MicroStrategy 9 BI Platform Certified for Integration with SAP HANA®

TYSONS CORNER, Virgina, Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, announced today that the SAP® Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that the MicroStrategy 9 BI platform integrates with the SAP HANA® platform. MicroStrategy customers such as Adobe and Adidas can now harness the blazing speed of SAP HANA with MicroStrategy's advanced visualization capabilities to build breakthrough analytical applications. To learn more about the business benefits of integrating MicroStrategy with SAP HANA, please visit http://www.microstrategy.com/sap-hana.

With this integration, business users can quickly and easily transform data in SAP HANA into visually insightful dashboards, reports, and data discovery applications. Companies can unlock the business value of big data assets using MicroStrategy BI platform's advanced data visualization capabilities, custom reporting, and interactive dashboards.

"SAP HANA is used as the centralized source of truth at Adobe," said Jeremy Hadley, Senior Manager BI, at Adobe Systems. "MicroStrategy was really the driver for pushing that information out to the business. The MicroStrategy BI platform and SAP HANA were the catalysts for the speed and versatility goals that we have at Adobe, and the integration was amazing."

"We are delighted that our MicroStrategy BI platform has achieved certified integration with the SAP HANA platform," said Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "This integration builds on MicroStrategy's relationship with SAP, underscoring the importance of working together to optimize our platforms and extending advanced capabilities and speed to our global customers."

Through integration with SAP HANA, the MicroStrategy BI platform allows organizations to:

• Easily transform data in SAP HANA into visually appealing dashboards, insightful reports, and data discovery applications,
• Quickly build native mobile apps fueled by data in SAP HANA,
• Leverage push-down analytics to gain maximum performance with SAP HANA, and
• Transparently capitalize on existing investments in security infrastructure from SAP.

In addition, MicroStrategy has joined the SAP PartnerEdge® program as an SAP software solution and technology partner. Through the program, partners work closely with SAP to develop and certify the technical integration of their solutions with SAP® software. Integrated partner applications extend, complement, and add value to SAP solutions, thereby helping mutual customers meet business needs and achieve strong results.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The Company's mission is to provide the most flexible, powerful, scalable and user-friendly platforms for analytics, mobile, identity and loyalty, offered either on premises or in the cloud.

The MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ enables leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight throughout the enterprise. Our analytics platform delivers reports and dashboards, and enables users to conduct ad hoc analysis and share their insights anywhere, anytime. The MicroStrategy Mobile App Platform™ lets organizations rapidly build information-rich applications that combine multimedia, transactions, analytics, and custom workflows. The MicroStrategy Identity Platform™ (branded as MicroStrategy Usher™) provides organizations the ability to develop a secure mobile app for identity and credentials. The MicroStrategy Loyalty Platform™ (branded as MicroStrategy Alert) is a next-generation, mobile customer loyalty and engagement solution. To learn more about MicroStrategy, visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Analytics Platform, MicroStrategy Mobile App Platform, MicroStrategy Identity Platform, MicroStrategy Loyalty Platform, MicroStrategy Mobile and MicroStrategy Usher 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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