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MicroStrategy Strengthens Position in 64-Bit Business Intelligence

Jan 26, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy 8 Certified on HP Integrity Servers Running HP-UX 11i

McLean, VA., (January 26, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the upcoming release of MicroStrategy 8 will be certified on HP Integrity servers. MicroStrategy continues to strengthen its position in 64-bit business intelligence by supporting HP-UX 11i.

MicroStrategy’s 64-bit BI architecture can support large user populations and high data scalability. The combination of MicroStrategy and HP Integrity servers based on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors delivers powerful capabilities, allowing large scale BI applications to be rapidly deployed and easily maintained.

MicroStrategy 8 is one of the few BI technologies fully compiled in 64-bit mode, enabling businesses to support more BI applications, with more users, and higher performance on fewer servers, enabling delivery of a highly affordable BI solution for enterprise BI standardization.

“MicroStrategy continues to extend its capabilities in 64-bit BI with our certification on HP-UX 11i,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy 8 running on HP Integrity servers based on Itanium 2 processors provides our customers with a highly scalable and efficient architecture well-suited for large scale business intelligence deployments.”

“Infrastructure matters more than ever for business intelligence. Our customers demand higher availability, security, scalability, and flexibility,” said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Servers, HP. “With MicroStrategy 8 on HP Integrity servers customers can consolidate and scale their business intelligence environments on a platform that was built for BI.”

“MicroStrategy’s upcoming release and HP Integrity servers based on Intel Itanium 2 processors are a powerful combination for enterprise end users,” said Melissa Laird, general manager of the Global Developer Relations Division, Intel Corporation. “By threading the application, MicroStrategy takes full advantage of Intel’s newest Itanium 2 processor in dual and multiprocessing configurations, making it well suited for large-scale business intelligence deployments that require the highest performance, scalability and reliability.”

In addition to HP-UX 11i, MicroStrategy 8 supports other major 64-bit operating systems including Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and Red Hat Linux. The upcoming release of MicroStrategy 8 is expected to be generally available in the first quarter of 2006.

About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects, potential new product releases and expected generally availability dates for new product releases and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks that could cause MicroStrategy’s actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the ability of MicroStrategy to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its software on a timely basis; delays in MicroStrategy’s ability to develop or ship new products, including new releases of MicroStrategy 8 software and specific features in any such release; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in MicroStrategy’s 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 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.

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MicroStrategy Recognizes U.S. Postal Service Executive with Individual Excellence Award

Jan 25, 2006 | 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 selected Robert Otto, CIO/CTO of the U.S. Postal Service, as the recipient of MicroStrategyâ??s Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence award. Mr. Otto was

Miami, FL, (January 25, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected Robert Otto, CIO/CTO of the U.S. Postal Service, as the recipient of MicroStrategy’s Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence award. Mr. Otto was recognized today at MicroStrategy World 2006 in Miami, Florida.

Each year at its annual user conference, MicroStrategy recognizes one individual that exemplifies outstanding leadership and vision in business intelligence excellence. As CTO, Mr. Otto oversees the Information Technology organization at the Postal Service, consisting of 1,314 employees, including developers, data architects, and end-user support specialists. The Postal Service has a 60-terabyte Teradata data warehouse, one of the largest data warehouses in the world.

MicroStrategy supports business intelligence applications in every major functional group in the Postal Service. There are over 30,000 managers using the data provided by these business intelligence applications. The users include financial and account analysts, service delivery analysts, budget coordinators, retail managers, and local postmasters across the Postal Service. The Postal Service has 4,000 users running 31,000 daily queries, and over 140,000 reports are run every week for 30,000 managers to monitor and analyze financial performance, on-time delivery performance, network efficiency, in-plant operations, and retail outlet performance.

The United States Postal Service uses the Enterprise Data Warehouse to drive increases in revenue, reduce costs, improve operations, detect fraud, and increase efficiencies in mail service. To date, over $350 million in savings/cost avoidance have been realized.

