Company: MicroStrategy Inc.
Company Description: MicroStrategy was founded in 1989 and has grown to become a leading independent public business intelligence software vendor. With direct operations in 26 countries It is a leading global provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and network applications. MicroStrategy recently launched Express, it's first Software as a Service BI offering.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: New Product or Service of the Year - Business-to-Business Products

Nomination Title: MicroStrategy Express

Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 525 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and performance to date:

MicroStrategy Express is an agile BI solution designed to dramatically accelerate and simplify business analytics. It helps organizations deploy web and mobile intelligence applications 20x faster and more cost effectively. Express introduces a paradigm shift in BI, using data discovery technology to place enterprise-caliber analytical capabilities - traditionally the domain of specialized IT functions - in the hands of decision-making executives.

Delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, Express enables business users - regardless of technical skill - to access and explore data independently and develop BI applications without assistance from experts. This creates a new breed of decision-makers: self-reliant business people who can leverage agile solutions to explore and share information on their own.

• Express helps people instantly and securely access data, from spreadsheets and Salesforce.com reports, to Hadoop distributions and cloud or on-premises databases. There is no need to architect data models or write SQL scripts; Express eliminates dependence on IT to develop BI applications.

• Express delivers data discovery capabilities with a large library of powerful data visualizations that enhances comprehension and supports decision-making. Users can easily discover trends, and relationships hidden in the data by defining new metric calculations, zooming into details with filters, color-coding results with thresholds, among other intuitive actions.

• Express lets users design boardroom-quality reports and documents. Pixel-perfect formatting capabilities offer precise control to design professional-looking business reports, KPI dashboards and invoices that incorporate logos, color schemes, text, images and other design elements.

• Express delivers the ability to design mobile intelligence apps without writing a line of code. In today’s mobile-focused business landscape, Express allows organizations to easily deploy branded mobile intelligence and multimedia apps to thousands. Users can now access data anytime and anywhere, using the industry’s # 1 mobile intelligence solution. The iPad’s touch screen and gesture-based interactions delivers a stunning user experience, making this a truly unique product offering.

• Express makes high-scale, personalized information delivery faster and cost effective, while dramatically reducing technical complexity. Any user can setup automated deliveries of personalized reports and dashboards to 10s or 100,000s of people, targeted to individual recipients based on factors like their role, location, or other criteria, without the need for complicated IT projects.

• Sharing and collaborating is simple with Express. Users can highlight areas of their charts, add notes and share with colleagues. They can start discussion threads to share opinions and can engage customers on social networks including Facebook or Twitter.

• Express is the only future-proof solution in the industry that is built on world-class BI technology perfected over 20 years. Express combines the speed and simplicity of a Software-as-a-Service solution with the analytical depth, performance and scalability of an enterprise-grade platform, to help companies ramp up quickly and still meet long term goals.

Only launched in late 2012, Express already supports over 24,000 subscribers from over 100 countries. Developed by MicroStrategy, a global leader in business intelligence technology over the past two decades, Express was recently recognized by eWEEK and the Consumer Electronics Association as one of their top 10 innovative apps to boost work efficiency. With incremental innovations being introduced into the product every month, Express will continue leading the way in agile business intelligence.

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Provide a brief (up to 125 words) biography about the leader(s) of the team that developed this nominated product or service:

Fabrice is Vice President of Program Management and currently manages MicroStrategy’s Cloud SaaS initiatives, the High Performance Program and Strategic Account relationships. He has 9 years of MicroStrategy experience and is co-inventor in five of the company’s patents. Prior to rejoining MicroStrategy, Mr. Martin was COO and Co-Founder of MSIGHTS, a Marketing Results Reporting and Analytics firm.

With over 15 years in the high-tech industry, Mr. Martin has a strong background and expertise in product development, product management, and alliances. He has successfully led teams responsible for launching major new products in use at FORTUNE® Global 500 companies including Carrefour, Verizon, Sprint, SAP and Bank of America.

Fabrice holds a Computer Engineering degree from ITESM CEM in Mexico and an MBA from Georgetown University.

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