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DuPont Crop Protection Products Italy selects MicroStrategy as Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Standard

Jul 19, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Manages One of Richest Product Catalogues for Crop Protection

McLean, VA, (July 19, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that DuPont Crop Protection Products has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis. DuPont Crop Protection Products is a global leader in delivering science-based solutions in the areas of materials, products and technologies.

DuPont Crop Protection Products will harness the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform for sales analysis and reporting across the enterprise.

DuPont, with approximately 130 production plants and more than 70 laboratories for research and development, operates in more than 70 countries. Of the most innovative materials released from DuPont laboratories are: Teflon®, Nomex®, Kevlar® and Lycra®. DuPont Italy has more than 350 collaborators and generates approximately 800 million euros in annual revenues.

The agreement, signed at an international level, will allow DuPont Crop Protection Products in Italy to improve the management of orders and enable constant monitoring of the sales process.

DuPont Crop Protection Products Italy has experimented during recent years with different systems of business intelligence to gain insight from enterprise-wide data. The first step towards consolidating business information for DuPont Crop Protection Products was in 1987 with the creation of a system that enabled orders to be sent via PCs connected by telephone lines. Later, after the creation of a statistical system capable of monitoring sales processes, orders and discounts, DuPont Crop Protection Products advanced towards systems of business intelligence.

The choice of Dupont Italy to adopt MicroStrategy – thereby aligning itself to the international standard for the division of DuPont Crop Protection Products – completes its search for a flexible, scalable and high-performing information system.

The system enables users to perform detailed analysis of sales operations with respect to predefined criteria: product, client, or period. It provides campaign analysis for selected time periods and allows contrasts between historical and actual data. Additionally, managers may access ‘rapid’ reports to verify company results and make comparisons with previous periods.

“The management of sales processes and the communication of information between field sales and local headquarters is fundamental to our requirements. MicroStrategy is capable, with its Web-based and scalable platform, of resolving all analytical and reporting requirements,” said Enrico Cattaneo, Financial and Business Services Manager of DuPont Crop Protection Products for Italy.

“Within the general organization of DuPont Italy,” continues Cattaneo, “the division of ‘Crop Protection Products’ has particularly complex issues with sales operations due to seasonal variations of the crops. The variations in climate in Italy allow for the cultivation of a vast range of agricultural products, making the Italian catalogue of DuPont Crop Protection Products one of the richest, with more than 120 different products. The implementation of MicroStrategy is central to the improvement of our business.”

“We’re very happy to put our software at the disposition of DuPont Crop Protection Products,” said Andrea Delvò, Country Manager for MicroStrategy Italy. “We’re particularly proud that our platform is being used to replace certain existing software of our competitors because of our capacity to better manage complex criteria.”

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 2,600 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. 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.

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, MicroStrategy Office 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 and IBM Deliver Joint Business Intelligence Solution

Jul 16, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

IBM Data Management to Bundle MicroStrategy Into Data Warehouse Offering for Small and Medium Businesses

SOMERS, NY (July 16, 2004) –

IBM and MicroStrategy, a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced they are providing customers with a bundled data warehouse solution that will include the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) with IBM’s DB2® Universal Database (UDB) Data Warehouse (DWE) Standard Edition. The bundled data warehouse solution will be available immediately through IBM and will provide customers with a one-stop shop for a powerful out-of-the-box BI solution.

“People using IBM and MicroStrategy’s technology are making a difference in their business areas and are adding value to the bottom line,” said Vanitha Devarajan Senior Manager of Business Intelligence Solutions at the Bank of Montreal. “MicroStrategy offers our executives, managers and information analysts the capability to make full use of their IBM data warehouse in order to gain vital intelligence, and to make proactive decisions that can drive efficiency and productivity.”

