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Anexinet Expands BI Offerings with MicroStrategy Alliance

Anexinet, a business intelligence, Net infrastructure and e-systems integrator, announced that it was chosen to participate in the MicroStrategy Preferred Reseller Program.

In this new alliance with MicroStrategy, Anexinet has agreed to be a software license reseller and consulting services provider, which will lead to the integration of MicroStrategy's products into Anexinet's current, and future, custom technology solutions.

The program is in line with MicroStrategy's partner focus in developing key relationships with IT Solution Providers that meet certain criteria and standards. Anexinet will serve as the exclusive preferred reseller in the Tri-State Area, covering Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

"This relationship increases our ability to deliver Business Intelligence Solutions to our clients today, and into the future," said John Parker, Head of Business Intelligence at Anexinet. "Enterprises looking to increase ROI from their Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management systems must migrate from today's current processes that utilize single threaded pull technology, to more robust closed-loop management systems. MicroStrategy is the only platform today offering the ability to automatically act on information received with the ability to track the entire process no matter where you are."

"Anexinet's experienced team has made it into one of the region's leading enterprise professional services organizations, and we are pleased and proud they've chosen our technology platform to deliver true business value to their customers," said Brian Reitenauer, Vice President for Strategic Partners at MicroStrategy. "Anexinet's Business Intelligence vision, proven methodology and implementation successes make it an ideal partner for implementing our preferred reseller program."

About MicroStrategy Inc

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy's business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations -- in virtually all facets of their operations -- with user-friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine recently selected MicroStrategy 7 as the 2001 "Editors' Choice" for business intelligence software.

Built for the Internet: MicroStrategy 7 is the Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet. Its pure-Web architecture provides Web reporting, security, performance and standards that are critical for Web deployment. Within intranets, MicroStrategy's products provide employees with information to enable them to make better, more cost-effective business decisions. In extranets, enterprises can use MicroStrategy 7 to build stronger relationships by linking customers and suppliers via the Internet.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy's customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with approximately 1,300 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 375 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, Informatica and JD Edwards. For more information on MicroStrategy's software, please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at www.microstrategy.com.

About Anexinet

Focus on Business Value: Anexinet, www.anexinet.com, is a value-focused, technology solutions provider that helps businesses work smarter, move faster, and compete more effectively. With vast business experience and broad technology experience, Anexinet takes a global view of its clients' technology opportunities to generate the greatest return to every project. Anexinet's areas of expertise encompass all aspects of the e-business solution set, including infrastructure, application development, Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing and Knowledge Management.

Contact MicroStrategy Incorporated, Alka Nayyar, 703-848-8600, pr--info@microstrategy.com.

Microsoft DWA Names MIS AG to Certified Partner Program

MIS AG, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, announced that it has been named to the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA) "Analytical Application Partner" program. Only 11 software vendors, worldwide, have achieved the certification for this category.

"Our certification further emphasizes MIS AG's commitment to Microsoft as the platform of choice for business intelligence," said Anthony (Tony) Politano, CEO of MIS AG North America. "This level of certification makes MIS a recognized player in the business intelligence software space and proves to our customers that they have made the right choice for their analytical application partner."

The Analytical Application Partner category provides applications for extraction, transformation and loading as well as query, reporting and analysis capabilities, combined with analytics to address a specific user type or usage scenario. The Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance is a technical and marketing partnership between Microsoft and select third party independent software vendors (ISVs) focused on helping customers to build, use and manage data warehousing solutions that are fully integrated with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Office, and the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform.

Microsoft's vision for business intelligence and data warehousing is to improve the speed and quality of decision-making by simplifying and integrating services into the platform itself and providing open interfaces to access and share data. "In keeping with our vision, MIS AG's DecisionWare suite and the Microsoft platform for business intelligence help organizations accelerate the rate at which they turn information into action," said John Eng, Lead Product Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence. "MIS has embraced these standards and provides solutions that extend the data warehousing capabilities of SQL Server 2000 and the business intelligence functionality provided in Microsoft Office 2000."

"MIS AG North America is honored to receive this certification from the Microsoft DWA," said James (Jim) McCarthy, vice president, business development for MIS AG North America. "It's an even greater honor to be among the small and select group of analytical application software vendors to receive this recognition. MIS AG North America is a committed Microsoft channel partner."

For more information about MIS AG North America, please visit www.misdecisionware.info or call 973-679-0724.