In the News
Oct 14, 2011
ParAccel Collaborates with MicroStrategy
for High Performance Cloud and
Social Media Analytics
Spt 13, 2011
Data Analytics:
Crunching the Future
Jul 15, 2011
MicroStrategy Takes BI
To The Cloud
Jul 15, 2011
MicroStrategy Follows On Cloud, Pioneers Social Insight
Jul 15, 2011
MicroStrategy ‘Gateway’ Links Facebook to Enterprise Apps
Jul 12, 2011
ParAccel Will Bring its Analytic Platform to MicroStrategy Cloud Customers
Jan 10, 2012 ABC News
Social Media Opens Trove of Voter Info to Campaigns
Welcome to 21st century elections, where prospective voters interact with candidates not just at town halls across early primary states, but also in 140-character bursts of opinion on Twitter, an online money transfer through a candidate’s web site, or the click of a “like” button on Facebook. 
Jan 6, 2012 Washington Post
Facebook data reveal what GOP presidential candidates’ supporters ‘like’
A data-sharing application on Facebook called Wisdom, created by MicroStrategy in Tysons Corner, allows the app’s users to see the patterns among the 3.5 million profiles of their friends. A Washington Post analysis identified the Wisdom users who “like” the major Republican candidates, and revealed the books, music and sports teams that appeal to them.
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Oct 4, 2011 database
ParAccel Collaborates with MicroStrategy for High Performance Cloud and Social Media Analytics
ParAccel, a provider of a high performance analytic database, and MicroStrategy, a provider of business intelligence software, have announced that they have extended their strategic partnership. The alliance builds upon a recent announcement that ParAccel's analytic acceleration technology will be a core component of MicroStrategy's social media analytics applications as well as a high performance option for MicroStrategy Cloud customers.
Spt 13, 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek
Data Analytics: Crunching the Future
The technicians at SecureAlert’s monitoring center in Salt Lake City sit in front of computer screens filled with multicolored dots. Each dot represents someone on parole or probation wearing one of the company’s location-reporting ankle cuffs. As the people move around a city, their dots move around the map. “It looks a bit like an animated gumball machine,” says Steven Florek, SecureAlert’s vice-president of offender insights and knowledge management. As long as the gumballs don’t go where they’re not supposed to, all is well.
Jul 15, 2011 Information Manamgement
MicroStrategy Takes BI To The Cloud
July 14, 2011 - Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy has announced general availability of its Microstrategy Cloud platform. The company said MicroStrategy Cloud provides customers with large-scale business intelligence capabilities based on a platform-as-a-service offering. It said the cloud-based offering combines the latest in-memory, 64-bit business intelligence technology with a secure, continuously monitored infrastructure.
Jul 15, 2011 Inforrmation Week
MicroStrategy Follows On Cloud, Pioneers Social Insight
MicroStrategy on Tuesday jumped on the bandwagon of companies introducing cloud computing and social media capabilities. The business intelligence and analytics vendor is a follower on the cloud front, but it appears to be taking a unique approach where social analysis is concerned.
Jul 15, 2011 PC World
MicroStrategy ‘Gateway’ Links Facebook to Enterprise Apps
MicroStrategy is rolling out a cloud-based service that allows the exchange of data between Facebook and enterprise applications, the BI (business intelligence) vendor announced Tuesday during its user conference in Monte Carlo.
Jul 12, 2011 MicroStrategy
ParAccel Will Bring its Analytic Platform to MicroStrategy Cloud Customers
Monte Carlo, July 12, 2011 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the general availability of MicroStrategy Cloud, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service. MicroStrategy Cloud is the first cloud-based service to enable rapid, cost-effective development of business intelligence, mobile and social apps, leveraging hundreds of terabytes of data and scaling to hundreds of thousands of users.
Jul 07, 2011 Business Journal
ParAccel Raises Funds From Amazon, Others
ParAccel Inc. said Thursday it raised a new round of funding that included Amazon.com Inc. among a long list of other investors. The size of the transaction was not disclosed. Campbell-based ParAccel has an analytics platform used by organizations to gain insight from large data sets. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was joined by existing investors Menlo Park-based Menlo Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures, Palo Alto-based Bay Partners and Walden International, San Diego-based Tao Venture Capital Partners and Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Bank.
Jul 07, 2011 The Wall Street Journal
Amazon Leads Series E For Still-Independent ParAccel
Saying it was in no hurry to join several competitors who got acquired, high-performance database vendor ParAccel Inc. has raised a Series E round led by Amazon.com Inc.
Jul 07, 2011 Geek Wilre
Looking to Mine Data, Amazon Backs Analytics Startup ParAccel
Amazon.com is investing an undisclosed amount of money into ParAccel, a Campbell, California maker of business analytics software that helps executives and analysts “predict the future.”
Jul 07, 2011 GigaOM
Amazon Invests Big in Big Data Startup
Amazon.com is making what appears to be a big investment in analytic database startup ParAccel. ParAccel today announced the close of a Series E round led by Amazon, along with existing investors Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, but did not disclose the amount.
Jul 07, 2011 CRN
Amazon Gives Big Data Big Boost With ParAccel Investment
Amazon is putting big bucks behind big data player ParAccel Inc. as a key investor in the Campbell, Calif.-based database analytic platform's latest funding round.