MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance plans to expand its deployment of MicroStrategy software to enhance its performance improvement tools for hospitals. Premier Inc. operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information.

Premier plans to augment its suite of hospital performance tools and has selected MicroStrategy to provide detailed analytical and reporting capabilities. The more than 2,000 members of the alliance use the Premier suite of analytic tools for greater insights into physician performance, clinical performance, financial performance, and compliance.

Premier currently uses the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to offer its member hospitals comparative healthcare information services to help drive performance improvements. MicroStrategy supports a wide range of Premier data applications, including ClinicalAdvisor(TM), a clinical efficiency and quality performance benchmarking application. Hospitals use ClinicalAdvisor to access critical performance measures against comparative benchmarks to help make data-driven decisions to improve processes and performance in their organizations.

Premier Senior Director Architecture and Applications Development Todd Wilkes said, "As our business intelligence requirements have expanded over the years, MicroStrategy has grown with us. After evaluating other BI technologies for this new application, we found that MicroStrategy's advanced analytics, user and data scalability, and intuitive Web-based reporting were an excellent fit."

"MicroStrategy is proud of its ongoing relationship with Premier," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's COO. "The MicroStrategy platform is used across the healthcare industry for analyzing claims, monitoring safety, enhancing resource utilization, and improving service quality. In fact, 7 of the top 10 global healthcare companies rely on MicroStrategy's business intelligence software."

About Premier Inc.

Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Premier is a 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

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 advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

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