New KDDI Cloud Offering Integrates MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ to Reach Japanese Market

TYSONS CORNER, Va. and TOKYO, Nov. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced that the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform is now available through the "KDDI Analytics Suite with MicroStrategy'" offering from KDDI Corporation, one of Japan's leading telecommunications providers.  Selected for its scale, visualization, and mobile capabilities, the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform will provide KDDI and MicroStrategy customers in Japan with analytics, self-service data discovery, and advanced analytics into their Big Data.  The offering will eventually be available in Europe, United States, Singapore, and China at a later date.  KDDI Corporation, with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, is the country's second-largest telecommunications provider with more than 40 million subscribers.

KDDI and MicroStrategy customers will benefit from using the "KDDI Analytics Suite with MicroStrategy" to analyze their Big Data assets and deploy its innovative analytics, web, and mobile applications on-demand without having to host or maintain anything on-site.  The KDDI cloud computing offering is now available for global enterprises based in Japan seeking a secure, scalable, high-performance solution relying on KDDI's secure wide area network "KDDI Wide Area Switch 2." Compared to a similar on-premise solution which can take months to deploy, the KDDI Analytics Suite with MicroStrategy can be up and running in 48 hours, cutting operational costs and eliminating capital expenditures.  Furthermore, intuitive dashboards and reports can be rendered seamlessly on end users' tablets or PCs for easy decision making.

"This collaboration provides a cloud computing service over KDDI's highly reliable network that is safe, secure, and scalable," said Takeshi Ariizumi, Executive Director and General Manager, Solution Engineering Division, Solution Business Sector of KDDI. "We are pleased to integrate the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform with our new cloud offering.  With KDDI Analytics Suite with MicroStrategy, KDDI provides tremendous value to our joint global customers so that they can unlock critical insights from their information assets to achieve strong results."

"Through this collaboration with KDDI, we are making it even easier for global companies to leverage our comprehensive analytics platform to accelerate their businesses forward," said Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "The KDDI Analytics Suite with MicroStrategy decreases the time and cost for organizations who want to use our analytics platform.  We welcome the opportunity to work with any company that sees the value of saving money while solving critical Big Data challenges in the cloud."

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 analytics and identity management platforms, offered either on premises or in the cloud.

The MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight via reports, dashboards, ad-hoc advanced analytics, and powerful data visualizations.  MicroStrategy Mobile™ extends that platform to enable organizations to rapidly build information-rich applications that combine multimedia, transactions, analytics, and custom workflows, delivered on mobile devices.  The MicroStrategy Identity Platform™ (branded as MicroStrategy Usher™) provides organizations the ability to develop a secure mobile app for identity and credentials.  To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Analytics Platform, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy Identity Platform, 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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