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MicroStrategy Reports 19 Percent Increase in Revenues and 23 Percent Increase in License Revenues in 2003

GAAP Profitable in Q4 2003; Best Revenue Quarter in Three Years

MCLEAN, Va., (January 29, 2004) –

MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced its financial results for the three- month period ended December 31, 2003 (the fourth quarter of its 2003 fiscal year), reporting GAAP profitability and significant revenue growth from the preceding year. Full year 2003 revenues were $175.6 million versus $147.8 million in 2002, a 19 percent increase. License revenues in 2003 were $77.2 million versus $62.9 million in 2002, a 23 percent increase.

In terms of both overall and license revenues, the fourth quarter of 2003 was MicroStrategy’s best quarter in three years. In the fourth quarter, revenues increased by approximately 23 percent and license revenues grew by approximately 14 percent, in comparison to the same period last year. This marked the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year license revenue growth.

Fourth quarter 2003 revenues were $51.7 million versus $42.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and $42.8 million in the third quarter of 2003. Fourth quarter 2003 license revenues were $23.4 million versus $20.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and $17.7 million in the third quarter of 2003. Net income attributable to common stockholders for the fourth quarter of 2003, determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), was $17.5 million, or $1.02 per share on a diluted basis. This result included a non-cash income tax benefit from a change in the deferred tax valuation allowance of $5.2 million and a non-cash benefit from discontinued operations of $0.8 million. Fourth quarter 2003 income from operations was $12.5 million versus $4.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and $7.0 million in the third quarter of 2003.

“By all objective financial measures, 2003 was an outstanding year for MicroStrategy, and Q4 was a particularly solid quarter,” said MicroStrategy President and CFO Eric F. Brown. “In 2003, our revenue growth was healthy; our license revenue growth especially robust; and the year was finished as it was started, with MicroStrategy being GAAP profitable.”

“MicroStrategy starts 2004 as a financially strong company with very positive market awareness and momentum,” said MicroStrategy Chairman and CEO Michael J. Saylor. “With the recent release of MicroStrategy Report Services(TM), we are extending our offerings beyond business analytics to the fast-growing enterprise-reporting space. We now offer an industrial-strength business intelligence platform that provides integrated reporting, analysis and information delivery. Customers are responding very positively to MicroStrategy Report Services, and we believe 2004 is shaping up to be an exciting year.”

Added 201 New Customers and New Deals

New customers and new deals with existing customers in Q4 2003 included:

Agriliance, LLC, Albertsons, Inc., Applebee’s International, Inc., AutoTrader.com, Bank of Montreal, Barnesandnoble.com, CareerBuilder, Inc., Cascade Natural Gas Company, CCC Information Services Group Inc., Cox Communications, Darden Corporation, First Franklin Financial Corporation, Giorgio Armani Corporation, Grange Insurance, Guess?, Inc., H&R Block, Inc., Hannaford Bros. Co., Hawaii Medical Service Association, IMS Health Incorporated, Ingenix, Inc., Lowe’s Companies, Inc., The May Department Stores Company, Meijer, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Michaels Stores, Inc., National Institutes of Health, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, R. H. Donnelley Corporation, Shaw Industries, Inc., Spectrum Health, State of Tennessee, The Wet Seal, Inc., TRX Data Services, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Television, Universal Studios, Verizon Communications.

Examples of Noteworthy Customer Deals from Q4 2003:

Agriliance

Agriliance, LLC (www.agriliance.com) of St. Paul, MN has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform for their enterprise business intelligence environment. Against an Oracle 9 database, over 600 users will utilize the MicroStrategy platform to track and assess business data across the sales, marketing and financial functions. End users will gain an enhanced ability to track and assess their business in today’s dynamically changing agribusiness environment.

AutoTrader.com

AutoTrader.com, the Internet’s leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information website, selected MicroStrategy Report Services for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis. Over 800 AutoTrader.com employees will run reports against a 7-terabyte data warehouse and will use MicroStrategy Report Services for sales analysis and reporting to improve operational efficiencies and competitive insight.

Grange Insurance

Grange Insurance, a property and casualty insurer, has expanded its deployment of the MicroStrategy platform as its enterprise-wide standard for reporting and analysis. More than 300 associates, including internal marketing, pricing and customer management personnel, access product sales, transaction and customer interaction data via the Web to analyze and identify areas of improvement in product design and customer management, and to recognize cross and up-sell opportunities. With the addition of MicroStrategy Report Services, Grange associates have an integrated reporting solution that provides a single dashboard for each individual agent with pixel perfect printing quality.

Hawaii Medical Service Association

Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), a nonprofit, mutual benefit society founded in 1938, has selected MicroStrategy for their Corporate Business Intelligence solution. The company will utilize the MicroStrategy platform to track and assess business data across clinical and financial areas to provide end users with greater insight into the company’s benefit costs. HMSA selected the MicroStrategy platform for its scalability and functionality.

Meredith Corporation

Meredith Corporation, one of the nation’s leading media and marketing companies with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, and interactive and integrated marketing, selected MicroStrategy for enterprise-wide enhanced customer analysis. The MicroStrategy platform will enable Meredith Corporation to perform query and reporting applications through a user-friendly Web interface against a Teradata(R) data warehouse. With the new MicroStrategy-based applications, Meredith Corporation will be able to conduct a wide range of Web-enabled reports and investigative data patterns and a full scope of query and statistical analyses.

Metropolitan Life

Metropolitan Life has expanded its deployment of the MicroStrategy platform for sales reporting and analysis. Approximately 1,500 users, including underwriters, sales managers and marketing personnel perform sales analysis against an IBM DB2 data warehouse. In the most recent deployment, MetLife is utilizing the MicroStrategy platform to track and assess business data across its Individual Business department to provide end users with greater insight into business operations.

