Exhibit 99.1

Contact:

MicroStrategy Incorporated

Investor Relations

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MicroStrategy Announces

Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial Results

Record $160.3 Million in Total Revenues

TYSONS CORNER, Va., January 30, 2012 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2011 (the fourth quarter of its 2011 fiscal year).

Fourth quarter 2011 revenues were $160.3 million, the highest quarterly total revenues in company history, versus $139.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 15% increase. Product licenses revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $54.5 million versus $47.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 14% increase. Product support and other services revenues for MicroStrategy’s core business intelligence (BI) business for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $99.5 million versus $85.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 16% increase.

Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $113.7 million versus $87.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 30% increase. The increase in operating expenses was primarily due to increased headcount and related expenses, particularly for engineering and sales personnel.

Net income for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $9.0 million, or $0.81 per share on a diluted basis, compared to $17.9 million, or $1.60 per share on a diluted basis, for the fourth quarter of 2010.

As of December 31, 2011, MicroStrategy had cash and cash equivalents of $199.6 million versus $174.1 million as of December 31, 2010, an increase of $25.5 million. As of December 31, 2011, MicroStrategy had 8,404,761 shares of class A common stock and 2,377,830 shares of class B common stock outstanding.

MicroStrategy Continues to Innovate in the Areas of Big Data, Mobile, Cloud and Social Intelligence Technologies:

In November 2011, MicroStrategy announced the general availability of Usher™, a free consumer friendly event management app linked to Facebook Events. Usher, available for the iPhone® on the Apple® iTunes® App Store, allows users to easily set up and manage an event from beginning to end with seamless integration with Facebook Events.

In addition, MicroStrategy upgraded Wisdom™ for Facebook. The new Wisdom application leverages Facebook profiles of Wisdom users and millions of their Facebook friends to deliver extraordinary insights derived from users’ Likes, interests, and preferences. Available at www.wisdom.com, or on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wisdom-for-facebook/id455088890?ls=1&mt=8#, or through a user’s Facebook log in at: http://apps.facebook.com/wisdomapp, the free Wisdom for Facebook app allows users to segment Facebook information in a myriad of ways and discover an almanac of information on millions of topics.

Wisdom offers a new way for users to gain insights and discover trends derived from the wisdom of the masses. Pooled and anonymized, personal information is never revealed, but the knowledge is captured and available for all Wisdom users. Does Mitt Romney appeal more to people who live in urban or rural areas? What are key differences between Target and Walmart fans, or the Coke and Pepsi crowds? What books do people who like Fox News read, or those who like CNN? Now, putting the collective knowledge of millions to work for users, Wisdom has answers to these questions and so much more in the recently updated Wisdom for Facebook application.

According to Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy founder and CEO, “Wisdom for Facebook is a collective intelligence application that gives users a level of insight never before possible – powered by the Likes of millions of fellow Facebook users.”

For the consumer, Wisdom serves as a personal tool for actionable insight. Tap into the Wisdom Network and discover what’s hot, and what’s not. Single? Use Wisdom’s filtering capability to find the most popular single spots in your town. Looking for new music? Match your tastes with others to see which bands you might enjoy. Much more than a recommendation engine, Wisdom allows users to glean insights based on people with similar demographic, psychographic, and geographic attributes.

On the mobile front, MicroStrategy was rated the top Mobile BI offering out of 24 product offerings in the Howard Dresner Mobile BI Survey. According to the survey data, MicroStrategy ranks #1 overall among vendors offering Mobile BI, based on 25 criteria platform and feature capabilities. MicroStrategy’s mobile customers include such leading brands as GUESS?, Whole Foods Market, Herbalife, MetLife, Edmunds.com, eHarmony, and Sonic Automotive.

In addition, MicroStrategy attained AT&T Certified Solution status to deliver Mobile BI solutions. MicroStrategy passed a comprehensive suite of tests to become an official AT&T Industry and Mobility Alliance Program Partner. AT&T performed a full array of functionality, interoperability, performance, and usability tests on MicroStrategy’s software platform in granting MicroStrategy certification. MicroStrategy is the only business intelligence company in the AT&T partner eco-system to pass AT&T’s rigorous testing and partner vetting process.

New Customers and New Deals with Existing Customers in Q4 2011 Included:

AARP; ABN AMRO Bank N.V.; Aeroplan; AIG Global Asset Management Holdings Corp.; Amlin Plc; AutoTrader.com; Axfood IT AB; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA); Bank of America; Bestway (Holdings) Limited; Biffa Waste Services; Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Cabela’s; Catalina Marketing Corporation; Centene Corporation; Centros Comerciales Carrefour S.A.; Citibank N.A.; Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc.; Danone; Datacom Corporation; Delhaize America Shared Services Group; Dick’s Sporting Goods; DirecTV; Disney Consumer Products; Facebook; Forever 21; Gulf States Toyota, Inc.; Hallmark Cards; Heartland Payment Systems; Hewlett Packard Company; Hilton Worldwide; International Game Technology; J. A. Russell Ltd.; Japan Post Network, Ltd.; Kinross Gold Corporation; Korea Power Exchange; Kuwait National Petroleum Company; McAfee; McCain Foods; Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans; Nagase & Co., Ltd.; NBCUniversal Media, LLC; Netflix; New York Life Retirement Plan Services; OptumRx – a UnitedHealth Group Company; PepsiCo; Pfizer Global Manufacturing; Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation; QVC Deutschland Inc. & Co.KG Rhein Studios; Ross Stores; Safeway; Sanofi Pasteur; Sony Online Entertainment, LLC; Standard & Poor’s Corporation; Standard Chartered Bank; Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide; SWIFT; Swisscom AG; Target Corporation; Telenor Hungary; The Container Store; The Fresh Market; The Gap; Time Warner Cable; Tokai Kiosk Company; T-Systems International; UGIS Austria GmbH; Warner Bros. Technical Operations Inc.; and Yahoo!.

Examples of Customer Deals from Q4 2011:

Aeroplan

Aeroplan, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, is owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc., doing business as Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management. Aeroplan has chosen to expand its MicroStrategy deployment to enable its personnel to analyze member information, track purchasing patterns, identify profiles of loyal members, and ensure that its loyalty program is closely aligned with members’ preferences. Aeroplan managers across various business areas, including marketing, partnership, finance, member services, analytics, and compliance, rely on MicroStrategy’s highly visual dashboards, scorecards, and content-rich reports to gain valuable insights into its customers. Aeroplan selected MicroStrategy for its ease of use, platform integration, and its ad hoc and user-friendly dashboard capabilities.

Forever 21

Forever 21, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a specialty retailer of women’s, men’s and children’s clothing and accessories, known for offering the hottest and most current fashion trends at a great value to consumers. Forever 21 selected MicroStrategy to perform financial analysis, store operations reporting, and merchandising analytics. The MicroStrategy-based reports and dashboards as well as its ad-hoc capabilities will enable end users to perform drill-down analyses, eliminating the reliance on IT to support the end user community with reporting needs. Forever 21 selected MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, superior visualizations, mobile platform, and its depth of knowledge and leadership in the retail industry.

International Game Technology

International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) is a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of gaming machines and systems products, as well as online and mobile gaming solutions for regulated markets. A new MicroStrategy customer, IGT has chosen MicroStrategy to build a secure extranet for its gaming clients that will provide casino managers with the ability to analyze live gaming machine data and make real-time decisions to adjust floor operations. IGT selected MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, integrated architecture platform, and leadership in business intelligence and mobile technologies.

SWIFT

SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries. SWIFT has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise business intelligence and analytics standard. MicroStrategy will anchor SWIFT’s BI service offering that is used by participating banking organizations, securities institutions, and corporate customers worldwide. At SWIFT headquarters, MicroStrategy will power the company’s BI system, allowing the global financial community to track and analyze interbank payment message traffic flowing through the SWIFT network. With MicroStrategy, banks and corporations will be able to monitor underlying value and currency flows, and better understand their position in the market, track sales performance, manage counterparty risk, and enhance operational efficiencies by identifying targets for cost savings. In selecting MicroStrategy over other business intelligence products, SWIFT cited superior platform architecture and product capabilities, as well as reliability, availability, high performance, and security.

T-Systems International

T-Systems International, based in Germany with over 47,600 employees worldwide and 2010 revenues at approximately EUR 9.1 billion, operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. Following a competitive tender, T-Systems was awarded a contract to establish a BI front end at Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Federal Employment Agency in Germany. Together with MicroStrategy, T-Systems will lay the BI foundation at Bundesagentur für Arbeit and empower up to 100,000 internal and external end users with the ability to run 230,000 MicroStrategy-based reports and analytics against a 100-Terabyte data warehouse. The MicroStrategy BI platform will be leveraged by the Agency’s broad user community to build a unified portal, thereby increasing efficiencies and reducing operating costs.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy’s BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. The MicroStrategy BI platform delivers actionable information to business users via the web and mobile devices. MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies. MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform helps companies leverage the value of social networks to better understand and engage their customers and fans. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Cloud, MicroStrategy Mobile, Cloud Personal, Wisdom, and 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.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the extent and timing of market acceptance of MicroStrategy’s new offerings, including MicroStrategy 9.2.1, MicroStrategy Cloud, Gateway for Facebook, Alert, Cloud Personal, Wisdom for Facebook, MicroStrategy Wisdom, Emma and Usher; the Company’s ability to recognize revenue or deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s other products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions, including significant downturns in industries, including the financial services and retail industries, in which we have a significant number of customers; currency fluctuations; impairment charges that may be required with respect to the Company’s damaged corporate aircraft; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)

	Three Months  Ended December 31,				Twelve Months  Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
	(unaudited)		(unaudited)		(unaudited)		(audited)
Revenues
Product licenses	$	54,502	$	47,653	$	154,574	$	126,717
Product support and other services		105,764		91,467		407,576		327,860
Total revenues		160,266		139,120		562,150		454,577
Cost of revenues
Product licenses		2,260		1,896		8,774		7,637
Product support and other services		35,392		30,982		133,246		98,454
Total cost of revenues		37,652		32,878		142,020		106,091
Gross profit		122,614		106,242		420,130		348,486
Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		69,125		50,982		243,029		165,732
Research and development		22,312		13,748		72,618		50,566
General and administrative		22,223		22,649		89,441		81,599
Total operating expenses		113,660		87,379		405,088		297,897
Income from operations before financing and other income and income taxes		8,954		18,863		15,042		50,589
Financing and other income
Interest income, net		60		80		199		389
Gain on sale of investment		—		—		3,371		—
Other income, net		666		806		688		3,982
Total financing and other income		726		886		4,258		4,371
Income from operations before income taxes		9,680		19,749		19,300		54,960
Provision for income taxes		680		1,827		1,360		11,168
Net income	$	9,000	$	17,922	$	17,940	$	43,792
Basic earnings per share (1)	$	0.84	$	1.66	$	1.67	$	3.85
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic earnings per share		10,767		10,802		10,719		11,378
Diluted earnings per share (1)	$	0.81	$	1.60	$	1.62	$	3.72
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted earnings per share		11,078		11,196		11,066		11,779

(1) Basic and fully diluted earnings per share for class A and class B common stock are the same.

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

	Core BI Business				Angel.com						Consolidated
	Three Months Ended				Three Months Ended						Three Months Ended
	December 31,				December 31,						December 31,
	2011		2010		2011			2010			2011		2010
Revenues
Product licenses	$	54,502	$	47,653	$	—		$	—		$	54,502	$	47,653
Product support and other services		99,467		85,753		—			—			99,467		85,753
Angel.com services		—		—		6,297			5,714			6,297		5,714
Total revenues		153,969		133,406		6,297			5,714			160,266		139,120
Cost of revenues
Product licenses		2,260		1,896		—			—			2,260		1,896
Product support and other services		32,539		28,002		—			—			32,539		28,002
Angel.com services		—		—		2,853			2,980			2,853		2,980
Total cost of revenues		34,799		29,898		2,853			2,980			37,652		32,878
Gross profit		119,170		103,508		3,444			2,734			122,614		106,242
Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		66,628		47,817		2,497			3,165			69,125		50,982
Research and development		20,946		12,823		1,366			925			22,312		13,748
General and administrative		21,288		21,975		935			674			22,223		22,649
Total operating expenses		108,862		82,615		4,798			4,764			113,660		87,379
Income (loss) from operations before financing and other income and income taxes		10,308		20,893		(1,354	)		(2,030	)		8,954		18,863
Financing and other income (expense)
Interest income, net		60		80		—			—			60		80
Gain on sale of investment		—		—		—			—			—		—
Other income (expense), net		709		771		(43	)		35			666		806
Total financing and other income (expense)		769		851		(43	)		35			726		886
Income (loss) from operations before income taxes	$	11,077	$	21,744	$	(1,397	)	$	(1,995	)	$	9,680	$	19,749
Provision for income taxes												680		1,827
Net income											$	9,000	$	17,922
Basic earnings per share											$	0.84	$	1.66
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic earnings per share												10,767		10,802
Diluted earnings per share											$	0.81	$	1.60
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted earnings per share												11,078		11,196

