MicroStrategy UK Signs Reseller Agreement with Kognitio

MicroStrategy UK and Kognitio have joined forces to offer business intelligence reporting tools with Kognitio's powerful and scalable analytical database, WX2. The solution is well suited for enterprises with demanding BI requirements, such as those in retail, healthcare, telecommunications and financial services

Marlow, United Kingdom (PRWEB) May 23, 2006 -— MicroStrategy UK, a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Kognitio, a leading provider of solutions to business problems that require acquisition, rationalization and analysis of both large and complex data.

Through this alliance, Kognitio will combine MicroStrategy’s business intelligence reporting with Kognitio’s powerful and scalable analytical database, WX2. Organisations will be able to analyse multi-billion row data sets within seconds, as opposed to hours or days, and deliver results effectively to a wide range of users, enabling enhanced data-driven decision-making for key operational activities.

The Kognitio WX2 analytical database delivers fast, direct responses from queries run on large volumes of data, giving up to a 60x improvement in query times when compared to large-scale, highly-tuned systems running standard relational databases. MicroStrategy’s flexible reporting complements WX2 by empowering business users to create and refine their own web-based reports on query results, without IT involvement, and move between related scorecards and dashboards, dramatically reducing the report development cycle.

“Kognitio is pleased to expand its long-standing relationship with MicroStrategy,” commented Roger Llewellyn, managing director, Kognitio. “Together, MicroStrategy’s flexible reporting platform and Kognitio’s fast and highly scalable analytical database are well-suited for enterprises with demanding BI requirements, such as those in retail, healthcare, telecommunications and financial services.”

“The synergies between Kognitio and MicroStrategy will enable greater insights to be delivered more effectively and efficiently to a wider range of users within an organisation,” explained Tony Bethell, UK General Manager, MicroStrategy. “Performance and scalability are vital to today’s data-rich organisations and this alliance will deliver greater visibility into their operations for improved decision-making.”

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 advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, 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.

About Kognitio

Kognitio is an innovative, technology-rich company, providing leading-edge solutions to business problems that require the acquisition, rationalisation and analysis of large or complex data.

Kognitio’s offering is centred around three areas: WX2, the fastest and most scalable analytical database on the market, managed services and data migration expertise. All three areas are complemented by an extensive professional services team helping to ensure businesses gain competitive advantage from their data.

With its industry-leading analytical database offering, WX2, Kognitio is able to turn a company's raw data into valuable business insight fast, empowering its customers to realise comprehensive answers to critical business questions.

Kognitio’s managed services model allows its customers to focus on running their businesses and increasing the bottom line. By also adopting Kognitio’s outsourced approach, customers are able to reduce start-up time and costs, as well as avoid expensive product acquisition costs.

With a strong specialisation in the insurance (life and pensions) as well as financial services, Kognitio’s data migration services help companies to provide lower risk and lower cost solutions to companies that are rationalising and consolidating operational platforms. Kognitio has the largest independent migration services team in the UK.

Headquartered in Marlow, UK, Kognitio delivers competitive advantage to its clients in various industries, including telecommunications (BT, ntl:), the financial sector (Marks and Spencer Money, Norwich Union, Prudential) and utilities (Scottish Power). For more information, visit the Kognitio website at www.kognitio.com, call +44 (0)1628 400 000.

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