MicroStrategy’s Strategic Partnerships

Signed 29 Agreements with Systems Integrators and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)

New partners include:

C3i, Incorporated, CGE&Y, CGI, Inc., Cognizant Technology Solutions, CSI, Dynix, HR Vista, JaiTech Systems, Inc., Jelecos Systems, Inc., Vivare, Inc., and XeoMatrix Incorporated.

MicroStrategy Releases Breakthrough Business Intelligence Reporting Technology

In November 2003, MicroStrategy released its breakthrough business intelligence reporting technology, MicroStrategy Report Services, which allows the extension of high-value business intelligence to the whole enterprise, and is specifically designed to appeal to non-technical users. The new technology is winning high praise from MicroStrategy customers and partners for its ability to deliver a wide range of enterprise report types. MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization — to all its employees, customers, and suppliers. It provides content-rich, user-friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of numerous new ones. MicroStrategy Report Services can deliver scorecards to executives, ‘managed metrics’ reports to business-unit leaders, business performance reports to divisional managers, operational reports to all personnel, and invoices and statements to external consumers.

In November, MicroStrategy won two 2003 DM Review Readership Awards for the categories of Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management and Web Analytics and Business Intelligence. MicroStrategy was the only company to win multiple awards from the readers of this leading trade publication. “Each year our highly informed readers identify the companies that provide industry-leading solutions. Our readers recognize the quality of MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform for overall business intelligence, as well as for analytic applications,” said Jean Schauer, Editor in Chief of DM Review. “We sincerely congratulate MicroStrategy and commend them for their commitment to excellence.”

Outlook and Financial Guidance Information

The following statements are subject to risks and uncertainties described at the end of this press release. Management guidance for 2004 contained herein is valid as of the date of this press release only and supersedes any previously announced guidance as to the company’s expectations for financial results for 2004.

(in millions, except
for per share data) Q1 2004 Range Full Year 2004 Range

Revenue $40.0 – $43.0 $185.0 – $195.0
Net Income $2.5 – $4.5 $28.8 – $33.2

GAAP diluted earnings
per share $0.14 – $0.26 $1.70 – $1.90
GAAP diluted weighted
average shares
outstanding 17.0 – 17.5 17.0 – 17.5

Additional Financial
Information

Amortization of
intangible assets ($0.02) – ($0.02) ($0.07) – ($0.07)
Total of Additional
Financial Information ($0.02) – ($0.02) ($0.07) – ($0.07)

MicroStrategy will be discussing its fourth quarter 2003 results on a conference call today beginning at approximately 5:30 p.m. EST. To access the conference call dial 877-597-9704 (domestically) or 706-364-6550 (internationally) and mention Michael Saylor as Chairperson. A live Webcast and replay of the conference call will be available at http://www.microstrategy.com/investor. A 48-hour replay of the call will also be available by dialing 800-642-1687 (domestically) or 706-364-6550 (internationally), conference ID4803489.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities – excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, and HP. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7i, and MicroStrategy Report Services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward- looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i and MicroStrategy Report Services software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share data)

Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
2003 2002 2003 2002
(unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited) (audited)

Revenues
Product licenses $23,403 $20,466 $77,221 $62,865
Product support and
other services 28,269 21,503 98,356 84,962

Total revenues 51,672 41,969 175,577 147,827

Cost of Revenues
Product licenses 899 841 3,240 2,925
Product support and
other services 6,388 6,122 24,745 24,975

Total cost of
revenues 7,287 6,963 27,985 27,900

Gross profit 44,385 35,006 147,592 119,927

Operating Expenses

Sales and marketing 16,846 13,150 57,475 48,179
Research and development 6,048 7,851 27,684 26,297
General and
administrative 8,955 7,571 32,580 27,635
Restructuring and
impairment charges – 1,434 1,699 4,198
Amortization of
intangible assets 16 512 182 3,195

Total operating
expenses 31,865 30,518 119,620 109,504

Income from operations 12,520 4,488 27,972 10,423

Financing and Other
Income (Expense)

Interest income 99 119 644 728
Interest expense (note 1) (61) (2,363) (5,109) (8,413)
Loss on investments – – – (523)
Reduction in estimated
cost of litigation
settlement – – – 11,396
Gain (loss) on early
extinguishment of
notes payable – 2,089 (31,069) 6,750
Gain on contract
termination – – – 16,837
Other income, net 449 356 307 2,109

Total financing and
other income (expense) 487 201 (35,227) 28,884

Income (loss) from
continuing operations
before income taxes 13,007 4,689 (7,255) 39,307
(Benefit) provision
for income taxes (3,722) 59 (2,587) 1,190

Net income (loss)
from continuing
operations 16,729 4,630 (4,668) 38,117

Discontinued Operations

Gain on discontinued
operations 765 – 765 –

Net income (loss) 17,494 4,630 (3,903) 38,117

Dividends, accretion,
and beneficial
conversion feature
on convertible
preferred stock – – – (6,874)
Net gain on refinancing
of series B, C and D
convertible preferred
stock – – – 36,135

Net income (loss)
attributable to common
stockholders $17,494 $4,630 $(3,903) $67,378

Basic earnings (loss)
per share

Continuing
operations $1.05 $0.34 $(0.31) $3.20
Discontinued
operations $0.05 $- $0.05 $-

Net income (loss)
attributable to
common stockholders $1.10 $0.34 $(0.26) $3.20

Basic weighted
average shares
outstanding 15,950 13,591 14,804 11,676

Diluted earnings
(loss) per share

Continuing
operations $0.98 $0.33 $(0.31) $3.12
Discontinued
operations $0.04 $- $0.05 $-

