Category: Technology

FBI Will Use MicroStrategy for Investigative Data Warehouse

Oct 11, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy to Support Information Sharing Among Law Enforcement, Intelligence & Homeland Security Agencies

McLEAN, Va., (October 11, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be deploying MicroStrategy as its business intelligence platform to support the Bureau’s Investigative Data Warehouse. MicroStrategy’s technology will support information sharing among law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security agencies.

Information sharing among these agencies — essential to national security — will be supported by MicroStrategy’s ability to provide a Web-based, collaborative environment for hundreds of analysts to access vast amounts of data to respond and react to possible homeland security threats.

The purchase of MicroStrategy’s software and services is valued at approximately $720,000.

MicroStrategy’s platform will be used with other tools to help FBI analysts identify critical pieces of intelligence within the massive information repository that they utilize to drive investigative and intelligence activities. Specific MicroStrategy capabilities required by the FBI for this project include a secure architecture and the ability to provide real-time access to the full breadth and depth of information stored in the data warehouse.

“MicroStrategy is extremely proud that it will be used by the FBI for these critical applications, as they are so clearly vital to the nation’s security,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “Federal and state government agencies are selecting MicroStrategy’s monitoring, reporting, and analysis platform to gain better visibility into their operations and to aid decision-making on a wide range of important matters.”

MicroStrategy’s federal customers include the U.S. Postal Service, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army.

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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University of Bologna Deploying MicroStrategy University-Wide for Data Analysis & Reporting

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

Oldest University in Western World

MCLEAN, Va (October 06, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software (NASDAQ: MSTR), today announced that the University of Bologna, the Western world’s oldest university, is expanding its deployment of the MicroStrategy platform university-wide for data analysis and reporting and as a cost-control auxiliary tool. The University of Bologna, which first adopted MicroStrategy in 2003, will extend its use to all university departments by year’s end.

The University of Bologna was established in 1088 and is currently providing the widest range of university courses in Italy.

The University of Bologna was one of the first universities in Italy to use an information system to assess costs and the financial results of its activity. MicroStrategy’s platform is now allowing the university to analyze data from different sources and areas, integrating databases created in different periods and with very different technologies. MicroStrategy will provide comprehensive, user-friendly reporting and analysis in the following important areas:

* Personnel Management & Salary Assessments
* Integrated Accounting (financial, economic and analytic accounting)
* Students Services (students career management and assessments of classes and academic programs)

“MicroStrategy’s excellent reporting and analytical features and scalability allow us to analyze, in an easy and intuitive way, millions of bits of data and to make critical inquiries at different levels of depth,” said D.ssa Ines Fabbro, the University of Bologna’s Administrative Director. “MicroStrategy is supporting our decisions with an outstanding efficacy. It’s engendering far-reaching benefits for our university.”

“We’re very proud that such a prestigious and authoritative institution like the University of Bologna has adopted our platform,” said Andrea Delvò, Managing Director of MicroStrategy Italy. “MicroStrategy successfully surmounted a major challenge in working through the complexity of a 900-year-old institution with many distinct management areas. The successful results confirm the outstanding capabilities of MicroStrategy’s software. This result wouldn’t have been possible without the competence and collaboration of the employees of the University of Bologna, whose role was fundamental in the preliminary analysis, system designs and test phases.”

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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University of Bologna Deploying MicroStrategy University-Wide for Data Analysis & Reporting

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

Oldest University in Western World

MCLEAN, Va (October 06, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software (NASDAQ: MSTR), today announced that the University of Bologna, the Western world’s oldest university, is expanding its deployment of the MicroStrategy platform university-wide for data analysis and reporting and as a cost-control auxiliary tool. The University of Bologna, which first adopted MicroStrategy in 2003, will extend its use to all university departments by year’s end.

The University of Bologna was established in 1088 and is currently providing the widest range of university courses in Italy.

The University of Bologna was one of the first universities in Italy to use an information system to assess costs and the financial results of its activity. MicroStrategy’s platform is now allowing the university to analyze data from different sources and areas, integrating databases created in different periods and with very different technologies. MicroStrategy will provide comprehensive, user-friendly reporting and analysis in the following important areas:

* Personnel Management & Salary Assessments
* Integrated Accounting (financial, economic and analytic accounting)
* Students Services (students career management and assessments of classes and academic programs)

“MicroStrategy’s excellent reporting and analytical features and scalability allow us to analyze, in an easy and intuitive way, millions of bits of data and to make critical inquiries at different levels of depth,” said D.ssa Ines Fabbro, the University of Bologna’s Administrative Director. “MicroStrategy is supporting our decisions with an outstanding efficacy. It’s engendering far-reaching benefits for our university.”

