MicroStrategy's Free Reporting Package Provides Critical Business Insights from SAP BW

MCLEAN, Va., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that its free reporting software package, MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, provides seamless access to SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) data. SAP BW is an online analytical processing system and data warehouse.

MicroStrategy Reporting Suite enables users to develop operational and analytical reports from SAP BW data and non-SAP data from an integrated BI interface. With MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, business users and IT professionals can quickly access SAP BW data to perform statistical and advanced analyses, run performance scorecards, and drill to investigate details, all from the same tool. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite extends SAP BW data analysis to more users, with its full-featured, intuitive interface and easy-to-use reports.

"MicroStrategy 9 brings to the table a range of methods to integrate with SAP, from supporting robust reporting, analytics, dashboards, and applications that access SAP BW to integrating BI into SAP Enterprise Portal," said Mark Smith, CEO and EVP of Research, Ventana Research. "MicroStrategy enables the rapid integration and use of existing SAP BW InfoCubes and associated business queries that the user organization might have spent significant time to develop."

With MicroStrategy Reporting Suite for SAP BW, business users are able to:

• Visualize data using graphs and performance scorecards
• Create rankings and time-based comparisons
• Perform a complete range of business calculations and build advanced analytics against SAP BW data
• Schedule reports to run to a personalized history list
• View detailed information in tabular grid reports or visualize simple grid-and-graph dashboards in a single click
• Run MDX queries against SAP BW without writing any code or scripts
• Run and personalize their own reports and analyses against SAP and non-SAP data

"We considered many BI products and found that MicroStrategy's platform easily integrated with our SAP BW system," said Luis Sanches, Controller, Grupo Media Capital.  Roberto Costa, Director of Control Management of Grupo Media Capital, added, "The MicroStrategy platform has streamlined the management of business information for us, improving data comprehension and providing immediate access to information by month, product, and/or business unit, with a simple click of the mouse."  

"We're currently using MicroStrategy for reporting and analysis of our sales and marketing data stored in SAP BW, and we plan to expand to supply chain monitoring and financial analysis next," said Santiago Allande, Director of Systems and Processes, FAMIQ.  "MicroStrategy's native connections to SAP BW and flexibility to connect to a relational model, combined with the positive experience our end users have with MicroStrategy, makes this an excellent solution for us."

MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is available via a free download and the license is perpetual, providing Web-based reporting of SAP BW data for up to 100 users at no charge.  Free online training, free online support, and other free resources help to ensure rapid development and deployment.  For more details, and to try MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, visit www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware/sapbw.

"MicroStrategy's BI platform is certified under the SAP Powered by NetWeaver™ program, which helps customers leverage their existing investments in SAP to build successful business intelligence applications," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. "MicroStrategy Reporting Suite provides a user-friendly interface for business users to quickly uncover actionable insights from SAP BW data."  

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology.  MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day.  Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its website, http://www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, and MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform 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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SOURCE MicroStrategy Incorporated

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