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Ragioneria Generale dello Stato, Trenitalia, and Vodafone Italia Recognized at the MicroStrategy Symposium in Rome: MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today recognized three companies for demonstrating best practices in their business intelligence deployments. The MicroStrategy Honors Award recognizes organizations for outstanding corporate performance improvements as a result of their MicroStrategy-based BI applications. The MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award winners for 2006 are Ragioneria Generale dello Stato, Trenitalia, and Vodafone Italia. The awards were announced today at the MicroStrategy Symposium in Rome, Italy. Each of the companies selected for the MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award has demonstrated an innovative approach to delivering business intelligence throughout their organization to significantly enhance corporate performance. "We are delighted to recognize these leading organizations for demonstrating best practices in their MicroStrategy business intelligence deployments," said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. "We applaud them for their exceptional use of business intelligence to improve business performance, streamline efficiency and productivity, increase revenues, and enhance customer relationships." The following is a brief description of the MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award recipients and their BI applications: Ragioneria Generale dello Stato: The Italian Treasury Department monitors and controls government expenses with PointRGS, a highly customized Web-based dashboard anchored by MicroStrategy technology that was developed by Consip on behalf of the Ragioneria Generale dello Stato, Italy's State General Accounting Department of the Ministry of Finance. The Ragioneria relies on PointRGS to monitor general economic trends across Italy's economy, as well as uncover anomalies or poorly performing trends, to make decisions that impact the national political economy and meet the thresholds imposed by the European Union. With the technology, Treasury department analysts are able to more accurately forecast the domestic debt, calculate the Gross Domestic Product, and reconcile the national budget and public expenditures. Trenitalia: Trenitalia, the primary operator of trains within Italy, is the transport company of Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato. Trenitalia employees are using the MicroStrategy platform to compare sales information against a variety of indices, such as kilometers traveled, routes, client categories, transportation categories, marketing campaigns, payment methods, and times of purchase. Furthermore, Trenitalia selected MicroStrategy to standardize many BI projects on a single enterprise business intelligence platform to dramatically reduce costs, improve responsiveness, and optimize corporate performance. Vodafone: Vodafone Italia is part of the Vodafone Group, the world leader in the mobile telecommunications sector, operating in 27 countries, with Network partnerships in another 33 countries. Vodafone Italia was Italy's first private mobile telephony operator. Since it was established in 1995, it has been known for its innovative approach to services and communications. MicroStrategy was selected by Vodafone to support the Sales and Marketing organization in analyzing marketing campaigns and evaluating customer satisfaction. MicroStrategy is also used in the Customer Operation area, enabling managers and administrators to analyze the management and performance of call centers located across Italy.