Net income (loss)
attributable to
common stockholders $1.02 $0.33 $(0.26) $3.12

Diluted weighted
average shares
outstanding 17,152 13,837 14,804 11,986

(1) Interest expense for the three months ended December 31, 2003 and
2002, includes discount amortization expense on notes payable of $0 and
$1,033, respectively. Interest expense for the twelve months ended December
31, 2003 and 2002, includes discount amortization expense on notes payable of
$2,137 and $2,098, respectively.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except per share data)

December December
31, 31,
2003 2002
Assets (unaudited) (audited)
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents $51,882 $15,036
Restricted cash 747 6,173
Accounts receivable, net 30,993 28,195
Prepaid expenses and other current
assets 3,888 5,076
Deferred tax assets, net 1,807 495
Total current assets 89,317 54,975

Property and equipment, net 16,113 18,471
Goodwill and intangible assets, net 604 789
Capitalized software development
costs, net 3,693 4,414
Deposits and other assets 1,380 1,224
Deferred tax assets, net 3,686 –
Total Assets $114,793 $79,873

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
(Deficit)
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued
expenses $12,768 $15,267
Accrued compensation and employee
benefits 17,968 11,352
Accrued interest – 244
Accrued restructuring costs 2,599 5,222
Deferred revenue and advance
payments 28,374 23,961
Notes payable – 4,698
Net liabilities of discontinued
operations – 1,151
Total current liabilities 61,709 61,895

Deferred revenue and advance payments 2,750 1,381
Other long-term liabilities 2,443 2,402
Accrued restructuring costs 3,544 3,663
Notes payable – 45,041

Total Liabilities 70,446 114,382

Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit):
Preferred stock undesignated; $0.001
par value; 4,971 shares authorized;
no shares issued or outstanding – –
Class A common stock; $0.001 par
value; 330,000 shares authorized;
12,362 and 9,157 shares
issued and outstanding,
respectively 12 9
Class B common stock; $0.001 par
value; 165,000 shares authorized;
3,604 and 4,619 shares
issued and outstanding,
respectively 4 5
Additional paid-in capital 387,625 305,334
Deferred compensation – (17)
Accumulated other comprehensive
income 2,619 2,170
Accumulated deficit (345,913) (342,010)
Total Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) 44,347 (34,509)

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’
Equity (Deficit) $114,793 $79,873

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
Computation of basic and diluted earnings per share
(in thousands, except per share data)
(unaudited)

Three months ended Three months ended
December 31, 2003 December 31, 2002

Income Shares Per Income Shares Per
(Numerator)(Denomi- Share (Numerator)(Denomi- Share
nator) Amount nator) Amount
Net income from
continuing operations $16,729 $4,630

Gain on discontinued
operations 765 –

Net income 17,494 4,630

Effect of common stock:
Weighted average shares
of class A common stock – 12,346 – 8,972
Weighted average shares
of class B common stock – 3,604 – 4,619

Basic earnings per share 17,494 15,950 $1.10 4,630 13,591 $0.34

Effect of dilutive
securities:
Employee stock options – 1,202 – 203
Series F preferred stock – – – 43

Diluted earnings per
share $17,494 17,152 $1.02 $4,630 13,837 $0.33

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
Computation of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share
(in thousands, except per share data)
(unaudited)

Twelve months ended Twelve months ended
December 31, 2003 December 31, 2002

Income Shares Per Income Shares Per
(Numerator)(Denomi- Share (Numerator)(Denomi- Share
nator) Amount nator) Amount

Net (loss) income from
continuing
operations $(4,668) $38,117

Gain on discontinued
operations 765 –

Net (loss) income (3,903) 38,117

Dividends, accretion and
beneficial
conversion feature on
convertible
preferred stock – (6,874)
Net gain on refinancing
of series B, C and D
convertible preferred
stock – 36,135

Net (loss) income
attributable to common
stockholders (3,903) 67,378

Effect of common stock:
Weighted average shares
of class A common stock – 11,200 – 6,469
Weighted average shares
of class B common stock – 3,604 – 4,619
Series A preferred stock – – 327 160
Series B preferred stock – (15,311) 159
Series C preferred stock – (12,054) 95
Series D preferred stock – – (2,992) 174

Basic (loss) earnings
per share (3,903) 14,804 $(0.26) 37,348 11,676 $3.20

Effect of dilutive
securities:
Employee stock options – – – 155
Series F preferred stock – – – 155

Diluted (loss) earnings
per share $(3,903) 14,804 $(0.26) $37,348 11,986 $3.12

The diluted loss per share calculation for the twelve months ended
December 31, 2003 excluded employee stock options of 858,227 because
their effect would have been anti-dilutive.

The numerator in the basic and diluted earnings per share calculation
for the twelve months ended December 31, 2002 has been adjusted to
deduct the $36.1 million gain on the refinancing of the series B, C and D
convertible preferred stock and add back $6.1 million of dividends and
accretion on the series A, B, C and D convertible preferred stock that
would have been excluded from net income attributable to common
stockholders assuming conversion at the beginning of the period under the
if-converted method.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
Additional Financial Information

Net Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations and Additional Financial
Information
(in thousands)
Three Months Twelve Months
(unaudited) Ended Ended
December 31, December 31,
2003 2002 2003 2002

Net income (loss) from continuing
operations $16,729 $4,630 $(4,668) $38,117

Additional Financial Information
Restructuring and impairment charges – 1,434 1,699 4,198
Amortization of intangible assets 16 512 182 3,195
Loss on investments – – – 523
Reduction in estimated cost of
litigation settlement – – – (11,396)
(Gain) loss on early extinguishment
of notes payable – (2,089) 31,069 (6,750)
Gain on contract termination – – – (16,837)
Discount amortization expense on
notes payable – 1,033 2,137 2,098
Income tax benefit – change in
deferred tax valuation allowance (5,175) – (5,175) –
Other items 26 (48) 26 26
Total $(5,133) $842 $29,938 $(24,943)

