Global Intelligence Efforts Use Spotfire in the War on Terror

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2006

Company Sees Growing Demand for Its Enterprise Analytics Software

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Spotfire, Inc. (http://www.spotfire.com/), a leading provider of enterprise business analytics software that helps professionals quickly discover new and actionable insights in information, today announced record growth of 110 percent year over year in product sales to intelligence organizations around the world. Spotfire's visual and interactive analytics experience enables these agencies to make critical decisions quickly and confidently.

Intelligence agencies are collecting unprecedented amounts of both structured and unstructured information in the war on terror. Spotfire provides a dynamic, visual, interactive analysis environment that enables intelligence professionals to quickly sift through the mountains of data to uncover trends, hidden patterns, outliers and unanticipated relationships in data. Spotfire analytics are used to analyze intelligence data that includes Geographic Information Systems, Sensor Data, Human Intelligence, Signals Intelligence and Electronic Intelligence.

"Spotfire makes it easier for intelligence organizations to make connections between seemingly random occurrences in the vast amounts of data they collect," said Christopher Ahlberg, CEO, Spotfire, Inc. "With Spotfire, the intelligence professional can visually interact with the data to gain insights that aren't possible with static or purely statistical techniques, allowing them to make critical decisions with more confidence."

Intelligence agencies around the world are successfully using Spotfire enterprise analytics to guide offensive and defensive decision-making. Spotfire attributes increasing demand for its software to:

* Dynamic visualizations, interactive filtering, and drill-down capabilities that enables rapid analysis of large quantities of data to find the proverbial "needle in the haystack."

* Automated capture and reuse of analysis workflows that simplifies the analysis process, helping new users to become productive quickly.

* The ability to fuse and visualize data from multiple sources, including popular spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and SAS, data warehouses, data marts, and disparate legacy systems.

About Spotfire

Spotfire is a leading provider of enterprise business analytics software that helps professionals quickly discover new and actionable insights in information. For thousands of business professionals faced with day-to-day decisions, Spotfire offers a visual and interactive analytics experience that helps them make decisions with speed and confidence. Distinguished by its ease of use 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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