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Deloitte & Touche in Spain Selects MicroStrategy to Deploy Enterprise-Wide Corporate Performance Management Application

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Deloitte & Touche in Spain has purchased additional licenses of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� to deploy a mission-critical corporate performance man

McLean, Va. (June 26, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Deloitte & Touche in Spain has purchased additional licenses of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to deploy a mission-critical corporate performance management application across its enterprise. Deloitte & Touche in Spain is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations.

“MicroStrategy is one of the leaders in the business intelligence market, and an important component of our services and products portfolio,” said Joaquín Aspiroz, Partner in Management Solutions at Deloitte & Touche in Spain. “Over the years, Deloitte & Touche in Spain has implemented MicroStrategy-based systems at many leading companies. This new deal with MicroStrategy will expand the reach of our corporate performance reporting system, which we view as one of our most important, internal reporting projects.”

The enterprise-wide reporting application will enable approximately 800 partners, managers and other professionals to perform corporate performance management analyses and run reports against a SQL Server data warehouse. Users will be able to more effectively track valuable business information, such as time distribution reports, net fees, job inventory, backlog, accounts receivable, profit and loss items, and service line and industry line reports.

“We value our relationship with Deloitte & Touche in Spain,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy’s sophisticated capabilities — proven scalability to thousands of users and to terabytes of data, ease-of-use, exceptional analytical flexibility and industrial-strength reliability — make it an ideal business intelligence platform for Deloitte & Touche’s internal reporting initiatives as well as for the complex business requirements of Deloitte & Touche customers.”

About Deloitte & Touche in Spain

Deloitte & Touche in Spain is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations. The member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu deliver world-class assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services. With more than 119,000 people in more than 140 countries, the member firms serve over one-half of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit: www.deloittetouche.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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 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 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.

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

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Leading Analyst Firm Updates MicroStrategy Vendor Rating

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Gartner has updated its MicroStrategy Vendor Rating.

MCLEAN, Va., (June 23, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Gartner has updated its MicroStrategy Vendor Rating.

“Gartner has established the vision and direction for the business intelligence platform market, and MicroStrategy is a leading provider of industrial-strength business intelligence technology,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “Companies are increasingly turning to MicroStrategy when they’re ready to deploy their business intelligence applications on an enterprise scale.”

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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 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 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.

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

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MicroStrategy Customer Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse Wins 2003 Executive Technology Magazine Award

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the CIO of MicroStrategy customer Loweâ??s Home Improvement Warehouse, Steve Stone, has won a 2003 Executive Technology Magazine CIO/IT Leadership & Innovation Award for

McLean, Va., (June 20, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the CIO of MicroStrategy customer Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Steve Stone, has won a 2003 Executive Technology Magazine CIO/IT Leadership & Innovation Award for his business intelligence deployment. The Executive Technology Magazine Award pinpointed thirteen exemplary chief information officers, chief technology officers and vice presidents of IT whose pioneering spirit and cutting-edge ideas deserve special recognition.

Lowe’s has deployed MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to anchor all of its business intelligence applications. One MicroStrategy application, called DART (Data Access and Reporting Tool), plays a key role in empowering employees to obtain any piece of data critical to lifting sales or improving inventory efficiency. Over the last twelve months, Lowe’s has grown its business-intelligence user base by 100 percent.

“With MicroStrategy technology, our employees are able to understand what is going on at any given store location across the country helping us to realize significant benefits through improved merchandising decisions, more timely responses to information requests, cost-reductions efforts, and enhanced employee productivity,” said Mr. Stone. “This solution has allowed for us to develop a new set of Web-based applications that will further our success.”

“We congratulate Lowe’s Steve Stone for winning the prestigious Executive Technology award,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re very proud to be his business intelligence vendor of choice, and we look forward to continuing to provide Lowe’s with a scalable and flexible platform that provides valuable, strategic insight.”

Executive Technology provides top-level retail executives with the strategic information required to make the right decisions in leveraging technology solutions in all areas of the business.

