MicroStrategy Incorporated : MicroStrategy Positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant of 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

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Tysons Corner, VA., February 9, 2012 - 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 2012 "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms" report.1

According to Gartner, "Organizations continue to turn to BI as a vital tool for smarter, more agile,efficient business." Gartner describes Leaders as "vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadthdepth of their BI platform capabilities,can deliver on enterprise-wide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viabilityoperational capability to deliver on a global basis." A copy of the Gartner report is available, compliments of MicroStrategy, at http://www.microstrategy.com/Gartner.

In 2011, MicroStrategy continued to provide sophisticated BI platform capabilitiesdelivered numerous technology innovations.

MicroStrategy Empowers Business Users with Visual Insight
MicroStrategy enhanced ease-of-use by introducing a new data discovery feature, Visual Insight, that enables business users to explore dataspot trends, minimizing the need for IT to create reportsdashboards. With Visual Insight, business people have the power to control the processget answers to questions quicklyeasily.

MicroStrategy Mobile Provides Extensive Feature Set for Mobile BI
Organizations continued to adopt MicroStrategy's mobile BI platform to measure performance, monitor significant trendstake business action using their iOSAndroid mobile devices. MicroStrategy's mobile customers include such leading brands as GUESS?, Inc., Whole Foods Market, Herbalife, MetLife, Edmunds.com, eHarmony,Sonic Automotive.

MicroStrategy Transaction Services Accelerates Business SpeedProductivity
MicroStrategy Transaction Services helps companies accelerate the speedproductivity of their businesses by enabling mobile apps that connect to transactional systemsdatabases. Introduced in July 2011, MicroStrategy Transaction Services allows mobile appsweb-based dashboards to include action-taking features, including submitting orders, one-click approvalsdenials, taking notes for trackingdirecting business activity,writing information back to data sources.

MicroStrategy Delivers on Big Data
Via continued investments in 'big data' technology, MicroStrategy enables organizations to easily reveal business insights hidden in their large, highly complex data sets. In 2011, MicroStrategy enhanced its in-memory technology to provide improved scaleperformance for large user populations. Also, in October 2011, the Company partnered with Cloudera to introduce a Hadoop connector so that organizations can quicklyeasily perform analytics on structured or unstructured data stored in Hadoop.

MicroStrategy Launches Major Initiative in the Cloud
In July 2011, MicroStrategy introduced MicroStrategy Cloud, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service. MicroStrategy Cloud enables rapid, cost-effective development of business intelligencemobilesocial apps. Compared to traditional on-premises BI approaches, MicroStrategy Cloud is faster to deploy, delivers better performance,offers significant financial advantages. MicroStrategy Cloud is powerfulflexible enough to support the full range of cloud use cases, from fast, tactical BI solutions, to the largest implementations where performancescalability are imperative. Unlike general-purpose cloud solutions, MicroStrategy Cloud is architectedoptimized for large data volumes, high concurrency,high performance. MicroStrategy Cloud includes the entire MicroStrategy BI platform technology for reportinganalysis, enabling users to tap into enterprise data from their desktop or mobile device, improving insightbusiness decision-making.

MicroStrategy Extends its BI ExpertiseAnalytics into Social Media
MicroStrategy entered the market for social software with several products aimed at capitalizing on the growing market of Facebook-compatible applications. MicroStrategy's social intelligence offerings fall into two categories: Enterprise Social IntelligenceConsumer Social Intelligence. These products can be used in different combinations by organizations worldwide to harness the power of Facebook data.

Enterprise Social Intelligence Products

• MicroStrategy Gateway for Facebook. Released in July 2011, MicroStrategy Gateway for Facebook provides high capacity connectivity between enterprise IT environmentsFacebook's social graph using Facebook's open APIs.
• MicroStrategy Wisdom. Released in December 2011, MicroStrategy Wisdom is an analytic application built on MicroStrategy's BI platform which owners of Facebook-compatible applications can use to segmentanalyze their Facebook application user populations.
• MicroStrategy Alert. Released in July 2011, MicroStrategy Alert is a Facebook-compatible application for marketinge-commerce. It helps companiesbrands extend the effectiveness of their Facebook pages.

Consumer Social Intelligence Products

• Emma. Released in July 2011, Emma is a Facebook-compatible consumer application that provides an electronic marketplace for goods, services,social activities.
• Usher. Released in November 2011, Usher is a Facebook-compatible consumer application that allows users to set upmanage Facebook events.
• Wisdom for Facebook. Released in April 2011, Wisdom for Facebook is a consumer application that allows users to viewanalyze the demographicsinterests (Facebook Likes) of the entire Wisdom network or of just their own personal friend network.
• Alert for Facebook. Released in July 2011, Alert for Facebook is a Facebook-compatible consumer application that is a convenient mobile Facebook Page reader.

"Our leadership position in the Magic Quadrant is a testament to our commitment to R&Dunderscores our pioneering work in developing powerful technologies that capitalize on Big Data, Mobile, Social,Cloud trends," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer.

1 Gartner "Magic Quadrants for Business Intelligence Platforms" by John Hagerty, Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, February 6, 2012.

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About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence,social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics,superior datauser scalability. MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companiesorganizations build, deploy,maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions,multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketinge-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategythird-party software, hardware,services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile,social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Cloud, MicroStrategy Mobile, Cloud Personal, MicroStrategy Transaction Services, MicroStrategy Gateway for Facebook, MicroStrategy Wisdom, MicroStrategy Alert, Emma, Usher, Wisdom for Facebook,Alert for Facebook are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United Statescertain other countries. Other productcompany names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.