MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR – News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected Kate Kristensen, Vice President of Information Services Product Support at Inovant LLC, a Visa Solutions Company, as the recipient of MicroStrateg

Las Vegas, NV (February 02, 2005) –

MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR – News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected Kate Kristensen, Vice President of Information Services Product Support at Inovant LLC, a Visa Solutions Company, as the recipient of MicroStrategy’s Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence award. Ms. Kristensen was recognized at MicroStrategy World 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“I am honored to receive MicroStrategy’s Individual Excellence award,” said Ms. Kristensen. “I share this award with the talented group of people who work with me to maximize our MicroStrategy investment, and I thank MicroStrategy for this honor.”

According to her peers at Inovant, Ms. Kristensen has the vision and insight to understand the vital role of IT in making the business more efficient. Ms. Kristensen has always put her customers’ needs first to drive IT initiatives. By involving the business community closely with the IT development team, Ms. Kristensen has successfully delivered results to her customers.

“Kate Kristensen has defined leadership and innovation for business intelligence deployments everywhere,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “With over 20 years of experience in information technology, Kate Kristensen played a critical role in deploying MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform at Visa. We congratulate Kate Kristensen and the entire Inovant Information Services team for their outstanding work.”

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