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SPSS JOINS arcplan PARTNER PROGRAM

arcplan Inc, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, announced that SPSS Inc has become an arcplan Alliance Partner. Terms of the agreement allow SPSS to partner with arcplan to promote dynaSight as a front-end tool for users of SPSS' data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) solutions.

"SPSS now can offer organizations that operate mixed computing environments a front-end BI solution for analyzing data across applications and platforms," said Kevin Potrzeba, vice president for sales, SPSS. "We currently offer solutions that allow organizations to access and consolidate data from specific applications. We expect that this agreement, by offering customers greater flexibility in analyzing their data, will increase demand for existing SPSS solutions, such as Essbase."

arcplan's business intelligence software, dynaSight, enables companies to create graphic views of information across the enterprise from data stored in various databases and computing platforms. Its object-oriented, drag-and-drop environment enables developers to rapidly create customized views from any relational or multidimensional data source. Because dynaSight's design tools require no programming, applications can be modified quickly as a customer's needs change. Maintenance is easy and cost-effective.

"Together, arcplan and SPSS will help global 1000 companies benefit from their most expensive and far-reaching IT deployments by enhancing the user experience, leveraging existing infrastructure, and minimizing the strain on internal IT resources," said Joe Kopetsky, arcplan's VP of Channels and Business Development.

About SPSS Inc

SPSS Inc, headquartered in Chicago, IL, 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 analytical solutions enable organizations to manage the future by learning from the past, understanding the present, as well as anticipating potential problems and opportunities. For more information, visit www.spss.com.

About arcplan

arcplan is a globally successful software developer whose solutions enable companies to bridge business initiatives and IT resources for maximum productivity and competitive advantage. With arcplan's business intelligence and product configuration platforms, IT and business professionals can create web-based applications which require no programming to build or IT intervention to use. arcplan has more than 1,500 customers and 200,000 users worldwide. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany and Philadelphia, PA, arcplan delivers its solutions through a global direct sales force and a network of more than 135 service and implementation partners in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.arcplan.com/.