“I am proud to receive this award from MicroStrategy, and I accept it on behalf of the Postal Service’s entire Information Technology team,” said Mr. Otto. “Our hard-working team does an outstanding job of supporting the ever-changing IT requirements of the Postal Service. MicroStrategy has been an integral component of our department since 1997, and its technology has enabled us to make remarkable improvements in areas including operational efficiency, financial performance, transportation logistics, and customer service.”

“Behind an organization’s successful deployment of our software is a leader who has the vision to champion the cause of business intelligence and, as a result, change the way the organization does business,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Bob Otto, with more than 35 years of experience in information technology, has been instrumental in the deployment of MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform at the USPS. We congratulate Bob and the entire U.S. Postal Service’s Information Technology team for their exceptional work.”

About U.S. Postal Service
Since 1775, the Postal Service and its predecessor, the Post Office Department, has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. It is an independent federal agency that visits more than 144 million homes and businesses every day and is the only service provider delivering to every address in the nation. The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual revenues of $70 billion, it is the world’s leading provider of mailing and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the world’s mail volume–some 212 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year–and serves seven million customers each day at its 37,000 retail locations nationwide.

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MicroStrategy Recognizes Five Companies for Excellence in Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence

Jan 25, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Verispan, Watkins Motor Lines, American Express, KeySpan, and NBC Universal Honored at MicroStrategy World 2006 User Conference

Miami, FL, (January 25, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today recognized five companies for achieving outstanding business performance with their MicroStrategy-based business intelligence applications. The “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” award winners for 2006 are Verispan, Watkins Motor Lines, American Express, KeySpan and NBC Universal. By deploying MicroStrategy business intelligence (BI) applications, these companies are sharing information across their enterprises to enhance corporate performance, improve efficiency and productivity, increase revenues, and strengthen customer relationships. The awards were announced at the company’s annual user conference, MicroStrategy World 2006, in Miami, FL.

The award categories and the winners are:
Data Scalability: Verispan
User Scalability: Watkins Motor Lines
Extranet Deployment: American Express
Enterprise Deployment: KeySpan
Innovative BI Integration: NBC Universal

“We are pleased to recognize each of these leading organizations for demonstrating best practices in their MicroStrategy business intelligence deployments,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “We applaud them for their exceptional use of business intelligence to streamline and enhance their business performance.”

Following is a brief description of this year’s winners:

Verispan : A MicroStrategy customer since 1998, Verispan is the winner in the Data Scalability category. Verispan and its clients are using MicroStrategy to analyze nearly 10 terabytes of prescription claims, medical claims, hospital claims and client data stored in a 120-terabyte Oracle 9i® data warehouse. Dozens of data sources feed an enterprise data warehouse that currently supports 30 MicroStrategy applications. Approximately 1,650 client users, including pharmaceutical companies and government agencies as well as Verispan employees, run nearly 5,000 ad-hoc reports each month to analyze and report on granular patient-centric data, secondary audits, primary research, strategic studies, and customer profiles. Verispan, a healthcare informatics joint venture of Quintiles Transnational Corp. and McKesson Corp., provides a broad array of information products and services to the healthcare industry, including sales targeting and compensation products; market research audits; healthcare profiles; comprehensive managed care offerings; primary market research; opinion leader mapping; data integration, warehousing and mining; data analysis and consulting; direct mail; list services; disease management studies; clinical trial investigator targeting and protocol recruitment evaluation; healthcare outcomes; and cost/benefit analyses, among many others. Verispan is also the nation’s leading provider of patient-centric longitudinal data, with dozens of products used by clients spanning the industry.

