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MicroStrategy Awards Four Customers for Excellence in Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence

Best Buy, J.D. Power and Associates, Loweâ??s Home Improvement Warehouse and Sprint North Supply Recognized at MicroStrategy World 2002 User Conference

WASHINGTON, DC, (January 24, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today honored four companies for achieving “breakthrough enterprise-class business performance” with their MicroStrategy-based business intelligence applications. The “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” winners are Best Buy Co., Inc., J.D. Power and Associates, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse and Sprint North Supply. The awards were announced at the company’s international user conference, MicroStrategy World 2002, in Washington, DC. The award categories and their winners are:

* Best in User Scalability: Best Buy Co., Inc.
* Best in Data Scalability: Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse
* Best Extranet Business Intelligence Deployment: J.D. Power and Associates
* Best Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Deployment: Sprint North Supply

Best Buy, J.D. Power and Associates, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse and Sprint North Supply have deployed world-class business intelligence applications, and are successfully leveraging them across the enterprise to boost revenue, enhance efficiency and productivity, improve customer relations and increase their competitive advantage. These companies are gaining a better understanding of their businesses and customers, and setting new industry standards through highly scalable, enterprise-wide business intelligence deployments and extranets that reach thousands of users and scale to terabyte-size data warehouses.

“We are pleased to honor these companies, all industry leaders, for their exceptional business intelligence applications,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. “Our customers consistently set new standards in each of their industries with MicroStrategy’s technology. We’re helping our customers stay at the leading-edge.”

Today, MicroStrategy congratulated its four winners for their technology achievements, and for making MicroStrategy software a critical component of their overall business strategy to become better, smarter businesses. Following is a brief description of this year’s winners:

* Best Buy, with more than 400 retail stores in the U.S., is the largest volume specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The winner in the User Scalability category, Best Buy is the first retailer to run over 100,000 reports per day employing MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform. Best Buy employees use MicroStrategy software to run anywhere from several thousand to over 100,000 mission-critical reports each day, against a 1.8-terabyte Oracle® data warehouse. MicroStrategy allows approximately 2,000 Best Buy employees to simultaneously and on demand view business performance data and perform analysis of sales, inventory, advertising, pricing and financial metrics. This analysis is leading to more effective sales strategies and greater business efficiency.

* J.D. Power and Associates, recognized by many industries as “the voice of the customer,” is a global marketing information services firm operating in key business sectors, including market research, forecasting, consulting, training and customer satisfaction. The winner in the Extranet Business Intelligence Deployment category, J.D. Power and Associates has become intimately familiar with the kinds of cars that consumers purchase. J.D. Power and Associates’ clients utilize MicroStrategy Web(TM) capabilities to perform real-time analysis and reporting. Power Information Network (PIN), a division of J.D. Power and Associates, is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to analyze retail point-of-sale data for new and used vehicles, buyer profiles and other transaction detail. With the derived insight, J.D. Power and Associates is able to provide a clear picture of the automotive marketplace, helping guide car buyers with the most up-to-date automotive retail trends.

* Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse is the world’s second largest home improvement retailer and the 14th largest retailer in the U.S. The winner in the Data Scalability category, Lowe’s is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to anchor its business intelligence applications. Approximately 1,400 Lowe’s employees use MicroStrategy Web to perform ad-hoc queries or run reports against an 8-terabyte data warehouse. As a result of using the MicroStrategy platform, Lowe’s is realizing significant benefits — including high returns on investment (ROI) — through improved merchandising decisions, more timely responses to information requests, cost reductions efforts and enhanced employee productivity.

* Sprint, with $23 billion in annual revenues, is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. The winner in the Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Deployment category, Sprint has deployed MicroStrategy across most of its business units, and most recently at Sprint North Supply. To provide the highest quality and reliability of service, approximately 3,000 Sprint employees access MicroStrategy Web to track financial, sales and customer activity in order to make decisions that improve business performance and strengthen customer relationships. More than 20 applications across Sprint — ranging from Human Resources to CRM to cross-sell — run on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, generating as many as 4,000 reports each day.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet, MicroStrategy Web 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.

