VHA and MicroStrategy Announce New Mobile Business Intelligence Application to Drive Supply Chain Savings for Hospitals

MCLEAN, Va., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that VHA Inc., a national health care network, has selected MicroStrategy Mobile to build its mobile business intelligence application that gives hospitals instant access to supply chain analytics data.

VHA members will access the new mobile application through VHA SupplyLYNX™, which provides seamless access to price benchmarking and spending reports. Mobile access to this information will enable hospital executives to continually monitor cost reduction efforts and drive supply chain savings.  The new mobile platform, built using MicroStrategy Mobile, will enable VHA member hospitals to report, analyze, and monitor data to reveal trends and insights from handheld devices to make better business decisions at their convenience.

"In a recent survey of our members, we found that more than 50 percent view mobile access to data as very valuable in carrying out daily job responsibilities," said Curt Nonomaque, President and CEO of VHA Inc. "As the first in the health care market to offer this capability, this effort demonstrates VHA's commitment to offering innovative tools to help hospitals elevate supply chain performance. With actionable information from MicroStrategy-based reports and dashboards, VHA members can better serve their patients, improve operational efficiencies, identify new savings opportunities, and make analytically-based decisions."

VHA SupplyLYNX, which is built on the MicroStrategy platform, is VHA's analytics solution that helps hospitals cut costs and improve supply chain management. Members have implemented more than $1 billion in savings using VHA's supply chain experts, state-of-the-art technology, and the industry's most complete data to maximize contract value, fully optimize data, and deliver keen insight into supply chain operations.  

"VHA has helped its members to significantly reduce costs with its VHA SupplyLYNX application, and we are pleased to work with them again to develop this exciting new mobile application," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. "Businesses are recognizing the value of business intelligence for mobile devices, and VHA is leading the way in the healthcare industry with their iPhone supply chain app for hospitals."

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Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology.  MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day.  Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its website, http://www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

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