MicroStrategy’s reporting and analysis products combined with IBM’s market-leading DB2 Data Warehouse software will help IBM customers more effectively leverage the critical information contained in their data warehouses. MicroStrategy provides simple-to-use, high-performance, open reporting technology that helps companies increase efficiency, productivity and profitability. Additionally, MicroStrategy’s pre-packaged Analytic Modules provide out-of-box best-practice starter kits in the areas of Sales, Customer, HR, Distribution, Financial and Web-Traffic analysis. The DB2 Universal Database Data Warehouse Edition bundle provides everything needed by customers for successful business intelligence deployments and can help maximize leveraging the full depth and breadth of IBM’s DB2 and Data Warehouse Edition.

“Integrating MicroStrategy with the IBM DB2 UDB Data Warehouse is yet another example of how MicroStrategy and IBM have joined forces to provide customers with a finely-integrated environment for rapidly developing and deploying reporting and analytic applications,” noted MicroStrategy’s COO, Sanju K. Bansal. “We pride ourselves in our strong relationships with technology leaders like IBM. This integration will expand our overall market reach, ultimately strengthening our leadership position in the business intelligence space.”

MicroStrategy, which offers Relational Online Analytical Processing (Relational OLAP), is designed to work with DB2 to provide improved query performance for medium and large data sets. MicroStrategy generates DB2-optimized SQL, integrates with DB2 Cube Views, accesses the full range of analytical functions within DB2, and integrates with DB2 Intelligent Miner for data mining and scoring.

“Companies of all sizes are struggling to integrate disparate silos of data and gain real-time analysis on their business information, regardless of the type of information or its source,” according to Karen Parrish, Vice President, Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM Software Group. “This bundled solution from IBM and MicroStrategy can help organizations integrate customer information across marketing and operational channels, providing valuable customer intelligence and the ability to rapidly identify business opportunities.”

The joint offering will be marketed through IBM to DB2 customers. In addition, select IBM channel partners will be able to deliver the offering in the future. IBM Business Consulting Services will also offer integration services in support of this offer.

About IBM’s Information Management Portfolio

There are more than 60 million DB2 users from 425,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM DB2 Information Management Solutions. IBM is the only data management software vendor to provide customers with integrated solutions for database management, tools, content management, enterprise information integration and business intelligence.

IBM and DB2 IBM are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. Other company, product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark 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.

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Manchester Airport Selects MicroStrategy For Airline Operations Reporting

Jul 12, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Manchester Airport has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ to provide management information to senior personnel about its airline operations

McLean, VA, (July 12, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Manchester Airport has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to provide management information to senior personnel about its airline operations. Manchester Airport is the UK’s third largest airport and currently handles 20 million passengers a year, offering direct flights to over 200 destinations worldwide by over 100 airlines.

Manchester Airport is using MicroStrategy to analyze and report on airline performance against specific targets for different sectors, routes and even individual flights. The airport wanted a user-friendly, scalable system to deliver fast results in a format that would be easily digestible by its management team.

“MicroStrategy reports against certain KPIs (key performance indicators) and displays information in an instantly recognizable dashboard format. We can drill down and find specific information on individual flights if required,” explained Chris Moore, Airport Pricing Manager, Manchester Airport.

Using MicroStrategy applications, the airport creates standard reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis plus any ad-hoc queries, many of which are delivered to senior management.

“In the future we’re considering the potential of integrating data from other revenue streams – such as our retail outlets and car parks,” concluded Moore.

“Manchester Airport is using MicroStrategy as a new strategic business tool to better understand and enhance its operations,” commented Richard Irwin, UK Managing Director, MicroStrategy. “Our strength in analyzing large volumes of data coupled with our customizable interface has enabled Manchester Airport to start turning historical data into critical business information.”

About Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport is the UK’s third largest airport and currently handles 20 million passengers a year, offering direct flights to over 200 destinations worldwide by over 100 airlines. Manchester Airport is part of The Manchester Airports Group Plc (MAG), which is the second largest airport operator in the UK and comprises the airports of Manchester, Nottingham East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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RuffaloCODY Selects MicroStrategy Report Services for Enterprise Reporting and Analysis

Jul 06, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Selected Over Business Objects, SAS, Oracle

McLean, VA, (July 06, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that RuffaloCODY has selected MicroStrategy Report Services(TM) for enterprise reporting and analysis on donor, prospect and member information. MicroStrategy was selected over Business Objects, SAS, and Oracle. RuffaloCODY is an international leader in providing software and direct marketing strategies for nonprofit organizations.

With users expected to grow by 30 percent annually, RuffaloCODY currently has 120 employees using MicroStrategy to report and analyze data collected from their CampusCALL and ONE direct marketing software tools. With MicroStrategy, RuffaloCODY employees are performing ad-hoc analysis and reporting on over a terabyte of donor, prospect and member data housed on a SQL Server data warehouse.

“After evaluating other leading vendors, we selected MicroStrategy because they provided an integrated reporting and analysis solution with content-rich, user-friendly reports. We especially like the intuitive Web interface that allows our users to create ad-hoc reports,” said RuffaloCODY’s CIO Bruce Lehrman. “In addition, MicroStrategy’s product vision and roadmap closely match our own business objectives.”

“MicroStrategy Report Services combines outstanding reporting and analytics into an integrated, robust enterprise reporting product,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “The MicroStrategy platform’s ease-of-use, flexibility, Web-based interface, and scalability for large databases offer RuffaloCODY a powerful technology to help meet the challenges posed by today’s competitive environment.”

About RuffaloCODY

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, RuffaloCODY employs over 1,100 people, located throughout the United States.

RuffaloCODY is the leading provider of software, telephone fundraising, membership, planned giving and enrollment management services for nonprofit organizations, working with over 300 clients per year.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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The Banco de Espa

Jun 28, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

For Central Bank Operations & Financial System

McLean, VA (June 28, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the Banco de España has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as the reporting and analysis standard for its Risk Information Group. The Banco de España is Spain’s central bank with full responsibility for regulation and supervision of the country’s financial system, and is a member of the European System of Central Banks along with the central banks of the other nations participating in the European Monetary Union and the European Central Bank.

“After evaluating other business intelligence solutions, the Banco de España selected MicroStrategy to meet our complex business requirements,” said Carlos Sainz, Head of the New Technologies Division at the Banco de España. “The MicroStrategy platform’s ease-of-use, unparalleled scalability, robust analytics and superior flexibility enable our employees to run sophisticated yet intuitive reports against large volumes of data.”

The Banco de España chose to deploy a data warehouse that enables employees to analyze credit risk data and run statistical reports with ease. In production since June 2002, the MicroStrategy-based system has successfully reached its first-phase objectives. The second phase ended in September 2003 and the application will continue to expand its reach across the organization in subsequent phases.

“The outstanding reporting features and excellent scalability inherent in the MicroStrategy platform provide the Banco de España with the ease-of-use for rapid deployment to a diverse user-base,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “A number of the world’s leading financial services companies and organizations have choosen MicroStrategy for such critical applications as regulatory management, business performance management, credit risk management, and financial reporting and analysis. The top five global commercial and savings banks are now MicroStrategy customers.”

About the Banco de España

The Banco de España is Spain’s central bank with full responsibility for regulation and supervision of the country’s financial system, and is a member of the European System of Central Banks along with the central banks of the other nations participating in the European Monetary Union and the European Central Bank. For more information, visit http://www.bde.es/homee.htm.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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MicroStrategy Releases UNIX-Based, High Performance Business Intelligence Platform

Jun 21, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Extending Advanced Reporting & Analysis to Mass Users

McLean, VA (June 21, 2004) –

In another milestone in extending user-friendly business intelligence software to mass users, MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR) released a UNIX®-based version of its award-winning MicroStrategy 7i platform. With the release of this new platform, called MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition, MicroStrategy now offers the market’s first business intelligence (BI) product line that is compiled to 32-bit and 64-bit modes from the same code base and can run on Microsoft® Windows, IBM AIX ® and Sun Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS).

