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illumitek ANNOUNCES CUSTOMER ADVISORY BOARD

illumitek Inc, an award-winning provider of integrated visualization and analysis software technologies for data exploration and knowledge discovery, announces the formation of a Customer Advisory Board. Illumitek will provide members with access to company executives and a first look at upgrades and new product plans in exchange for their feedback about illumitek products and processes and their input into market conditions. Inaugural board members include Lee Rhodes, Hewlett Packard; Mike Page, Research International; Stephen Gardner, Viaken Systems; Dan Rope, illumitek; and Frank Oelschlager, illumitek. Three more board members will be appointed by September 2002.

"The Customer Advisory Board will give us direct feedback from our customers, providing us early market validation for our products and processes," said illumitek's Frank Oelschlager, vice president, technical operations. "In addition, customers will get to meet one another, providing an opportunity for cross pollination of ideas and best practices with our technology and other areas of interest."

"Participating on the board is an opportunity to understand how other organizations use and apply illumitek's nViZn technology," said Board member Mike Page, senior vice president, client service technology, Research International. "Each of the board members represents a different area of business, which will help feed our ideas about how best to use visualization technology."

Developers use illumitek's Software Development Platform, nViZn, to simplify and accelerate the prototyping, development and deployment of Web-based informatics applications. By combining data mining techniques, visualization, data interactivity and Web-based deployment, nViZn has resulted in more than 60 percent reductions in development time and costs for their customers.

illumitek Inc is an award-winning provider of integrated analysis and visualization software technologies for data exploration and knowledge discovery. The company's nViZn Development Platform is a component-based framework, that simplifies and accelerates the prototyping, development and deployment of information intelligence applications. Customers use nViZn as the backbone of their custom intelligence products, bringing advanced analysis, patent-pending visualization, and Web-based interactivity and deployment to their applications. Customers include National Cancer Institute, Viaken Systems, Hewlett-Packard, SPSS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Research International and others. illumitek was formed into a separate company from SPSS Inc (Chicago) in October 2000, and is based in Herndon, Virginia. For more information please visit www.illumitek.com.

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