News | March 17, 2009

QuantiSense, MicroStrategy Sign BI Solutions Agreement

Source: Innovative Retail Technologies
Atlanta, GA, March 17, 2009 - QuantiSense today announced that it has signed an agreement with MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leader in business intelligence (BI) technology, to jointly market their state-of-the-art BI solution for the retail industry. QuantiSense and MicroStrategy have worked together for many years to deliver best-in-class BI solutions for retailers.

The new retail solution is showcased in a demonstration that features QuantiSense 4.5, powered by MicroStrategy's Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards™. Applying QuantiSense's role-based approach to BI for retail, the demonstration consists of robust dashboards for key retail roles-including buyers, planners, allocators, executives, and store management-as well as QuantiSense Playbooks®, which capture retail best practices and drive users to take immediate action to improve their business.

As part of the agreement, MicroStrategy's worldwide sales team will be equipped to demonstrate QuantiSense's retail BI application, which is built on the powerful MicroStrategy platform. This enhanced collaboration will expand the companies' mutual footprint in Mid-Market and Tier One retail. Joint customers of MicroStrategy and QuantiSense include leading retailers such as Casual Male, Pacific Sunwear, Hallmark Cards, Restoration Hardware, Men's Wearhouse, and Spencer's.

"We are pleased to extend our relationship with QuantiSense," said Sanju Bansal, COO, MicroStrategy. "The integration of MicroStrategy's expressive dashboards with QuantiSense's BI application for retailers will provide customers with valuable insights into their transactional data to make timely, analytically-based business decisions."

"Business Intelligence has emerged as an essential technology for helping retailers make the best possible decisions amidst the tough economic climate, when it's critical to understand consumer demand at a granular level and react quickly to fulfill that demand successfully in every store," said Jeff Buck, CEO, QuantiSense. "The extended relationship presents a valuable opportunity for QuantiSense and MicroStrategy to educate more retailers about how our technologies can improve their businesses by transforming the decision-making of key players."

About MicroStrategy Incorporated
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 and MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards 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 QuantiSense
QuantiSense is the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing applications exclusively for retailers. Customers include Burlington Coat Factory, Casual Male Retail Group, The Guitar Center, Hallmark Cards, Pacific Sunwear, Restoration Hardware, and Spencer's. Implemented in 100 days, the QuantiSense application features a best-practices retail data warehouse, and ETL designed to integrate quickly with retail source systems and any database platform. Users conduct analysis using QuantiSense's packaged analytics, reports, and role-based dashboards tailored for executives, buyers, planners, allocators, and additional roles throughout the retail enterprise. The revolutionary QuantiSense Playbooks® empower retailers with a collection of role-based scenarios and situational analysis to drive process throughout the enterprise and guide users to the appropriate actions every time. To learn more, visit QuantiSense at www.quantisense.com.