Additional Financial Information — Cash vs. Non-cash
(in thousands)
Three Months Twelve Months
(unaudited) Ended Ended
December 31, December 31,
2003 2002 2003 2002
Non-cash:
Restructuring and impairment charges $- $1,434 $- $1,491
Amortization of intangible assets 16 512 182 3,195
Loss on investments – – – 523
Reduction in estimated cost of
litigation settlement – – – (11,396)
(Gain) loss on early extinguishment
of notes payable – (2,089) 31,069 (6,750)
Gain on contract termination – – – (16,837)
Discount amortization expense on
notes payable – 1,033 2,137 2,098
Income tax benefit – change in
deferred tax valuation allowance (5,175) – (5,175) –
Other items – – – 284
Total non-cash (5,159) 890 28,213 (27,392)

Cash:
Restructuring and impairment charges – – 1,699 2,707
Other items 26 (48) 26 (258)
Total cash 26 (48) 1,725 2,449

Total $(5,133) $842 $29,938 $(24,943)

Additional Financial Information — Diluted Weighted Average Shares
Outstanding

The GAAP diluted loss per share calculation for the twelve months ended
December 31, 2003 excluded employee stock options of 858,227 because their
effect would have had an anti-dilutive impact on the net loss per share
calculation during such period. Had the Company generated net income in
accordance with GAAP, it would have been required under GAAP to include the
dilutive effect of employee stock options in the computation of GAAP diluted
weighted average shares outstanding.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
Non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“Non-GAAP”) Financial
Measures

Management believes that the presentation of the additional financial
information is helpful in understanding the ongoing operating results and
cash flow indicators with respect to the Company’s core business because the
additional financial items are non-cash or cash related gains and expenses
incurred during the period that are not associated with ongoing operating
results and are not cash flow indicators of the Company’s core business
operations.

EBITDA and Additional Financial Information
(in thousands)
(unaudited) Three Months Twelve Months
Ended Ended
December 31, December 31,
2003 2002 2003 2002

Net income (loss) attributable to
common stockholders $17,494 $4,630 $(3,903) $67,378

Interest income (99) (119) (644) (728)
Interest expense 61 2,363 5,109 8,413
(Benefit) provision for income
taxes (3,722) 59 (2,587) 1,190
Depreciation and amortization 1,989 2,311 8,652 9,916
Amortization of intangible assets 16 512 182 3,195
Gain on discontinued operations (765) – (765) –

EBITDA $14,974 $9,756 $6,044 $89,364

Additional Financial Information:
Restructuring and impairment
charges – 1,434 1,699 4,198
Loss on investments – – – 523
Reduction in estimated cost of
litigation settlement – – – (11,396)
(Gain) loss on early extinguishment
of notes payable – (2,089) 31,069 (6,750)
Gain on contract termination – – – (16,837)
Other income (449) (356) (307) (2,109)
Dividends, accretion, and
beneficial conversion feature on
convertible preferred stock – – – 6,874
Net gain on refinancing of series
B, C and D convertible preferred
stock – – – (36,135)

Total $(449) $(1,011) $32,461 $(61,632)

Marc Brailov of MicroStrategy Incorporated, +1-703-770-1670, or
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

http://www.microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy

Tags: MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Wins Prestigious Intelligent Enterprise Magazine Award

Intelligent Enterprise Publisher Presents Award Today at MicroStrategy HQ

McLean, Va., (January 29, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won Intelligent Enterprise magazine’s 2004 Editors’ Choice Award as one of the “most influential companies enabling the intelligent enterprise.” Intelligent Enterprise’s publisher Fritz Nelson today will present the prestigious award to MicroStrategy executives at the company’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

In explaining its selection of MicroStrategy for the award, Intelligent Enterprise stated: “Probably the number one reason we’re still talking about MicroStrategy is that big customers, with big data warehouses, stuck with the company’s BI and analysis products. In 2003, MicroStrategy announced a number of major deals for new and increased business with high-profile organizations, including eBay, Ace Hardware, and the U.S. Postal Service. The positive business is surely due to the second reason: The company went back to work and produced good products.”

Intelligent Enterprise further noted: “Web-based and architecturally integrated, the [MicroStrategy] 7i Business Intelligence Platform and related tools hit the mark, especially for organizations employing advanced BI against large data resources. As a single, integrated platform with tools that share the same metadata, 7i offered a tempting alternative to the software kludge that adds difficulty to many BI implementations. In November 2003, the company threw its hat into the red-hot enterprise reporting market with MicroStrategy Report Services. The new release emphasizes a highly flexible user environment and fast, Web-based production reporting.”

“We’re very proud to receive this honor from Intelligent Enterprise magazine,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy continues to be praised for its leadership in producing business intelligence technology that can drive the most critical operations of leading companies worldwide.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy

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Yahoo! Widens Use of MicroStrategy BI Platform

MicroStrategy Chosen for Its Powerful Analytics

McLean, Va., (January 26, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its customer Yahoo! has purchased additional software licenses to expand its use of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM). For these new applications, MicroStrategy was selected primarily because of its powerful analytics.

Yahoo! will use MicroStrategy’s software for customer analysis, sales analysis, advertising assessments, and transaction activity reviews. Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide.

“We’re proud to be working with Yahoo! to help it better understand and enhance its operations,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Yahoo!’s selection of MicroStrategy for critical sales and marketing applications demonstrates the significant strategic value of our software. MicroStrategy provides an exceptional solution for leading companies seeking to extend the benefits of business intelligence by accessing very large databases, and by deploying insight-collecting, easy-to-use Web-based applications that can help drive key business operations.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Alitalia Chooses MicroStrategy for Enterprise-Wide Customer Analysis & Reporting

To Enhance Customer Service Applications

McLean, Va., (January 20, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Alitalia has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for enhanced enterprise-wide customer service analysis and reporting. Alitalia Group provides air transportation for over 22 million people every year, leveraging a young and efficient fleet of 186 aircraft and thousands of employee in Italy and abroad.

