Clementine Wins Best of 1998 Award; Data Warehousing Tools Bulletin Singles Out Leading Data Mining Product

Business Wire, Jan 21, 1999

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1999--Out of the hundreds of data mining products on the market today, SPSS Inc.'s (Nasdaq: SPSS) newly acquired Clementine product has been named Best Data Mining Product of 1998 by Data Warehousing Trends Bulletin. This award was announced in the January issue just after the December 1998 acquisition of Integral Solutions Ltd. and the Clementine product by SPSS.

Clementine was the first enterprise-strength data mining product aimed at business users and is consistently acknowledged by users and analysts as the leading visual rapid modeling environment for data mining. More than 250 organizations worldwide use Clementine, including companies such as American Century Investments, DaimlerChrysler, Glaxo Wellcome, Reuters, Unilever and Cap Gemini.

Clementine has established a leading position in the data mining market, and is in use in a wide range of industry sectors including finance, retail, telecoms, pharmaceuticals, utilities, broadcasting and defense. Applications are diverse and include demand prediction, customer profiling, risk assessment, turnover forecasting, process optimization, fault pre-emption and fraud detection.

"We selected ISL for acquisition because we believe Clementine is the leading model-building software on the market. This award is evidence that the marketplace agrees." said Jack Noonan, SPSS president and CEO. "The strength of Clementine's rapid modeling environment, combined with SPSS' wide range of data preparation capabilities and statistical methods, makes SPSS the clear choice for those who want to mine their data to make more informed decisions."

In 1998, both SPSS and ISL were named among the top 100 most influential data warehouse/business intelligence vendors by DM Review magazine. SPSS was ranked No. 28 and ISL No. 48 in the Data Warehouse Top 100, a comprehensive market study in which DM Review readers rate the vendors of data warehouse/business intelligence products used in their organizations.

Company information

SPSS Inc. is a leader in the large markets for analytical solutions: business intelligence (data mining and market research), quality improvement and scientific research. SPSS products and services transform organizations by helping users leverage information to grow revenues and improve processes. Today, more than 2 million people use SPSS, the world's best-selling software for desktop analysis, to create and distribute information for better decision making.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 1998, SPSS is one of the most enduring software companies in the world. SPSS has won the following awards: named No. 28 in DM Review's Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 21 on the 1998 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 87 in the 1998 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has offices and distributors around the world. For more information, visit www.spss.com.