CCH Enteract Selects Crystal Ball to Capture Power of Monte Carlo

Denver, CO, June 25, 2002 – Decisioneering, Inc., developer of the
award-winning Crystal Ball(R) 2000 line of decision-analysis software, has
announced a partnership with CCH INCORPORATED (CCH), a leading provider of
financial and estate planning information and software.  CCH has integrated
Decisioneering’s powerful Open Crystal Ball (OCB) Monte Carlo simulation
capabilities into the latest release of its CCH Enteract [TM]
financial-planning software.

CCH Enteract is an integrated planning system designed to let financial
planners immediately and interactively see how changes in client data affect
planning scenarios.  Prior to integrating OCB, CCH Enteract used average
returns to communicate portfolio performance. OCB gives CCH Enteract the
power to clearly demonstrate the percentage chance a client will have of
meeting a particular goal while also communicating the probability of
falling short.

“CCH Enteract now enables planners to apply Monte Carlo simulation to
questions concerning life insurance, long term care and college funding
planning, not just to retirement planning,” says Gail Fink, marketing
manager of financial and estate planning for CCH’s federal and state tax
group. “What’s more, the customization options make it possible for a
planner to tweak client data and immediately see the effect of the change on
an entire plan, allowing what-if scenarios to be presented interactively.”

A traditional problem with embedding software in existing applications is
the complexity of integration.  OCB was designed with a simple programmer’s
interface to accommodate rapid development and deployment. “Our developers
were able to embed OCB and have Monte Carlo simulations running within a
matter of weeks,” says David Stitt, Manager of Financial and Estate Planning
Software for CCH. “Because of the ease of integration, our team was able to
focus on solidifying the business logic and enhancing the visualization of
the results.  The result is a clean simulation interface that will improve
how financial planners quantify the risks in their clients’ investment
plans.”

Monte Carlo simulation is an increasingly popular feature in many financial
software packages.  “We have seen a huge surge in Monte Carlo applications
which is good news for our Open Crystal Ball product,” says Charles Von
Thun, CEO of Decisioneering.  “OCB is designed to be embedded in larger
applications.  It is great to see that CCH understands the power of Monte
Carlo and has the foresight and ability to improve their software to account
for uncertainty and risk.”

Founded in 1986, Denver-based Decisioneering, Inc. provides software,
training, and consulting that simplify risk analysis and improve
decision-making, including the industry-leading risk analysis package,
Crystal Ball 2000.  For further information about the company, call
800-289-2550 or visit Decisioneering’s Web site, http://www.crystalball.com.

CCH INCORPORATED, headquartered in Riverwoods, Ill., was founded in 1913 and
has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The
company produces more than 700 electronic and print products for the tax,
legal, securities, insurance, human resources, health care and small
business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer North
America. The CCH tax and accounting destination site can be accessed at
http://www.tax.cchgroup.com.

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Contact:                Jennifer Mogck
                        Marketing Communications Manager
                        Decisioneering, Inc.
                        800-289-2550
                        jmogck@decisioneering.com


                        Leslie Bonacum
                        CCH Inc.
                        847-267-7153
                        mediahelp@cch.com