Claudia Cahill
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 848-8600
pr_info@microstrategy.com

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Technology Industry Veteran Jay Nussbaum Joins MicroStrategy Board

Current KPMG Consulting and Former Oracle Executive Brings Extensive Software Industry Experience and Federal Government Insight

McLEAN, Va., (January 24, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the appointment of former Oracle Corporation and current KPMG Consulting executive Jay Nussbaum to the MicroStrategy board of directors.

In December 2001, Nussbaum joined KPMG Consulting as Executive Vice President for Managed Services and Enterprise Solutions. Prior to joining KPMG Consulting, he had also served on the KPMG Consulting board of directors. Nussbaum is also presently a member of the board of directors of the Northrup Grumman Corporation. Nussbaum’s appointment fills the position on MicroStrategy’s Board created by the departure of Frank Ingari, who left MicroStrategy’s Board in late 2001 to pursue other interests.

Prior to his employment with KPMG Consulting, Nussbaum spent ten years with Oracle Corporation. Nussbaum joined Oracle in 1991 as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of what was then Oracle Federal. During Nussbaum’s tenure at Oracle, Oracle Federal’s revenue grew from around $60 million to more than $1.5 billion in 2001. Nussbaum also served as Executive Vice President and oversaw the creation of Oracle Services Industries.

As Executive Vice President, Nussbaum reported directly to Oracle CEO and Chairman Larry Ellison. Nussbaum was also a member of Oracle’s Executive Committee.

“We are very proud to have Jay join the MicroStrategy board,” said MicroStrategy Chairman and CEO Michael J. Saylor. “Jay is a widely recognized technology industry all-star. He will bring a new dimension of experience, insight and wisdom to our board. We expect that Jay will also help make us a smarter, more mature company. The appointment of such an industry leader validates MicroStrategy’s own growing leadership.”

Nussbaum said of his appointment: “Having worked at Oracle for ten years and helped it rise to its current dominant position, I believe I can recognize a software company with a bright future. With its leading technology, innovative culture, and talented employees, MicroStrategy is precisely that type of company. I look forward to joining the Board and helping it achieve the milestones it has set out for itself in the years ahead.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 software on a timely basis; adverse reaction by the Company’s employees, investors, customers, vendors and lenders to the restatement of the Company’s financial results or its future prospects; 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet 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 Survey Finds Business Intelligence Software Having Significant Impact in Diverse Industries

Helping Enhance Efficiency & Productivity

McLEAN, Va. (January 18, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today released customer survey results that indicate that its software technology is having a significantly positive impact on the operations of a broad spectrum of companies, including such industries as banking/finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, technology and healthcare. The survey found that use of business intelligence software was helping both large and small businesses boost their efficiency and productivity.

To assess the impact of its business intelligence software, MicroStrategy conducted a survey of all its customers during October 2001. Customers were not pre-screened and the survey did not request names, titles or company names. The survey asked respondents to report on the company-wide impact of the software.

The brief survey asked customers whether the software had helped enhance the efficiency and productivity of their companies. A very high percentage responded in the affirmative. Most significantly, the survey found that the percentages of companies reporting efficiency and productivity improvements were highest, 91 percent and 89 percent, respectively, for those who had utilized the software for two years or longer.

Survey Results:

Out of 200 responses —

Q. Has our software had either some or a significant effect in enhancing your company’s efficiency?

A. 81 percent said yes. Only 8 percent said it had no impact (the rest said unsure)

Q. Has our software had either some or a significant effect in enhancing your company’s productivity?

A. 79 percent said yes. Only 9 percent said it had no impact (the rest said unsure)

Out of 110 respondents who have used our software for 2 years or more —

Q. Has our software had either some or a significant effect in enhancing your company’s efficiency?

A. 92 percent said yes. Only 3 percent said it had no impact (the rest said unsure)

Q. Has our software had either some or a significant effect in enhancing your company’s productivity?

A. 89 percent said yes. Only 5 percent said it had no impact (the rest said unsure)

“Given MicroStrategy’s solid technology and established customer base, we are not surprised by the results of this survey,” said Mike Schiff, Vice President of E-Business and Business Intelligence at Current Analysis. “This confirms the results we have seen in other surveys.”

