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MicroStrategy Announces Support for Informatica's New Business Components™ and PowerConnect™ Software Products

Integration Will Enable Users of MicroStrategy's DSS Suite to Quickly and Easily Deploy Business Intelligence Solutions Against ERP Data

VIENNA, VA, April 27, 1999 — MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of mission-critical decision support systems, today announced support for Business Components™ and PowerConnect™, new enterprise software products launched by Informatica Corporation. These products, which allow organizations to easily deploy enterprise intelligence solutions, complement MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite™ of business applications.

Business Components are software building blocks that significantly reduce the complexity of accessing operational data and populating analytic applications. PowerConnect is a family of packaged software products that help customers easily extract data and metadata from hard-to-access ERP and other legacy applications. By pairing MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite with these products, MicroStrategy customers now have complete solutions that leverage the latent value of organizational ERP data, transaction data, and data stored in legacy systems.

"Informatica’s new solutions will ensure that current and future MicroStrategy customers have end-to-end extraction solutions that address the requirements of the most advanced enterprise implementations," said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. "Global 2000 organizations who utilize these solutions in conjunction with MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite can derive tremendous business benefits. We look forward to a continued strong relationship with Informatica.

"We share many joint customers who have benefited from pairing Informatica’s data integration software with their MicroStrategy implementation," said Diaz Nesamoney, president of Informatica. "MicroStrategy’s integration with Informatica’s new solutions will clearly add value to DBAs, power users and application developers by accelerating data warehouse development time and simplifying maintenance across all intelligence environments."

New Solutions Ease the Development Burden for ERP Intelligence Applications

Business Components are pre-defined application templates - on either the source data or target application side - that simplify and expedite the process of building, deploying and maintaining enterprise decision support solutions. Business Components leverage a unique semantic layer to deliver a business-level view of the source system and/or target analytic application from an analytical perspective rather than the more traditional transaction perspective found in most modeling tools and content-rich applications.

PowerConnect is a family of packaged software products that help customers easily extract data and metadata from hard-to-access ERP and other legacy applications. Products in the PowerConnect family include PowerConnect™ for SAP R/3, PowerConnect™ for PeopleSoft and PowerConnect™ for IBM DB2.

For more information on Business Components and PowerConnect, please refer to today’s releases from Informatica.

About Informatica

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Informatica develops and markets enterprise software products and services that enable many of the world’s largest companies to build and manage business intelligence and analytic applications across the enterprise. Informatica has more than 400 Global 2000 customers worldwide and maintains partnerships with Cambridge Technology Partners, EDS, Ernst & Young, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, SAP AG and Siemens Business Services. For more information, call (800) 653-3871, or visit Informatica’s Web site at www.informatica.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise decision support system (“DSS”) software and related services. MicroStrategy’s product line (DSS Suite™) enables both active and passive delivery of information from large-scale databases, providing Global 2000 enterprise user communities with timely answers to mission-critical questions.

MicroStrategy’s decision support platform enables users to query and analyze the most detailed, transaction-level databases, turning data into business intelligence. In addition to supporting internal enterprise users, MicroStrategy’s products extend DSS beyond corporate boundaries to customers, partners and supply chain constituencies through a broad range of pull and push technology such as the Internet, e-mail, telephones, pagers and other wireless communications devices. MicroStrategy also offers a comprehensive set of consulting, training and support services for its customers and partners.

MicroStrategy has over 650 customers across such diverse industries as retail, telecommunications, finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods. MicroStrategy’s customers use DSS Suite to perform mission-critical activities such as: customer segmentation and profitability analysis; supply chain management; one-to-one customer marketing; financial analysis; customer acquisition, retention, and churn analysis; merchandising and inventory analysis; product category management; and customer risk profiling. Representative MicroStrategy customers include American Express Travel Services, CVS Pharmacy, Harris Teeter, IMS America, Kmart, MCI WorldCom, Merck-Medco, Nike, and Ralston Purina. MicroStrategy has also entered into relationships with more than 145 system integration, application development and platform partners, including Acxiom, HNC Software, IBM, NCR, and Oracle.

For more information, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site: www.strategy.com.

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