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SPSS Among Chicago’s Fastest-growing Technology Businesses

Analytical CRM Solutions Provider Receives Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Award

CHICAGO, 11/15/00 —

Highlighting its success in delivering analytical CRM solutions, SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) was granted the 2000 Greater Chicagoland Technology Fast 50 Award. Deloitte & Touche, the program sponsor, announced that SPSS placed No. 30, a ranking based on company revenues.

“We are proud of this recognition and of our long term revenue growth,” said Jack Noonan, SPSS Inc. president and CEO. “Looking to the future we expect to see on-going success as SPSS provides solutions at the intersection of the fast-growing analytical CRM and BI markets, as well as an increased demand for the analytical Web solutions. The combination of our technology, including depth and breadth of analytics and data mining with deployment, along with our expertise in analytical customer relationship management solutions, uniquely positions SPSS to capitalize on this growth opportunity as the market matures. This is what will enable us to continue to deliver long-term value to our customers and to our shareholders.”

When announcing the winners, Timothy J. McCarty, partner-in-charge of the Deloitte & Touche Technology and Communications practice - Midwest Region, said, “The strong vision and total business focus of each of the Fast 50 winners and Rising Stars have been demonstrated clearly in their outstanding revenue growth.” To identify winners, Deloitte & Touche reviewed the companies’ revenues for the past five years (1995-1999), calculated the growth percentage, and then compared the growth of all the technology companies in the region.

The Fast 50 Program is sponsored by Deloitte & Touche in association with Kirkland and Ellis, One Motorola Ventures, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the University of Chicago School of Business.

About SPSS Inc.

SPSS Inc. enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence. SPSS analytical solutions integrate and analyze market, 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. 77 on Forbes 2000 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. 115 in the 2000 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine; listed on Working Mother magazine’s 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers for 2000. For more information, visit www.spss.com .