Using the MicroStrategy platform, Alitalia will perform in-depth data analysis for a better understanding of a customer’s purchase dynamics and fidelity. The platform’s functionality allows customer segmentation based on different requirements, such as customer behavior, profitability and income ranges. MicroStrategy’s software also provides up-to-date, sophisticated scorecards based on the most relevant variables related to Alitalia’s customer base, which will allow easy identification of the “best” customers at any moment.

With the knowledge achieved by using MicroStrategy, Alitalia will be able to derive valuable insight to provide customers with more personalized services based upon each customer’s specific profile and requirements.

Adolfo Ceccarini, Alitalia Direct Marketing & Loyalty Manager, stated, “The information provided through data processing enhances our knowledge of people flying with our company. It will also help our Marketing Department to monitor and critically analyze the large amount of data collected. MicroStrategy will provide us with critical support for the decision-making process, and this is the foundation for customer service and company performance improvement.”

“MicroStrategy’s platform has already been integrated into the Alitalia data warehousing environment, revealing flexibility and efficiency in the data analysis and processing,” adds Egidio La Rosa, responsible for the IT project. “We have reached in less than one year all goals that were defined during the initial stage of the project.”

“Alitalia needs constant monitoring of customer requirements and satisfaction to maintain their leadership as an efficient and customer-responsive company,” said MicroStrategy Italy’s CEO Andrea Delvò. “MicroStrategy enables an in-depth knowledge of a company’s customer base, transforming information into an important competitive advantage. We’re especially proud that a world aviation leader like Alitalia has chosen MicroStrategy.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Certifies on New Teradata Database V2R5.1

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has validated on Teradata Database V2R5.1 a component of the Teradata Warehouse 7.1 data warehousing suite.

McLean, Va., (January 14, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has validated on Teradata Database V2R5.1 a component of the Teradata Warehouse 7.1 data warehousing suite.

In recent testing performed on Teradata Warehouse 7.1 software, the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) worked out-of-the-box, ensuring that customers can run MicroStrategy with Teradata Warehouse 7.1 without making any changes to their analytic applications. New capabilities in the Teradata database provide customers with the ability to store and retrieve large objects, and a User Defined Function (UDF) library that provides programming shortcuts used to customize database functions saving businesses time and money.

“We continually improve our database products in order to help our customers meet the challenges posed by today’s competitive environment. It is critical that an industry leader like MicroStrategy supports our latest release,” said Vickie Farrell, Vice President of Teradata Warehouse Marketing. “MicroStrategy’s proven analytical capabilities, scalability and performance enhancing techniques make its platform ideal for organizations running their business-critical applications on Teradata Warehouse 7.1.”

“MicroStrategy has long been an active Teradata supporter and participant in Teradata’s beta tests for several years and is pleased to support Teradata’s latest release,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Teradata and MicroStrategy have a history of expertise that ensures the success and satisfaction of our customers. We look forward to continuing this relationship.”

About Teradata Division

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR’s ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship TechnologyTM solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com ) employs approximately 29,500 people worldwide.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Report Services Wins Praise From Business Intelligence Systems Integration Specialists

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that numerous business intelligence consultants and systems integrators have endorsed MicroStrategy Report Services�. MicroStrategy Report Services provides content-rich, us

McLean, Va., (January 12, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that numerous business intelligence consultants and systems integrators have endorsed MicroStrategy Report Services(TM). MicroStrategy Report Services provides content-rich, user-friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of new ones.

MicroStrategy Report Services can deliver scorecards to executives, ‘managed metrics’ reports to business-unit leaders, business performance reports to divisional managers, operational reports to all personnel, and invoices and statements to external consumers. In addition, MicroStrategy Report Services is designed to let users create and share any type of enterprise report they desire, to create the perfect report without programming or outside help; delivers reports to any user touchpoint; and is fully integrated with the rest of the award-winning MicroStrategy Business Intelligence PlatformTM.

“MicroStrategy Report Services is already winning high praise for its ability to deliver the wide range of enterprise report types that companies need, in addition to expanding the strategic benefits of business intelligence software further and deeper into an enterprise than before,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “With the support of leading business intelligence consultants and systems integrators, we’re excited to offer our customers business intelligence solutions that combine powerful business analytics and superior reporting.”

Consultants and systems integrators that have expressed their support for MicroStrategy Report Services include:

Anexinet

“Unlike other enterprise reporting products, MicroStrategy Report Services enables us to offer our customers scorecards, managed metrics and banded reports out-of-box. For the IT professional, MicroStrategy Report Services is integrated into the MicroStrategy BI Platform enabling centralized administration for even the largest applications.” Paul Olimpo, Assistant Director of Business Intelligence, Anexinet

Annams

“We evaluated MicroStrategy Report Services and we think highly of it,” said Naeem Raza, President and CEO at Annams Systems Corporation. “Based on our evaluation, the product can deliver scorecards to executives, ‘managed metric’ reports to business unit leaders, business performance reports to line-of-business managers, operational reports to all personnel, and invoices and statements to external consumers. With MicroStrategy Report Services, we expect to see more of our customers standardizing on MicroStrategy for all of their BI applications.”

