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SPSS for Macintosh Wins Macworld Eddy Award

CHICAGO, 01/09/01 —

Macworld magazine has awarded SPSS for Macintosh the 16th Annual Editors' Choice (Eddy) Award. The first Mac version of its statistical analysis software released by SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS) since 1995, SPSS 10.0 for Macintosh won the award in the “Best Data Management Software” category. Winners were announced in a ceremony Jan. 8, 2001, just prior to the Macworld trade show in San Francisco.

"This is such an honor,” said Marcus Hearne, associate product manager at SPSS. “We released the SPSS for Macintosh product just a few short months ago and we are thrilled with the response - and with this award. Its immediate success demonstrates the tremendous need for powerful analytical techniques within the Macintosh-user community."

The Eddy Awards, the Macintosh industry's highest distinction for breakthrough product development, are given to honor the top software and hardware products in the Mac market. Macworld editors and the Macworld Lab review hundreds of new products every year, evaluating each for technological innovation, quality, performance, user friendliness, and value in order to determine the finalist list. Winners in 75 categories will be published in the March 2001 issue of Macworld magazine and on macworld.com following the ceremony on Jan. 8.

SPSS 10.0 is a modular, integrated product line for data access, data preparation, reporting, graphics and advanced analysis. The new release updates Macintosh users to the latest version and delivers significant new capabilities in all areas of the product line, including: new modules; predictive capabilities for data mining; and dynamic, interactive graphics on the Macintosh. The product is currently shipping. For more information go to http://www.spss.com/spss10/spss10mac/ .

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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. 12 on the 2000 DM Review 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 .