MicroStrategy Lands Brussels Airport as New Client

-- Comprehensive Enterprise Analytics Solution Replaces Hyperion Solutions

TYSONS CORNER, Virginia, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced that Brussels Airport has selected MicroStrategy as its new enterprise analytics standard, replacing its previous BI solution. Brussels Airport is the airport to the capital of Europe, providing a wide range of airport services to passengers, airlines and a wide range of other business partners. 

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A new MicroStrategy customer, Brussels Airport will use the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ to analyze its business operations and improve insights into the airport's operational performance and costs.  The solution will provide executives and managers with information dashboards on data about airport operations, facilities management, and financial information in a highly visual and user-friendly manner.  In choosing MicroStrategy, Brussels Airport cited MicroStrategy's ease of use, interactivity, performance, and scalability.           

"We needed the most comprehensive solution in the market to understand performance information and uncover insight in order to streamline operations and minimize travel delays," said Eric Vanasch, ICT Service Manager at Brussels Airport Company.  "After considering all the analytics and BI vendors in the market, we chose MicroStrategy because we knew we had a real long-term partner that viewed our success as integral to theirs."

"We pride ourselves in helping our customers build successful analytics solutions that empower decision makers with insight that impacts the bottom line," said Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "MicroStrategy has the breadth of capabilities that can deliver real business impact with our solutions.  Our global customers, including Brussels Airport, are choosing the right combination of MicroStrategy's platforms to empower their workforce, improve the services they provide, and deliver more revenue and better performance."

About Brussels Airport Company
Brussels Airport is one of the largest airports in Europe, handling 19.1 million passengers and 430,000 tonnes of freight annually. Brussels Airport links the European capital with 232 destinations worldwide that are served by 78 different airlines. (2013). Brussels Airport is dedicated to become the most European, most efficient and friendliest airport in Europe. Brussels Airport caters to the specific needs of the business traveler, and also has the largest low-fare offer in Belgium. Brussels Airport is the second most important centre of economic growth in Belgium providing direct and indirect employment for 60,000 people. Brussels Airport is operated by Brussels Airport Company. The shareholders are the Belgian State (25 percent) and a consortium of private investors (75 percent). More information on Brussels Airport can be found at www.brusselsairport.be, @brusselsairport on Twitter and www.facebook.com/BrusselsairportBRU.   

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.  MicroStrategy Mobile™ 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 (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

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