MicroStrategy Honored As One of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the US; Selected As One of the 1996 National Technology Fast 500 and As Part of the FAST 50

Business Wire, Sept 17, 1996

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1996--MicroStrategy, the largest relational on-line analytical processing (ROLAP) vendor, today announced that it will receive two awards recognizing its tremendous growth and success.

MicroStrategy has been named as one of the National Technology Fast 500, the 500 fastest growing and most dynamic technology companies in the United States. The National Technology Fast 500 is sponsored by Deloitte & Touche LLP, Heidrick & Struggles, and The Greater Washington Initiative. Members of the Fast 500 are chosen based on a combination of key factors including corporate revenue growth, overall strength within the industry, and regional revenue rankings.

"The 1996 National Technology Fast 500 is truly an exciting group of companies that are leading our nation's growth through vision, persistence, hard work, and the transfer of technology into economic results," said John Sanders, Chairman of the National Technology Fast 500 Program. "MicroStrategy is an excellent example of a company whose vision of 'databases on the Internet' is shaping both the data warehousing industry as well as corporate decision-making processes."

In addition to being one of the 1996 National Technology Fast 500, MicroStrategy is also one of the FAST 50, an award that honors the fastest growing technology companies in Northern Virginia. Inclusion in the FAST 50 is based on percentage growth in revenues. With a compounded annual growth rate of almost 120% from 1991 to 1995, MicroStrategy was one of the leading companies to be chosen as part of the FAST 50. The award is sponsored by Deloitte & Touche LLP and presented by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC).

"We are honored to be a member of the National Technology Fast 500 Program and part of the FAST 50," said Michael J. Saylor, MicroStrategy's President and CEO. "MicroStrategy's vision is to put a crystal ball on every desktop; to enable decision makers to make better, faster decisions in order to create and maintain a competitive advantage. We are pleased to be recognized by our peers, and we intend to continue, if not accelerate, our present growth rate of over 100% a year."

About MicroStrategy, Inc.

MicroStrategy is the leading provider of industrial-strength decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses.

As the Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy was the first vendor to deliver high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from relational databases without requiring any proprietary multidimensional databases. In addition, MicroStrategy has engineered many data warehousing breakthroughs: intelligent agents; VLDB drivers for terabyte-range scalability; a dynamic, multi-pass SQL generation engine; DSS metadata CASE tools; a VLDB-savvy OLAP report writer; a mission-critical ROLAP server; and most recently, OLAP over the World Wide Web.

MicroStrategy's contributions have been recognized by the data warehouse industry through several awards including the KPMG High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and the Database Programming & Design Database Dozen, while MicroStrategy's clients have been recognized as finalists in the RealWare awards and Best Practices awards.

MicroStrategy's worldwide customer base includes industry leaders like Kmart, MCI, CVS, Glaxo Wellcome, Federated Department Stores, Bank of America, AT&T, USAA, Sara Lee Direct, Victoria's Secret, and Hallmark. The company has partnered with strategic value-added resellers and leading software and hardware companies including AC Nielsen, IMS America, NCR, Tandem, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Red Brick, Sun, and Software AG.

More information about MicroStrategy can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.strategy.com/ or by calling 1-800-927-1868.

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