“We expect MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition to enable the development of exciting new business intelligence applications, among both existing and new customers. By providing high performance enterprise reporting and analysis, it will permit thousands of additional business users, ranging from line-workers to top executives, to reap the benefits of business intelligence,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal.

More Users for Higher Performance Reporting & Analysis

“With MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition, far more users will now be able to tap into the largest databases and obtain answers faster to their reporting and analysis inquiries,” explained Bansal. “High performance business intelligence encourages business users to ask more questions and can produce better decision-making, enterprise-wide.”

Analysts See Significant Market Potential for MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition

“IDC estimates that approximately 22 percent of the BI market is based on UNIX,” said Dan Vesset Research Director in the Data Warehousing and Information Access Program at IDC. “The new Universal Edition of MicroStrategy 7i opens up a significant sector of the BI marketplace for MicroStrategy. Equally important is the fact that MicroStrategy 7i now runs in full 64-bit mode, extending MicroStrategy’s already high scalability to deliver even better reporting and analytics performance.”

“Many organizations today are trying to standardize on an enterprise business intelligence tools platform driven by the need to reduce costs and expand the number of knowledge workers — including customers and suppliers,” says Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute. “With the Universal Edition of MicroStrategy 7i, a 64-bit BI application server that can run on UNIX, MicroStrategy has taken its scalable, high performance BI platform to a new level in support of an organization’s BI standardization efforts.”

Customers & Partners Praise Capabilities of MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition

“MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition’s next-generation architecture gives us the comfort that it will seamlessly scale with the growth in our user and data sizes while delivering ultra high performance to our end users,” said Damon Dworak, Manager of Decision Support Services at MCI. “We currently support 1.5 terabytes of data and have found that we can easily grow our user base and increase data volumes with minimal additional hardware investments.”

“MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition running on Sun Solaris OS offers massive user and data scalability enabled by Sun’s 64-bit through-put computing architecture,” said Cyrus Golkar, CXO, Business Intelligence, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “With MicroStrategy, Solaris OS customers can experience the power of a unique infrastructure to integrate many BI applications into a single platform with impressive performance.”

MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition Key Features

MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition maintains MicroStrategy’s commitment to provide the most complete BI platform capable of delivering all five styles of business intelligence – enterprise reporting, cube analysis, ad-hoc query and analysis, statistical analysis, and report delivery and alerting – to thousands of corporate users, partners, and customers. MicroStrategy 7i accomplishes this on a single unified architecture.

Robust Analytic Server

MicroStrategy 7i’s unified architecture delivers a broad spectrum of BI functionality ranging from daily operational reports, ad-hoc queries and in-depth OLAP analysis. MicroStrategy 7i’s analytic server is architected to:

* Process queries, reports and analysis to millions of users
* Manage the definitions of reports, metrics and business that are used by all users in an enterprise in a central metadata repository
* Automatically generate highly sophisticated SQL to access the largest databases with high performance queries and reports
* Augment the native analytical capability of all major databases with an additional 200+ functions in the areas of OLAP, math, financial, statistical, and logical operators
* Protect sensitive information with ironclad security
* Provide fault tolerant operations on a 24×7 BI platform
* Eliminate the need to support multiple vendors and architectures for each different “Style of Business Intelligence”

Operating System Independence

The MicroStrategy 7i analytic server is compiled to both 64-bit UNIX and 32-bit Windows environments from a single code base, which provides companies with the flexibility to freely choose the hardware and software that best fits their needs – both now and in the future. Because of the single code base:

* Customers receive the same functionality and administrative ease regardless of operating system
* New features, service packs and patches are released across all operating systems simultaneously
* Corporations can conform to their hardware and operating system standards

