MicroStrategy (News - Alert) Incorporated, a provider of business intelligence software, revealed that Apple has selected MicroStrategy Mobile among the best apps in the business iPhone (News - Alert) app category, as part of Apple’s iTunes Rewind 2011.

Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer said in a release, “MicroStrategy Mobile has been selected by hundreds of corporations because it improves business productivity.”

“MicroStrategy Mobile empowers business people to access business intelligence right from their tablets and smartphones, changing how decisions are made. This recognition from Apple (News - Alert) further underscores our global leadership in Mobile BI and our commitment to delivering superior product quality to our customers,” Bansal added.

Besides this recognition earned by MicroStartegy from Apple, a recent study by the Mobile Business Intelligence Report has ranked MicroStrategy as the top Mobile BI offering in the Information-Driven Mobile App market.

Also MicroStrategy’s Mobile App Platform stood first among 24 vendors placed by industry analyst, Howard Dresner. Howard Dresner’s Mobile Business Intelligence Report rates vendors on the scope of features made available in both their mobile server and mobile clients.

MicroStrategy Mobile serves customers like well known brands MetLife, Whole Foods Market, GUESS?, Herbalife, eHarmony, Edmunds.com, and Sonic Automotive. These customers are developing and deploying critical mobile apps to access real-time information and boost employee productivity.

Such solutions offer mobile workforces with 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to the latest information about their businesses. Leveraging this information they can make decisions using their tablets and smartphones, emphasized company officials.

MicroStrategy offers enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. Using this BI platform, organizations can analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to enhance business decision making. MicroStrategy BI is easy to use and features sophisticated analytics capabilities, superior data and user scalability.

Also organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps using MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering synergizes MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications.

Recently MicroStrategy announced the availability of Usher, a free, “friendly” event management app linked to Facebook (News - Alert) Events for the iPhone on the Apple iTunes App Store. Usher lets users set up and manage an event from beginning to end with seamless integration with Facebook Events.