Visual Analytics Expands its Industry Leadership in Pattern Discovery Analytical Solutions with Release of VisuaLinks 2.0

POOLESVILLE, Md., June 6, 2003 -- Visual Analytics, Inc. (VAI), a leading provider of award-winning pattern discovery analytical software solutions for proactive analysis, announced today the release of VisuaLinks(R) 2.0. The latest enhancements provide expanded capabilities for customers to discover meaningful intelligence and actionable insight from their data faster than ever. Using VisuaLinks, customers can quickly "connect the dots" and see the "big picture" across multiple sources of data. These capabilities are critical in support of counter terrorism, counter narcotics, financial crime, and fraud investigations of all types at the federal, state, local government level as well as in private industry.

With the release of VisuaLinks 2.0, VAI further revolutionizes the industry with its vision, feature-rich functionality, high performance, enterprise scalability, use of standards, and lowest total cost of ownership. The company is also delivering on its commitment to deliver cutting-edge, enabling technology unmatched in the marketplace to meet critical needs of customers in government and private industry worldwide.

Using VAI's customer-centric approach, VisuaLinks 2.0 was developed using extensive customer feedback, user-driven enhancements, and comprehensive testing. VisuaLinks 2.0 highlights include a number of new components to support proactive analytics including Duplication Detection, Name Matching, Cross Database Query, Rules/Alerts, Word Summarize, and many more.

David O'Connor, Visual Analytic's Chief Technology Officer, said, "Our customers are faced with ever-growing demands for on-the-fly, in-depth analysis using ever larger data sets. They need to respond quicker by integrating data into a visual story board to rapidly discern significant activity sooner in order to deliver proactive analysis with the power to predict and prevent."

VisuaLinks version 2.0 addresses these specific issues. Mr. O'Connor adds, "VAI has built in robust capabilities that integrate multiple data from various sources to enable analysts to spot previously unknown relationships, connections, associations, networks, changes, and anomalies. We've even added automated alert features to signify changes that may indicate significant developments such as a possible indication and warning of impending hostile events."

Using commercial standards, such as JAVA, XML, and SOAP, VisuaLinks enables customers to leverage existing investments using current and often stove-piped databases, servers, operating systems, and applications more quickly, reliably and cost-effectively while gaining insight from all their data assets.

Founded in 1998, Visual Analytics, Inc. (VAI) is a privately-held company based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area focused on Superior Pattern Discovery Solutions for Knowledge Discovery. VAI serves a wide-range of markets dealing with complex issues that need advance data analyses and data mining. VAI has created a suite of advanced tools called Data Clarity, including VisuaLinks(TM) and the Digital Information Gateway, which are used to search, manipulate, structure, and present data for analysis. More information on VAI can be found at http://www.visualanalytics.com .

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