AutoMate Inc. Partners with MicroStrategy as Systems Integrator
12 August 1998
AutoMate Inc. Partners with MicroStrategy in Systems Integrator Agreement
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Aug. 11, 1998--
Partnership Provides Automotive and Consumer Goods
Clients with Fully Integrated Decision Support and
Information Broadcasting Systems
AutoMate Incorporated, a leading New England developer of data warehouses and executive information systems for the automotive and consumer goods industries, announced today that it has joined the MicroStrategy DSS Partners Program as a Systems Integrator.
Through its partnership with MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of mission-critical decision support systems (DSS), AutoMate integrates the robust functionality of MicroStrategy's DSS Suite with StrikeForce(tm), its comprehensive end-to-end data warehousing solution. StrikeForce(tm) provides a multi-skilled I/S team that speeds deployment and reduces project costs of enterprise application development. This hands-on, team-based solution integrates planning, design and implementation with industry leading software products, to successfully develop a client data warehouse project. The StrikeForce solution will now also offer the unique information broadcasting capabilities of MicroStrategy's recently announced DSS Broadcaster(tm), the industry's first broadcast server.
StrikeForce brings AutoMate's Rapid Application Development Team, an experienced group of accomplished Fortune 500 I/S and business professionals, together with MicroStrategy's award-winning DSS Suite. The combination provides clients with powerful, customized enterprise-wide decision support systems that allow them to conduct sophisticated business analyses against large stores of data. These analyses enable end users to make better business decisions concerning such issues as inventory control, customer preferences, and vendor performance.
StrikeForce Integrates Revolutionary Information Broadcasting Capabilities
With the arrival of MicroStrategy's DSS Broadcaster, AutoMate's data warehousing solutions also include the ability to provide information broadcasting capabilities to its customers. This revolutionary new technology enables organizations to extend access to critical business data to remote users, customers, and vendors via e-mail, fax machines, pagers and mobile phones. Using DSS Broadcaster, users can have custom reports, such as vendor scorecards, supply chain performance vs. contractual vendor performance metrics, and "early warning" alerts, automatically distributed to them through a specified channel. DSS Broadcaster fully integrates into MicroStrategy's powerful ROLAP architecture, allowing the StrikeForce team to provide clients with a cutting-edge business solution.
A T Cross Benefits from Partnership's DSS and EIS Implementations
The benefits of the AutoMate-MicroStrategy partnership are already being realized at A T Cross Company, makers of fine writing instruments. Using MicroStrategy's robust and scalable decision support software, AutoMate's Rapid Application Development Team has designed a highly innovative point-of-sale application for A T Cross. The application also features a customized EIS that delivers vital data to key executives in the sales, marketing, and supply chain groups.
In addition to the point-of-sale application, AutoMate and MicroStrategy are collaborating on a Web-enabled Enterprise Decision System at A T Cross, linking key sales offices, manufacturing, and distribution sites in the US and Europe. AutoMate will provide system design, development and implementation assistance, creating a corporate data warehouse that enables both local and worldwide access to mission-critical information. Taking full advantage of MicroStrategy's flexible, full-featured software, the system will deliver native language interfaces for each subsidiary and support of local, Euro, and US currencies. Also included are AutoMate's technical architecture design and implementation services, hardware and software installation, and application administration support.
"AutoMate's systems integrator partnership with MicroStrategy leverages our `best-in-class' approach to system development," said Rob Halsall, president of AutoMate. "While our competitive pricing structure brings value to a company's bottom line, it is our experienced staff and integration of MicroStrategy's state-of-the-art products that enable the development of breakthrough applications essential to corporate success. We provide companies with a flexible platform for adjusting to today's dynamic business conditions."
"As a member of MicroStrategy's DSS Partners Program, AutoMate is one of the first systems integrators to employ an Information Broadcast Server as a critical component of its data warehousing solution," said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. "DSS Broadcaster provides AutoMate clients with an active data warehousing solution that increases employee efficiency and disseminates vital business information throughout all levels of the enterprise. Adding DSS Broadcaster to MicroStrategy's proven ROLAP architecture provides AutoMate's StrikeForce team with innovative DSS technology that maximizes the value of the data warehouse."
About AutoMate
AutoMate is a skilled provider of enterprise decision support system ("DSS") software and services. AutoMate's portfolio of products and services enable creation of large-scale relational databases, specialized Data Warehouses and Executive Information Systems for such diverse industries as retailers, automotive parts manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer-packaged goods businesses. With the power to query and analyze even the most granular transaction data, extension of these applications across an entire business enterprise creates a single, interactive method for deployment and analysis of timely, mission-critical information.
AutoMate further extends availability of business data beyond internal analysis and reporting, engaging remote users, customers, and vendors via the Internet, e-mail, telephone, pagers and fax. Actively distributing highly personalized business data and analysis through a broad range of devices, these business intelligence systems become a powerful aide to effective decision making in the global marketplace.
For more information, please visit AutoMate's Web site: www.automate-consulting.com.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise decision support system ("DSS") software and related services. MicroStrategy's suite of products ("DSS Suite") enables both active and passive delivery of information from large-scale databases, providing Global 2000 enterprise user communities with timely answers to mission-critical questions.
MicroStrategy's decision support platform enables users to query and analyze the most detailed, transaction-level databases, turning data into business intelligence. In addition to supporting internal enterprise users, MicroStrategy's products extend DSS beyond corporate boundaries to customers, partners and supply chain constituencies through a broad range of pull and push technology such as the Internet, e-mail, telephones, pagers and other wireless communications devices. MicroStrategy also offers a comprehensive set of consulting, training and support services for its customers and partners.
For more information, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site: www.strategy.com.
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