MicroStrategy Honored with Gold Stevie® Awards at 2014 American Business Awards
Wins Gold in Business-to-Business Products, Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution categories
TYSONS CORNER, Va., Sept. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced that it received two gold Stevie® Awards -- in the Business-to-Business Products category and in the Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution category -- for its innovative self-service analytics solution, MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop™, at the 12th annual American Business Awards in San Francisco. In addition, MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop earned a silver Stevie award in the Big Data Solution category, a new Stevie award category for 2014. The Stevie® Awards, as they are commonly known, are among the nation's premier business awards, recognizing achievements by public, private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations.
"We are honored to be recognized by The American Business Awards," said Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "These awards further validate our commitment to providing business users with powerful, intuitive tools to derive valuable insights from data, empowering them to making data-driven decisions in every organization at every level."
MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop is an innovative self-service application that enables instant data access and exploration through interactive visualizations. It is a free, user-friendly data discovery tool that empowers business users to analyze and understand data, without specialized expertise, and easily share insights with others. After a quick, simple download and installation process, users can create stunning visualizations and data-driven stories in minutes. The company released the standalone product in late 2013 as part of its commitment to making powerful visual analytics accessible to a wider audience. To download MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop for free: http://www.microstrategy.com/us/free/desktop.
More than 3,300 entries were submitted to The 2014 American Business Awards and more than 240 executives nationwide participated in judging to determine this year's Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners.
Winners of the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products were determined by more than 57,000 votes in July and August and the trophies were presented to winners during a gala banquet on Friday, September 12 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. For more information about the American Business Awards, visit http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2941_24921.cfm
Additional information:
- Press release about the American Business Awards ceremony: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12168783.htm
- Press release about the People's Choice Awards: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08/prweb12105689.htm
- Video of MicroStrategy accepting the Best New Business-to-Business Product of the year and People's Choice Award for the Best Big Data Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHbK_rmVUM&index=41&list=PLxZrTaLFgyEKDsHI_TsRtO0IhEwfIf3-6
- Video of MicroStrategy accepting the Gold Stevie Award and People's Choice Award for Best New Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyI04uxdP4g&index=32&list=PLxZrTaLFgyEKDsHI_TsRtO0IhEwfIf3-6
- Photo of MicroStrategy Manager for Product Marketing Vijay Anand accepting the gold award: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevieawards/15229902055/in/set-72157647151823278/
- Photo of the MicroStrategy team after the American Business Awards ceremony: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevieawards/15227032542/in/set-72157647151823278
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. A fifth program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, will debut this year. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The Company's mission is to provide the most flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly analytics and identity management platforms, offered either on premises or in the cloud.
The MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight via reports, dashboards, ad-hoc advanced analytics, and powerful data visualizations. MicroStrategy Mobile™ extends that platform to enable organizations to rapidly build information-rich applications that combine multimedia, transactions, analytics, and custom workflows, delivered on mobile devices. The MicroStrategy Identity Platform™ (branded as MicroStrategy Usher™) provides organizations the ability to develop a secure mobile app for identity and credentials. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Analytics Platform, MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy Identity Platform, and MicroStrategy Usher are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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