New Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Information Dashboard Powered by MicroStrategy

MCLEAN, Va., April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the new information dashboard recently launched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is powered by MicroStrategy.

The new CMS dashboard offers an exciting tool in support of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. In addition to providing the American public with detailed insights into Medicare spending, the dashboard data can be used by government and industry to assess health care policies, improve the management of health care, and identify areas for change.

The CMS dashboard, which can be viewed at http://www.cms.gov/dashboard, offers transparency into Medicare spending data. The dashboard shortcuts the process of compiling the data and provides easy access for citizens to view the information at their convenience. With data from over 40 million Medicare hospital admissions, the dashboard enables the public to view the relationships between cost and volume of Medicare admissions by State, starting in January 2006. Every month, the data will be updated with nearly one million more admissions.

MicroStrategy's dashboards are used by businesses and government agencies to augment data comprehension and improve decision-making. Business intelligence dashboards display a tremendous amount of information in an easy-to-use and compelling manner. MicroStrategy offers an extensive library of data visualization tools and selector controls to further enhance data exploration, such as the animated bubble chart used on the CMS dashboard. MicroStrategy has been an early developer of advanced data visualizations, such as data-driven movies, in order to help people better understand complex data.

"We are extremely proud that CMS chose MicroStrategy to support this important public initiative," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. "MicroStrategy's dashboards are well-suited for providing government agencies with the ability to display large volumes of information in an intuitive, graphical format that will give citizens greater visibility into how their tax dollars are spent."

MicroStrategy will host a Federal Government Symposium on May 21, 2010 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The featured keynote speaker will be Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States.  For more details, visit www.microstrategy.com/BISymposiumDC2010.

To learn more about MicroStrategy's dashboard technology, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/dashboards.

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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