MIAMI, Feb. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a
leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, kicks
off its 19th annual user conference today at the Miami Beach
Convention Center. Anyone can watch the live video streams of
the event's keynote presentations at
http://www.microstrategy.com/live, and can join the conversation on
Twitter with the hashtag #MSTRWorld2016.
"Today we kick off our most impressive conference to date
featuring more than 160 distinct sessions and 50 customer speakers,
inspiring keynotes, numerous hands-on workshops, and countless
opportunities to network with our vast ecosystem of partners," said
Michael J. Saylor, Chairman,
President and CEO, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "At this year's
World, we are focusing on empowering our user community. Our
customers will be trained to successfully extract value from big
data, build mobile productivity apps, move their on-premises
analytics to the cloud, and deploy smartphone-based security
applications. World 2016 is a practitioner's heaven for anyone who
is excited about enterprise analytics, mobility, and security, and
I encourage you to join us in Miami."
In recent months, MicroStrategy has made exciting product
announcements about MicroStrategy 10™, its unified platform for
analytics, mobility, and security applications. Throughout
the event, thousands of attendees will hear from MicroStrategy
product experts on how they can leverage version 10.2, the latest
release of MicroStrategy 10, to rapidly build mobile apps and
interactive dashboards, deploy advanced analytics and beautiful
visualizations, and develop powerful new applications on big data.
The educational workshops will enable attendees to get hands-on
experience building cutting-edge analytic applications, and empower
them with practical skills and new knowledge. Additionally,
attendees will get the full story on our pioneering enterprise
software platforms from an impressive lineup of keynote speakers,
customer and partner presenters, and MicroStrategy experts.
MicroStrategy's Customers and Partners Say It Best
- "As we do every year, my team members and I are looking forward
to World," said Ray Zientara,
Business Intelligence Manager at Amica Mutual Insurance. "Our
company promises to be there for our customers and the
MicroStrategy platform helps us deliver on that promise. The
sessions, networking, and information about the future direction of
the products help us to further leverage these powerful business
intelligence tools."
- "My colleagues and I are very excited to come to MicroStrategy
World to share our experiences delivering a dashboard to our
top-level executives at Chevron, one of the world's largest energy
companies," said Debbie Oshman,
Manager, Global Finance IT, Chevron. "I'm looking forward to some
great discussions sharing best practices using MicroStrategy's
dashboarding capabilities for C-level users."
- "In addition to all of the industrial-strength enterprise
features MicroStrategy has always given us, like security, broad
deployability and data collaboration, we are getting a lot of value
from the new 10.2 feature that allows us to connect to previously
unexplored data sources," said Rob
Saenz, Application Support Engineer at Interstate Batteries.
"This has enabled us to quickly get smarter about what's happening
in our business so we can drive for change that matters. I'm
looking forward to sharing our journey at MicroStrategy World this
week."
- "IPC is a 24-country member organization focused on providing
services to our members, and we store data for all tracked postal
traffic in the world," said Bruno
Luis, BI Manager at International Post Corporation. "We
decided to fully migrate our IT systems and, during this process,
acquired MicroStrategy as our analytics platform. We are very happy
with the tool and all its capabilities, and we're excited to come
to MicroStrategy World and share our experience with the
community."
Customers scheduled to present include: 24 Hour Fitness; Ahold;
AIG; Amica Mutual Insurance Company; AstraZeneca; Boston Children's
Hospital; Canadian Institute for Health Information; Catalina;
Cisco Systems; City of Austin;
Domtar; East Coast Metal Distributors; Enova International; Exelon
Corporation; Facebook; Flex; Groupon; Guess?; Herbalife; Higher
One; Huntington National Bank; IMS Health; International Post
Corporation; Interstate Batteries; Jabil Circuit; McCain Foods;
MEDITECH; NBCUniversal; Netflix; Nielsen; OffiSanté; Omega World
Travel; Overstock.com; Parallon; PPL Electric Utilities; Ryder
Systems; Sutter Health; Tapjoy; and Weiler Corporation.
- "Actian is pleased once again to be the Diamond Sponsor of
MicroStrategy World, where we look forward to meeting with
customers and prospects who are interested in extracting value from
their big data investments," said John
Bard, Director of Product Marketing at Actian.
"Participating at World is a terrific way for Actian to reach and
market to customers looking for fast, open, and enterprise-grade
data analytics solutions to transform their business."
- "As a platinum-level sponsor, Pandera is looking forward to
demonstrating our excellence to the MicroStrategy community through
our client presenters and outlining the methods we use to drive
innovative solutions with each client," said Greg Arndall, Managing Partner, Strategy &
Growth, Pandera. "As one of the largest analytical consulting firms
in the country, we need to stay in touch with the user community we
serve and this is a great forum to accomplish exactly that."
- "Data Meaning sees World 2016 as a perfect venue to share our
experience and expertise developing tailored MicroStrategy
solutions for our customers," said Caio
Gouveia, Managing Partner at Data Meaning. "Speaking of
which, we look forward to presenting our design and development
process making the official conference app and can't wait to
connect with industry leaders in Miami."
- "Teradata's thought leadership in the analytic ecosystem and
big data-driven consulting services are an ideal fit for
MicroStrategy and its user communities, and at World 2016, everyone
can learn the powerful benefits of our partnership," said
Sean Slack, Vice President, Global
Alliances, Teradata. "At this event, many of the hundreds of
customers that use and share Teradata and MicroStrategy solutions
can attest to the performance, scalability, and real-time analytic
capabilities this partnership brings at a time when data variety,
volume, and velocity translate to business value and market
differentiators."
Partner sponsors include: Actian Corporation; Amazon Web
Services; Convergence Consulting Group; Cloudera; Data Meaning;
DataFactZ; Datastrong; IDS – Intelligent Data Solutions; InfoCepts;
Invexer Technology; Iolap; Momentum Consulting; Pandera; Paxata;
Pitney Bowes; Project X; Six Degrees Planning; Snowflake Computing;
Southport; Teradata/Claraview;
Visionet Systems; Visual Crossing; Vitara; XeoMatrix; and ZS
Associates.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989,
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of
enterprise software platforms. The Company's mission is to
provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that
are flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly. To learn more,
visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and
Twitter.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 10, and MicroStrategy 10.2 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.
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MicroStrategy Incorporated
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