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc. : Watkins Motor Lines is the winner in the User Scalability category. A leading transportation company, Watkins provides its customers with immediate, real-time information about freight movement, delivery times and shipment status via its personalized and secure extranet website, myWatkins.com. MicroStrategy powers the Customer Web Reporting application, which continues to grow and support over 20,000 Watkins customers and 250 internal account executives. End users receive custom shipment schedules and real-time freight shipment reports on an hourly/daily basis from data in an IBM® UDB DB2 database. This application relies on MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server(TM) to deliver critical reports to Watkins’ customers. The application produces over 40,000 on-demand scheduled e-mails and faxes each month. With annual revenues of $1 billion, Watkins Motor Lines is one of the nation’s largest privately held, less-than-truckload carriers. It currently has 139 locations in 42 states and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and employs more than 10,000 employees and contractors.

American Express : American Express Business Travel is the winner in the Extranet Deployment category for its TrackPoint Global Traveler location solution. Designed to address the safety concerns of business travelers, TrackPoint helps companies protect the well-being of their most important asset — employees — by speeding their ability to locate traveling employees worldwide. During a crisis, such as acts of terrorism or severe weather incidences, travel managers, risk managers or security personnel deploy TrackPoint to quickly access traveler trip itineraries, and thereby identify employees in harm’s way and make critical decisions about their needs. A key feature of TrackPoint is its web-based graphical user interface, powered by MicroStrategy, which, beginning with a map of the world, allows users to point-and-click through country, state/province, and city layers until they isolate the itineraries of impacted travelers. TrackPoint was recently rolled out to American Express Business Travelers in North America and Europe. American Express operates one of the world’s largest travel agency networks with over 2200 travel service locations across 140 countries and territories.

KeySpan : A customer since 1998, KeySpan is the winner in the Enterprise Deployment category and has adopted MicroStrategy as its enterprise BI standard. KeySpan has more than 2,000 users including marketing analysts, financial analysts and gas marketers accessing 36 MicroStrategy-based applications that run against a 1.5-terabyte Oracle 9i® data warehouse. The data warehouse has grown by approximately 50 percent each year since 2001, and the user community has grown 20 percent each year since 2001. MicroStrategy provides the single reporting and analysis platform at KeySpan, enabling users across the enterprise to access their data. The KeySpan user community runs approximately 40,000 reports per month. As a result of adopting MicroStrategy as its enterprise BI standard, KeySpan has integrated the majority of its major applications into the data warehouse, including a mission critical gas control supply application. A member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, KeySpan Corporation is the fifth largest distributor of natural gas in the United States and the largest in the Northeast, operating regulated gas utilities in New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire that serve 2.6 million customers.

NBC Universal : A customer since 2001, NBC Universal is the winner in the Innovative BI Integration category for deploying MicroStrategy and Geac, yielding significant process improvements and enterprise-wide value. California-based Universal Studios Hollywood theme park business, owned by NBC Universal, replaced a challenging spreadsheet-based system with a MicroStrategy/Geac solution that provides visibility into the theme park’s central budgeting, financial reporting and consolidation mechanism. Using MicroStrategy, line managers can quickly make changes in attendance or park hour assumptions, and provide senior management with new performance targets in minutes as opposed to days or weeks. These daily budgets are then seamlessly loaded to a data warehouse so that operators and line managers can run self-service reports using MicroStrategy to make decisions that optimize revenues and contain costs. The Geac MPC-based financial application analyzes information from one source (SAP® R/3), and MicroStrategy reports on and analyzes operational and transactional data from 10 source systems that feed SAP. Since going live, both technologies have enabled managers to make quick operational decisions resulting in significant increases in customer spend and attendance rates. It is estimated that millions of dollars in additional revenue have been generated as a result of increased attendance. The MicroStrategy/Geac solution has also fundamentally changed the finance, budgeting, reporting and financial closing processes, and cut budget processing time by over 50 percent. NBC Universal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience.

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Independent Survey Finds MicroStrategy the Best Business Intelligence Product for Data Scalability

Jan 24, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Customers Analyzed Largest Data Volumes, for Fifth Consecutive Year

McLean, Va., (January 24, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that The OLAP Survey 5, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has highlighted the large data handling capabilities of MicroStrategy’s software. For the fifth consecutive year, MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software was found to be superior to that of Business Objects, Cognos, and Oracle Discoverer in data scalability.

The OLAP Survey 5, conducted annually by independent analyst Nigel Pendse and Survey.com, (http://www.survey.com/olap), compiled the BI experiences of 2,100 organizations and found that MicroStrategy customers accessed the largest data volumes by a substantial margin. MicroStrategy customers are accessing a median of 347 Gigabytes (GB) in this latest survey. These median data volumes are larger, by more than a factor of 4 greater than Business Objects; a factor of 55 greater than Oracle Discoverer; and a factor of 131 greater than Cognos.

Median Reported Data Input Volumes

Vendor

Input Data Volume (GB)

MicroStrategy

347

Business Objects

SAP BW

Oracle Express

Oracle Discoverer

Hyperion Essbase

Microsoft AS

Cognos PowerPlay

Board MIT

MIS

Applix TM1

MicroStrategy’s proprietary Relational OLAP (ROLAP) technology allows interactive analysis of terabyte-sized relational databases. In contrast, the cube-based OLAP technology employed by most other BI providers is optimized for small volumes of data and is not well-suited for high data volume, transaction-level BI applications.

“Since the inception of this survey, MicroStrategy sites have reported the largest data volumes of all, with a substantial gap between MicroStrategy and the second place product,” said Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Survey 5. “Despite most vendors claiming to be able to handle large, detailed applications, it is clear that only MicroStrategy’s customers are actually implementing such transaction level BI databases. MicroStrategy is the clear leader in the enterprise-scale BI segment.”

“Year after year, The OLAP Survey 5 has confirmed that MicroStrategy’s outstanding data scalability sets it apart from the other BI products,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “As terabyte-size data warehouses become more commonplace, MicroStrategy’s technology is an excellent choice for enterprise-wide business intelligence deployments.”

To view a summary of The OLAP Survey 5 results go to: http://www.microstrategy.com/Company/OLAP_Survey5.asp

About The OLAP Survey 5
The OLAP Survey 5, the largest and most comprehensive survey of OLAP products to date, is conducted by Nigel Pendse and Survey.com. This year’s survey is by far the most extensive, compiling the real-world BI experiences of 2,100 organizations across 71 countries and 31 different industry categories. No vendors were involved in developing the questions or in sponsoring the survey.

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Geac

Jan 23, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Alliance Brings Together Complementary Technologies for Business Intelligence and Financial Performance Management

McLean, Va., (January 23, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Geac®, a global enterprise software company dedicated to addressing the needs of CFOs, has signed a Global Reseller Agreement with MicroStrategy.

Geac plans to offer a solution that integrates MicroStrategy’s business intelligence reporting with Geac’s MPC performance management software. This solution will provide finance professionals with enhanced reporting and analysis of financial performance management data.

“MicroStrategy and Geac have produced dramatic improvements in the enterprise performance management of our theme park business,” said Dan Aptor, Director of Financial Systems for NBC Universal. “We faced an escalating demand from management for enhanced operational reporting and budgeting. With support from MicroStrategy, we can now track ticket sales, marketing promotions, food and retail purchases, and other key data on a daily basis and Geac’s MPC financial application helped us reduce the budgeting process from 6-8 weeks to 2 weeks. There are many other areas across the company where MicroStrategy and Geac have enabled us to streamline our operations, yielding millions in cost savings and allowing us to make more timely and strategic decisions.”

“MicroStrategy is a proven leader in the business intelligence arena and we are delighted to collaborate with them and introduce the benefits of MicroStrategy’s proven solutions to our customer base,” said Brian Hartlen, Geac’s vice president of global marketing. “Our companies are working together to ensure that we help our customers more efficiently and effectively leverage information technology to manage their organizations.”

