MicroStrategy UK Honors Two Companies for Their Business Intelligence Achievements

Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga Recognized at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London

McLean, Va., (July 11, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today honored two 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 UK Honors Award winners for 2007 are Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga. The awards were announced today at the MicroStrategy Symposium in London, England.

The companies selected for the MicroStrategy Honors Award have successfully used business intelligence throughout their organizations to enhance business performance, improve productivity, and strengthen customer relationships. “We congratulate these companies for demonstrating best practices in their MicroStrategy business intelligence deployments,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Biffa Waste Services and Quadriga have each taken a unique approach to delivering business intelligence in their organization with remarkable results in business efficiency and customer service. We are delighted to recognize their accomplishments by presenting them with the MicroStrategy Honors Award.”

The following is a brief description of the MicroStrategy UK Honors Award recipients and their BI applications:

Biffa Waste Services
Biffa Waste Services is a leading integrated waste management business in the UK, which provides services to around 75,000 local and national customers in the industrial, commercial, and municipal sectors. MicroStrategy presents the Honors Award to Biffa for its enterprise-wide BI deployment, speed of implementation, and the business improvements achieved from its use of business intelligence. With MicroStrategy, Biffa provides reports and analyses to users in multiple departments across the company, helping them to make informed decisions in a timely fashion, while reducing reliance on the IT team. As a result, Biffa employees have greater insights into their customers and can make important business decisions related to expanding services and managing customer expectations.

Quadriga
Europe’s market leader of digital IP-based entertainment and Internet services for hotels, Quadriga operates in over 50 countries in Europe and the Middle East and has an annual audience of 100 million guests. MicroStrategy recognizes Quadriga for the speed of its BI implementation, which was operational within 2-3 weeks, as well as its outstanding implementation team and the business improvements achieved as a result of its BI applications. Quadriga personnel use MicroStrategy reports for financial metrics, guest revenue metrics, and content performance metrics. Using MicroStrategy, they also provide their customers with greater insights into the value derived from Quadriga’s entertainment and Internet services.

About MicroStrategy
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 advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

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Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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