MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Patterson Dental Company is expanding its deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ for sales analysis and reporting.

McLEAN, Va., (October 20, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Patterson Dental Company is expanding its deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for sales analysis and reporting.

Patterson Dental Supply Inc., the company’s primary operating unit, which is growing significantly faster than its market, has the largest direct sales force in the industry, totaling over 1,300 sales representatives and equipment/software specialists serving the United States and Canada.

Patterson Dental Supply is using the MicroStrategy system to conduct highly detailed analysis of sales patterns to determine how each of the company’s products are selling in all geographical areas. Over 1,000 Patterson Dental Supply sales representatives, sales managers and business analysts are benefiting from this MicroStrategy application, which employs a SQL Server database. The expanded relationship with MicroStrategy will further enhance the usability and value of this application by allowing Patterson Dental to extend its business intelligence reporting capabilities to the Web.

“MicroStrategy is the market’s best choice for business intelligence applications,” said Lynn Askew, Patterson Dental’s Vice President of Management Information Systems. “MicroStrategy offers exceptional scalability, an easy-to-use Web interface, and robust analytics to provide valuable insight into our sales trends.”

“We’re proud of our growing relationship with Patterson Dental,” said MicroStrategy’s Chief Operating Officer Sanju Bansal. “We’re committed to providing industrial-strength business intelligence infrastructure to companies like Patterson Dental who require applications that can play an integral role in enhancing the most critical aspects of their operations.”

About Patterson Dental Company

Patterson Dental Company is a value-added distributor serving the dental supply, companion-pet veterinarian supply and rehabilitation supply markets.

Patterson Dental Supply

As Patterson’s largest business, Patterson Dental Supply provides a virtually complete range of consumable dental products, clinical and laboratory equipment, and value-added services to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions and other healthcare providers throughout North America. Patterson Dental Supply, which is growing significantly faster than its market, has the largest direct sales force in the industry, totaling nearly 1,300 sales representatives and equipment/software specialists serving the United States and Canada.

Webster Veterinary Supply

Webster is the leading distributor of veterinary supplies to companion-pet veterinary clinics in the eastern United States and the third largest nationally. One of the most respected names in the veterinary supply industry, Webster is a value-added, full-service distributor of consumable supplies, equipment, diagnostic products, vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

AbilityOne Products Corporation

AbilityOne delivers the industry’s largest and most comprehensive range of distributed and self-manufactured rehabilitation products to a global customer base, serving acute care hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation clinics, dealers and schools. AbilityOne offers over 15,000 rehabilitation and assistive products from more than 1,500 suppliers. AbilityOne’s catalog is recognized as the gold standard in its marketplace, and its direct sales force is the largest in the industry.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,200 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

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

Source: MicroStrategy