MicroStrategy Delivers Free In-memory Data Discovery Capabilities to Salesforce Users

MIAMI, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today released an update to their free in-memory data discovery solution, MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, that includes more than 250 new features and enhancements, including the ability to import data directly from Salesforce. This integration with the Salesforce cloud will allow anyone to analyze their CRM data in minutes using MicroStrategy's powerful analytics and data visualization capabilities.

In addition to uploading Excel spreadsheets, users can now securely access their Salesforce data from within MicroStrategy Cloud Personal. They can explore their data using all the highly interactive visualizations available in the product, employ its drag-and-drop interface to apply filters, drill to different views, and create new calculations instantly. Users can also share their insights with coworkers using an iPad and publish their data visualizations on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and more. MicroStrategy Cloud Personal makes it easy for Salesforce users to visually analyze their data in the cloud, such as sales opportunities, marketing campaigns, and call center activity.

This latest update to MicroStrategy Cloud Personal includes a number of enhancements to its data discovery interface. These include the ability to view dashboards in full screen mode, a sleeker design for embedding dashboards on webpages and blogs, and new visualization properties that give users more formatting options. The product also features expanded browser support and a variety of sample files to use.

MicroStrategy Cloud Personal is based on the high performance MicroStrategy Cloud platform, so there is no on-premise software installation, modeling expertise, or administration required. MicroStrategy Cloud delivers high levels of security, leveraging data encryption, hardened network infrastructure, and other technologies to secure user information.

"Business users from more than a thousand companies are already using MicroStrategy Cloud Personal to analyze their data without support from IT," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer. "Our latest feature release delivers the power of visual analytics, reaffirming our commitment to deliver business intelligence to larger audiences. MicroStrategy Cloud Personal enriches the Salesforce user experience with advanced analytics, intuitive data discovery features, and mobile intelligence for insights on-the-go."

For more details about MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/cloud/personal/.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications.  MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions.  Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability.  MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps.  MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free "friendly" consumer apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies.  The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications.  To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

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