MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that government organizations can significantly benefit from the company’s new business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 7i, as it can help organizations analyze operati

McLEAN, Va., (May 16, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that government organizations can significantly benefit from the company’s new business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 7i, as it can help organizations analyze operations, streamline procurement and supply chain processes, cut costs and improve efficiency. The company said that MicroStrategy 7i is designed to help government agencies leverage technology to provide necessary, timely information to their constituencies and effectively handle changing legislative mandates or user requirements.

“MicroStrategy 7i will help the State of Tennessee better manage financial information leading to efficiencies that save both time and money,” said Sherrie Benn, Data Warehouse Consultant at the State of Tennessee. “The easy-to-use interface enables State employees to quickly access state financial data and answer questions that standard financial reports have never provided.” According to the company, MicroStrategy 7i features such as Windows-like functionality over the Web and pure-HTML interfaces, make it easy for government agencies to deploy secure extranet applications, facilitating the flow of information among agencies and their information consumers.

“MicroStrategy 7i security features are comprehensive across users, applications, data, and reports,” added Benn. “MicroStrategy 7i securely delivers insight to the right person in the right agency.”

The fact that the 7i platform is compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is another critical benefit to government organizations, MicroStrategy said. Section 508 is a law that requires all government agencies to have made their information systems, application software and electronic information technology accessible to users with disabilities. With MicroStrategy 7i, agencies can easily integrate analytics into existing systems or build new applications without worrying about being out of compliance with Section 508.

MicroStrategy’s current government customers include: Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Election Commission, Ohio Department of Education, State of Tennessee, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Postal Service and Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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

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

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

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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Alka Nayyar
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 847-4897
anayyar@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy