Pricing Solutions Offers Business Intelligence Reporting and Analysis Capabilities with MicroStrategy

TYSONS CORNER, Va., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Pricing Solutions, an international pricing strategy consultancy, has entered into an OEM agreement with MicroStrategy and plans to use MicroStrategy as its Business Intelligence and Pricing Analytics platform.

Pricing Solutions provides a wide range of proprietary tools, processes, and research techniques to assist its clients in studying and analyzing pricing issues, optimizing pricing strategies, and making timely pricing decisions. Pricing Solutions is developing a MicroStrategy-based Pricing Business Intelligence Platform, which includes new tools to assist pricing professionals and executives in analyzing key business metrics to set prices, terms, and conditions. Pricing Solutions' clients will benefit from intuitive reports, dashboards for at-a-glance views into an organization's pricing health, and a consistent view into their business to make data-driven pricing decisions.  

"MicroStrategy adds a powerful BI and analytical platform to our Pricing Systems solutions for global organizations," said Fernando Ventureira, Managing Director of Pricing Solutions Europe. "We selected MicroStrategy because of its seamless integration with data from varying sources, its ease of deployment, and fast implementation that results in high user adoption from the office of the CEO to the Sales Representatives out in the field. Our decision to move forward with MicroStrategy is about delivering a single, consistent pricing message to customers and being able to track and monitor that information, enabling continued pricing improvement."  

"With MicroStrategy's integrated BI platform, OEM partners can easily embed analytics into new application offerings and augment current product capabilities to provide enhanced reporting, visualization, and analytic capabilities," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer. "MicroStrategy's rich reporting and analytics will enable Pricing Solutions' clients to develop analytically-based pricing strategies across multiple markets and geographies."

About Pricing Solutions

Pricing Solutions is an international Pricing Strategy consultancy and solutions provider dedicated to helping clients achieve World Class Pricing Competency. Since 1995, Pricing Solutions has built its pricing practice through long-term relationships with clients and has grown to become one of the world's leading pricing consulting and solutions firms, with offices across North America and Europe. Our pricing expertise is based on hundreds of engagements with the world's leading companies in both B2C and B2B markets, in a variety of industries including Retail, Transportation and Logistics, Food Services, Energy and Utilities, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Biotech. As Pricing Strategy specialists, Pricing Solutions has developed a wide range of proprietary Methodologies, Tools, Processes and Research techniques to support and transfer capabilities to our clients on their pricing challenges, enabling them to make more profitable pricing decisions.  Our firm provides excellent value for our clients through direct involvement of our principals in projects; payback is typically 10:1. For more information, please visit: www.pricingsolutions.com

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. The MicroStrategy platform delivers actionable information to business users via the web and mobile devices, including the iPad, iPhone, and BlackBerry.  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. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

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