SPSS ANNOUNCES ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES DIVISION

Analytical software maker, SPSS Inc announces the launch of the SPSS Enabling Technologies Division, based in Miami, Fla. The division, working in partnership with leading software vendors and solution providers, helps companies solve challenges in today's global and increasingly competitive market by providing end-to-end analytical solutions that play a critical role in decision-making.

DiscoverIt, the division's comprehensive analytical and predictive intelligence suite, houses the full spectrum of proven SPSS products, underlying technologies and services. Strategic partners can select the right technologies and services needed to increase the value of their offerings to be re-sold under their own branding.

"Providing our technologies to strategic partners will give them a competitive advantage. The benefits include a significant reduction in development time and costs, and faster time to solution with minimum risk because of our proven analytics and expertise," said David Blyer, president, SPSS Enabling Technologies Division.

SPSS Enabling Technologies has already achieved a high level of success by forging strategic partnerships with the leading operational vendors in targeted industry sectors, such as Unisys and Lucent Technologies. Partners can chose from an array of analytical technologies that can be delivered in a variety of ways - ranging from custom-built, end-to-end analytical solutions to component-level algorithms that partners can incorporate into their own tools, products or solutions.

End users in finance, healthcare, insurance, retail and telecommunications as well as cross-industry markets including customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) are already reaping the benefits of world-class business performance measurement software, sophisticated data warehousing technologies and high-level BI expertise in addition to proven analytical tools and a growing roster of data mining solutions.

"By incorporating the core pieces of our software and solutions, other companies can use them in new ways to benefit their customers. Users will be able to be proactive, making decisions resulting in effective resource allocation, cost reductions and increased profitability," said Blyer.

DiscoverIt includes advanced data mining and data analysis, data visualization, real-time deployment, and data extraction and repository for complete end-to-end data warehouse solutions, including ETL (extraction, transformation and load) tools. The result is advanced analytical solutions that enable timely, actionable and informed decision-making. This translates into a strategic competitive advantage for SPSS partners and increased business value for their customers.

Also available are DiscoverIt for CRM and DiscoverIt for Web Mining, self-contained analytical applications for CRM, that enable organizations to discover what customers want and predict what they will do.

In addition to technology, Blyer and his team provide partners with sales and marketing support, education, technical support and consulting services. The team includes:

• Eric Block, vice president of sales and business development for vertical markets
• Stephen Purkiss, vice president of sales and business development for cross-industry markets
• Brian Santarcangelo, vice president of professional services
• John Gomez, vice president of solution engineering.
• Sylvia Gastelbondo, vice president of marketing and strategic initiatives

About the SPSS Enabling Technologies Division

The SPSS Enabling Technologies Division, based in Miami, Fla., provides proven analytical and predictive technologies to strategic partners to be seamlessly embedded into third party applications and resold as an integral part of the resulting offering. The division also works with partners to build custom end-to-end business intelligence solutions that integrate and analyze operational, customer and market data in key vertical and cross-industry markets, including customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail, e-commerce and telecommunications. For more information about this SPSS division and partnering opportunities, call 305-627-5700.

About SPSS Inc

SPSS Inc enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence. SPSS analytical solutions integrate and analyze market, 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 worldwide, over 1200 employees and 2000 pro forma revenues of $198 million. The company also has received the following honors: No. 77 on Forbes 2000 list of the "200 Best Small Companies" and No. 12 on the 2000 DM Review 100; placed No. 16 on the 2000 Softletter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 115 in the 2000 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine; listed on Working Mother magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" for 2000. For more information, visit www.spss.com.

Contact SPSS Inc, Sylvia Gastelbondo, 305-627-5724, pr@spss.com.