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SEATTLE, WA ­ October 20, 2006 ­ Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ:IFUL), a leading provider of predictive analytics and reporting solutions, today announced that Barclays Global Investors (BGI), one of the world’s largest asset managers, selected Insightful’s S-PLUS® software product family for delivery of quantitative analysis across the company’s global research group.

BGI is deploying Insightful’s S-PLUS Server and Insightful Miner™ Server products enterprise wide to help improve the quality and timeliness of predictive analytics and quantitative research. A subsidiary of the UK-based financial services group Barclays, BGI has more than 2,800 clients in 52 countries world wide.

For more information, visit www.insightful.com.