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Predictive Text Analytics Customers Now Have Access to Software as a Service (SaaS) Language Translation to Uncover Trends and Sentiments in Global Textual Data

CHICAGO, Ill. (USA) - June 24, 2009 - SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS), the leading global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions, today announced that its Predictive Text Analytics customers now have access to translation services on demand through its partnership with Language Weaver. The software as a service (SaaS) delivery mechanism enables market researchers and organizations that gather survey feedback in many languages to receive cost-effective and precise high-speed translation capabilities.

PASW Text Analytics 13 (formerly Text Mining for Clementine) and PASW Text Analysis for Surveys 3 is now fully integrated with Language Weaver Translation on Demand so customers have robust translation of unstructured data sources - open-ended survey responses, call center notes, email and Web 2.0 media, such as blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networks. With the use of this service, customers can now obtain automated translation of unstructured data sources across 30 languages into common English in order to fully understand preferences, motivations and intentions on a global scale.

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