MicroStrategy’s new survey results are incorporated into an upcoming business intelligence software “Vision Paper” that discusses the widening use and extensive capabilities of the technology and its growing importance as a “vanguard information technology” for businesses large and small. “This new survey corroborates, reinforces, what we’ve always believed — that business intelligence software is at the cutting-edge of information technology in the business place and through it, many businesses are finding the missing link for maximizing the potential of the Information Age,” said MicroStrategy’s Vice Chairman and COO Sanju Bansal.

MicroStrategy’s customers include nine of the top ten Fortune 500 telecommunications companies; 15 of the 24 Global 500 telecommunications companies; six of the top ten Fortune 500 retailers; seven of the top ten diversified Fortune 500 financial firms; six of the top ten Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies; and three of the top Fortune 500 five insurers.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 software on a timely basis; adverse reaction by the Company’s employees, investors, customers, vendors and lenders to the restatement of the Company’s financial results or its future prospects; 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet 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 to Announce Fourth Quarter 2001 Earnings

MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, will announce earnings for the fourth quarter of 2001 and hold a conference call, which will include managementâ??s comments followed by a question-and-answer period.

USA (January 14, 2002) –

WHAT: MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, will announce earnings for the fourth quarter of 2001 and hold a conference call, which will include management’s comments followed by a question-and-answer period.

WHEN: January 31, 2002 Earnings will be announced at approximately 4:30 PM EST; a conference call will follow at 5:30 PM EST

WHO: Scheduled MicroStrategy speakers on the conference call: Michael Saylor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sanju Bansal, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Eric Brown, President and Chief Financial Officer

HOW: Domestically, dial 877-597-9704 and mention Michael Saylor as the chairperson prior to 5:30 p.m. EST, or for 48-hour playback access, dial 800-642-1687 and enter the conference ID 2917612. Internationally, dial 706-634-6550 and mention Michael Saylor as the chairperson prior to 5:30 p.m. EST, or for 48-hour playback, dial 706-645-9291 and enter the conference ID 2917612. For a live Webcast or replay of the call, visit — http://www.microstrategy.com/investor or http://www.streetevents.com for StreetEvents subscribers.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 software on a timely basis; adverse reaction by the Company’s employees, investors, customers, vendors and lenders to the restatement of the Company’s financial results or its future prospects; 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet 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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Teradata Customers Rapidly Standardizing on MicroStrategy For Business Intelligence

Telstra Adds to List of Over 100 Teradata Customers Selecting MicroStrategy

McLEAN, Va. (January 09, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that customers of Teradata, a division of NCR® Corporation (NYSE: NCR), are increasingly standardizing on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for enterprise reporting. Teradata recently added Telstra — Australia’s largest provider of telecommunications services — to the list of over 100 companies selecting MicroStrategy’s award-winning business intelligence technology, a further indication that MicroStrategy is becoming the preferred business intelligence platform for Teradata implementations.

“Optimized for Teradata data warehouse, MicroStrategy offers the scalable, mission-critical performance Teradata customers expect,” said Alan Chow, vice president and general manager of the Teradata Development Division.

“Teradata and MicroStrategy have a history of expertise that ensures the success and satisfaction of our customers,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “Our products have been engineered specifically to work well together and make it easy for Teradata customers to select our complementary business intelligence platform. Teradata and MicroStrategy share the powerful vision that corporations can significantly improve their productivity and efficiency with effective access to data and scalable analytical capabilities.”

