MicroStrategy Inc. today announced that customers on its MicroStrategy's Cloud Platform ran over 2 million reports per week through the company's innovative BI in the cloud service during 2012.

Since its first quarter of operation in Q3 2011, MicroStrategy Cloud has grown annual revenues by over 750% and established itself as a leader in Cloud-based business analytics.

Companies and organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Thomson Reuters, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Ingram Micro, Tapjoy, Angel.com, Coty US, DeRoyal Industries, Elan Polo International, ViSalus Sciences, Wintrust Financial Corporation, and the Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT), have found value in MicroStrategy Cloud.

"MicroStrategy Cloud will play a vital role in Four Seasons' goal of helping provide our General Managers with our hotel information on a timely basis," said Marco Trecroce , CIO, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. "Our General Managers will now have the analytics they need to serve our guests better, and operate their hotel more efficiently, anytime, anywhere on their iPad devices. MicroStrategy Cloud will allow us to build these applications much quicker than before and without expensive upfront capital investments in technology."

"The MicroStrategy Cloud platform gives us access to timely and powerful analytics that inform crucial business decisions for Tapjoy and its partners. This helps to free us up to focus on our business with less burden on resources and infrastructure," said Phil O'Neill, Vice President of Analytics at Tapjoy.

MicroStrategy Cloud offers customers an alternate purchase and deployment model for BI and mobile apps. Instead of making large upfront capital investments and building large support teams, MicroStrategy Cloud allows organizations to purchase analytics as a monthly subscription service that scales with the business.

The MicroStrategy Cloud Platform-as-a-Service provides customers with BI and Mobile Platform Services through MicroStrategy 9, the company's comprehensive BI platform, as well as Data Hosting services through technology partnerships with Informatica, IBM, Teradata, Microsoft, and ParAccel. The end-to-end service also includes expert resources to tune, maintain, monitor and support the system, as well as servers and infrastructure providing 99.9% uptime.