About Lowe’s

With fiscal year 2002 sales of $26.5 billion, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE 100 company that serves approximately nine million customers a week at more than 875 home improvement stores in 45 states. In 2003, FORTUNE named Lowe’s America’s Most Admired Specialty Retailer. Based in Wilkesboro, N.C., the 57-year old company is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world.

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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 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 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.

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

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Leading Korean Retailer Lotte Mart Successfully Deploys MicroStrategy Technology Enterprise-Wide

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Lotte Mart, a leading Korean retailer, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� across the organization. Lotte Mart, with 2.1 trillio

McLean, Va., (June 19, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Lotte Mart, a leading Korean retailer, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) across the organization. Lotte Mart, with 2.1 trillion won in revenues in 2002, reaches an estimated 200,000 customers daily through its 31 store locations across Korea.

“With MicroStrategy’s technology, our employees are able to more effectively track sales trends at any given store location and react quickly to customer preferences,” said Mr. Sang-Jin Lee, CRM manager of Customer Service at Lotte Mart. “We are definitely impressed with the platform’s superior capabilities, ease-of-use and scalability, and look forward to deploying additional MicroStrategy-based applications in the future,” added Tae Hwan Lee, with Lotte Mart’s Information Strategy Team.

Approximately 500 Lotte Mart employees in marketing, planning, sales strategy and purchasing use MicroStrategy to perform ad hoc queries and run reports against a 3.6-terabyte Teradata® data warehouse. Instead of tapping the IT department to create reports, employees today are able to run reports with ease and make decisions that improve sales and eliminate inventory inefficiencies.

About Lotte Mart

Lotte Mart reaches an estimated 200,000 customers each day through its 31 retail locations across Korea. It recorded 2.1 trillion won in revenue in 2002. The Korean Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Lotte Mart as first, and the company also earned many prestigious awards such as “customer recommended” and “price innovator” in the discount retail category. For more information, please visit www.lotteshopping.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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 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 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.

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

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Chela Financial Enhances Education Finance Offerings With MicroStrategy Technology

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Chela Financial has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� to improve its educational financing offerings by more effectively tracking

McLean, Va., (June 12, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Chela Financial has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to improve its educational financing offerings by more effectively tracking its loan origination and acquisition volume. Chela Financial, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA, is a leading not-for-profit education financing company.

Chela Financial’s analysts and senior management use MicroStrategy software to monitor its $2.4 billion student loan portfolio. End users are able to evaluate the performance of these loans, monitor past acquisitions and originations, and provide analysis that improves the modeling of future loan acquisitions and originations.

“MicroStrategy supports our business intelligence needs, enabling us to effectively analyze financial information through a secure environment,” said Douglas Dolton, chief operating officer at Chela Financial. “Our MicroStrategy-based system is an outgrowth of our focus on superior customer service. Using MicroStrategy, we’ve been able to improve our educational financing offerings, underscoring our commitment to providing students with the best products and services.”

Chela Financial also uses MicroStrategy technology to report on the origination composition of its loans. End users, for instance, can track application volume, identify the options applicants choose at the time of loan origination, and ensure that Chela Financial is approving loans to meet underwriting criteria. End users are also able to track application volume by channel performance –determining the success rate of Web-based applications versus telephone-based applications.

Of the MicroStrategy reports fulfilled per month, 30 percent are ad hoc queries that are run against an Oracle® loan origination data warehouse and a SQL Server® servicing data warehouse.

About Chela Financial

Since 1979, Chela Financial has been committed to helping students and their families find the financial resources to unleash their potential with loans, scholarships, and information. As a leading not-for-profit education finance company, Chela Financial has helped students achieve their educational goals by financing approximately $4 billion of loans. The company is actively involved in community-based programs and has dedicated more than $2 million to scholarship and outreach programs. In addition to providing student loan secondary market services, Chela Financial originates private education loans, the AcademicEdge® Loan and the CalEdge Loan, as well as the Federal Stafford Loan, the Federal PLUS Loan, and the OnePay Consolidation Loan. For more information, please visit www.loans4students.org.

