9/05/00 - KDnuggets poll points to strong Clementine growth; SPSS data mining workbench tops KDnuggets Web poll CHICAGO, Sep 5, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Confirming SPSS Inc.'s (Nasdaq: SPSS) leading position in the data mining software market, KDnuggets recently announced that Clementine is the most used data mining software package according to a recent survey of subscribers. Twenty percent of survey respondents said that they use Clementine for data mining, which is more than the eight other data mining tools listed in the poll. These findings are based on votes collected on the KD (Knowledge Discovery) nuggets Web site in May and June. KDnuggets.com is the leading source of information on data mining, Web mining, knowledge discovery and decision support topics. "Clementine is quickly becoming the data mining workbench of choice," said Peter Caron, SPSS marketing manager. "Organizations are beginning to realize the power of customer information, especially data gathered over the Web. As a result, companies around the world are using Clementine's predictive modeling to improve customer relationships, which gives other organizations the confidence to choose Clementine when they begin their data mining journey. "Clementine was one of the top two highest vote getting data mining software packages in an additional KDnuggets poll, with 13 percent of respondents saying that it is the data mining software they will purchase next," continued Caron. "This strength is further revealed by Clementine's sales in 1999 and 2000. During the first half of 2000, SPSS sales of Clementine grew by 150 percent over the same period in 1999, and 1999 sales grew by 100 percent over those in 1998." About Clementine Clementine, SPSS' enterprise-strength data mining solution, helps businesses improve the profitability of customer relationships through the in-depth understanding of data. Organizations use the insight gained from Clementine to retain profitable customers, identify cross-selling opportunities, attract new customers, detect fraud, reduce risk and improve government service delivery. Clementine combines two valuable assets-data and business knowledge-to create powerful predictive models which answer real business questions such as "What customers are in danger of leaving?" or "Who is a safe credit risk?" At each point of the data mining process, Clementine's visual interface invites users' specific business expertise. Modeling algorithms such as prediction, classification, segmentation and association detection ensure powerful, accurate models. Once models are created, Clementine Solution Publisher enables their delivery enterprise-wide to decision makers or a database. 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 300 organizations worldwide use Clementine including British Telecommunications, Reuters, Unilever, Provident Financial, Raydium and e-Dialog. About SPSS SPSS Inc. provides solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence that enable its customers to interact with their customers more profitably. SPSS' solutions integrate and analyze marketing, customer and operational data in key vertical markets worldwide including: telecommunications, health care, banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, market research and the public sector. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has more than 40 offices, over 900 employees and 1999 revenues of $142 million. The company also has won the following awards: No. 70 on Forbes 1999 list of the "200 best small companies" and as the 22nd most profitable company on the Nasdaq exchange by Equities magazine; 1999 World Class Solution award in business intelligence and named "best decision support system for business intelligence" in the 1999 RealWare award competition; No. 14 in DM Review's 1999 Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 16 on the 2000 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 97 in the 1999 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. SPSS information is available on the World Wide Web through the SPSS Press Center at: http://www.spss.com/press CONTACT: SPSS Susan Kalell, 800/525-4980 E-mail: pr@spss.com URL: http://www.businesswire.com Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. 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