“We’re very proud that such a prestigious and authoritative institution like the University of Bologna has adopted our platform,” said Andrea Delvò, Managing Director of MicroStrategy Italy. “MicroStrategy successfully surmounted a major challenge in working through the complexity of a 900-year-old institution with many distinct management areas. The successful results confirm the outstanding capabilities of MicroStrategy’s software. This result wouldn’t have been possible without the competence and collaboration of the employees of the University of Bologna, whose role was fundamental in the preliminary analysis, system designs and test phases.”

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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MicroStrategy and DuPont Crop Protection Win DM Review’s World Class Solution Award for Business Intelligence

Sep 29, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Wins Award for Second Straight Year

McLean, VA., and Wilmington, Del., (September 29, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that DuPont Crop Protection has won a DM Review World Class Solution Award for its MicroStrategy business intelligence application.

“The DuPont Crop Protection and MicroStrategy implementation is truly representative of industry best practices and we commend them for successfully addressing their enterprise challenges,” said Jean Schauer, editor in chief of DM Review.

Anchored on MicroStrategy, the DuPont Development Data Warehouse is a business intelligence (BI) tool that analyzes, summarizes, manages, and reports on global field development trials for crop protection products. The Development Data Warehouse solution allows managers to improve workflow management.

“The BI tool enables DuPont Crop Protection to improve productivity and effectiveness in our field trials,” said John Beitler, Global Agfile Manager for DuPont Crop Protection. “In today’s very competitive marketplace, having the right information at the right time is essential to success.”

“With MicroStrategy’s user-friendly reports and scalable platform, DuPont Crop Protection employees are empowered with added insight to make more strategic and proactive decisions in a significantly decreased timeframe,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re extremely proud to win this prestigious award with DuPont.”

DM Review’s World Class Solution Award, a symbol of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry, originated in 1996. Entries are accepted in categories that reflect mission-critical segments of the market as determined by feedback from DM Review readers. The winners were selected from more than 80 global entries based on each entry’s impact, relevance and innovation. The World Class Solution Award winners were announced at the DCI Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Conference at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

About DuPont Crop Protection

DuPont Crop Protection serves production agriculture with products for the grain and specialty crop sectors and also serves forestry/vegetation and professional pest management. It includes global herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide products and services. Employees number 3,600 with operations in 60 countries.

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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Companies Worldwide Embrace MicroStrategy Report Services

Sep 20, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Increased Customer Adoption of Industry-Leading Reporting Platform

McLean, Va., (September 20, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that MicroStrategy Report Services(TM) continues to garner increased customer adoption. Since its release in November 2003, hundreds of customers worldwide have adopted MicroStrategy Report Services. MicroStrategy Report Services provides content-rich, user-friendly reports that can enrich existing business intelligence applications and ease the creation of new ones.

New MicroStrategy Report Services customers are praising this product for its exceptional capabilities.

Campbell Soup Company

“Campbell Soup Company is utilizing MicroStrategy Report Services for sales, finance, customer service and marketing applications,” said Paul Williams, Director IT of Campbell Soup Company. “MicroStrategy Report Services provides many options for presenting highly formatted information in a consistent user-friendly format. This exciting new reporting capability also leverages our existing MicroStrategy investment.”

R.H. Donnelley

“As a direct result of customer demand, R.H. Donnelley became an early adopter of MicroStrategy’s Report Services solution,” explained R.H. Donnelley’s IT Director of Programming Services Jill Mertens. “With MicroStrategy Report Services, R.H. Donnelley’s senior executives will leverage pixel-perfect sales and marketing reports to provide daily feedback on sales and product performance.”

Grange Insurance

“Grange Insurance has deployed a number of MicroStrategy Report Services reports to more than 100 users in various departments. These users, including Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, Claims and Agency Relations personnel, have access to dashboard reports that allow them to analyze overall agency performance and reveal areas that need improvement,” said Grange Insurance’s Data Warehouse Project Manager Tony Simpkins.

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

“MicroStrategy Report Services delivers high-quality reporting to mass users by integrating the MicroStrategy platform’s well-known strengths — user scalability, data scalability and powerful analytics — with a highly user-friendly reporting engine required for true enterprise-wide reporting,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy Report Services is setting a new standard for business intelligence reporting in the marketplace because it delivers a wide range of enterprise report types that top companies need. It’s extending the strategic benefits of business intelligence software further and deeper into organizations than ever before.”

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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MapInfo and MicroStrategy Deliver Location-Enabled Business Intelligence

Sep 14, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Provides Greater Insight into Operational Data to Better Identify New Market Opportunities and Build Customer Loyalty

McLean, VA and Troy, NY (September 14, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced a new strategic alliance with MapInfo® Corporation (Nasdaq: MAPS), a leading global provider of location-intelligence solutions for the enterprise. The solution integrates MapInfo’s sophisticated geographic querying and visualization capabilities with MicroStrategy’s business intelligence (BI) platform, and allows organizations to efficiently monitor, report and analyze their enterprise data.

With the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) and MapInfo technology, customers now have the added capability of location analysis integrated seamlessly through a unified, easy-to-use Web interface that delivers a full range of enterprise reports and analytics. Users are able to both query and visualize operational data geographically, helping to increase profitability and enhance customer intimacy. MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence platform extends high-value enterprise reporting and analysis to mass users.

“This was an alliance driven by our joint customer needs, as many of our customers are already using MicroStrategy to anchor their BI applications. This integration extends the functionality of MicroStrategy by providing a bi-directional geographic interface allowing users to move in and out of the data, flipping back and forth between the map and report. The impact of this is that we are enabling companies to add the dimension of location, thus expanding the effective power of their business intelligence solutions,” said Michael Hickey, COO at MapInfo. “This will help them develop key insight, previously missing from their BI applications, such as identifying new market opportunities, uncovering location driven customer issues that will allow them to build stronger customer loyalty and increasing operational efficiencies by better managing key assets versus customer locations.”

“MicroStrategy prides itself in aligning with technology leaders like MapInfo,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “By increasing the MicroStrategy portfolio with proven, highly integrated technology from the leading provider of location intelligence, we can expand our overall market reach, ultimately strengthening our leadership position in the business-intelligence space.”

About MapInfo

MapInfo Corporation is a global company that integrates software, data and services to help customers realize greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions. MapInfo solutions are available in 20 languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Headquartered in Troy, NY, MapInfo Corporation is on the World Wide Web at www.mapinfo.com.

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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MicroStrategy 7i Enabled for IBM AIX 5L

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

Recent Benchmark Tests Show Extremely High Performance

McLean, VA, (September 07, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the availability of MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition(TM) for the IBM AIX(TM) 5L operating system. MicroStrategy offers a leading 64-bit business intelligence (BI) product line, enabling organizations to efficiently monitor, report and analyze their enterprise data.

“With the release of MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition, IBM customers running AIX 5L will now be able to deploy a broader business intelligence platform,” said Karen Parrish, vice president of IBM Business Intelligence Solutions. “Before releasing the product, MicroStrategy thoroughly tested MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition on IBM AIX 5L at the Innovation Center for Business Partners, an IBM vendor support program that offers porting & testing of IBM middleware/hardware both onsite and remote.”

The recent benchmark tests at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA demonstrated near-linear scalability of the MicroStrategy product line. In these tests, MicroStrategy was able achieve a throughput of over 47,000 report pages per second using a total of only 34 CPUs.

“IDC estimates that approximately 22 percent of the BI market is based on UNIX,” explained MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “By enabling the MicroStrategy platform for IBM AIX 5L, we’re eager to expand our market reach and provide IBM’s customers with the scalability to deliver even better reporting and analytics. Our integrated IT architecture easily adapts to changing user requirements while enabling administrators to leverage the processing power of their IBM pSeries hardware.”

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i, MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition 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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Syntel and MicroStrategy Strengthen Global Alliance

Aug 17, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Platform Integrated with Syntelâ??s Data Warehouse and Global Delivery Offerings

McLean, Va. (August 17, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has strengthened its global alliance with Syntel. Syntel Inc. is a leading global provider of custom outsourcing solutions in a broad spectrum of information technology and information technology-enabled services.

As a MicroStrategy Global Alliance partner, Syntel will integrate the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) with its Data Warehouse and Global Delivery offerings for Global 2000 customers. Syntel’s Data Warehouse solution helps customers’ access data in a timely and efficient manner, manage day-to-day business activities more effectively, and analyze and forecast business trends. Syntel’s Global Delivery is an applications outsourcing service.

“We’re pleased to add industry-leading technology like MicroStrategy to Syntel’s comprehensive suite of advanced technology solutions. Our data warehousing expertise and Global Delivery Service combined with MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence platform will provide our customers with outstanding technology and service,” said Andy Sivaraman, Syntel’s Vice President- Strategic Programs & Alliances.

“By partnering with Syntel, we’re able to leverage their global presence and over 24 years of experience in IT, to help MicroStrategy increase its customer reach internationally, while building our Alliance Program with world-class integrators,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “By integrating our technology with Syntel’s, customers can benefit from more efficient business operations and improved customer relations.”

About Syntel, Inc.

Syntel (Nasdaq: SYNT) is a leading global provider of custom outsourcing solutions in a broad spectrum of information technology and information technology-enabled services. The Company’s vertical practices support the entire Design-Build-Operate-Optimize lifecycle of systems and processes for corporations in the Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Health Care and Automotive industries. The first US-based firm to launch a Global Delivery Service to drive speed-to-market and quality advantages for its customers, Syntel now leverages this efficient model for the majority of its Global 2000 customers. Recently named one of Forbes Magazine’s “Best 200 Small Companies in America,” Syntel has more than 4,000 employees worldwide, is assessed at Level 5 of the SEI’s CMM and is ISO 9001:2000 certified. To learn more, visit us at: www.syntelinc.com.

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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Federal Court Finds Business Objects Guilty of Misappropriating MicroStrategy Trade Secrets

Aug 10, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Business Objects Enjoined from Using Stolen Documents

McLEAN, Va. (August 10, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that a Norfolk, Virginia federal judge has found Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ) guilty of misappropriating highly confidential MicroStrategy documents. The court has ordered Business Objects to cease and desist from further use of MicroStrategy’s trade secrets.

The comprehensive, 61-page opinion documents a widespread pattern of “unethical” and “improper” conduct by Business Objects employees. The court concluded, “Business Objects acquired constructive or actual access to a significant amount of MicroStrategy’s proprietary and confidential information, including internal email, descriptions of software architecture, sales documents, competitive intelligence, and PowerPoint presentations.”

One of the most sensitive documents misappropriated by Business Objects, which provided a detailed description of how MicroStrategy planned to compete against Business Objects, was found by the court to be of “enormous economic value” to both MicroStrategy and Business Objects. The court’s decision, a copy of which is available at http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/Nsd/mstr/reports/mstr_081004.pdf, announces the results of a trial conducted in October 2003.

Among the decision’s many noteworthy findings are that a number of MicroStrategy’s most sensitive documents were circulated widely among Business Objects’ top executives (including CEO Bernard Liautaud, VP of Marketing Dave Kellogg, VP of Sales John Powell, and Head of North American Operations Jon Temple), but that nothing was done to stop the flow of this ill-gotten information.

Commenting on Business Objects’ earlier press release today claiming victory in the case, Jonathan F. Klein, MicroStrategy’s Vice President, Law & General Counsel, noted, “We are pleased with the court’s decision. Business Objects misappropriated our trade secrets, and the court issued an injunction prohibiting their use. Business Objects’ suggestion that its misconduct involved only a single employee and two documents is contradicted by the court’s extensive factual findings. It is regrettable that MicroStrategy had to go to court to force Business Objects to play by the rules. The court’s opinion is a clear indictment of Business Objects’ efforts to gain unfair advantage in our very competitive marketplace.”

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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MicroStrategy Continues Relationship with World’s Second Largest Retailer Carrefour

Aug 09, 2004 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategyâ??s Largest International Deal Since 2000

McLEAN, Va., (August 09, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with the world’s second largest retailer Carrefour. Carrefour, Europe’s largest retailer, operates more than 10,600 stores in 29 countries and employs nearly 450,000 people.

Carrefour, a MicroStrategy customer for several years now, already has an important number of users and will continue the roll-out of its business intelligence solution, based on MicroStrategy technology, in new countries.

“Our deal with Carrefour is a crowning achievement for MicroStrategy and validation of the value our business intelligence technology brings to businesses,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy software is recognized for its user-friendly reporting features, data scalability and its ability to be Web-deployed to thousands of users securely. Business intelligence is a critical capability for many of the largest companies of the world and MicroStrategy is a leader in this business.”

MicroStrategy now boasts as customers seven of the top ten global retailers; six of the top ten U.S. diversified financial services companies; seven of the top ten U.S. consumer products companies; each of the top five U.S. commercial and savings banks; each of the top ten U.S. pharmaceutical companies; and nine of the top ten telecom companies. For more information on MicroStrategy’s customers, please visit: http://www.microstrategy.com/Customers/Customer_List.asp.

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 — 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 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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

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

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

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