MicroStrategy 9 BI platform certified for integration with SAP HANA

TYSONS CORNER, USA: MicroStrategy Inc. announced that the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that the MicroStrategy 9 BI platform integrates with the SAP HANA platform.

MicroStrategy customers such as Adobe and Adidas can now harness the blazing speed of SAP HANA with MicroStrategy's advanced visualization capabilities to build breakthrough analytical applications.

With this integration, business users can quickly and easily transform data in SAP HANA into visually insightful dashboards, reports, and data discovery applications. Companies can unlock the business value of big data assets using MicroStrategy BI platform's advanced data visualization capabilities, custom reporting, and interactive dashboards.

"SAP HANA is used as the centralized source of truth at Adobe," said Jeremy Hadley, senior manager BI, at Adobe Systems. "MicroStrategy was really the driver for pushing that information out to the business. The MicroStrategy BI platform and SAP HANA were the catalysts for the speed and versatility goals that we have at Adobe, and the integration was amazing."

"We are delighted that our MicroStrategy BI platform has achieved certified integration with the SAP HANA platform," said Paul Zolfaghari, president, MicroStrategy. "This integration builds on MicroStrategy's relationship with SAP, underscoring the importance of working together to optimize our platforms and extending advanced capabilities and speed to our global customers."

Through integration with SAP HANA, the MicroStrategy BI platform allows organizations to:

* Easily transform data in SAP HANA into visually appealing dashboards, insightful reports, and data discovery applications,

* Quickly build native mobile apps fueled by data in SAP HANA,

* Leverage push-down analytics to gain maximum performance with SAP HANA, and

* Transparently capitalize on existing investments in security infrastructure from SAP.