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Conversion Services International, Inc. and MicroStrategy Forge Strategic Alliance
East Hanover, NJ (May 4, 2004) - Conversion Services International, Inc. (CSI - The Center for Data Warehousing) (OTC 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® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), 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™. 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 Manger. "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 MicroStrategy IncorporatedFounded 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™ 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 www.microstrategy.com.
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