New Customers, New Employees, New Users Must be Empowered with Industrial-Strength Analytics

Can Your Business Intelligence System Scale as Your Company Grows?

Originally aired: June 24, 2003, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)

Frost and Sullivan, in cooperation with Microstrategy and Ace Hardware, invites you to a complimentary eBroadcast designed to give you the information you need to get the most out of your data warehouse today! Hitting a Wall in your Business Intelligence (BI) Implementation?

Understand the new technologies and architectures necessary for extending  BI to every corner of your organization and plumbing the full depths of your data.

Our eBroadcast will provide you insight into business intelligence applications  that can be utilized to extract valuable business analytics. These analytics supply  your enterprise with the necessary insight to increase productivity and revenue by  better understanding your customers, employees, suppliers and more.

Specifically our eBroadcast will help you:

- Increase profits, reduce costs with high Data and User scale
- Achieve a strong competitive advantage, with enterprise-caliber IT
- Benefit from robust analytical applications,
- Deliver all 5 styles of Business Intelligence to all users

Content-rich, Interactive sessions

- Welcome, Introduction, and Market Trends - Frost & Sullivan
- Customer Case History - Ace Hardware Corporation
- Product Review - Microstrategy
- Q&A Panel - Shoot out your questions and get Quick-fire answers

Click here to link to the event, you will first have to register!

 June 24, 2003, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)

 BI is now undergoing an evolution and is starting to impact companies in profound ways. Much like RDBMS technology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, BI is evolving from a small departmental solution to an enterprise-wide, mission-critical, function. Initial BI apps did not anticipate much growth and are now hitting the limits of their technology, and limiting their competitive advantage.

Learn the evolution from:

• from departmental decision support to mission-critical BI 
• from simple reporting to full analysis
• from analysis to prediction, detection, and risk analysis
• from power analysts only to all workers
• from casual IT to enterprise-caliber IT
• from islands of information to unified information for the enterprise
• from internal information to extranet information

Throughout the 1990s companies have reaped good value from BI. Industry ROI numbers range from impressive 20% to whopping 200%. Successful BI applications will grow: data size, user population, analytics needed, sophistication, mission-criticality. Industrial-strength BI = High Data Scale + High User Scale + Enterprise-caliber IT + Ability to deliver all 5 styles of BI.

Bonus: All registrants will receive a $495 discount towards attendance at any upcoming Frost & Sullivan 2003/2004 Executive Summit (http://www.summits.frost.com/).

Presenters:

Rufus Connell, Industry Business Manager, Frost & Sullivan
Mr. Connell is the Industry Manager for Frost & Sullivan's Information Technology industry research groups. Mr. Connell has authored reports on the following areas: Compact Disc and Optical Disk Drives, Help Desk Tools and Services, Interactive Kiosks (U.S. market), Modems, Desktop Monitors, Internet Service Providers, PC/TV Convergence Products, North American PC Cards, Interactive Kiosks (World market), and Systems Integrators.

In addition to research reports Mr. Connell has contributed to various custom, client-defined studies in a variety of areas including: Interactive Kiosks (End-user and Distribution Trends), U.S. Optical Media Replication Services Markets, CD-ROM Networking Equipment Markets, Management and Connectivity Equipment for Local Area Networks, and Help Desk services provided to Internet Service Providers.

Mr. Connell has written articles for the Frost & Sullivan’s Web site on a monthly basis. Mr. Connell has had articles published regarding developments in the optical storage markets, emerging set top box technologies, developing modem technologies, and other topics.

Brian Smetana, Senior Business Analyst, Ace Hardware Corporation
Brian Smetana has worked in IT for 5 years after receiving his undergraduate degree in Marketing with an emphasis in Computer Science. He worked on the initial efforts to begin a Data Warehouse at Ace when he began and was involved in the tool selection, design, implementation and business applications on the current Teradata Data Warehouse. Brian is a certified Microstrategy Business consultant and currently leads the design and report development for six key applications that involve over 2000 business users. The data warehouse at Ace contains approximately 600 Gig of data, with 2000 users on a 4 node system.

Sanju K. Bansal, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, MicroStrategy Incorporated
Sanju K. Bansal has served as executive vice president and chief operating officer since 1993 and was previously vice president, consulting since joining MicroStrategy in 1990. He has been a member of the board of directors of MicroStrategy since September 1997 and has served as vice chairman since November 2000. Prior to joining MicroStrategy, Mr. Bansal was a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, a worldwide technical and management consulting firm, from 1987 to 1990. Mr. Bansal received an S.B. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University.

MicroStrategy Incorporated Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy's business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations -- in virtually all facets of their operations -- with user- friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 "Editors' Choice" for business intelligence software.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i's configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy's customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,900 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and JD Edwards. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy's software, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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