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PITTSBURGH, Pa.,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000--ASA (Advanced Software
Applications) announces that Abbey National Bank PLC, one of the UK's
largest banks, has licensed ASA's ModelMAX PLUS data mining and decision
support software to help the Bank build and maintain profitable
relationships with its customers.

ModelMAX PLUS provides Abbey National with a fast, business-oriented
solution for discovering and acting on high-level business intelligence
through data analysis.  ModelMAX PLUS makes it possible for experienced
modellers and statisticians as well as non-specialists to rapidly develop
highly predictive models and discover useful descriptive profiles.

see http://www.asacorp.com