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MicroStrategy and Teradata Collaborate to Offer Industry-Specific Dashboards

MicroStrategy Dashboards and Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Provide Retailers with Actionable Insights into Sales Performance

McLean, Va., (October 14, 2008) –

MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, and Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced that they will collaborate to provide dashboards for selected industries to make decision-making easier and faster.

The industry-specific dashboards will showcase the combined power of Teradata analytics and MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM). MicroStrategy’s dashboards display large volumes of data in an intuitive and highly visual manner, allowing users to quickly identify trends and issues.

Teradata’s retail business intelligence solution includes the Teradata active enterprise data warehouse, Teradata RetailDecisions, Teradata’s Retail Logical Data Model, and MicroStrategy’s dashboards. The new retail dashboards provide retailers with a data-driven view of sales performance, allowing them to access, predict, analyze, interpret, and act on data by store, customer, and sales channel. With report templates based on industry best practices, retailers can more readily address campaign planning around special holidays and seasons, enabling users to perform market basket and affinity analyses, and evaluate campaign effectiveness.

“The combination of MicroStrategy and Teradata provides a powerful business intelligence solution at Roundy’s,” said Greg Lisiak, Director of Business Solutions at Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. “Our users rely on our information dashboards to quickly access and interpret critical business activity, and to improve business and operational performance.”

“MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards in a Teradata environment provide intelligence at first sight,” said Darryl McDonald, Teradata Chief Marketing Officer. “Users can analyze information about their business at-a-glance and act immediately with confidence. MicroStrategy dashboards truly bring the power of Teradata-driven enterprise information to life.”

“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Teradata and collaborate on these industry-specific dashboards,” said Sanju Bansal, Chief Operating Officer of MicroStrategy. “By integrating MicroStrategy’s expressive dashboards with Teradata’s logical data model and enterprise data warehouse, our customers can efficiently manage their data and rapidly gain actionable insights to make analytically-based business decisions.”

Teradata and MicroStrategy have a long-standing marketing and technology relationship, which includes MicroStrategy’s participation in Teradata’s beta program for more than 10 years. The two companies have over 200 joint customers spanning a wide range of industries including retail, financial services, communications, manufacturing, transportation, and government.

About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world’s largest company solely focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing, consulting services and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the web at www.teradata.com.

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Premier Inc. Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy to Enhance Hospital Performance Tools

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy software to enhance its performance improvement tools for hospitals

McLean, Va., (October 07, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy software to enhance its performance improvement tools for hospitals. Premier Inc. operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation’s most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information.

Premier plans to augment its suite of hospital performance tools and has selected MicroStrategy to provide detailed analytical and reporting capabilities. The more than 2,000 members of the alliance use the Premier suite of analytic tools for greater insights into physician performance, clinical performance, financial performance, and compliance.

Premier currently uses the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to offer its member hospitals comparative healthcare information services to help drive performance improvements. MicroStrategy supports a wide range of Premier data applications, including ClinicalAdvisor(TM), a clinical efficiency and quality performance benchmarking application. Hospitals use ClinicalAdvisor to access critical performance measures against comparative benchmarks to help make data-driven decisions to improve processes and performance in their organizations.

Premier Senior Director Architecture and Applications Development Todd Wilkes said, “As our business intelligence requirements have expanded over the years, MicroStrategy has grown with us. After evaluating other BI technologies for this new application, we found that MicroStrategy’s advanced analytics, user and data scalability, and intuitive Web-based reporting were an excellent fit.”

“MicroStrategy is proud of its ongoing relationship with Premier,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “The MicroStrategy platform is used across the healthcare industry for analyzing claims, monitoring safety, enhancing resource utilization, and improving service quality. In fact, 7 of the top 10 global healthcare companies rely on MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software.”

About Premier Inc.
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation’s most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation’s largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Premier is a 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

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

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

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NTT America Selects MicroStrategy’s Information Dashboards to Enhance Customer Service

MicroStrategy Chosen Following Thorough BI Products Evaluation

McLean, Va., (October 02, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, has selected MicroStrategy to analyze and monitor key customer service performance metrics.

NTT America chose MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM) to monitor customer service data, including response times to trouble tickets. NTT America executives and managers will use the MicroStrategy information dashboards for at-a-glance insights into customer service performance to help them make data-driven decisions. With MicroStrategy, NTT America expects to be able to improve its service response times, allocate resources more efficiently, and address other critical service areas to improve customer satisfaction and retention.

“Following a thorough evaluation of the leading business intelligence products, we found MicroStrategy’s interactive dashboards to be the best choice to ensure high user adoption across the enterprise,” said Sho Kikuchi, Director of IT, NTT America, Inc. “MicroStrategy’s robust architecture allows us to deliver valuable data to a broad user population and it requires significantly less overhead than any other BI tool in the market.”

“NTT America is a valued new MicroStrategy customer,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards empower business users of all levels to interact with their data in compelling new ways, providing actionable insights to help them make more effective decisions, streamline operations, and better serve their customers.”

About NTT America
NTT America is North America’s natural gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide. For additional information on NTT America, visit us on the Web at www.nttamerica.com.

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

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

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Cabela’s Chooses MicroStrategy as Enterprise Reporting Standard

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Cabelaâ??s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB) has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise reporting standard. Cabela’s is a leading specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, and

McLean, Va., (September 30, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Cabela’s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB) has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise reporting standard. Cabela’s is a leading specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear through its legendary retail stores, world-famous catalogs, and popular www.cabelas.com Web site.

MicroStrategy’s integrated business intelligence platform will support a wide range of reporting applications for Cabela’s. MicroStrategy will be used across the organization for enhanced insights into key business areas, including inventory planning, customer service, sales administration, forecast analysis, and category management. In addition, MicroStrategy will be used to help Cabela’s improve its online business by enabling Cabela’s employees to review every item purchased online and better understand the items that customers typically purchase together. With this insight, Cabela’s will be able to present complementary product offerings to its online customers.

“We evaluated numerous BI products and were particularly impressed with MicroStrategy’s integration with Teradata, our enterprise data warehouse,” said Jon Crowe, Director of Enterprise Technology Services of Cabela’s. “In addition, MicroStrategy’s user-friendly reports and dashboards will help us to be more responsive to the needs of our organization by empowering our users to create their own reports and eliminating the need for custom report development by IT.”

“MicroStrategy and Teradata have a significant joint customer base of more than 200 customers and we are pleased that Cabela’s values the integration of our technologies,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s intuitive Web interface, advanced reporting capabilities, and data scalability are an excellent fit for Cabela’s and other leading retailers with large volumes of data and diverse user populations.”

About Cabela’s
Cabela’s Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is a leading specialty retailer, and the world’s largest direct marketer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the Company’s founding in 1961, Cabela’s has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World’s Foremost Outfitter. Through Cabela’s growing number of retail stores and its well-established direct business, it offers a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer service. Cabela’s also issues the Cabela’s CLUB Visa credit card, which serves as its primary customer loyalty rewards program. Cabela’s stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CAB.”

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

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

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MicroStrategy Symposium in S

Event to Feature Customer Speakers from Banco Central do Brasil, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Contax, Falabella, Famiq, PepsiCo, PREVI, Suramericana de Seguros, and Swiss Medical Group

McLean, Va., (September 24, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it will host its Business Intelligence Symposium in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Grand Hyatt São Paulo, October 7-8, 2008. The two-day event will provide attendees with the opportunity to interact with BI experts and hear how successful organizations use BI software to improve decision making and enhance business performance.

The Symposium will offer a content-rich agenda with informative technical sessions and customer best practices. The technology track will feature presentations on reporting, analysis, and monitoring solutions, with an emphasis on the latest advances in the MicroStrategy platform, including MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM), MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), and MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM).

The customer track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Some of the companies scheduled to present in São Paulo include Banco Central do Brasil, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Contax, Falabella, Famiq, PepsiCo, PREVI, Suramericana de Seguros, and Swiss Medical Group.

