MicroStrategy and Hannaford Bros. Co. selected as finalist for "Best Practices" Award by the Data Warehouse Institute; Web-based Data Warehouse application is honored

Business Wire, June 6, 1996

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1996--MicroStrategy, the largest relational on-line analytical processing (ROLAP) vendor, Thursday announced that a Web-based data warehouse application developed using its DSS Web(tm) product, the industry's first ROLAP interface for the World Wide Web, was selected as a finalist as part of the 1996 Data Warehouse Institute's Best Practices in Data Warehousing program.

Finalists for the Award are chosen based on a combination of factors. Key criteria for selection include applications that illustrate the best ways in which to implement innovative solutions to prevailing business problems. Judges also seek applications that have had a large and measurable impact on a critical area of the business.

"We established this Award program to highlight those companies who represent the best examples of how to do things right when developing the various components necessary to build and access a data warehouse," said Alan Paller, director of the Data Warehouse Institute. "Hannaford Bros. Co. is clearly using MicroStrategy products in a way that is creating a tremendous benefit for it as an organization."

For the Best Practices Award, MicroStrategy was selected as a finalist in the Warehouse on the Web category with its client, Hannaford Bros. Co., a $2.5 billion grocery chain with stores in New England and the Southeast.

Hannaford is implementing a corporate information system which will give all decision makers access to relevant sales, budget and other critical data. Hannaford wanted to deploy its DSS to its stores, but faced significant challenges due to satellite bandwidth limitations and software maintenance concerns.

"DSS Web, with its centralized application management, its low network bandwidth requirements, and its fast response times made store-level decision support possible," said Rich Schilling, project director at Hannaford.

"DSS Web provides our remote users with access to the same reports that our corporate end users have access to. From both a systems perspective and an end-user perspective, DSS Web provides a powerful, fast, and easy-to-support solution for deploying DSS applications."

About MicroStrategy Inc.

MicroStrategy is the leading provider of relational OLAP products and services for developing and accessing enterprise data warehouses. MicroStrategy has been recognized by Database Programming & Design as one of the Database Dozen: 12 companies that define the direction of the database industry.

MicroStrategy was the first vendor to define a decision support object framework introducing intelligent agents and exception-reporting alerts; to develop a logical transparent map between multidimensional views and relational tables; to deliver an off-the-shelf, three-tier, decision support environment; and to provide OLAP functionality over the World Wide Web.

MicroStrategy has the most experience in developing decision support systems on data warehouses exceeding 500 gigabytes. Its DSS Agent product line is widely used by Fortune 1000 corporations worldwide, and in alliances and partnerships with a variety of industry-leading companies.

MicroStrategy has offices in Washington, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, London and Barcelona. Corporate headquarters is located at 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, Va. 22182; Phone: 703/848-8600; Fax: 703/848-8610; Internet: info@strategy.com; World Wide Web: http://www.strategy.com/. -0-

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