Corporate Express Signs New Deal with MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy 8 Chosen to Replace Current Business Intelligence Installation
McLean, Va. (April 20, 2005) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Corporate Express, one of the world’s largest suppliers of essential office and computer products with 2004 sales of approximately US$ 4.5 billion in North America, has selected MicroStrategy as its enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard and intends to replace its existing installation.
MicroStrategy will enable approximately 2,000 employees to monitor business performance at the corporate and divisional level, receive highly visual dashboards, and perform interactive enterprise reporting and analysis against a 4.5-terabyte Oracle® data warehouse. To make use of MicroStrategy’s true 64-bit architecture, Corporate Express will deploy multiple CPU’s of MicroStrategy on Unix for maximum scalability.
“We selected MicroStrategy over various competing products because it has the most compelling offering in the business intelligence market,” said Gordon Glover, CFO at Corporate Express. “By migrating from our current solution to MicroStrategy, and standardizing all of our applications on one business intelligence platform, our goal is to achieve greater efficiencies and faster access to the information we need. MicroStrategy will be instrumental in providing our user community access to the information they require to make business decisions that makes us more customer-responsive and competitive.”
Corporate Express employees in sales, finance and operations and the entire Corporate Express executive management team will use MicroStrategy to easily drill down into the data and find specific information about customer trends or popular products, and present information in user-friendly, boardroom quality reports. Furthermore, the Corporate Express executive team will receive visually appealing dashboards that convey customer buying trends and enterprise performance at a glance.
“We’re pleased to count Corporate Express as a new MicroStrategy customer,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform is well suited for companies like Corporate Express that have demanding requirements for business intelligence reporting, analysis, and monitoring. Our platform delivers the dashboards, reports, and comprehensive analysis that are critical to their efforts to increase performance and profitability and to be successful in today’s competitive marketplace.”
About Corporate Express, Inc.
Corporate Express, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buhrmann, NV (AEX: BUHR; NYSE: BUH), an international business services and distribution group. Buhrmann is a leading global supplier of office products and graphic systems for the business market. Corporate Express’ product offering includes office and computer supplies, imaging and computer graphics supplies, office furniture, facility supplies, document and print management, desktop software, promotional products, and other similar products. Corporate Express has operations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Through exclusive strategic partnerships, Corporate Express can deliver product to China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. Corporate Express’ North American operations have 183 facilities, including 38 distribution centers, and employs 10,775 people. The Company’s Web site address is www.CorporateExpress.com.
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 the world’s leading organizations make better business decisions every day. Companies use MicroStrategy to transform vast amounts of data into actionable information that enhances their performance, productivity and competitive edge. MicroStrategy’s customers include the top twelve FORTUNE 500 global telecommunications companies, the top eight global pharmaceutical companies, and nearly two-thirds of the top 50 global retailers. MicroStrategy has relationships with systems integrators and technology partners, including IBM, HP, PeopleSoft, Sun, and Teradata. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com
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