Spotfire Wins Business Intelligence Network Data Visualization Competition

Business Wire, August 9, 2006

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Industry Expert Touts Spotfire DXP as an "Exceptional Tool for Visual Analysis"

Spotfire, Inc., a leading provider of analytics software, today announced it has won the first of a five-part series in Business Intelligence Network's 2006 Data Visualization Competition. The contest - judged by Stephen Few, principal of Perceptual Edge - tasked participants to visually represent various business data sets to help easily and quickly solve real-world business problems.

The scenario of the contest required competitors to develop a visualization that would enable a budget manager to examine expense performance across 12 departments in order to reveal trends and performance problems. Few noted that Spotfire's solution, developed in the recently released Spotfire DXP analytics product, made it easy to compare performance across departments as well as drill down within specific units.

A full breakdown of Spotfire's submission and its competitors can be found here:

http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/3224

"Spotfire DXP is designed to put the power of asking and answering questions of any type of data directly into the hands of business professionals," said Rock Gnatovich, president of Spotfire. "When stacked against competing solutions such as those in the Business Intelligence Network competition, it becomes clear that Spotfire DXP is setting a new standard making analytics easy to use for front line business users solving pragmatic business issues."

Spotfire DXP scales across the organization allowing a broad base of professionals to author their own guided analytic applications in context of the business process they serve. The Spotfire DXP architecture has been built entirely on Microsoft .Net and runs in both 32 and 64-bit mode to deliver a highly interactive and high performing data experience for corporate (on-line) and traveling (off-line) business professionals.

About Spotfire

For thousands of business professionals faced with day-to-day decisions, Spotfire analytics offers the platinum user experience for visually interacting with information. Distinguished by its intuitive ease and analytic power, Spotfire software rapidly reveals unseen threats and illuminates new opportunities, creating significant economic value. Spotfire's customers include industry leaders among the Global 2000 that have deployed Spotfire analytics to gain an information advantage over their competitors. For more information, visit http://www.spotfire.com.

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