"We have been in business for 20 years, " says Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's chief operating officer.
MicroStrategy is at the intersection of some hot neighborhoods -- the Web, "decision support" and databases.
But MicroStrategy has run up nearly 30% since getting hammered after posting disappointing first-quarter results.
As the Chairman and CEO of publicly-traded MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor has created quite a few jobs.
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MicroStrategy, run out of a striking 17-story Philip Johnson building in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.
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For instance, a retailer might use MicroStrategy to analyze customer purchasing patterns and refine its inventory and pricing.
Now MicroStrategy has just rolled out "DSS Broadcaster" -- a "push technology" product.
MicroStrategy ( MSTR - news - people ), the maker of intelligence software in McLean, Va.
He co-founded business intelligence behemoth MicroStrategy, Inc. ( NSDQ: MSTR) in 1989 and is still its Chairman and CEO.
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The popularity of iPads, iPhones and BlackBerrys may be largely responsible, as MicroStrategy develops and distributes products for those devices.
Both Computer Associates and MicroStrategy had booked revenue prematurely, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission cases at the time.
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They are out in front of the mobile wave described in my earlier interview with MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor.
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The Splice SQL Engine also scales to handle business intelligence and analysis, and works turnkey with tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau.
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But that doesnt mean you want to own shares in MicroStrategy.
As of June 10, 29% of the MicroStrategy shares were sold short.
At trade shows in 1993, MicroStrategy cranked up its sound system so loud that better-known exhibitors, with more salesmen, couldn't make their pitches.
Yes, but for now MicroStrategy's tools (which can run on an Oracle database) allow more detailed analysis of big databases (see box, p. 68).
In 1996 MicroStrategy brought out its first product allowing users, via the Web or an intranet, to query a database without special desktop software.
Those who remember Saylor from the dotcom era are now feeling a little nostalgia, either warm or clammy, depending on whether they owned Microstrategy stock back then.
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As long as you have access to data through some data tool (like Tableau, Spotfire, Pentahoe, Splunk, Microstrategy, Business Object etc), you can download the data into excel to analyze.
OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, a database supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
Saylor didn't sell any stock in MicroStrategy's initial offering.
Then 50 or 100 folks sit at headquarters and use a query engine and tools -- sold by MicroStrategy or its competitors -- to try to extract insights from these huge databases.
The chief executive of Business Intelligence software company Microstrategy is remembered for his flamboyant pronouncements, and sketchy bookkeeping that led to a spectacular corporate crash (and payment to the Securities and Exchange Commission) in the dotcom era.
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