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The Container Store is the nations leading retailer in storage organization products
in fact we originated the category back in 1978.
We actually came to MicroStrategy World two years ago.
We literally on our drive from the conference to the airport
made the decision
everything we were going to build for our store leadership team from that moment on
was going to be for mobile.
Now we didn't have mobile devices in our plan
we didn't know how we were actually going to deliver all this
but we knew that was the direction we needed to go.
MicroStrategy is the primary tool we use to basically achieve our BI strategy.
The value depends on how it's applied.
MicroStrategy provides services that better guarantee that we're successful.
We decided to name our store leadership dashboards The Score.
Our chairman and CEO likes to say when you're in a game
and it's the fourth quarter and it's coming down to that crunch time of whatever game
it is
everybody on the field has to know what the score is
if you're going to have any chance at all at being successful.
This really is all about everybody knowing the score
and providing that information people can act on right in the moment
so they really have the chance to
take the information
put it to use
and then make the changes and adjustments necessary to be as successful as possible.
I was able to work with our business and project team to
develop the white board sessions
go through the whiteboard sessions
and make sure we had the right requirements out there.
Then I would immediately go start developing on the front end
using the MicroStrategy tools
which are great to use because they're so intuitive and user-friendly.
So I would actually do a lot of the developing myself
even do some of the creative work.
MicroStrategy makes it so easy for the business user to really
harness the tool without having to go to IT for a lot of support.
So I was able to tackle a lot of the development on the front end side myself.
Now I don't have to research all the different reports from different emails we use to receive
now I can just go to The Score
touch the application
it pops up
and I can see it for myself.
To be able to make decisions on the fly
not have to wait
or go back to a spreadsheet on their laptop or their desktop to make that decision.
We want to give them the data so they can act right then.
I can pull that information because I have it at my fingertips.
And that saves a lot of time.
I'm able to be out on my sales floor more
and really taking the information in.
There's a lot of opportunities for mobile.
We're very excited about The Score.
We're excited where it is now
but we're even more excited about where we can take it.