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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 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 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.

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

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MicroStrategy and SYSTIME Form Strategic Alliance

MicroStrategyâ??s Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ Integrated with SYSTIMEâ??s Data Warehouse Solution

McLean, Va., (June 10, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced a strategic alliance with SYSTIME Computer Corporation. SYSTIME is the leading global provider of IT services for collaborative commerce solutions including ERP, SCM, CRM, BI, Integration, supply-side B-2-B solutions, HR, and Outsourcing services.

The alliance combines SYSTIME’s technology expertise and business knowledge with MicroStrategy’s leading Business Intelligence Platform. Under the terms of the agreement, SYSTIME will integrate MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence offerings with its data warehouse solution, while continuing to provide strategic consulting to its growing client base. SYSTIME delivers a complete range of services from consulting to platform implementation.

“SYSTIME is pleased to enter into a global alliance with MicroStrategy. As J.D. Edwards’ preferred business intelligence solution, MicroStrategy will be a key partner in our growing business intelligence practice. As the demand for business intelligence solutions grows, SYSTIME and MicroStrategy are poised to build referencable clients across key industries and geographies,” said Vishal Grover, executive vice president, SYSTIME.

“By partnering with SYSTIME, we are able to leverage their global presence and over 26 years of experience in IT, to help MicroStrategy increase its customer reach, both domestically and internationally, while building our Alliance Program with world-class integrators,” said MicroStrategy’s vice president of Global Alliances & Business Development, Tom Villani. “This alliance provides global clients that operate in a myriad of industries with data analysis capabilities that enhance SYSTIME’s data warehouse solutions. These customers will benefit from optimized business operations, enhanced efficiency and improved customer relations.”

About SYSTIME

SYSTIME is the leading global provider of IT services for collaborative commerce solutions ranging from ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, Supply-side B-2-B solutions, HR and outsourcing services. Our alliances with numerous e-collaboration partners (JD Edwards, Ariba, BEA, webMethods, etc.) enable us to deliver solutions that span technologies, platforms and business processes. Our global presence, with offices in all major continents, and over 26 years’ proven track record in IT, enable us to leverage our technology skills worldwide to help our clients that operate in a myriad of industries. A unique offering is our Global Delivery model where we are able to reduce project costs and expedite delivery times. At SYSTIME, we believe our value is in our people who consistently bring bold strategies, innovative thinking, pioneering leadership and best of all cutting-edge solutions that will catapult your company into the new economy. Through our innovative project delivery vehicles, SYSTIME leads the way in “Redefining the Business Paradigm…”

SYSTIME employs over 4000 employees in 30 offices worldwide. For more information on SYSTIME, visit us at www.systime.net

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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 Click Here.

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 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.

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

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State of Tennessee’s MicroStrategy Application Wins DM Review’s World Class Solution Award

Tennessee Using MicroStrategy to Analyze Millions of Financial Records

McLean, Va., (June 03, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the State of Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration has won a DM Review World Class Solution Award for its MicroStrategy business intelligence application (Click Here). Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy system for processing and analyzing millions of financial records in an efficient manner.

The Department selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to serve as the analytical tool for its financial data warehouse application — now called the Financial Data Access System (FDAS) and housed in a mainframe DB2 database. The solution has provided the Department with the ability to conduct financial analysis across multiple dimensions with an easy-to-use Web-based interface for State decision-makers to build new reports, execute queries and schedule reports.

This MicroStrategy application has reduced costs and significantly improved the quality of financial information for decision-making. State decision-makers now get financial updates daily instead of monthly. Centralized quality control has helped to ensure that financial calculation formulas are accurate and logical. With access to more timely financial data, State decision-makers can make more informed assessments on how best to spend and manage Tennessee’s financial resources.

“MicroStrategy is extremely proud to win this prestigious award with the State of Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “This application demonstrates the exceptional scalability of MicroStrategy’s software for highly critical, far-reaching implementations – which in this case benefits an entire state.”

DM Review is one of the industry’s most respected trade publications. The DM Review World Class Solutions Award, a symbol of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry, originated in 1996.

