MicroStrategy Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Analyst Firm's 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms Report

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

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Feb 10, 2010, 08:00 ET

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in the 2010 "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms" report.(1)

According to Gartner, "BI platforms enable users to build applications that help organizations learn and understand their business." Gartner describes Leaders as "vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis."

A copy of the Gartner report is available, compliments of MicroStrategy, at http://www.microstrategy.com/Company/Gartnerquadrant.asp.

According to Gartner's October 2009 report, "SWOT: MicroStrategy, Business Intelligence Platforms, Worldwide," MicroStrategy is one of the leading business intelligence platform vendors. The report offers a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) framework for assessing the MicroStrategy 9 BI Platform and related offerings. A copy of the Gartner report is available at http://www.microstrategy.com/gartnerswot.

In Gartner's February 2009 report, "Critical Capabilities for Business Intelligence Reporting," MicroStrategy's Report Services product was rated 4.4 overall. The rating was based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 representing the highest score in each critical capability. The overall ranking is a weighted average of the critical capabilities defined by Gartner. The Critical Capabilities report rates the reporting capabilities of nine business intelligence platforms across three common use cases. To view the entire Gartner report, visit www.microstrategy.com/GartnerBIReporting2009.

MicroStrategy announced its latest software release, MicroStrategy 9 Release 2, in January 2010. Significant new enhancements in the MicroStrategy 9 platform make business intelligence faster, even at the highest scale of usage, and enable IT staff to deliver more information with less effort. MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 delivers new capabilities that can improve worker productivity and help BI users to quickly get answers to their business questions. In addition, the powerful new tools enable administrative personnel to work more efficiently, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership.

"We consider our position in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner as confirmation of our steadfast commitment to supporting our customers evolving BI requirements," said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. "Our latest release of MicroStrategy 9 is yet another example of our vision, innovation, and ability to deliver high performance technology that enhances the overall user experience for our customers."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its website, http://www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, and MicroStrategy Report Services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

(1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2010" by Rita Sallam et al, Jan. 29, 2010