“MicroStrategy Symposia provide attendees with practical tools to enhance business intelligence performance,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “The highly collaborative format of the Symposia enables participants to engage in lively discussions with MicroStrategy experts, hear first-hand BI experiences from industry-leading companies, and exchange ideas with peers.”

To learn more about the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium in São Paulo, visit www.microstrategy.com/SaoPauloSymposium2008.

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

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, MicroStrategy Mobile are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Bank Austria Selects MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software for Reporting and Analytics

MicroStrategy to Offer Extensive Analytical Capabilities to Bank Austria

McLean, Va., (September 16, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Bank Austria has selected MicroStrategy to enhance its reporting and analysis capabilities. Bank Austria, a member of UniCredit Group, one of the leading European banking groups, is the leader in the Austrian banking sector.

Bank Austria plans to build a more efficient enterprise data warehouse for its business and its subsidiaries, Österreich AG and functional subsidiaries. With the new data warehouse, Bank Austria expects to increase user efficiency, as well as improve business performance and customer satisfaction. The MicroStrategy platform will enable Bank Austria end users of all levels to report on and analyze large volumes of data without requiring deep understanding of the data model or SQL knowledge.

Bank Austria compared MicroStrategy to several other BI vendors and MicroStrategy provided Bank Austria with a successful prototype that demonstrated its high performance and its ability to seamlessly integrate with Bank Austria’s new Teradata data warehouse.

Mr. Zdrazil, Bank Austria Manager, is very happy with the decision for MicroStrategy: “During the performance tests, the MicroStrategy software platform delivered a superior reporting system for Bank Austria, with greater efficiency and extensive functionality as compared to the other BI products we reviewed.”

“MicroStrategy is pleased that Bank Austria selected MicroStrategy for its reporting and analytics,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy’s ease-of-use, sophisticated analytical capabilities, and scalability for thousands of users and terabytes of data, offer a powerful BI solution for dynamic companies like Bank Austria.”

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

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

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NEC Signs Reseller Agreement with MicroStrategy Japan

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NEC Corporation has signed a reseller agreement with MicroStrategy Japan.

McLean, Va., (September 10, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that NEC Corporation has signed a reseller agreement with MicroStrategy Japan.

Under this agreement, MicroStrategy Japan and NEC will jointly develop business in the manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and financial industries, as well as cooperative marketing programs that include seminars and expos.

“We value this new relationship with NEC and are pleased that they plan to introduce the benefits of MicroStrategy’s BI software to their customer base,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “We look forward to working with NEC to identify new business opportunities.”

Information about NEC is available at www.nec.com.

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

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

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MicroStrategy Announces New OEM Partner, ABB Switzerland Ltd.

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that ABB Switzerland Ltd.(ABB) has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy. ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies.

McLean, Va., (September 04, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that ABB Switzerland Ltd.(ABB) has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy. ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies.

ABB Switzerland’s “Center of Excellence Printing,” based in Baden-Dättwil, plans to use MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software as an embedded BI solution together with its Web-based production tracking and analysis solution for newspaper printing. ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing provides integrated IT automation systems that enable newspaper publishers and printers to manage and optimize their daily production. The ABB system supports production needs from page planning to the distribution of the finished newspapers, and from controlling the printing presses to planning and tracking the entire production process.

By embedding MicroStrategy into its MPS Insight solution, which tracks newspaper production from the prepress to the delivery of the product, ABB will be able to provide its customers with a decision support system based on enhanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Specifically, MPS Insight customers will be able to track key metrics along the newspaper production process, including material consumption, paper quality, production deadlines, and process costs.

“MicroStrategy allows us to minimize our development time and enhance our product with a fully integrated and easy to use business intelligence solution creating benefit for our customers,” said Philipp Kaufmann, Product Manager with ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing.

“MicroStrategy is pleased to work with ABB and provide enhanced reporting and analytics for their solution,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy is embedded as the BI technology of choice by OEMs across a wide range of industries because of its integrated platform, user-friendly reporting features, and scalability.”

About ABB
ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. ABB employs about 115,000 people in over 100 countries with about 6,000 employees in Switzerland. The focus of the enterprise is primarily the core areas of power transmission and automation technology. ABB’s web site address is www.abb.com. The web site of ABB’s Center of Excellence Printing is www.abb.com/printing.

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

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

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MicroStrategy Announces New Visualization Widgets for Improved Data Comprehension and Decision Making

Advanced Visualizations Include Data-driven Movies to Uncover Business Trends

McLean, Va. (August 27, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the latest release of advanced visualization widgets for its Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards(TM).

MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards enable large volumes of data to be displayed and understood in ways that cannot be accomplished with standard graph and table formats. MicroStrategy offers a library of advanced visualization widgets that present data in a highly visual and interactive manner to augment data comprehension and enhance decision making.

“MicroStrategy’s advanced visualizations help C&S Wholesale Grocers communicate data-rich information more effectively to our users,” said Christine Curtis, Vice President of Corporate Systems at C&S Wholesale Grocers. “Interactive graphs enable C&S users to quickly and easily find the information relevant to them.”

MicroStrategy leverages Adobe® Flash® to incorporate visualization, interactivity, and animation into its widgets. For example, MicroStrategy’s Interactive Bubble Graph widget allows time series data to be displayed as a data-driven movie, showing how data changes over time.

MicroStrategy customers can use Adobe® Flex(TM) 2 and Flex 3 to create their own MicroStrategy-compatible visualization widgets to include in dashboards and reports. Some of the newest advanced visualization widgets include:

* The Bubble Grid widget, which enables users to plot metric values as bubbles of different colors and sizes within a grid
* The Funnel widget, a variation of a stacked percent bar chart in a funnel shape, which is well-suited for a variety of business purposes, including pipeline analyses for sales forecasts and sales process analysis
* The Waterfall widget, which displays a series of increments and decrements that users can modify to perform a scenario analysis on the data and identify causes for fluctuations in the business

“MicroStrategy dashboards deliver an engaging user experience that can improve data analysis and decision making,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “Our library of advanced visualizations has continued to grow, offering users new graphical ways to view their data.”

To see a demonstration of MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and the advanced visualization capabilities, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/digital-dashboard/demos.asp.

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

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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SAND Technology to Offer MicroStrategy for Enhanced Reporting Capabilities

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of intelligent data management software and best practices, has entered into an OEM agreement with Micro

McLean, Va., (August 20, 2008) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of intelligent data management software and best practices, has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy. SAND plans to include MicroStrategy software in its data management solutions to provide advanced reporting capabilities to its customers.

SAND Technology enables enterprises to store and retrieve large amounts of granular or historical data in a small footprint by compressing the data into an easy-to-access, searchable data repository. By including MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software, SAND can now offer a broader solution to its customers with seamless reporting functionality. SAND customers will have the ability to access pre-defined MicroStrategy reports to help them gain greater visibility into their large volumes of data and make better business decisions by having the information they need at their fingertips.

“Our customers rely on SAND Technology for cost-effective data management solutions for their vast amounts of data,” said Richard Grondin, Vice President R&D and Product Deployment at SAND Technology. “MicroStrategy is well-suited for our technology and our customers’ reporting requirements. We were impressed with MicroStrategy’s ease of integration and powerful reporting capabilities that are available through a user-friendly Web interface.”

“We are delighted that SAND Technology has selected MicroStrategy to augment its reporting capabilities,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy’s scalable platform enables broad and diverse user populations to report on and analyze very large volumes of granular data.”

About SAND Technology
SAND is an international provider of intelligent information management software. The SAND/DNA product suite scales to help any size enterprise cope with exploding data requirements, now and into the future. SAND/DNA Access allows for retaining all potentially relevant data in a tiny footprint while providing instant access to just what’s required. SAND/DNA Analytics allows for complex what-if analysis to meet any planned and unplanned business need.

SAND/DNA solutions include CRM analytics, and specialized applications for government, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, retail, transportation, and other business sectors. SAND/DNA has achieved “Certified for SAP NetWeaver” status and SAND Nearline Integration Controller has achieved “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” status.

SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Central Europe.

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

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

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MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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