Cornerstone Concepts and MicroStrategy Partner to 'Consumerize' the Data Warehouse; MicroStrategy's 4.0 Product Line Opens the Data Warehouse to the Enterprise and Beyond.LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1996--Cornerstone Concepts, a leading consulting organization providing comprehensive business solutions to the Telecommunications Industry, today announced their enthusiastic support of MicroStrategy's high-end 4.0 product suite. As a VAR partner, Cornerstone will now offer MicroStrategy's new 4.0 line of products, providing companies and individuals with the potential to access and analyze information from a data warehouse, at any time and from any place. "With the release of the 4.0 product line, MicroStrategy once again remains in the forefront of the industry, bringing powerful multi-dimensional analysis capabilities to the end-user. Features like cost-based query governing, robust caching options, the integration of a three-tier report writer, drill everywhere, drill governing, and enhanced graph and report formatting, add immediate value to companies building data warehouse and decision support applications," said Joe Reese, President of Cornerstone Concepts. "MicroStrategy has once again made Cornerstone's task of providing business solutions through the use of new technology a reality." As with previous versions of MicroStrategy's awarding winning ROLAP See OLAP. engine, the 4.0 product line provides exceptional support for very large databases (VLDBs), and can easily handle VLDBs that are measured in terabytes. "In delivering business critical solutions to the Telecommunications Industry, Cornerstone has found MicroStrategy's DSS Agent to provide the most flexibility and scalability of any tool on the market," said Reese. "Leveraging the power of each RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database , MicroStrategy's products integrate easily into our clients' existing IS infrastructure." "MicroStrategy has worked hard to build the most scaleable and powerful OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. architecture," said Sanju K. Bansal, MicroStrategy's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "We are excited that Cornerstone will be able to leverage our technology to deliver decision support solutions to its customers around the world." About MicroStrategy MicroStrategy is the leading provider of enterprise decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses. As the Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy was the first vendor to deliver high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from relational databases without requiring any proprietary storage structures. In addition, MicroStrategy has engineered many data warehousing breakthroughs: intelligent agents; LDB drivers; a dynamic, multi-pass SQL parsing engine; data warehouse monitoring tools; a graphical metadata population interface; an off-the-shelf, object-based decision support interface; and most recently, OLAP over the world wide web. The industry has recognized MicroStrategy by bestowing upon it many awards including the KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and the DP&D Database Dozen, as well as recognizing MicroStrategy's client applications as finalists in the RealWare awards and Best Practices awards. MicroStrategy customers include industry leaders like Kmart, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , Glaxo Wellcome, Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , USAA USAA United Services Automobile Association USAA Urban Superintendents Association of America USAA United States Achievement Academy USAA United States Arbitration Act of 1925 USAA United States Axemen's Association USAA United States Air-Table-Hockey Association , Sara Lee Direct, Victoria's Secret and Woolworth's. More information about MicroStrategy can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.strategy.com/ or by calling 800/927-1868. About Cornerstone Concepts Cornerstone Concepts is a leading consulting organization which provides comprehensive business solutions to the Telecommunications Industry. Cornerstone professionals possess a broad background in the analysis, design, development, implementation, management and support of both OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing & OLAP multi-platform, multi-million dollar systems. They are experts in DSS technology and consult organizations that are evaluating ROLAP tools and infrastructure requirements, creating their first DSS Prototype, or designing and implementing an enterprise wide DSS System. For more information about Cornerstone Concepts, call 303/517-2820. CONTACT: Cornerstone Concepts Tracy Decker, 303/517-2820 td_decker@msn.com |
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