Proven Scalability

The support for UNIX and Windows operating systems allows querying, reporting and analytical infrastructure to grow incrementally to meet increasing numbers of users and volumes of data from small departmental applications to massive enterprise and extranet implementations. This is accomplished with:

* Object-oriented metadata repository
* Highly efficient and tunable multi-pass SQL generation
* Four levels of shared caches
* Full-featured library analytical and BI functions
* Multi-server clustering and load-balancing capability
* Automatic failover and fault tolerance
* Full parallel processing
* Automatic resource reallocation and system tuning
* Administrative functions attuned to thousands or millions of objects and users
* Multi-leveled security features tuned for fine grained control of both intranet and extranet implementations

Enterprise-Caliber Manageability

MicroStrategy 7i facilitates the monitoring and analyzing the real-time and historical use and performance of the BI system, making it easy to tune the system appropriately, deploy new applications rapidly and manage large BI implementations with textual scripts, all from a central location. The administrator-friendly interfaces:

* Allow centralized and remote management and configuration
* Allow fine-grained monitoring, logging and control of the system’s performance and usage
* Provide fine-grained control over the types of operations various classes of users are allowed to perform
* Define the level of detailed diagnostic statistics to capture for troubleshooting purposes
* Provide real-time and historical analysis to identify usage trends and potential bottlenecks
* Provide impact assessment of proposed configuration changes and potential changes to any part of the application definition
* Automate all repetitive tasks and initiate them on a time-based or event-based schedule
* Support bulk administrative operations to simplify system changes and reduce manpower investment

Pricing and Availability

MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition is included in the MicroStrategy 7i release and is expected to be generally available the week of June 21, 2004. Pricing for the Universal Edition of Intelligence Server begins at $744 per user or $58,000 per CPU. In this release, Intelligence Server will be available on:

* Sun Solaris OS
* IBM AIX
* Microsoft Windows

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Expands use of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software

Jun 07, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

$645,000 in Software & Maintenance

McLean, Va., (June 07, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded its use of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to support the new Medicare Managed Care System (MMCS). CMS has purchased MicroStrategy software licenses and maintenance services valued at approximately $645,000.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is responsible for administering the Medicare Program and the joint Federal-State Medicaid Program.

The new MMCS will help CMS to better meet current and future legislative requirements, accommodate anticipated growth, provide better service to beneficiaries, and facilitate CMS’s monitoring of the Medicare Managed Care program and evaluation of policy decisions. MMCS will process enrollment and payment transactions for more than seven million Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in 427 Medicare managed care organizations (MCOs) — computing payments that total over $3 billion per month.

MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform is being used to provide better insight into information available to CMS (e.g., utilization, quality of care, payment), thereby enabling improved management of the Medicare managed care program.

“Federal and state government agencies are choosing MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform to gain better visibility into their operations and to help make important strategic decisions,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re particularly proud of our expanding relationship with the CMS, which provides vital services to citizens nationwide.”

MicroStrategy and the State of Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration were honored last year with a DM Review World Class Solution Award for a MicroStrategy application that processes and analyzes millions of Tennessee financial records in an efficient manner. This MicroStrategy application has reduced costs and significantly improved the quality of financial information for decision-making by state officials.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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First American Corporation’s Interactive Division Selects MicroStrategy’s Software for Extensive Deployment

Jun 01, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Extranet Application for 30,000+ Customers

McLEAN, Va., (June 01, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the Interactive Division of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), the nation’s largest data provider, has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its business intelligence standard. MicroStrategy was selected over a field of five major business intelligence competitors. MicroStrategy will be adopted for extensive applications involving real estate and lender products and services, including an extranet for more than 30,000 customers.

The First American Corporation is a Fortune 300 company that traces its history to 1889. As the nation’s largest data provider, the company supplies businesses and consumers with information resources in connection with the major economic events of people’s lives, such as getting a job; renting an apartment; buying a car, house, boat or airplane; securing a mortgage; opening or buying a business; and planning for retirement.

Through the extranet component of its MicroStrategy deployment, First American’s Interactive Division will produce reports for its customers that help them cross-sell products and services while also providing marketplace analyses and customer marketing assessments. These customers will include bank executives, loan officers, real estate brokers and escrow agents. The Interactive Division will also harness MicroStrategy for its own title insurance, real estate and trust groups, running all its applications against a one-terabyte Oracle database.

“We selected MicroStrategy over competing products because of its outstanding scalability for large numbers of users and its superior capability to generate user-friendly reports with highly detailed analysis of granular-level data,” said the Vice President of Software Development for First American’s Interactive Division, Gus Tepper. “MicroStrategy is instrumental to our strategy to bring end users closer to the information they require.”

“MicroStrategy technology is focused on helping Fortune 500 companies provide better customer service, engender new efficiencies and identify revenue-generating opportunities,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “With MicroStrategy’s easy-to-use Web interface and unparalleled scalability, leading companies are building business intelligence extranets that extend the benefits of the data warehouse to customers, suppliers and partners.”

Six of the top ten global financial institutions are MicroStrategy customers, using MicroStrategy for such critical applications as financial analysis and compliance, sales and trading, operations and fraud profiling and risk analysis.

About The First American Corporation

The First American Corporation is a Fortune 500 company that traces its history to 1889. As the nation’s largest data provider, the company supplies businesses and consumers with information resources in connection with the major economic events of people’s lives, such as getting a job; renting an apartment; buying a car, house, boat or airplane; securing a mortgage; opening or buying a business; and planning for retirement. The First American Family of Companies, many of which command leading market share positions in their respective industries, operate within six primary business segments including: Title Insurance and Services, Specialty Insurance, Mortgage Information, Property Information, Credit Information and Screening Information. With revenues of $6.21 billion in 2003, First American has 29,000 employees in approximately 1,800 offices throughout the United States and abroad. More information about the company and an archive of its press releases can be found at www.firstam.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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MicroStrategy Wins Excellence Award in International Technical Publications Competition

May 27, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won an Excellence Award for the software guide category in the International Technical Publications Competition (ITPC) for the MicroStrategy 7i Advanced Reporting

McLEAN, VA (May 27, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has won an Excellence Award for the software guide category in the International Technical Publications Competition (ITPC) for the MicroStrategy 7i Advanced Reporting Guide. None of MicroStrategy’s leading competitors were among the award winners.

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) sponsors ITPC to determine, recognize, and encourage excellence in communication through printed media. The ITPC honors technical writers and editors who set the standards for published technical communication. All entrants in the international competition were also winners in their respective local chapters; MicroStrategy received a Distinguished Technical Communication award in the DC Chapter.

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

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German Telecom Giant O2 Using MicroStrategy for Enterprise-Wide Reporting & Analysis

May 24, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

400+ Employee Users in Sales, Finance, Marketing and Management

McLean, Va. (May 24, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that leading German mobile telecommunications provider O2 is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis.

A customer since 1998, O2 has over 400 employees in sales, finance, marketing and management harnessing MicroStrategy to analyze and report on data collected from over 5.7 million customers. Via MicroStrategy’s user-friendly Web interface, O2 performs various applications including: network utilization, and sales force performance. Over six terabytes of data is processed and analyzed.

“The MicroStrategy-anchored business intelligence system plays a fundamental role in securing and maintaining our company’s success by gathering up-to-the-minute customer information across our entire business,” said Dr. Clemens Schäffner, O2. “Our management team is able to drill down to find specific information about new customers, successful sales channels, or popular products and have the information presented in easy-to-read one-page reports. We can now better assess performance and enhance operational efficiencies.”

“We’re pleased that O2 continues to achieve success with MicroStrategy’s platform,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Nine of the top ten Fortune 500 telecommunications companies are MicroStrategy customers and use our products with applications like customer profitability, traffic analysis, and sales force performance.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
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mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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