US government mandates. [12 September 2002]
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Roche chooses MicroStrategy for sales and profit analysis
Roche Italy has become the second major subsidiary of the Roche Group to choose the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to analyse and distribute data in its operations throughout the country. In July Roche Spain opted for MicroStrategy to analyse and distribute sales and profit information to its employees. [12 September 2002]
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MicroStrategy edges out Cognos, Business Objects at leisure giant Marcus
MicroStrategy has won a three-way shootout at US leisure giant, The Marcus Corporation, beating Cognos and Business Objects to become the group's business intelligence platform. [12 September 2002]
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California Companies Choosing MicroStrategy Software
MicroStrategy(r) Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that in the first half of 2002 it secured 40 new deals in California with companies that will use its MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(tm) to help "drive efficiency, productivity and customer relations." [23 August 2002]
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MicroStrategy's BI platform revamps supply chain processes in retail
With MicroStrategy's BI platform retail businesses can now streamline operations, deepen customer relationships and make better decisions to maximise resources, drive business growth and increase profitability. [9 August 2002]
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MicroStrategy beefs up its BI platform
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has announced that the latest version of MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform will be available in South Africa from March this year. MicroStrategy 7.2 includes a host of new features that enhance the ease-of-use, performance, and security of the software.
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Analytics to go with MicroStrategy's starter kits
MicroStrategy South Africa has announced the local availability of portable analytic starter kits for its Business Intelligence Platform. These starter kits expedite the application deployment process, acting as building blocks for comprehensive customer analysis, sales analysis and Web traffic analysis applications.
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MicroStrategy 7 certified for Oracle9i
Business intelligence analysis tool MicroStrategy 7 has been fully certified to work with Oracle Corporation's Oracle9i database, representing a benchmark validation of the MicroStrategy BI platform.
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MicroStrategy consolidates BI architecture with 7i platform
MicroStrategy, the business intelligence application specialist represented in South Africa by Knowledge Integration Dynamics, has launched its new 7i consolidated architectural platform. Designed to allow enterprises to rapidly deploy multiple business intelligence applications, 7i opens up the enterprise data warehouse to supply chain partners allowing them to access sales and inventory data.
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MOLAP meets its ROLAP Waterloo with MicroStrategy 7i
Multi-dimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) tools have finally met their relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) Waterloo. They have lost their greatest advantage, that of response speed, with the launch of the MicroStrategy version 7i architectural platform which contains an "intelligent caching" functionality, says Charl Barnard, MicroStrategy GM at Knowledge Integration Dynamics, the business intelligence (BI) specialist's representative in South Africa.
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KID improves MicroStrategy support for local users
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) continues to support and enhance its service of MicroStrategy's 7i core business intelligence platform with the launch of Solutions Gallery. The new suite is a collection of 12 industry-specific analytic applications built on MicroStrategy 7i. The applications target customer sales, supply chain, marketing, procurement, risk and fraud analysis, human resources, financial and audit reporting and claims tracking.
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MassDiscounters upgrades and renews KID MicroStrategy licence
Retail giant MassDiscounters, has upgraded and renewed its MicroStrategy business intelligence application, supplied by BI and data warehousing specialists Knowledge Integration Dynamics in a deal clinched at the end of last month.[7 July 2002]
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Yahoo!® Signs agreement To License MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform
The MicroStrategy platform will enable Yahoo! to create customized data analysis tools, vital for the ongoing evaluation of category specific performance. The software will enhance Yahoo!'s ability to track trends for individual retail categories, such as apparel and home and garden. MicroStrategy will also develop a custom analysis package for Yahoo!'s Data Solutions group.[27 June 2002]
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What's new in MicroStrategy 7i?
MicroStrategy 7i is the first integrated business intelligence platform built for the enterprise. The MicroStrategy 7i platform adds a dramatic new dimension of user FUNCTIONALITY to the world class analytical POWER and infrastructural CONTROL previously established by the MicroStrategy 7 architecture. [5 May 2002]
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Ascential Shatters Data Integration Performance Record
Ascential Software Corp., the leader in Information Asset Management (IAM) solutions, today announced that its DataStage XE data integration solution has completed a one terabyte (trillion bytes) bulk load benchmark in 1.4 hours on a 64 CPU system - more than 500 percent faster than competitors' published benchmark results - working under the same parameters of prior benchmarks announced by competitors. [20 February 2002]
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MicroStrategy's add-on applications to boost SA market
A series of foreign developed add-on applications designed for business intelligence tool MicroStrategy will soon become available in this country as part of an initiative spearheaded by Federico Della Cassa, that company's new international partner manager for Greece, Turkey, Malta and Africa. [15 November 2001]
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KID takes business analysis to the Web with MicroStrategy 7
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has announced the local availability of MicroStrategy 7, the latest version of the industry's leading relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) tool.
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IBM to buy Informix Software
This morning at 7am Eastern Time, Informix and IBM jointly announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the assets of Informix Software, Informix Corporation's database business, in a cash transaction valued at $1.0 billion. [24 April 2001]
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ISO Takes Majority Position in Newly Formed Netmap Analytics
To expand the breadth of its claims and fraud-management products, Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has taken a majority investment position in a newly formed company called NetMap Analytics LLC. NetMap Analytics was created by combining the businesses of Alta Analytics of Columbus, Ohio, and NetMap Solutions Pty, Ltd. of Sydney, Australia. [22 March 2001]
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Data Visualisation To Help Combat Fraud
The businesses of NetMap Solutions, Australian provider of data visualisation tools, and Alta Analytics, which owns the US and European rights to NetMap's technology, have been combined in a new global organisation - NetMap Analytics. The new company is primarily focused on helping organisations within Australia, New Zealand, the US and Europe, to discover major fraud. [22 March 2001]
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KID Unveils Solution for Exploiting Web Site Data
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has taken the wraps off a business intelligence solution aimed at helping companies to turn the data gathered in their Web site log files into insights about the online behaviour of their customers.
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KID Launches Data Warehouse Training Course
Business intelligence specialist Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has developed and launched a data warehouse architecture and design training course. The course, run over two days, is aimed at broadening and deepening the knowledge base among the rapidly growing data warehouse user base in South Africa.
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