Global Health Leader Using Platform to Effectively Manage Distribution of Vaccines to Customers and Suppliers

MCLEAN, Va., (January 29, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its customer Aventis Pasteur is successfully using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) in the US to anchor its mission-critical business intelligence applications across the enterprise. Aventis Pasteur, a world leader in vaccines with the broadest range of products, produces more than one billion doses of vaccines every year to immunize 400 million people around the world. MicroStrategy reseller Biltmore Technologies customized the technology platform, developed the MicroStrategy-based applications, and implemented the business intelligence solution.

“Aventis Pasteur relies on the MicroStrategy platform to power its most critical, business intelligence applications across the enterprise,” said David King, IS Director for the Market Process at Aventis Pasteur. “Based on our internal success using the MicroStrategy platform, we plan to extend the reach of our business intelligence applications by distributing personalized and relevant business insight to our customers and suppliers.”

Currently, more than 200 Aventis Pasteur employees — including marketing, sales support and field representatives — use MicroStrategy Web(TM) to conduct queries and obtain reports about critical sales, customer, product and contract information. End users are able to pull up daily sales activity and make comparisons to sales targets or address particular customer issues. “MicroStrategy is helping us increase our sales effectiveness,” added King.

“We are pleased that MicroStrategy 7 continues to be the business intelligence platform of choice for global leaders like Aventis Pasteur,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “More and more companies are turning to MicroStrategy to quickly deploy business intelligence applications and identify opportunities to increase profitability and cut costs.”

For more information about Aventis Pasteur, please visit www.us.aventispasteur.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the 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 recently selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet(TM). Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy’s products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 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, Informatica 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