“Through this alliance, Geac’s customers will gain greater value from their corporate performance management investment with the ability to leverage MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence technology,” said Tom Villani, MicroStrategy’s vice president of global alliances. “We are pleased to add Geac to our portfolio of alliances.” The partnership will be introduced at MicroStrategy World 2006, January 23-26, 2006 in Miami, Florida.

About Geac
Geac (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ:GEAC) is a global enterprise software company that addresses the needs of the Chief Financial Officer. Geac’s best-in-class technology products and services help organizations do more with less in an increasingly competitive environment, amidst growing regulatory pressure, and in response to other business issues confronting the CFO. Further information is available at http://www.geac.com or through e-mail at info@geac.com.

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MicroStrategy Announces Access to Multidimensional Data Sources

Jan 19, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the latest release of MicroStrategy 8 will offer access to multidimensional data sources, including Microsoft Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase.

McLean, VA., (January 19, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the latest release of MicroStrategy 8 will offer access to multidimensional data sources, including Microsoft Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase.

Using MicroStrategy 8, businesses can report on, analyze, and monitor data contained in all major relational databases as well as multidimensional sources from SAP, Microsoft, and Hyperion. The newest release of MicroStrategy 8 will make it easier for customers to standardize on MicroStrategy for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis.

MicroStrategy’s Relational Online Analytical Processing (ROLAP) engine interactively accesses some of the largest and most robust data warehouses in business and government, using MicroStrategy’s optimized dynamic SQL capability. The newest release of MicroStrategy 8 will contain a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) engine capable of creating optimized dynamic MDX syntax, allowing MicroStrategy customers efficient access to MDX data sources such as Microsoft Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase. Following its commitment to open and industry standards, MicroStrategy’s new MDX engine uses the XML for Analysis (XML/A) standard as the basis for its new technology.

“The upcoming MicroStrategy 8 release will make it even easier for customers to standardize on the MicroStrategy platform,” said MicroStrategy COO, Sanju Bansal. “With MicroStrategy 8, users can dynamically access the full breadth of their data warehouses and data marts with high performance and high scale. By providing direct access to multidimensional data sources, our customers have added flexibility and functionality to use MicroStrategy across their entire enterprise.”

The next release of MicroStrategy 8, incorporating access to multidimensional data sources, is planned to be generally available in the first quarter of 2006.

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MicroStrategy Rated Top Performer in Web Deployment, According to Independent Business Intelligence Survey

Jan 18, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyÂ® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that The OLAP Survey 5, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has found that MicroStrategy customers lead in Web deployment.

McLean, Va., (January 18, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that The OLAP Survey 5, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has found that MicroStrategy customers lead in Web deployment. For the fifth consecutive year, MicroStrategy customers are more successful in deploying business intelligence via the Web than are customers using any other leading business intelligence product.

Conducted by independent analyst Nigel Pendse and Survey.com (http://www.survey.com/olap), The OLAP Survey 5 compiled the BI experiences of 2,100 organizations around the world. The Survey found that MicroStrategy had the highest Web Deployment Rate of 84%, meaning 84% of MicroStrategy’s customers reported that they have deployed business intelligence via the Web to at least 50% of their users.
Vendor Web Deployment Rates (%)
MicroStrategy
84
Cognos PowerPlay
67
SAP BW
52
Hyperion Essbase
52
Oracle Discoverer
45
Microsoft AS
42
Business Objects
38
Oracle OLAP Servers
37
MIK OLAP
24
MIS
24

In its findings, the Survey stated that web-deployed BI applications deliver greater business value and benefits than those deployed via client/server technology.

“For the fifth straight year, MicroStrategy sites had the highest rates for Web deployment,” said Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Survey 5. “Unique among major BI products, the complete MicroStrategy product line was designed from the ground up for large scale Web deployments, rather than being converted from older desktop or client/server architectures. This provides an advantage for its customers, who report on far more data, to more users, and who are much more likely to be Web connected than those using any other product.”