Atlantic Intelligence

“With version 7.5, MicroStrategy rounds out their BI platform and will enable our customers to deliver information to more types of users than ever before. MicroStrategy Report Services looks like the perfect complement to their existing platform. We find their product easy to use for departmental applications while retaining scalability for enterprise-wide deployments.” Brook Detterman, President, Atlantic Intelligence

Claraview

“When we tested the product, we found that MicroStrategy Report Services deployed easily over the Internet without downloads and delivered pixel-perfect and print-perfect reporting. The interface will be easy to use for all of our customers to use and allows us to offer them completely flexible layout and formatting for their business reporting needs.” Justin Langseth, CTO & Co-Founder, Claraview

Covansys

“MicroStrategy’s platform has been setting the market standard for industrial-strength business intelligence,” said Paula Fretter, VP Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence at Covansys. “Now, with the outstanding MicroStrategy Report Services, many more business decision-makers than ever before are going to get much better insight into their critical operations, allowing them to understand what is happening at an easy glance.”

Hexaware

“We’re impressed with MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy’s newest product,” said Mack Pasham, Manager-BI at Hexaware Technologies. “It is fully integrated with the MicroStrategy business intelligence platform, dramatically lowering the learning curve as users demand both reporting and analysis. With this product, MicroStrategy offers the best report writing capabilities on the market. It allows organizations to create highly formatted reports in both print and electronic forms, and disseminate them to a client base.”

iOLAP

“After testing Report Services with our customers, we believe MicroStrategy offers the most flexible and scalable report writing capabilities on the market. MicroStrategy customers can now create highly formatted reports in both print and electronic forms, and disseminate them across the enterprise.” Chris Jordan, Senior Partner, iOLAP

Systech

“MicroStrategy Report Services’ ability to generate pixel-perfect reports makes large volumes of critical business data easy to consume for large user communities. It’s easy to build any kind of enterprise report imaginable quickly and with powerful analytics,” said Arun Gollapudi, CEO, Systech Solutions.

Thinkfast Consulting

“Compared to other enterprise reporting products, we found that MicroStrategy Report Services offered a truly flexible design interface to our customers. Companies who choose MicroStrategy Report Services can design boardroom quality reports by simply dragging-and-dropping report components. We were particularly impressed with the way MicroStrategy has integrated both traditional banded report writing for optimized operational reporting, and zone-based report design that is ideally suited for scorecards and dashboards.” Mark Cawi, Director, MicroStrategy Practice, ThinkFast Consulting, Inc.

Vallence Solutions

“MicroStrategy is the only architecture that offers a seamless user experience covering scorecards, reporting, cube analysis, ad hoc analysis, and information delivery,” said John Canetta, President at Vallence Solutions. “We like the fact that MicroStrategy Report Services users can easily navigate to different styles of BI. Furthermore, users have unprecedented control of their reporting environment through the use of run-time prompting, through end-user controlled distribution services, and through user preferences that tailor each user’s interface.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com

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LoanPerformance Selects MicroStrategy for Improved Analysis and Reporting of the Mortgage Industry Data Trends

MicroStrategy Chosen Over Cognos and Business Objects

McLEAN, Va., (January 05, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that LoanPerformance has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for improved analysis and reporting of mortgage industry data trends. LoanPerformance (formerly MIC) is a San Francisco-based research and analytics company that provides data, software, and analytics to the mortgage industry. MicroStrategy was selected over Cognos and Business Objects.

“We selected MicroStrategy because our rapidly growing databases became too large for our proprietary systems to efficiently process,” said Mark Carrington, Director, Product Management, LoanPerformance. “MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform has the scalability and flexibility that we needed to accommodate our expanding database, and MicroStrategy’s robust reporting capabilities enable our clients to build unique reports to fit their needs.”

Through LoanPerformance’s solution, TrueStandings, MicroStrategy is providing comprehensive historical mortgage data in a new, fully secured Web-enabled user interface. Mortgage analysts are running reports on mortgage performance, origination analysis, executive summaries, and market analysis against a 3.5-terabyte SQL Server data warehouse. The MicroStrategy-based application provides LoanPerformance’s clients with the ability to add loan attributes, metrics and filters to any report, and to drill from high level reporting to an individual loan.

“MicroStrategy’s robust architecture provides a true enterprise reporting solution,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Its ease-of-use, flexibility, Web-based interface, and scalability for large databases offer LoanPerformance a powerful reporting solution to help LoanPerformance meet the challenges posed by today’s competitive environment.”

About LoanPerformance

LoanPerformance is a San Francisco-based research and analytics firm providing information and analytical capabilities to the mortgage industry.

Formed in consortium with the nation’s largest banks and secondary market players, the LoanPerformance databases track the payment performance on more than 70% of the outstanding mortgages in the U.S. on prime, subprime and non-agency securitized market.

LoanPerformance aggregates the data to create a market tracking the delinquencies, foreclosures and prepayments on a national, regional, state and metropolitan level.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC& MicroStrategy Forge Strategic Alliance

Cap Gemini Technologies LLC to Resell MicroStrategy Software

McLean, Va (December 15, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (CGE&Y), a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. As a result of this agreement, CGE&Y will more than double the number of consultants trained on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) by mid-2004. Cap Gemini Technologies LLC will also resell MicroStrategy software, allowing CGE&Y to provide a true end-to-end technology solution to clients around the MicroStrategy platform.

Through the alliance, CGE&Y will deliver MicroStrategy’s enhanced scalability to companies that seek to extend their business intelligence enterprise-wide. According to the two organizations, the experience of CGE&Y combined with the MicroStrategy platform can help organizations reduce operating costs, increase profits, and allow better managerial controls across organizations. Initially, CGE&Y and MicroStrategy will target the pharmaceutical, financial and retail sectors.

“For companies that seek to extend business intelligence enterprise-wide, MicroStrategy offers exceptional scalability for building numerous applications and accommodating very large databases and user populations. Their customers have experienced significant satisfaction with enterprise implementations in the industry,” said Brian Queenin, Vice President, Global Leader for Business Intelligence at CGE&Y. “We’re excited to introduce the benefits of MicroStrategy’s technology to our client base so that they can see the benefits that other MicroStrategy clients already realize.”

