Decision support software house MicroStrategy Inc has added NCR Corp to its list of customers with a deal that makes it one of the company’s value-added resellers. Under the terms of the agreement, NCR will incorporate MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite into one of its decision support data warehousing systems aimed at various target industries. The suite will provide the OLAP interface for the NCR SmartEC Decisions product, which enables companies to collect information on how consumers are using their web sites and what overall value the internet is bringing to their business. According to NCR, SmartEC Decisions couples MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite of tools with NCR’s applications software, business services, and data warehousing platform to provide companies with the means to more fully understand and leverage their e-commerce activities. News of the deal comes the day after MicroStrategy announced enhanced versions of its DSS Server and DSS Web components. DSS Server 5.5 and DSS Web 5.5 contain improvements in the area of report formats, ease of use and overall performance. DSS Server 5.5 is available immediately for Windows NT or Windows 95, and is $65,000 per unit. DSS Web 5.5 also runs on NT, and will be available in December at $495 per user with discounts for volume purchases. The purchase of DSS Web Server is required at $35,000.
