Midmonth, MicroStrategy launched MicroStrategy 9, which the company is calling its “most significant release in nearly a decade.” Among the new features in this version of the BI system are in-memory ROLAP, a performance-optimized database that sits in between data souce systems and reporting and analysis tools to improve query speeds, and a feature that optimizes the speed of SQL database queries. MicroStrategy 9 supports thousands of users globally, providing scalability and the capacity to support an unlimited number of languages using both single-byte and double-byte (Asian) alphabets. The software now also supports change journaling for metadata objects and distributed administration.