Corporate Vision June 2017

CORPORATE VISION / June 2017 9 Creating Countless Opportunities Company: MicroStrategy Incorporated Name: Michael J. Saylor Web Address: www.microstrategy.com Address: 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza, Tysons Corner, VA 22182 Telephone: +1 (703) 848 8600 g “The key is recruiting, building, and motivating a team of winners. To be successful, you need a brilliant team that sees precisely what’s missing in the market, can conceptualise targeted solutions, and can execute. One of my top priorities has always been to do whatever it takes to bring top talent to Virginia, and to retain it. That means investing in your team’s future and challenging them to build amazing technology.” As an expert in his field, Michael concludes by offering his thoughts on how the technology industry has changed over the years and where it is now, and why it is important that firms such as MicroStrategy Incorporated use this effectively. “Business intelligence is trending toward self-service, giving folks outside of the IT department access to more powerful functionality, and therefore more independence. This has been amazing for our business and has created opportunities for us to take our platform in an exciting direction. For example, we just made our powerful data discovery tool, MicroStrategy Desktop, completely free for any user. This product is a crucial component of our platform, and we hope this encourages even more people to make data analytics a regular part of their job. “To stay competitive, enterprises desperately need analytical tools that can deliver answers to decision makers in an instant. However, the state of our industry is in flux. Organisations no longer have patience for long deployment timelines or software that’s slow to deliver value. MicroStrategy is ensuring its future by continuing to develop technology that will allow enterprises to do more with less, get value fast, and capitalise on the promise of intelligence everywhere. “Today, every interaction we have with technology creates streams of data. While we’ve helped thousands of companies harness this data for competitive advantage, we are only now at the watershed moment of using this data to drive true transformation. For example, with our Usher product, an employee at an organisation can use his mobile device to seamlessly gain access to facilities, log on to a workstation, and confirm the identity of other employees, vendors, or customers—all while generating an audit trail that’s ripe for analysis. By removing friction across the enterprise, promoting trust, and creating more visibility into every process, we are creating countless opportunities to put data to work like never before. We’re developing the ability to do this for companies as big as global manufacturers, or organisations as familiar as municipal governments.”