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MicroStrategy and NCR Expand Scope of Global Value-Added Reseller Agreement

MicroStrategy's DSS Suite Offered As Analysis Engine With NCR's Retail Data Warehouse Solutions

Vienna, VA, April 20, 1999 -- MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of mission-critical decision support systems, today announced that NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) will resell MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite™ intelligence platform with NCR’s retail data warehouse solution offerings.

Under the agreement, NCR will offer DSS Suite with retail data warehouse applications that help retailers transform point-of-service and operational data into business value. These applications leverage the use of detailed data to optimize merchandise assortments and inventory productivity, improve customer service and promotion effectiveness, and enhance relationships with vendors and customers. NCR’s solutions, built on the foundation of the NCR Teradata Warehouse, are designed to help retailers make informed decisions that directly impact every customer, every product and every location.

"As retailers transition and extend their business to an electronic environment, a complete understanding of their products and customers is even more critical for success," said Sanju K. Bansal, Chief Operating Officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. "MicroStrategy and NCR both understand the business intelligence needs of retailers. By offering MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite, NCR's Retail Solutions Group is providing its customers with a sophisticated platform for analyzing and understand their business in order to increase profitability."

NCR and MicroStrategy – Addressing the Needs of Retailers Throughout the World

More than 40 leading corporations have successfully implemented MicroStrategy / NCR solutions, including some of the largest in the world. Joint retail customers include Kmart and The Limited. "The results our customers have achieved demonstrate the value MicroStrategy’s technology can add to a high performance merchandising or marketing solution," said Rick Schultz, NCR’s vice president for Retail Industry Computer Marketing. "Retailers who can analyze information at the customer transaction or interaction level—whether a customer is in a store or on the web—and transform that information into stronger customer relationships will have the potential to gain a tremendous competitive edge. NCR’s retail business applications for data warehousing demonstrate the ease with which leading retailers can implement repeatable solutions on MicroStrategy’s intelligence platform."

NCR also plans to resell DSS Suite with its cross-industry solutions, aimed at addressing the needs of retailers and financial services organizations—as well as industries such as manufacturing, health care, telecommunications, and transportation—that require state of the art customer relationship management solutions.

Last October, NCR and MicroStrategy announced an agreement covering the resale of DSS Suite with NCR’s SmartEC Decisions solution.

About NCR

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is in the business of transforming transactions into relationships. NCR is a recognized world leader in data warehousing solutions, ATMs, point-of-service, high performance scanners, and support services for retail, financial and national accounts markets. NCR’s business solutions are built on the foundation of the company’s long-established industry knowledge and consulting expertise, value-adding software, global customer support services, a complete line of consumable and media products, and world-leading hardware technology.

NCR’s Retail Solutions Group, headquartered in the greater Atlanta area, is a leading provider of retail data warehousing and store automation solutions worldwide. More information about NCR and its products may be found on the Internet at www.ncr.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.

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

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