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MCLEAN, Va.-- MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide leader in the critical business intelligence software market, announced today that its MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform will support IBM DB2 Cube Views. IBM has also selected MicroStrategy to train its top business intelligence specialists worldwide in the extensive capabilities of MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform. MicroStrategy provides industrial-strength business intelligence, allowing visibility into terabytes of detailed transaction-level information and providing user scalability to thousands of users. IBM DB2 Universal Database provides a reliable, scalable, and high performance RDBMS that complements MicroStrategy, especially with the latest DB2 enhancements and Cube Views, to store, organize, and manage terabytes of data. "Integrating MicroStrategy with DB2 Cube Views is one more way MicroStrategy and IBM are helping organizations leverage their investment in DB2 and MicroStrategy to seek the best in business intelligence," said Jeff Bedell, MicroStrategy's Chief Technology Officer. "The combined solution offers a solid foundation for rapid development and deployment of high performance, reliable business intelligence applications that allow organizations to enhance efficiency, productivity and customer relations." MicroStrategy has tightly integrated its platform with DB2 to provide robust data scalability. Many of MicroStrategy's over 2000 customers, including Bank of Montreal, Discover Financial Services, AdvancePCS, Ingenix, Lexmark, and the State of Tennessee, currently use DB2 for their data warehousing applications. DB2's model-based Materialized Query Table advisor available with Cube Views makes it easy to create summary tables that both the MicroStrategy platform and the DB2 optimizer automatically navigate, leading to excellent performance. "There isn't an OLAP installation in the world that isn't under pressure to deliver more dimensions, more detail and to deliver faster. One way to provide enterprise-class OLAP is with solutions that span the OLAP provider and the relational database," said Karen Parrish, Vice President, Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM Corporation. "MicroStrategy and DB2 offer the scalability in breadth and depth required by today's industrial-strength business intelligence applications."