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KXEN Joins SPSS Clementine Plus Partner Program

Leading Analytic Modeling Software Vendor Joins SPSS Data Mining Platform

CHICAGO, 03/05/02 —

The Business Intelligence division of SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) announced today that KXEN, a global analytic software company that provides powerful modeling technology for data mining professionals and business decision-makers, has become a member of the Clementine Plus Partner Program and will integrate the KXEN Analytical Framework with Clementine, SPSS Inc.’s market leading data mining workbench.

KXEN (Knowledge eXtraction ENgines), which is headquartered in San Francisco, with research and development offices in Paris, France, offers a state-of-the-art suite of predictive and descriptive modeling engines for scoring, classification and clustering, based on renowned mathematician Vladimir Vapnik's Statistical Learning Theory. The company partners with leading systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers to integrate analytic software components into enterprise applications and business processes.

“By integrating KXEN’s modeling engines, Clementine customers will have another option to use when applying predictive modeling to everyday business decisions,” says Peter Caron, SPSS senior product manager-data mining. “In particular, access to the unique algorithms based on Vladimir Vapnik’s theory. KXEN’s technology is particularly useful for a first pass of the data – especially for data with hundreds of fields – to quickly get an understanding of what's important in the data.”

Roger Haddad, KXEN chief executive officer says, “KXEN is a complementary technology to Clementine and the other Clementine Plus Partners. Our software enables non-technical users to process and model data very quickly and to use that information to make informed business decisions. This frees up technical staff resources for more demanding, in-depth analysis.”

The partner program is built around the Clementine External Module Interface (CEMI) feature, which allows users to add their own programs, such as data-processing routines or modeling algorithms, to Clementine. As a result, data mining, data processing and data visualization tools can be fully integrated into Clementine’s market-leading interface.

About Clementine

Clementine, SPSS’ enterprise-strength data mining workbench, helps businesses improve the profitability of customer relationships through in-depth understanding of data. Organizations use the insight gained from Clementine to retain profitable customers, identify up- and cross-selling opportunities, attract new customers, detect fraud, reduce risk and improve government service delivery. Clementine can help businesses better understand their customers’ online behavior and, as a result, improve Web site design, increase e-store sales and deliver online services more effectively.

Clementine was the first data mining workbench aimed at business users and is consistently acknowledged by users and analysts as the leading visual rapid modeling environment for data mining. Clementine has established a leading position in the data mining market and is used in a wide range of industries including e-commerce, telecommunications, finance, retail, health care, government and higher education. More than 600 organizations worldwide use Clementine including British Telecommunications, Unilever, Provident Financial and e-Dialog .

Additional information about Clementine is available online at www.spss.com/clementine or by calling 800-543-2185.

About KXEN

KXEN (Knowledge eXtraction ENgines) is a global software company that provides advanced analytics for business decision-makers and data mining professionals. KXEN's powerful modeling technology transforms data quickly and easily into knowledge resulting in better everyday business decisions. KXEN partners with leading systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers to integrate analytic software components into enterprise applications and business processes. KXEN offers a state-of-the-art suite of predictive and descriptive modeling engines for scoring, classification and clustering, based on Vapnik's Statistical Learning Theory. KXEN is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with Research and Development facilities in Paris, France and additional offices throughout the US and Europe. (www.kxen.com )

About SPSS Inc.

SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) 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. For more information, visit www.spss.com .