The company emphasized that customers with multi-terabyte data warehouses and large, geographically distributed user bases are increasingly migrating to Teradata and MicroStrategy’s Scalable Business Intelligence Platform built for the Internet(TM). Other Teradata and MicroStrategy customers include AT&T Wireless Services, AXA, BellSouth, Hallmark Cards Inc., The Limited, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Nationwide Insurance, Raley’s Supermarkets, Royal Bank of Canada, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

MicroStrategy’s customers include nine of the top ten Fortune 500 telecommunications companies; 15 of the 24 Global 500 telecommunications companies; six of the top ten Fortune 500 retailers; seven of the top ten diversified Fortune 500 financial firms; six of the top ten Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies; and three of the top five insurers.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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.

NCR and Teradata are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet 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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Global Pharmaceutical Giant AstraZeneca Gains Vital Market Insights, New Efficiencies with MicroStrategy Business Intelligence

AstraZeneca Employs Platform for Rapid Sales Information

McLean, Va., (January 08, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that London-based AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to anchor its sales prescriber data warehouse (SPW). Approximately 250 employees use MicroStrategy’s Web-based analytical tools to determine market share, easily explore cost and profit data, and track the performance of new products. As a result, employees are making more effective business decisions that increase sales and drive market share gains.

AstraZeneca, a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services, is one of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world with healthcare sales of $15.8 billion. The global pharmaceutical company uses the MicroStrategy platform to distribute 70,000 reports within a 24-hour window each month. AstraZeneca employees can pull up reports through its salesforce portal or run queries, with 20-second average response times, against a one-terabyte Oracle® data warehouse. As a result, end users can view critical pharmaceutical sales information in a matter of seconds and quickly make decisions that seek to optimize market share with a particular HMO or prescription benefit management organization.

“MicroStrategy business intelligence gives us a better understanding of the market, and helps us meet expected market share goals for our products,” said Keith Megay, senior manager of commercial data warehousing at AstraZeneca. “In addition, the performance and scalability of our MicroStrategy-based application is remarkable, allowing our users to be more productive and efficient.”

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of ethical (prescription) pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services. It is one of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world with healthcare sales of $15.8 billion and leading positions in sales of gastrointestinal, oncology, anesthesia (including pain management), cardiovascular, central nervous system (CNS) and respiratory products. In the United States, AstraZeneca is an $8 billion healthcare business with more than 10,000 employees. For more information about AstraZeneca please visit www.astrazeneca-us.com

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet, MicroStrategy Web 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.

Claudia Cahill
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 848-8600
pr_info@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy’s Software Ranked First Over Competitors in Intelligent Enterprise Readers’ Survey

Top-Ranked in Advanced Analysis/Data Mining & CRM

McLean, Va., (January 07, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, has won two Reader’s Choice awards in the leading IT publication Intelligent Enterprise – winning for its software’s advanced analysis and mining capabilities and for customer relationship management (CRM) analysis. MicroStrategy won these awards in competition with its leading competitors – including Business Objects, Oracle, Cognos, Brio, Actuate and SAS Institute.

Through the voting process, Intelligent Enterprise subscribers–including C-level executives, top application development managers, data management and business intelligence decision makers–have determined which IT products best enable an “intelligent enterprise.” These are the products that help organizations deploy strategic applications that collect, analyze, and deliver business information wherever and whenever it’s needed to improve business performance and maximize customer relationships.

“These awards are further important validation of the exceptional features of our software,” said MicroStrategy’s Vice Chairman and COO Sanju Bansal. “We continue to receive awards and highly positive reviews for our business intelligence platform because its expansive capabilities allow businesses to expand their capability to become more efficient, productive and customer friendly.”

Bansal specifically explained that “we believe that MicroStrategy 7 provides the broadest and deepest set of analytical functions available in any business intelligence platform. MicroStrategy 7 is able to use the entire breadth and depth of enterprise data to uncover valuable relationships existing across different functional areas. This enables the business to answer analytical questions using one single platform.”

