Industry’s Leading Business Intelligence Platform Provides Stronger SAP Integration

MCLEAN, Va., (January 24, 2005) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has received the SAP “Powered by NetWeaver” certification, allowing SAP customers to develop business intelligence applications that leverage the NetWeaver technology they already own. MicroStrategy applications can run on SAP Application Server, and MicroStrategy business intelligence content can now be easily and securely distributed to thousands of users through the SAP Enterprise Portal Server.

MicroStrategy has made SAP-specific integrations and optimizations in order to receive the “Powered by NetWeaver” certification. Specifically, MicroStrategy Web Universal can now run on SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) Release 6.40. Also, MicroStrategy reports can be accessed using the iViews feature within SAP Enterprise Portal Server. iViews displaying MicroStrategy reports support single sign-on (SSO) as well as advanced report personalization capabilities.

“SAP’s NetWeaver platform is becoming more accepted for many large enterprises. Making SAP’s environment more easily available to an expanded number of mainstream users is a major priority for these organizations. MicroStrategy’s SAP NetWeaver certification will allow SAP customers to provide easy-to-use integrated reporting and analysis to an expanded base of their mainstream business users,” said Dan Vesset, IDC Research Director, Data Warehousing and Information Access.

SAP NetWeaver certification for the MicroStrategy BI Platform will allow SAP customers with substantial amounts of data and exacting technical requirements to deploy numerous business intelligence applications enterprise- wide. MicroStrategy’s integrated architecture and scalability can help SAP customers to extend business intelligence’s benefits further and deeper into their enterprises.

“MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence architecture provides SAP customers with the ease of administration and scalability they expect, as well as the monitoring, reporting and analysis capabilities business users require,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “As SAP customers start deploying business intelligence applications enterprise-wide, they often need the integrated reporting and analysis capabilities uniquely offered by MicroStrategy.”

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are increasingly integrating MicroStrategy’s business monitoring, reporting, and analysis software into their operations. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital insight to help drive cost-efficiency, revenue-generation, and productivity. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively empower thousands of employees, partners, and suppliers with the business insight they need to make better business decisions everyday.

MicroStrategy has over 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including Aventis, eBay, General Motors, Lowe’s Companies, Pfizer, Sprint, Telecom Italia, U.S. Postal Service, Visa International, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo!. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 300 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including HP, IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, 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.

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Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy