MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected the Director of Applications Development, Todd Wilkes, at Premier, Inc., a leading strategic alliance in U.S. healthcare, as winner of MicroStrategy’s fir

LAS VEGAS (February 05, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected the Director of Applications Development, Todd Wilkes, at Premier, Inc., a leading strategic alliance in U.S. healthcare, as winner of MicroStrategy’s first Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence award. Mr. Wilkes was recognized today at MicroStrategy World 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Premier uses the MicroStrategy platform to offer its member hospitals comparative healthcare information services to drive performance improvements. The MicroStrategy platform currently anchors Premier’s five primary business intelligence applications that help more than 600 health system clients make informed decisions on clinical quality and patient safety, business and market strategy, clinical resources utilization, operational performance and productivity. The use of MicroStrategy technology helps Premier’s clients identify ways to improve clinical care processes and the quality of outcomes.

“I am very honored to receive MicroStrategy’s Best Practices In Business Intelligence Individual Excellence award,” said Mr. Wilkes. “This award is a reflection of the hard-working, dedicated and talented group of business intelligence professionals that work with me everyday to maximize the benefits of the MicroStrategy platform, the most comprehensive business intelligence platform in the market. I accept this individual excellence award on behalf of my great team, and thank MicroStrategy for this honor.”

“Behind a company’s successful deployment of our software is a person who takes charge and leads the way with innovation, vision and insight,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. “MicroStrategy honors Mr. Wilkes for embodying these same attributes as he has established a model for exceptional business intelligence deployment at Premier. Premier is leading its industry with an award-winning platform that is helping make it a smarter, more proactive company.”

Premier represents more than 1,500 not-for-profit healthcare organizations, including multi-hospital systems, urban acute facilities and rural community hospitals. All of Premier’s Healthcare Informatics subscribers benefit from the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM), allowing them to run clinical benchmarking programs and make more informed healthcare and resource decisions.

About Premier, Inc.

Premier, Inc., is a strategic alliance in U.S. healthcare, entirely owned by more than 200 of the nation’s leading hospital and healthcare systems. These systems operate or are affiliated with more than 1,500 hospital facilities and hundreds of other healthcare sites. Premier provides an array of resources supporting health services delivery including group purchasing for more than $17 billion annually in supplies and equipment. Other resources offered by Premier are supply chain and clinical performance improvement services and insurance programs. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Premier has other major facilities in Chicago, IL; Charlotte, NC; and Washington, DC.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations — in virtually all facets of their operations — with user- friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i’s configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,900 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy