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Dynamic Information Systems Corporation Joins MicroStrategy's DSS Partners Program

Partnership Merges Superior Data Access Technology with Business Intelligence to Improve Data Warehouse Response Times

Boulder, Colorado, July 28, 1999 — Dynamic Information Systems Corporation (DISC), a leading developer of data access solutions, announced today that it has joined the MicroStrategy® DSS Partners™ program as a systems integrator. MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR) is a leading provider of business intelligence software.

DISC seamlessly integrates with the MicroStrategy DSS Suite™, a comprehensive business intelligence product line, to provide customers with enterprise-wide data warehouse solutions delivering superior database performance. As the most powerful data access tool on the market, DISC’s OMNIDEX™ database search engine, provides phenomenal query response times for both online and data warehousing environments. Leveraging OMNIDEX, companies have accelerated query response times by more than 1000% compared to traditional database access methods.

As a member of MicroStrategy’s DSS Partners program, DISC has completed full OMNIDEX certification for DSS Agent™, a business intelligence application development and reporting tool, and DSS Server™, a scalable, multi-user server within the MicroStrategy DSS Suite.

Terry O’Brien, DISC executive vice president and COO says, "We are excited about our partnership with MicroStrategy because it gives customers the ability to team our extraordinary data access capabilities with the comprehensive reporting capabilities of MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite. Using OMNIDEX, our customers have realized dramatic query performance improvements, often 10 to 50 times faster!"

"The compatibility of DSS Server with DISC’s OMNIDEX database search engine allows customers to easily optimize their data warehouse projects for enhanced performance," said Sanju K. Bansal, executive vice president and COO of MicroStrategy Incorporated. "DSS Server ensures that users can query databases for the most detailed level of analysis while OMNIDEX ensures instant data access even for the most complex queries."

About DISC

Dynamic Information Systems Corporation (DISC) is an information-access solution provider. We specialize in software and consulting services to provide instantaneous access to database queries. OMNIDEX for Open Systems is an enterprise-wide advanced indexing system that provides multidimensional keyword indexes and specialized aggregation indexes to provide instant data access to large data warehouses. For more information about DISC, visit www.disc.com/home.

From Customer Service and Order Entry to Database Marketing, Decision Support, and Data Warehousing, OMNIDEX redefines the standard for online, ad-hoc information access.

OMNIDEX now supports a wide range of databases and hardware platforms, including Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and flat files on HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows NT, Digital UNIX, Sequent Dynix, RS6000 AIX, HP-MPE, Digital VAX/VMS, and Alpha OpenVMS. It integrates seamlessly with popular PC tools through ODBC, and is Web-enabled.

MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, Intelligent E-Business, MicroStrategy Agent, MicroStrategy Suite are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.