“The OLAP Survey 5 has again confirmed that MicroStrategy customers have greater success in deploying BI via the Web,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s advanced technology provides an intuitive zero-footprint ‘windows on the web’ user interface, which makes it easier for customers to realize the full value of their BI investment.”

To view a summary of The OLAP Survey 5 results go to: http://www.microstrategy.com/Company/OLAP_Survey5.asp

About The OLAP Survey 5
The OLAP Survey 5, the largest and most comprehensive survey of OLAP products to date, is conducted by Nigel Pendse and Survey.com. This year’s survey is by far the most extensive, compiling the real-world BI experiences of 2,100 organizations across 95 countries and 31 different industry categories. No vendors were involved in developing the questions or in sponsoring the survey.

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MicroStrategy Announces Barcelona, Spain as Location for Winter Symposium

Jan 16, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Interactive Event Features Best Practices in Business Intelligence

McLean, Va., (January 16, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host the MicroStrategy Winter Symposium, February 6-8, 2006, at the Hotel Fira Palace in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event offers a collaborative venue for participants to exchange ideas with industry experts and peers, learn valuable BI strategies from successful global companies, and consult with MicroStrategy’s top technology leaders.

The MicroStrategy Winter Symposium will feature a wide range of educational sessions, led by MicroStrategy product managers and engineers, with valuable information on BI application usage and performance. The Product Direction Sessions, led by MicroStrategy senior product and program managers, give attendees the opportunity to impact future MicroStrategy products. In addition, participants can schedule a one-hour consultation, at no charge, with a member of the MicroStrategy Technical Advisory Services Team.

A highlight of the Winter Symposium will be presentations from MicroStrategy customers that have successfully deployed enterprise BI applications and improved business performance. Some of the companies scheduled to present include Aerolíneas Argentinas, Chevron Brazil, Symrise, Michelin, and Codere.

In conjunction with the Winter Symposium, MicroStrategy is hosting an invitation-only Executive Forum. The program will feature insights on BI success strategies from MicroStrategy customers CTTI and Cortefiel Group, and a roundtable discussion on business intelligence industry trends moderated by BI analyst Nigel Pendse.

“Following MicroStrategy’s successful 2005 Symposia series in the U.S., we expanded the schedule to reach our European customers, prospects, and partners,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “The Winter Symposium in Barcelona offers attendees a dynamic forum to interact with MicroStrategy experts, hear what industry-leading companies have learned from their BI deployments, and network with peers.”

To find out more about the MicroStrategy Winter Symposium, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/Events/winter_symposium2006/.

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MicroStrategy Ranked #1 in Customer Loyalty, According to The OLAP Survey 5

Jan 11, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

For Second Consecutive Year, MicroStrategy Customers Most Loyal

McLean, Va., (January 11, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that in a comprehensive survey of companies using business intelligence (BI) software products, those using MicroStrategy are the most loyal and satisfied. MicroStrategy received an overall customer loyalty score of 81% and was the highest ranked business intelligence software product reviewed.

The OLAP Surveys, conducted annually by industry analyst Nigel Pendse and Survey.com (http://www.survey.com/olap), are the most comprehensive independent surveys of the BI market space and products. This year’s survey, The OLAP Survey 5, is the most extensive, compiling the BI experiences of 2,100 organizations across 95 countries.

According to The OLAP Survey 5, customer loyalty is an indication of how satisfied a customer is with a vendor’s products and services and is a crucial factor in vendor success. A loyal customer is defined as one that continues to use existing applications; purchases additional software to deploy existing applications more widely; uses the product in preference to others when implementing new applications; and favors the product if there is ever a demand to reduce the number of BI suppliers.

