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The Janus Group, Inc. Joins MicroStrategy’s DSS Partners Program

Partnership Between Leading Consulting Group and Top Decision Support Innovator Provides Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Utilities Firms with Enterprise Data Warehousing Solutions

Bridgewater, NJ, January 18, 1999 — The Janus Group, a technology and management consulting firm, announced today that it has joined the MicroStrategy® (NASDAQ: MSTR) DSS Partners™ Program as a systems integrator. MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of mission-critical decision support systems. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, The Janus Group will combine its industry experience in decision support systems design, development and implementation with MicroStrategy’s business intelligence tools.

As a MicroStrategy systems integration partner, The Janus Group, Inc. will leverage MicroStrategy’s DSS Suite™, a comprehensive decision support product line, to deliver enterprise-wide and application-specific solutions to marketing, quality assurance and information technology organizations in the telecommunications, pharmaceutical, medical device and utilities industries. Using DSS Suite, The Janus Group will provide repeatable solutions for web and client/server platforms, covering such areas as market-basket analysis, customer segmentation and profiling, database marketing, new product introduction and service-provisioning value-chain analysis.

"By partnering with MicroStrategy, The Janus Group can now offer our clients proven enterprise-wide DSS services and solutions," said Ken Palma, a principal of The Janus Group. "We envision bundling our marketing, project management and technology business expertise with MicroStrategy’s robust DSS Suite to offer customized solutions that enable clients to learn more about their sales performance, customer behavior, inventory management and more."

"With The Janus Group’s extensive knowledge in developing key applications for a variety of industries, it will have the ability to implement innovative MicroStrategy-based solutions uniquely suited to its customers’ business needs," said Sanju K. Bansal, executive vice president and chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. "MicroStrategy provides a highly-flexible DSS platform capable of performing sophisticated, in-depth analyses and supporting a rapidly-growing end user community. Our partnership with The Janus Group will provide clients with complete, end-to-end decision support solutions that can support even the most demanding business environments."

About The Janus Group

The Janus Group, Inc. was formed from the 1995 merger of the technology consulting firm, Palma-Lee Associates and the management consulting firm, Janus Management Group. Their continued growth results from business-side and technology-side expertise that delivers timely and quality results, and values long-term client relationships. The Janus Group, Inc. can be reached at www.thejanusgroup.com or at 800-JANUS-55 (800-526-8755).

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