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ShowCase and Comtech Group Form Strategic Partnership

Will Share Expertise to Meet Needs of Mid-market Business Customers

CHICAGO, 02/07/02 —

ShowCase, a division of SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS), today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Comtech Group, a full-service provider of integrated computer hardware, software and communication solutions and an IBM® Premier Business Partner.

The partnership benefits both ShowCase and Comtech by expanding the mid-market service and product offerings of both companies.  Customers will benefit from the partnership through access to integrated business intelligence solutions that maximize their resources, enhance their efficiency, and improve their profitability.

"As a total IT solution provider, Comtech Group's challenge is to match the best IT solutions with our customer's requirements,” said Mark Krusinski, VP sales, Comtech Group USA, Inc.  “Strategic partnerships with solution developers can play a very important role in meeting our customers’ needs.  In cases where our customers are looking for the best way to extract information from their raw data, our partnership with ShowCase gives us the ability to offer a rock-solid enterprise intelligence solution.  When we recommend ShowCase, we’re confident that we will be providing our customers with a solution they will be satisfied with. We look forward to extending our relationship with their organization," he added.

Comtech technicians specialize in total solutions for IBM® eServer systems.  They focus on defining customer needs, fulfilling their hardware and solution needs, and ensuring that the solutions are properly installed, maintained and supported.  The company provides a wide range of products and services, including hardware, software, network solutions, e-Solutions, application solutions, midrange services and finance solutions.  This expertise complements the ShowCase® STRATEGY™ integrated data warehousing and business intelligence solution, allowing companies to better manage the flow of critical business information within their organizations.

“ShowCase and Comtech have very similar corporate cultures and values, which means that we work extremely well as a team,” said Patrick Dauga, ShowCase president.  “We have many long-term customers in common, which has further strengthened our working relationship over the past year.  In the future, our customers will benefit not only from the high value solutions we provide, but also from the fact that members of both the ShowCase team and the Comtech team are well versed in the offerings of both companies.”

About ShowCase

ShowCase, a division of SPSS, provides a complete spectrum of business intelligence (BI) solutions, from historical reporting, to measurement and analysis, to predictive analytics.  These solutions support a wide range of business initiatives, such as analytical CRM, sales/marketing analysis, and supply chain analytics.  ShowCase also offers a suite of analytical software for CFOs that includes financial management and reporting, activity-based costing (ABC), balanced business scorecards, key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards, forecasting and much more.

ShowCase utilizes Essbase® OLAP technology.  The ShowCase Web site can be found at www.spssshowcase.com.