Software

Software Enables Analysis of Large Data Sets and Development Of Enterprise Applications for Delivery of Statistics Across the Enterprise

SEATTLE -- April 11, 2005 -- Insightful Corporation� (NASDAQ: IFUL), a leading provider of advanced statistical software for analysis of numeric and text data, announced today the release of S PLUS� 7, a new update to the de facto industry standard software platform for statistical data analysis and predictive analytics. S-PLUS 7 supports analysis of very large data sets and the rapid development of analytic applications that integrate advanced statistical methods within existing business processes. Decision-makers benefit from the deployment of advanced analytics across the enterprise.

With S-PLUS 7, statisticians, developers, and IT personnel use a new integrated development environment (IDE) on top of the flexible and elegant S programming language to rapidly develop, integrate, and deploy advanced analytic solutions. A new pipeline architecture in S-PLUS 7 allows for the preparation, manipulation, and analysis of very large data sets, thereby enabling companies to solve analytic problems not solvable before. S-PLUS 7 offers rich visualization and reporting capabilities that can be delivered from a back-office server to Web portals to improve information sharing required for effective decision-making.

For more information visit www.insightful.com/splus.