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SPSS WebApp Enables Customized Web-Based, Real-Time Apps

Industry-leading organizations are stretching the potential of the Web for designing and deploying enterprise-level applications. SPSS Inc assists these companies in this effort with SPSS WebApp Framework, which enables businesses to build customized Web-based, real-time applications for historical and predictive analysis. With customization being key, SPSS Inc now offers more personalization features for both the site administrators and information consumers in its latest version of SPSS WebApp Framework.

SPSS WebApp Framework 1.3, which is now shipping worldwide, provides information consumers with greater flexibility in controlling the look and feel of a page, including authority over content, fonts, icons and layout. These users can also define their own filters based on variables selected, and reorganize the position of objects on the page. New personalization features enable site administrators to simplify delegation of responsibilities in updating applications.

"The new version of SPSS WebApp Framework increases both the richness and reach of capabilities for creating customized Web-based applications," said Marcus Hearne, SPSS WebApp marketing manager. "Building on the strength of SPSS WebApp's thin-client architecture, minimal programming requirements and personalization enhancements, organizations can now provide employees, clients and partners access to sophisticated analytics and graphical reports from any computer with access to the Internet."

Austereo, Australia's largest network of commercial radio stations, is implementing a solution based on SPSS WebApp Framework to provide executives across the entire network with immediate access to valuable audience data. The move will open up instant analysis and reporting capabilities to program, music and marketing directors and sales people located throughout Australia -- even those working from remote locations.

"In the radio industry, we must be able to react quickly when there are sudden changes," said David Kidd, Austereo's general manager of Entertainment Research. "We collect so much important information, but at present there are only a few of us who can produce additional analysis and reports. Leveraging SPSS WebApp will accelerate this delivery of information and make it more readily available to a larger number of users.

"The appeal in using SPSS WebApp is that it is based on SPSS analytics and contains all of its great data mining capabilities," explained Kidd. "The customization will ensure that the data mining, cross-tabbing and filtering in SPSS WebApp will be much easier than anything our end users have ever had before."

Other SPSS WebApp Framework 1.3 enhancements include:

Performance

• Improvements for handling large data sets and faster processing of intermediate data including support for server load balancing

Security

• Security can now be applied at the individual and data level, making administration easier and more flexible than ever
• Businesses can implement multiple security schemas (i.e. offering Windows NT security for internal users and native security for external users)
• Site administrators can now permit users to create new categories that are publicly available; they also have the ability to grant publishing rights to a group or user without granting rights to the parent category

Reporting

• Users can now drill down into any month, quarter, week, or alternative hierarchies, as appropriate, including projected future values; they can also view multiple items in a graph to see a total of selected items

Pricing/Availability

U.S. commercial pricing for SPSS WebApp begins at $100,000 and is determined by the number of server CPUs and the breadth of analytical functionality. Special pricing programs are available for government and academic institutions. SPSS WebApp is available from all divisions of SPSS Inc. Contact SPSS Sales at sales@spss.com or 800-543-2185.

More information about SPSS WebApp can be found at www.spss.com/spsswebapp.

Platform Requirements

SPSS WebApp Framework 1.3 runs on Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server (2 CPUs).

About SPSS Inc

SPSS Inc headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA, is a multinational computer software company providing technology that transforms data into insight through the use of predictive analytics and other data mining techniques. The company's solutions and products enable organizations to manage the future by learning from the past, understanding the present, as well as predicting potential problems and opportunities.