Yahoo PR NewsWire :: MicroStrategy Unveils MicroStrategy Office
MCLEAN, Va., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy Incorporated today unveiled a new product, MicroStrategy Office(TM), that brings high-value business intelligence technology to users of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. MicroStrategy Office can significantly expand the ranks of an enterprise's knowledge workers who can access enterprise data and enhance their work in all facets of business operations.
"By combining Microsoft Office productivity applications with MicroStrategy's industrial-strength business intelligence platform, companies can now deploy a new spectrum of business intelligence applications," said MicroStrategy's COO Sanju Bansal. "For the first time, average business users will be empowered to serve themselves business information as needed, simply by using the Microsoft Office productivity tools with which they are already so familiar."
"MicroStrategy Office's potential user base is substantial. It enables new kinds of business intelligence applications by opening a wide new window for non-IT workers to enterprise information through the vehicle of the popular Microsoft Office applications," said IDC's Research Manager Dan Vesset. "MicroStrategy Office is likely to provide a significant contribution to the way business people use business intelligence, empowering any Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word user to natively access enterprise-wide data with the necessary consistency, security and scalability."
K-Collector Topics: Knowledge Organisation knowledge work platforms PowerPoint Productivity research Security Yahoo