Addressing customer relationship management analysis, Bansal said that “MicroStrategy’s software has the power, scalability and sophistication to analyze terabytes of customer interaction data.” Through these capabilities, he added, “businesses can gain essential insight into customer behavior enabling them to reduce attrition of high-value customers, optimize customer profitability and identify cross-selling opportunities.”

An independent survey, the largest of its kind, has found that MicroStrategy’s bests its competitors — including Business Objects, Cognos, Brio, Oracle, Hyperion and Crystal Decisions/Seagate — in critical indicators of customer success. The OLAP Survey, by the market research firm Survey.com, found that MicroStrategy customers, in comparison with the customers of MicroStrategy’s competitors, purchase more licenses on average, are most likely to purchase additional licenses, are least likely to defect, are most likely to standardize with the technology, and are most likely to deploy via the Web and have large databases.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet, MicroStrategy Web 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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Targasys Selects MicroStrategy to Deliver Personalized Customer Service to Drivers

Service by Fiat Subsidiary May Reach Millions of Customers

MILAN (January 02, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced today that Targasys, the Mobility Service Holding and Telematic Service Provider (TSP) subsidiary of Fiat Auto, the Italian automotive manufacturer Group, selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to develop navigation and roadside assistance applications. Targasys has already made its services available for CONNECT, Fiat’s automobile navigation device, on the Alfa Romeo 147, Fiat Stilo, Fiat Doblò, Lancia Thesis, and all subsequent new models of the Fiat Group.

CONNECT offers, upon vocal request, a complete package of integrated infomobility and assistance services to drivers across Europe. By simply pressing an integrated button on a vehicle’s dashboard, CONNECT puts the caller in touch with an operator at Targasys’ Contact Center, who can then supply timely information in the language requested. Drivers can obtain medical, insurance or roadside assistance, as well as instant information on nearby facilities, including hotels, restaurants, pharmacies, museums, theaters, and cinemas. Moreover, with the “Drive Me” service, the driver may reach any requested destination, such as a residence or favorite restaurant. CONNECT is also able to deliver updated information on weather forecasts, stock market movements, and with the “Follow me” service, the driver will receive regular updates on traffic of highways and major ring roads.

With nearly 50 million European users projected to be on the CONNECT system by 2005, Targasys expects the infomobility market to quickly increase over the next several years. Targasys selected MicroStrategy to effectively scale to a rapidly growing amount of data and customers, and to optimize the functionality of its services offered through CONNECT.

“Because MicroStrategy 7(TM) is able to handle multiple terabytes of data, it was an obvious choice for us,” said Edoardo Coletti, responsible for the Infomobility division at Targasys. “We are the only provider of such comprehensive driver navigation and assistance services in Europe. As we acquire millions of customers, we are confident that MicroStrategy’s scalable platform will allow us to deliver the right information to our users at the right time, and ensure that CONNECT users are receiving high-quality service. MicroStrategy gives us a lead of about 18 months over the competition.”

MicroStrategy Italy’s clients include: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Danone, Fastweb, Gucci, Jumpy, Omnitel Vodafone, Targasys, Telecom Italia and Wind.

About Targasys

Founded in 1996, Targasys is the Mobility Service Holding and Telematic Service Provider (TSP) subsidiary of Fiat Auto. Satisfying a need for mobility at a company or consumer level, Targasys is dedicated to developing services for the automobile in the form of assistance, infomobility, insurance, and renting services. As a result of its thorough understanding of the car and driver world, Targasys projects, develops, commercializes and manages a wide range of technological, high value, tailor-made and integrated services, offered directly or through strategic partnerships, in a timely and efficient way. Its services are supported by a committed and motivated staff, engaged in developing and applying quality principles in every sector of activity, and are dedicated to fully satisfying the client’s needs. (www.targaconnect.com)

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica 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 possibility that the conditions to the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements will not be satisfied; 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 7 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 7, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet, MicroStrategy Web 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.

Claudia Cahill
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 848-8600
pr_info@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy

Tags: MicroStrategy