Businesses can be empowered to achieve operational efficiency, customer loyalty, and marketing reach through the strategic use of information.
MicroStrategy, a leading global provider of e-business intelligence software and services, offers a platform for intelligent e-business which leverages information across business functions, applications and touch points such as the web, e-mail, phone, pager and fax.
"By extending value-creating insight within and beyond the enterprise, organisations understand and influence the dynamics surrounding customer relations, supply chain, and internal operations," says Donald Stuart, general manager of the MicroStrategy Business Unit at Dimension Data group company SPL.
MicroStrategy's latest offering, MicroStrategy 6 is a comprehensive and flexible platform that addresses the broad spectrum of e-business requirements. Businesses can perform detailed analysis against large data volumes, says Stuart.
"Whether the application is intended for interactive analysis or proactive intelligence delivery, MicroStrategy 6 provides an appropriate interface for meeting the varying requirements of target audiences," he says.
User interfaces for interactive analysis include client-server, web and custom front-ends. Proactive information delivery leverages everyday communication devices such as e-mail, phone, pager, and fax. For mission critical application deployment, tuning and troubleshooting, MicroStrategy 6 offers tools for rapid development and comprehensive management.
The world's first personalised intelligence delivery portal, MicroStrategy InfoCenter, forms part of the MicroStrategy 6 offering, says Stuart.
MicroStrategy's intelligence portal is a single point of entry for information to the enterprise and beyond, he says.
A web-based interface, which allows users to view, subscribe and act upon information services, MicroStrategy InfoCenter is a bridge in the MicroStrategy architecture between the interactive analysis capabilities of MicroStrategy Web and the proactive data dissemination of MicroStrategy Telecaster and MicroStrategy Broadcaster.
By providing users with a central, personalised web site for information access, MicroStrategy InfoCenter enables corporations to create standards for information delivery within the enterprise and beyond, says Stuart.
Its extensible architecture ensures the integration of MicroStrategy InfoCenter's functionality into existing web-based applications such as corporate intranets, supplier extranets or e-business sites.
The MicroStrategy architecture, capped by its MicroStrategy InfoCenter portal, enables all data consumers to receive the right information, via the right means, personalised for their needs and interests, concludes Stuart.
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MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of e-business intelligence software and related services. MicroStrategy's solutions enable both proactive and interactive delivery of information from large-scale databases, providing Global 2000 enterprises a platform for developing solutions that deliver insight and intelligence to their enterprise, supply-chain, and customers.
For more information, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site: http://www.microstrategy.com.
Dimension Data & SPL
Dimension Data Holdings Limited is a global Information Technology Integration corporation based in Sandton, South Africa. The company, which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, has a turnover of approximately US$1.5 billion. The Group has representation on five continents and operates out of 36 countries. The Group has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 98% in turnover and 57% in headline earnings per share over the past 5 years. The Group is focussed on communications/ networking infrastructure and electronic commerce software applications, two of the highest growth sectors of the information economy.
SPL, part of the Dimension Data Group, has long been recognised as a high value IT partner to South African corporations and government. The company focuses on customer management, information management and enterprise systems.