“CGE&Y works with companies interested in deploying business intelligence throughout their businesses. These companies have pockets of business intelligence success and now want to expand the scope of their business intelligence applications to enhance critical aspects of their operations,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Working with CGE&Y, we will provide the products and services to allow these companies to reap the bottom-line benefits of enterprise-wide information sharing.”

About Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is one of the world’s largest providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services. The company helps businesses implement growth strategies and leverage technology. The organization employs approximately 52,700 people worldwide and reported 2002 global revenues of more than 7,04 billion euros. More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at http://www.cgey.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com

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PRG-Schultz International Selects MicroStrategy Report Services for Enterprise-wide Reporting

New â??Report Servicesâ?? Technology Gaining Momentum

McLEAN, Va., (November 24, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that PRG-Schultz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRGX) has selected MicroStrategy Report Services(TM) for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis. Headquartered in Atlanta, PRG-Schultz International, Inc. (PRG-Schultz) is the world’s leading provider of recovery audit services.

“With MicroStrategy Report Services, more PRG-Schultz team members will be able to realize the benefits of business intelligence,” said Eric Goldfarb, CIO, PRG-Schultz International, Inc. “MicroStrategy Report Services creates content-rich, user-friendly reports that empower our employees – to make more efficient and proactive decisions. After evaluating the new product, we found MicroStrategy Report Services to be both feature-rich and reliable.”

MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization – to all its employees, customers, and suppliers – and delivers the entire range of enterprise report types that companies need. Over 500 PRG-Schultz employees will be using MicroStrategy Report Services to run reports and analysis against a 300-gigabyte Microsoft SQL Server database. This will markedly enhance such existing applications as financial reporting, human resource reporting, operational analysis reporting, auditor reporting and sales reporting.

“MicroStrategy Report Services is combining the best in business analytics and reporting to bring customers an integrated technology that is designed to fulfill their analytical data and reporting requirements enterprise-wide,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re proud that PRG-Schultz has selected MicroStrategy Report Services – which is already receiving high praise from our customers and industry analysts.”

About PRG-Schultz International, Inc.

Headquartered in Atlanta, PRG-Schultz International, Inc. (PRG-Schultz) is the world’s leading provider of recovery audit services. PRG-Schultz employs approximately 3,500 employees, providing clients in over 40 countries with insightful value to optimize and expertly manage their business transactions. Using proprietary software and expert audit methodologies, PRG-Schultz industry specialists review client invoices, purchase orders, receiving documents, databases, and correspondence files to recover lost profits due to overpayments or under-deductions. PRG-Schultz is retained on a pay-for-performance basis, receiving a percentage of each dollar recovered.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun and HP. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Unveils Breakthrough Business Intelligence Reporting Technology

Extends High-Value Business Intelligence to the Masses

MCLEAN, Va., (November 17, 2003) –

In a milestone for the industry, MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the release of a breakthrough business intelligence reporting technology, MicroStrategy Report ServicesTM. MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization – to all its employees, customers, and suppliers. It provides content-rich, user-friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of numerous new ones.

MicroStrategy Report Services is already winning high praise for its ability to deliver the entire range of enterprise report types that companies need. MicroStrategy Report Services can deliver scorecards to executives, ‘managed metrics’ reports to business-unit leaders, business performance reports to divisional managers, operational reports to all personnel, and invoices and statements to external consumers.

“The bottom-line,” MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal stressed, “is that MicroStrategy Report Services brings the best of business intelligence to the masses.” He added: “Historically, detailed analysis combined with compelling report formatting has been reserved for a relatively few business analysts. MicroStrategy Report Services can now easily place this premium caliber of insight and user control into the hands of every person in the business. With one technology, companies can now raise their entire ‘corporate IQ’, allowing all workers to optimize their portion of overall corporate performance.”

Making Reporting Accessible & Beneficial for Every Person in an Organization

MicroStrategy identified the following important capabilities of MicroStrategy Report Services:

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Any Type of Enterprise Reporting

MicroStrategy Report Services is designed to let users create and share any type of enterprise report they desire. With MicroStrategy Report Services, all users can receive any type of enterprise report – from Web-based scorecards with performance indicators to multi-page printed operational reports sectioned across multiple dimensions. MicroStrategy Report Services delivers report design freedom by allowing report designers to easily combine traditional hierarchical banded design techniques and newer Web-oriented zone-based design techniques.
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User-Defined Web Reporting

MicroStrategy Report Services reports can reach thousands of users through MicroStrategy’s award-winning unified Web interface, with each user receiving a completely personalized version of each report. All facets of a report are automatically personalized, including report contents, report language, and report drill-down paths. Users can personalize the content of every report further by selecting options from convenient lists when the report is run – known as parameterized reporting. MicroStrategy’s unified Web interface spans the globe in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Swedish automatically out of the box.
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Pixel-Perfect & Print Perfect Design

MicroStrategy Report Services enables user self-service by providing an intuitive design interface to create the perfect report without programming or outside help. MicroStrategy Report Services lets users create desktop-publishing-quality reports on top of their existing data. Users create reports with pixel-perfect precision by simply dragging-and-dropping and then formatting reports for boardroom quality presentation. MicroStrategy Report Services also delivers reports in Portable Document Format (PDF), ensuring printed reports have the same quality as on-screen reports.
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High-Throughput Production Reporting

MicroStrategy Report Services delivers reports to any user touchpoint including the Web, networked printers, email, file servers, and portals. Report delivery can be specified by either administrators or the users themselves, and can be scheduled or event-based. MicroStrategy Report Services meets the rigorous demands of high-throughput production reporting, with a proven throughput of 72,000 reports per hour. MicroStrategy Report Services is appropriate for an organization’s entire reporting needs and can ensure every report consumer gets the personalized reports they need through the channel they prefer.
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Seamless User Experience – Reporting Through Analysis

MicroStrategy Report Services is fully integrated with the rest of the award-winning MicroStrategy Business Intelligence PlatformTM. Users can seamlessly move from reporting to analysis and back again. Since MicroStrategy Report Services is simply a ‘service’ in MicroStrategy’s service-based architecture, the user interface stays the same as users move from reporting to analysis, minimizing product training and easing user adoption. All existing MicroStrategy reports will not only work with MicroStrategy Report Services, but they can also be made more compelling and approachable with MicroStrategy Report Services.

