MicroStrategy Selected by Cox Business Services to Identify Ideal Sales ProspectsMCLEAN, Va., April 19, 2004 -- MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its customer Cox Business Services, an operating division of Atlanta-based Cox Communications, Inc., has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to more efficiently identify sales prospects for Cox's Internet and telecommunications services. Cox Business Services is a full-service, facilities-based provider of communications solutions. Cox excels at helping businesses of all sizes generate greater efficiencies through a single source of communication products. The company offers high-speed Internet services; local telecommunications and long-distance services; and dedicated voice, data and video transport services for home offices, small, medium and large-sized businesses, school districts and hospitality, government and military properties in 28 markets across the nation. To connect more businesses to its broadband networks, Cox's sales managers can utilize MicroStrategy's platform to conduct sales assessments by geographical areas using a combination of Cox's databases and Dun & Bradstreet data. Cox's network data engineers may also tap MicroStrategy to evaluate Cox's networks to ascertain potential areas of expansion. "MicroStrategy's user-friendly reporting capabilities coupled with its powerful analytics are tailor-made for our needs," said Cox's Director of Marketing Analytics Mark Snow. "We're very proud of our expanding relationship with Cox, which showcases our success with Fortune 500 telecommunications companies," remarked MicroStrategy's COO Sanju Bansal. "Ten of the top ten Fortune 500 telecom companies are MicroStrategy customers, who are using MicroStrategy for such key applications as network optimization, sales and marketing analysis, operation support systems, customer relationship management and fraud management." About MicroStrategy Incorporated Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy's industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities -- excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers. MicroStrategy has over 2,500 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. 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