MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that ComputerWorld Brazil has awarded MicroStrategy Brazil its number-one ranking among business intelligence companies in the Brazilian market.

McLean, Va., (September 11, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that ComputerWorld Brazil has awarded MicroStrategy Brazil its number-one ranking among business intelligence companies in the Brazilian market. MicroStrategy won this top ranking as part of ComputerWorld Brazil’s annual Top 100 IT Companies’ listing. This is the second consecutive year that MicroStrategy Brazil has appeared on the list.

This listing provides in-depth information on the best companies of each segment, using an internationally recognized methodology, which enables potential users to select their suppliers based on financial and market performance information.

“This top ranking by ComputerWorld Brazil further showcases the strength, dedication and viability of our global operations,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re very pleased that MicroStrategy Brazil has received such high recognition from a leading Brazilian IT publication.”

In 2002, MicroStrategy Brazil’s sales volume reached approximately R$ 18 million, an approximately 30 percent increase over the previous period. With headquarters in São Paulo, and offices in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, MicroStrategy Brazil employs 35 people. To remain competitive in the Brazilian market, the company has gone beyond direct sales and expanded its portfolio of partners and channels to include MV Sistemas, Gemco and Teknisa.

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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Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy