Cornerstone Concepts Announces Support for MicroStrategy's DSS Administrator.

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1997--Cornerstone Concepts, Inc., a leading vendor in data warehousing and decision support consulting, today announced its support for MicroStrategy's DSS Administrator.

"We're very excited about the functionality in DSS Administrator and the immediate impact it will have on our clients' applications," said Cornerstone president Joe Reese. "DSS Administrator's powerful monitoring and management capabilities enable DBAs to maintain efficient and up-to-date DSS applications, while taking the guesswork out of system tuning. DSS Administrator enables Cornerstone to provide its clients with decision support systems that are highly tuned and easily managed."

"Cornerstone's extensive work in the telecommunications industry requires products and vendors that deliver scalability and stability," continued Reese. "MicroStrategy has a history of continually providing software that exceeds our clients' expectations. With the release of DSS Administrator, it once again leads the industry by providing the first comprehensive environment for developing, deploying, and administrating data warehouse applications to the enterprise and beyond."

"We are pleased that a leading partner like Cornerstone, with extensive VLDB application development experience, is using DSS Administrator to provide its clients with robust data warehouse solutions," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's chief operating officer. "DSS Administrator enables a data warehousing application to be easily delivered to a large, diverse and dynamic user community. It also encourages information-sharing among users by enabling reports and analyses authored by one user to be transferred to others."

About Cornerstone Concepts

Cornerstone Concepts is a group of seasoned software professionals that have come together to create an organization dedicated to providing comprehensive business solutions through the use of the latest ROLAP technology available. The challenges that organizations face in the implementation of this technology require a unique blend of systems and database design, as well as strong business and analytical skills.

Cornerstone professionals possess backgrounds in the analysis, design, development, implementation, management, support, and training of both OLTP & OLAP multiplatform, multimillion-dollar systems. Our proven success in a variety of hardware and software platforms, with high profile business-critical systems, brings each of our clients the benefit of experience.

More information on Cornerstone Concepts can be found by visiting our web site at: http://www.webcorner.com.

About MicroStrategy, Inc.

MicroStrategy is the leading provider of industrial-strength decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses.

As the Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy has delivered a series of technology breakthroughs including high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from relational databases; VLDB drivers for terabyte-range scalability; a multipass SQL generation engine; OLAP over the World Wide Web; and the first management and monitoring tool for administering VLDB and web-based DSS applications.

MicroStrategy's worldwide customer base includes hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, and it has developed strategic partnerships with value-added resellers and leading software and hardware companies. More information about MicroStrategy can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.strategy.com/ or by calling 1-800-927-1868.

EDITOR'S NOTE: DSS Administrator is a trademark of MicroStrategy. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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