The products reviewed in The OLAP Survey 5 in rank order were:
BI Vendor Customer Loyalty Rank Overall Loyalty Score
MicroStrategy
1

81%
Applix TM1
2

80%
Microsoft AS
3

77%
Hyperion Essbase
4

74%
MIS Alea
5

72%
SAP BW
6

72%
Cognos PowerPlay
7

72%
Business Objects
8

51%
Oracle Discover
9

50%
Oracle OLAP Servers
10

48%

“For the second consecutive year, MicroStrategy had the highest customer loyalty of any of the products reviewed,” reported Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Survey 5. “The results confirm that well-known vendors, who have pursued a growth strategy based on acquisitions aimed at covering the entire BI spectrum, have poor customer loyalty; whereas MicroStrategy, which has concentrated on a single product architecture and has grown organically, came out on top. The fact that MicroStrategy was rated number one suggests that many of its customers see no alternative to the product.”

“We are delighted that our customers have, once again, indicated their strong loyalty toward MicroStrategy products and services,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO.

To view a summary of The OLAP Survey 5 results go to: http://www.microstrategy.com/Company/OLAP_Survey5.asp

About The OLAP Survey 5
The OLAP Survey 5, the largest and most comprehensive survey of OLAP products to date, is conducted by Nigel Pendse and Survey.com. This year’s survey is by far the most extensive, compiling the real-world BI experiences of 2,100 organizations across 95 countries and 31 different industry categories. No vendors were involved in developing the questions or in sponsoring the survey.

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MicroStrategy Joins IBM’s ISV Advantage Initiative

Jan 10, 2006 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Teams with IBM to Deliver Open, on Demand Business Solutions to Retail and Healthcare Customers

McLean, Va., (January 10, 2006) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has joined IBM’s ISV Advantage for SMB Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help them meet the specific information technology needs of small and medium sized (SMB) companies.

MicroStrategy will utilize the resources from IBM sales, technical, and marketing programs to drive demand for industry solutions leveraging the MicroStrategy platform, including the IBM® Retail Business Intelligence Solution(TM), IBM Workplace(TM) for Retail Store Operations, IBM Workplace for Retail Merchandise Management, and IBM Aligned Clinical Environment. By enabling MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) with IBM’s retail and healthcare solutions, MicroStrategy seeks to further expand into these important vertical markets.

MicroStrategy provides business intelligence software that enables companies across a wide range of industries to tap into their databases and deliver critical information to make more strategic and data-driven business decisions. Retail and healthcare customers are well represented in MicroStrategy’s broad customer base. Many of the world’s largest retailers use MicroStrategy to power sophisticated applications that provide valuable insight into areas such as merchandise management, inventory control, marketing analysis, store operations, and loss prevention. Healthcare agencies, payors, and hospitals choose MicroStrategy to analyze and improve operations, service quality, resource utilization, claims administration, and order tracking.

Additionally, MicroStrategy announced that it has achieved Advanced Industry Optimized status in IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks for retail and healthcare. MicroStrategy will also work closely with IBM to expand its visibility in these target vertical industries through various co-marketing and sales activities.

“Retail and healthcare companies are looking for on demand business solutions to improve operations and reduce costs,” said Buell Duncan, GM, ISV Developer Relations, IBM. “MicroStrategy’s industry leading applications built on IBM’s open middleware, provide a total solution for retail and healthcare institutions who want to increase efficiencies and better serve their customers.”

“MicroStrategy is pleased to expand its long-standing relationship with IBM by joining the ISV Advantage program and achieving membership in IBM’s highest level of PartnerWorld Industry Networks for Healthcare and Retail,” said Tom Villani, MicroStrategy’s Vice President of Global Alliances. “These programs will not only enhance the depth of our integration with IBM, but also provide powerful solutions to better serve our retail and healthcare customers. MicroStrategy’s flexible and highly scalable platform is well suited for enterprises with demanding business intelligence requirements, such as retailers and healthcare organizations.”

For more information about ISV Advantage and other programs and resources available to developers, visit http://www.ibm.com/isv.

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

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