MicroStrategy Incorporated provides business intelligence (BI) software worldwide. It offers MicroStrategy 8, an integrated BI platform, which is designed to enable businesses to turn information into strategic insight and make business decisions. The MicroStrategy 8 platform consists of product components, such as Intelligence Server, a foundation for the BI platform; Report Services, the enterprise reporting engine that delivers a range of enterprise reports, including production and operational reports, managed metrics reports, and scorecards; OLAP Services, an extension of Intelligence Server that allows Web and desktop users to manipulate Intelligent Cubes databases; Web and Web Universal, a browser independent Web interface providing query, reporting, and analysis through a platform independent architecture; and Office that lets Microsoft Office users to run, edit, and format various MicroStrategy reports directly from within Microsoft applications. The MicroStrategy 8 platform's product components also comprise Desktop, a BI software component that provides integrated query and reporting, analytics, and decision support workflow on the personal computing desktop; Architect whose applications are modeled through an intuitive graphical user interface; Administrator that enables administrators to develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain small and medium systems, as well as enterprise-scale systems supporting various users; SDK, a development environment that enables integration of MicroStrategy 8 features and functionality into any application on multiple platforms; and BI Developer Kit, a package of products that include Desktop Designer, Architect, and modular analytic applications. The company serves retail, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, and government and public services sectors. MicroStrategy Incorporated was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.