Systems Integration Giant Tata Infotech Ltd. Forges Alliance with MicroStrategy to Enhance Efficiency and Productivity in Vertical Industries

India-based Tata Infotech to Apply MicroStrategy Business Intelligence to Retail, Banking and Telecommunications Sectors


MUMBAI, November 9, 2001 – Tata Infotech Limited (TIL) has entered into a strategic alliance with MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, that will enable Tata Infotech to implement the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ into industry-specific applications. The prime focus of these applications is to help enhance efficiency and productivity in the retail, banking and telecommunications sectors by enabling more effective information analysis.

Tata Infotech will integrate MicroStrategy 7™ with its proven Business Information Need Analysis (BINA) implementation methodology and will leverage MicroStrategy Web™ as an important component for its Web based analytical reporting solutions. Using MicroStrategy technology, Tata Infotech is already helping a leading Minneapolis-based retail chain quickly and easily provide its users with strategic information to improve decision-making in category management, inventory and profitability management.

“Tata Infotech’s extensive experience in implementing business intelligence solutions for companies across vertical industries, combined with MicroStrategy’s award-winning business intelligence technology, provides organizations with an outstanding solution to their reporting and analysis needs,” said Dr. Nirmal Jain, CEO of Tata Infotech Limited. “Through our alliance with MicroStrategy, we will be able to provide our customers in the retail, banking and telecom industries with state of the art business intelligence solutions that help increase efficiency and overall productivity.”

About Tata Infotech Limited

Tata Infotech Limited (formerly Tata Unisys Limited) is one of the pioneers in India in the field of Information Technology, with an international reputation for being a highly competent systems integrator and solutions provider. To oversee its international operations, Tata Infotech has 12 regional offices in the United States, five in Europe and one each in Australia, Japan and South Africa. Tata Infotech is a part of the Tata Group, which at over $9 billion is the biggest industrial conglomerate in India. Tata Infotech operates out of 4 divisions, namely Systems Integration, Educational Services, Manufacturing and Products, and its revenues in the year 2000-2001 have been US $ 110 million.

With an established track record of more than 5000 projects in 50 countries and its strong commitment to quality processes, Tata Infotech is sure of bringing the winning combination to help your organization to meet your business objectives. Over the past twenty years of operation, Tata Infotech has developed:

  • A large pool of more than 3500 software consultants with skills on a wide variety of domains including Airlines, Reengineering and Migration and platforms (including IBM, Unisys 2200 and Clearpath machines, USAS applications, Application Servers, Development Environments, Configuration Management Tools, etc.)
  • A set of six Delivery centers in India and one in the U.S., each comprehensively equipped with tools, skilled technical manpower and quality systems and processes.
  • Specific expertise in a large number of vertical industry segments, including Banking, Finance, Retails, Telecom, Airlines & Transportation, Government and in horizontal, technology areas such as eCommerce, EAI/Object Technology, Decision Support Systems, Imaging and Workflow Solutions, GIS and Legacy Systems, where specific investments are made to create value propositions for customers.
  • Availability of in-house infrastructure to facilitate projects in these areas
  • A set of systems and procedures that comprehensively satisfy, and are certified to meet, the ISO 9000 and SEI-CMM Level 4 standard and are geared to providing to international customers quality software services using various operating models, including offshore support services.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy's business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimise revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations -- in virtually all facets of their operations -- with user-friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine recently selected MicroStrategy 7™ as the 2001 “Editors' Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet™. Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy's products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy's customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,300 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 375 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on MicroStrategy's software, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.


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