Leading Industry Analysts, Customers & Partners Applaud MicroStrategy Report Services

Leading industry analysts, MicroStrategy customers and partners are praising MicroStrategy Report Services for its innovations and exceptional capabilities to expand the strategic benefits of business intelligence software further and deeper into an enterprise than ever before.

Join MicroStrategy on Tuesday, November 18th at 12:00 EST for a special one-time Webcast unveiling of MicroStrategy Report Services. The 90-minute Webcast will include a live demonstration of MicroStrategy Report Services, presentations from MicroStrategy customers and from executives from IBM and the Gartner Group. To register for this one-time Webcast, click on the following link: http://www.microstrategy.com/er1

Nigel Pendse, The OLAP Report

“MicroStrategy is the first vendor to release a fully integrated formal reporting tool that provides traditional list reports, BI-style dashboards and interactive OLAP analyses, in any combination, all in a single module that uses the same infrastructure, security, calculation engine and deployment options as the rest of MicroStrategy’s product line,” says Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Report (http://www.olapreport.com) and The OLAP Survey (http://www.survey.com/olap/). “For many years, pundits have been predicting the convergence of enterprise reporting and BI, but this is the first product to deliver it.”

META Group

“Many enterprise IT organizations now prefer a comprehensive BI platform from a single vendor. With the release of Report Services, MicroStrategy rounds out its BI platform with a scalable enterprise reporting solution,” said Kurt Schlegel, Meta Group’s Program Director.

Forrester

“MicroStrategy customers should find Report Services very attractive in terms of cost, scalability and complementary functionality. Organizations interested in standardizing on a single BI vendor for analytic and enterprise reporting should add MicroStrategy to the short list of candidate technologies for banded and freeform enterprise reporting.” — No Longer Loathing Simplicity, MicroStrategy Enters the Enterprise Reporting Market Intelligently, Keith Gile, Forrester Analyst with Contributing Analyst Philip Russom, October 31, 2003.

Ventana Research

“IT Organizations are now looking to cut costs by supporting fewer software products. Acceptable reporting solutions must now handle any and all kinds of reporting needs from traditional production reporting to business intelligence-related reporting.” said Eric Rogge, VP and Research Director with Ventana Research. “MicroStrategy Report Services, which offers leading-edge integration of banded and ‘zone-based’ report layout approaches, combined with their existing BI modules on a unified architecture will raise the standard for comprehensive, integrated reporting platforms.”

The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI)

“MicroStrategy Report Services can deliver the full range of enterprise reports – from scorecards and dashboards to operational reports – because of its use of both banded and zone-based report layout,” said Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, TDWI.

21st Century Insurance Company

“We’re impressed with the quality and stability of MicroStrategy’s newest product, MicroStrategy Report Services,” said Brett Gourley, Sr. Project Manager at 21st Century Insurance Company. “Its integration with the MicroStrategy platform allows us to reuse common metadata definitions and security features to rapidly create and distribute enterprise reports. This integration also inherits the scalability and ease of administration found in the proven MicroStrategy 7i architecture. We believe this addition to the MicroStrategy platform will allow us to support virtually all of our analytical data and reporting requirements across our enterprise.”

Banco Espírito Santo

“We evaluated MicroStrategy Report Services and we’re very excited about this new product due to its out-of-the-box ability to generate pixel-perfect reports. This allows us to distribute large volumes of critical business data in an easy to consume format to our executives, managers and large user community,” said Artur Guterres, CIO at Banco Espírito Santo. “Currently, the MicroStrategy platform enables our branches and segment units to track the performance of the entire company, optimize product assortment and make decisions that increase revenue and profitability.”

Carl Warren and Company

“After test-driving MicroStrategy’s Report Services, we find significant enhancements for our internal needs as well as for our Fortune 500 customers using our mycarlwarren.com client extranet,” said Paul Park, Chief Technology Architect at Carl Warren and Company. “Now our clients are able to view and retrieve precisely-formatted, boardroom quality reports directly through the Web for rapid distribution within their enterprise.”

IBM

“Our customers demand the mission-critical security, support and scalability that the MicroStrategy architecture provides. Combined with DB2, MicroStrategy Report Services will allow our joint customers to deploy pixel-perfect reporting applications across the enterprise.” Karen Parrish, VP WW Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM Corporation.

HP

“With MicroStrategy Report Services, customers are now able to satisfy their reporting needs for all types of users with a single, unified BI platform,” said Bruno Castejon, Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions Director, Enterprise Systems Group, HP. “Combined with the highly scalable and reliable industry-standard HP ProLiant servers, the product can help businesses worldwide take advantage of the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy by extending the value of reporting on an enterprise scale.”

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

“True enterprise reporting requires a highly scalable platform to support large diverse user populations. By combining rich data access, complex formatting and the power of the MicroStrategy 7i architecture, MicroStrategy Report Services will allow our customers to easily deploy successful enterprise reporting capabilities to their users,” said Brian J. Queenin, Vice President, Global Leader – Information Management & Business Intelligence, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

For more details on MicroStrategy Report Services, please visit www.microstrategy.com/rs

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,300 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, and HP. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, and MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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