Conversion Services International, Inc. and MicroStrategy Forge Strategic Alliance
May 05 2004 - 5:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
Conversion Services International, Inc. and MicroStrategy Forge
Strategic Alliance EAST HANOVER, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Conversion Services International, Inc. (CSI - The Center for
Data Warehousing) (BULLETIN BOARD: CSII.OB) ("CSI"), a leading
provider of management consulting, business intelligence and data
warehousing services and solutions for Global 1000 and other
businesses, announced today the formation of a strategic alliance
with MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated , a leading worldwide provider
of business intelligence software. As a result of this agreement,
CSI will offer certified consultants trained on the MicroStrategy
Business Intelligence Platform(TM). CSI will also resell
MicroStrategy software, allowing CSI to provide a true end-to-end
technology solution to clients around the MicroStrategy platform.
Through the alliance, CSI will deliver MicroStrategy's enhanced
scalability to companies that seek to extend their business
intelligence enterprise-wide. According to the two organizations,
the experience and "Best Practices" of CSI combined with the
MicroStrategy platform can help organizations reduce time to market
and implementation costs, while increasing ROI, and allow better
managerial controls across organizations. "For organizations
wishing to leverage extensive information assets that are focused
on extending their business intelligence capabilities to an
enterprise-wide user constituency, MicroStrategy offers exceptional
scalability for delivering business intelligence information assets
while handling very large databases and user populations. Their
customers have experienced significant satisfaction with enterprise
implementations," said Steve Huber, CSI's Vice President and
General Manager. "We're excited to introduce the benefits of
MicroStrategy technology suite to our client base expanding the use
of business intelligence within their organizations and maximizing
the return on their IT investments." "CSI works with companies
interested in deploying business intelligence throughout their
enterprise. Many of these companies now want to expand the scope of
their business intelligence applications to enhance their
operations," said MicroStrategy's Chief Operating Officer Sanju K.
Bansal. "CSI will provide the products and services to allow these
companies to reap the bottom-line benefits of enterprise-wide
information sharing." About Conversion Services International, Inc.
Conversion Services International, Inc. (Symbol CSII), CSI -- The
Center for Data Warehousing, is a leading provider of a new
category of professional services that embraces IT management
consulting, data warehousing, business intelligence consulting and
e-Business solutions. CSI offers an array of products and services
to help companies define, develop and implement the warehousing and
strategic use of both enterprise-wide and specific categories of
strategic data. CSI's current customers include Verizon Wireless,
Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, Merck and Standard &
Poor's. Information about CSI -- The Center for Data Warehousing --
can be found on the web at http://www.csiwhq.com/ or by calling its
corporate headquarters at 888-CSI-5306. About MicroStrategy
Incorporated Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader
in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market.
Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy's
industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their
businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM)
distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help
drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and
revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities
-- excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query
and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web
interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to
cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower
thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the
benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to
customers, partners and suppliers. MicroStrategy has over 2,600
enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe's Home
Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo,
Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy
also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and
application development and platform partners, including IBM,
PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy
is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or
to purchase or demo MicroStrategy's software, visit MicroStrategy's
Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com/. Note on Forward-Looking
Statements Statements contained in this press release, which are
not historical facts, are forward-looking statements as that term
is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements are based largely on current
expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors beyond our control that
could cause actual events and results to differ materially from
these statements. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance
on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date of this release. CSI undertakes no obligation to update
publicly any forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Conversion
Services International, Inc. CONTACT: Mitchell Peipert, Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Conversion Services
International, Inc., +1-973-560-9400, ext. 2088, Web site:
http://www.csiwhq.com/ http://www.microstrategy.com/
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