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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 Click Here.

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 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 Incorporated to Present at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Seventh Annual Technology & Growth Investor Conference

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Eric Brown, President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Seventh Annual Technology and Growth Investor Conference at 4:50 p.m. ED

MCLEAN, Va., (May 23, 2003) –

icroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Eric Brown, President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Seventh Annual Technology and Growth Investor Conference at 4:50 p.m. EDT on May 28, 2003, in New York City.

The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

A live and archived Webcast of the presentation and Q&A will be available at Click Here or Click Here.

About MicroStrategy

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 — unrivaled 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 the world’s largest, 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 2,000 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 JD Edwards. 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 Click Here.

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 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.

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

Source: MicroStrategy

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eBay Selects MicroStrategy Platform for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Plans to deploy to Thousands of Knowledge Workers; Praises MicroStrategy’s “Exceptional Scalability”

McLean, Va., (May 21, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that eBay has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to analyze the ongoing performance of the many different categories of products and services for sale on its Web sites. On any given day, there are more than 16 million items listed on eBay across 27,000 categories. In 2002, eBay users transacted $14.87 billion in gross merchandise sales.

“eBay selected MicroStrategy because of its exceptional user scalability and its ability to support advanced reporting and analysis,” said eBay CIO Brad Peterson. “MicroStrategy also provides excellent query performance with our rapidly growing multi-terabyte data warehouse.”

“One of eBay’s greatest assets is their data. By enhancing their understanding of this data, they can continue to improve their offerings to the eBay community,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re known as the scalability leader in business intelligence, and we’re proud to work with eBay, an innovative, rapidly growing company with an outstanding reputation.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations — in virtually all facets of their operations — with user- friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i’s configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,900 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please 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 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 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.

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Entertainment UK Successfully Deploys MicroStrategy Technology to Optimize its Supply Chain

Entertainment UK Successfully Deploys MicroStrategy Technology to Optimize its Supply Chain

McLean, Va., (May 06, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Entertainment UK (EUK), one of the largest wholesalers and distributors of music, video, CDs and DVDs in the UK, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to improve customer relationships and supply chain operations.

After using MicroStrategy technology for several years, EUK knew that further use of its business intelligence platform would not only provide its customer with the information they needed to take advantage of the shifting demographics and social trends, but could also benefit its suppliers. In 2002, EUK decided to leverage its MicroStrategy infrastructure and open up its supply chain downstream to the supermarket chain and upstream to its suppliers.

“Deploying the MicroStrategy platform has resulted in some very significant benefits,” said Richard Driver, EUK’s Business Information Manager. “Our suppliers can see what is happening in the real world. With the technology, we’re able to optimize our entertainment offerings and track product sales by location. This enables us to improve our sales strategies, thereby strengthening customer relationships.”

The technology is helping approximately 200 supplier end users more effectively manage their production and manufacturing processes, resulting in improved terms for Entertainment UK on its purchases. In addition, EUK’s internal users are leveraging the value of the MicroStrategy platform to generate a wide range of reports and investigate data patterns using the full range of ad hoc query, reporting, statistical and data mining analyses.

“The MicroStrategy platform is flexible and can scale to a large and diverse user population, and that is one of the reasons we chose it. The technology has certainly been a differentiator for us and we plan to expand its usage by bringing in more customers when they are ready,” added Driver. “The MicroStrategy platform is the most complete product compared to what else is available. Management of the platform is also very straightforward. It’s easy to set up, it’s easy to keep going and we haven’t looked back.”

About Entertainment UK

Entertainment UK is Europe’s largest wholesale distributor of home entertainment products, supplying many of Britain’s best-known retailers with music, video and games products. Entertainment UK is part of the Woolworths Group and its customers include Comet, MVC, Safeway, Tesco, Woolworths and Waitrose. For further information on Entertainment UK, please visit http://www.entuk.co.uk.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations — in virtually all facets of their operations — with user- friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i’s configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,900 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please 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 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 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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