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

	Core BI Business				Angel.com						Consolidated
	Twelve Months Ended				Twelve Months Ended						Twelve Months Ended
	December 31,				December 31,						December 31,
	2011		2010		2011			2010			2011		2010
Revenues
Product licenses	$	154,574	$	126,717	$	—		$	—		$	154,574	$	126,717
Product support and other services		382,594		309,371		—			—			382,594		309,371
Angel.com services		—		—		24,982			18,489			24,982		18,489
Total revenues		537,168		436,088		24,982			18,489			562,150		454,577
Cost of revenues
Product licenses		8,774		7,637		—			—			8,774		7,637
Product support and other services		121,924		89,718		—			—			121,924		89,718
Angel.com services		—		—		11,322			8,736			11,322		8,736
Total cost of revenues		130,698		97,355		11,322			8,736			142,020		106,091
Gross profit		406,470		338,733		13,660			9,753			420,130		348,486
Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		231,504		157,459		11,525			8,273			243,029		165,732
Research and development		67,863		47,239		4,755			3,327			72,618		50,566
General and administrative		86,237		79,390		3,204			2,209			89,441		81,599
Total operating expenses		385,604		284,088		19,484			13,809			405,088		297,897
Income (loss) from operations before financing and other income and income taxes		20,866		54,645		(5,824	)		(4,056	)		15,042		50,589
Financing and other income (expense)
Interest income, net		199		389		—			—			199		389
Gain on sale of investment		3,371		—		—			—			3,371		—
Other income (expense), net		764		3,956		(76	)		26			688		3,982
Total financing and other income (expense)		4,334		4,345		(76	)		26			4,258		4,371
Income (loss) from operations before income taxes	$	25,200	$	58,990	$	(5,900	)	$	(4,030	)	$	19,300	$	54,960
Provision for income taxes												1,360		11,168
Net income											$	17,940	$	43,792
Basic earnings per share											$	1.67	$	3.85
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic earnings per share												10,719		11,378
Diluted earnings per share											$	1.62	$	3.72
Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted earnings per share												11,066		11,779

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except per share data)

	December 31, 2011			December 31, 2010
	(unaudited)			(audited)
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	199,634		$	174,097
Restricted cash and short-term investments		289			284
Accounts receivable, net		94,723			82,056
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		17,043			26,751
Deferred tax assets, net		31,516			13,670
Total current assets		343,205			296,858
Property and equipment, net		95,311			65,033
Capitalized software development costs, net		7,031			9,059
Deposits and other assets		5,306			5,587
Deferred tax assets, net		2,998			5,029
Total Assets	$	453,851		$	381,566
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$	46,401		$	36,683
Accrued compensation and employee benefits		68,308			60,201
Deferred revenue and advance payments		103,199			89,331
Deferred tax liabilities		485			355
Total current liabilities		218,393			186,570
Deferred revenue and advance payments		10,841			7,878
Other long-term liabilities		45,141			37,946
Deferred tax liabilities		10,498			—
Total Liabilities		284,873			232,394
Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred stock undesignated, $0.001 par value; 5,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding		—			—
Class A common stock, $0.001 par value; 330,000 shares authorized; 14,810 shares issued and 8,405 shares outstanding, and 14,351 shares issued and 7,946 shares outstanding, respectively		15			14
Class B common stock, $0.001 par value; 165,000 shares authorized; 2,378 and 2,694 shares issued and outstanding, respectively		2			3
Additional paid-in capital		457,837			455,374
Treasury stock, at cost; 6,405 shares		(475,184	)		(475,184	)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss		(2,052	)		(1,455	)
Retained earnings		188,360			170,420
Total Stockholders’ Equity		168,978			149,172
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity	$	453,851		$	381,566

MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

	Twelve Months Ended December 31,
	2011			2010
	(unaudited)			(audited)
Operating activities:
Net income	$	17,940		$	43,792
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		18,526			12,799
Bad debt expense		1,485			3,436
Deferred taxes		(5,403	)		1,689
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation arrangements		(4,507	)		(741	)
Gain on sale of investment		(3,371	)		—
Other, net		—			70
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable		(15,141	)		(30,134	)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		7,115			(13,159	)
Deposits and other assets		85			(2,353	)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses		4,775			4,651
Accrued compensation and employee benefits		9,061			14,178
Deferred revenue and advance payments		18,498			16,285
Other long-term liabilities		7,244			25,312
Net cash provided by operating activities		56,307			75,825
Investing activities:
Proceeds from sale of investment		3,371			—
Purchases of property and equipment		(40,660	)		(16,289	)
Capitalized software development costs		(5,907	)		(2,185	)
Insurance proceeds		7,065			—
(Increase) decrease in restricted cash and investments		(51	)		1,047
Net cash used in investing activities		(36,182	)		(17,427	)
Financing activities:
Proceeds from sale of class A common stock under exercise of employee stock options		2,463			1,154
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation arrangements		4,507			741
Purchases of treasury stock		—			(108,993	)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities		6,970			(107,098	)
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		(1,558	)		(1,972	)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents		25,537			(50,672	)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		174,097			224,769
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	199,634		$	174,097