Spotfire Appoints David P. Butler VP, Product Strategy

Spotfire Inc, a leading provider of Web-based decision analytics applications, announced the appointment of David P. Butler as vice president, Product Strategy. Butler joins Spotfire with more than eighteen years experience driving market and product strategy for companies such as Portera, Netscape and NeXT. In this role, Butler will lead Spotfire's efforts in developing Web-based software that provides decision makers across a broad range of industries with the analytic applications they need to accelerate the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of products. He will also spearhead Spotfire's plans to provide its customers with a Web-based analytic platform--based on Spotfire's dynamic user experience--with which they can build and deploy their own applications as well.

"Spotfire's customer list reads like a who's who in each industry the company serves," said Butler. "That attests to how well Spotfire integrates horizontal Web and analytical technologies with industry-specific best practices and workflow to create some of the most powerful analytic applications I've seen. I'm excited to join Spotfire and its customers in establishing Spotfire's analytic platform as an industry leader across a number of markets."

"Spotfire's success to date has come from serving the analytic applications and technology needs of the decision makers across a range of markets," said Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Spotfire Inc. "David has a strong track record in driving the development and deployment of customer-focused Web applications. He'll be instrumental in helping end-users and IT organizations across industries maximize the potential of the Web in making decisions and taking action that impacts the products, processes, revenues, and profits of their organizations."

Spotfire.net, the industry's only Web-based decision analytics solution, empowers decision makers to work effectively within the data-intensive, fast-paced environments of product discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing. With Spotfire.net, users can access required data wherever it resides; interactively explore and analyze large amounts of data quickly; and, collaborate with individuals and teams across the extended enterprise. Spotfire's products and services are widely adopted in the research and development operations of the world's leading pharmaceutical biotech, and agrichemical companies. In addition, engineers, researchers and product managers in the specialty chemicals, refining and petrochemicals, oil and gas, automotive, and semiconductor industries use Spotfire products in their analysis and decision-making.

Prior to joining Spotfire, Butler served as vice president of product marketing and management at Portera Systems, a vertical application service provider (ASP), where he provided industry-specific application services and pioneered Portera's ASP software-delivery model. Previously, he served as vice president of marketing at Novera, a provider of enterprise-Web applications based on leading Java technologies. In addition, he has served as director, server product marketing at Netscape, where he was responsible for the company's web application server strategy and led Netscape's largest acquisition, that of Kiva Software. He also served as director of product marketing for NeXT Software Inc, where he introduced the OPENSTEP Enterprise application platform for developing Web and client/server applications. Previously, he was director of product line management for Cadre Technologies' ObjectTeam, a market-leading object-oriented application development environment. Butler has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and marketing from Boston College and attended graduate studies in product management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

About Spotfire Inc

Spotfire Inc is the premier provider of decision analytics software - speeding the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of products across the extended enterprise. Spotfire's solutions enable scientists, engineers, and product managers to improve the efficiency, speed and accuracy of their decision-making processes by advancing both individual and collaborative analysis and decision-making. Spotfire's offerings are currently in use at each of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies worldwide as well as major biotech, agrichemical, chemical, and manufacturing companies. The company maintains European headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden and U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Additional information can be found at www.spotfire.com.

Contact Spotfire Inc, Mike Akillian, 617-621-0340 x111, mike.akillian@spotfire.com or Sterling Hager Inc, Tracey Frederickson, 617-926-6665 x327, tfrederickson@sterlinghager.com.