LensCrafters Selects SPSS' Clementine

"Clementine gives us some of the most advanced data mining techniques in an intuitive package that facilitates sharing information," said Jack Dennis, CFO of LensCrafters. "It is a key addition to our data mining program, and is intended to help us in targeted marketing programs, market research efforts and forecasting."

"LensCrafters data mining initiative reflects a growing trend in the overall retail market toward integrating and mining the various data available to most retail operations," said Jack Noonan, SPSS president and CEO. "This is a significant deal for SPSS because it strengthens our position in this key vertical market."

About Clementine

Clementine was the first enterprise-strength data mining offering aimed at business users and is consistently acknowledged by users and analysts as the leading interactive data mining system. More than 250 organizations worldwide use Clementine, including companies such as British Telecommunications, Daimler-Chrysler, Glaxo Wellcome, Reuters and Unilever. Clementine has established a leading position in the data mining tools market, and is used in a wide range of industry sectors including telecommunications, finance, retail, pharmaceuticals, utilities, broadcasting, government and higher education. For more information about Clementine, visit www.spss.com/software/clementine/.

About SPSS Inc.

SPSS Inc provides solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence that enable its customers to interact with their customers more profitably. SPSS' solutions integrate and analyze marketing, customer and operational data in key vertical markets worldwide including: telecommunications, health care, banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, market research and the public sector.

Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has more than 40 offices, over 900 employees and 1999 revenues of $140 million. The company also has won the following awards: No. 70 on Forbes 1999 list of the "200 best small companies" and as the 22nd most profitable company on the Nasdaq exchange by Equities magazine; 1999 World Class Solution award in business intelligence and named "best decision support system for business intelligence" in the 1999 RealWare award competition; No. 14 in DM Review's 1999 Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 23 on the 1999 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 97 in the 1999 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. For more information, visit www.spss.com.

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