MicroStrategy Jump-Start Enables Organizations to Build Business Intelligence Applications in Hours

MCLEAN, Va., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced a new BI application accelerator, Jump-Start, that enables organizations to rapidly build MicroStrategy reports and dashboards.

Jump-Start offers a fast and easy way to get started with MicroStrategy. Jump-Start comes with 25 reports and 9 unique dashboards, as well as all underlying business metrics, filters, attributes, and dimensions. Organizations can easily add their data and, typically within several hours, they will have a full-featured MicroStrategy BI application.

"We are excited about MicroStrategy Jump-Start and the ability to quickly demonstrate the value of business intelligence to our District and Regional Managers," said Kerri Bednarchuk, IT-BI Project Manager, Kwik Trip, Inc. "Within a few hours, Jump-Start can provide our business users with actionable reports and dashboards for detailed insights into sales and operational trends. It is also easy to extend the application to include more dashboards, reports, and metrics to support our full BI application needs."

MicroStrategy is hosting a free workshop to provide hands-on experience working with Jump-Start. Workshop attendees can expect to learn how to:

• Rapidly build dashboard prototypes to engage business users and get their feedback
• Create a fully-functioning MicroStrategy application to share with colleagues
• Accelerate BI architecting steps by using pre-built objects, including transformations, prompts, filters, and metrics

The Jump-Start workshop will be held in the following cities:

• McLean, VA – May 11, 2010
• Charlotte, NC – June 8, 2010
• Dallas, TX – June 9, 2010
• Los Angeles, CA – June 10, 2010
• New York, NY – June 15, 2010
• Chicago, IL – June 16, 2010

For more details on Jump-Start and the upcoming workshops, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/BI-application-jumpstart.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its website, http://www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy and MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform 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.

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SOURCE MicroStrategy Incorporated

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