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Partnership of Two Industry Leaders Will Deliver Advanced Analytical Capabilities for Azerity's ProChannel® Sell-Side E-Business Solution

Miami, FL./San Jose, CA, August 06, 2001 - SPSS Inc.'s (Nasdaq:SPSS) Enabling Technologies Division (ETD) and Azerity, a leader in sell-side e-business software solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that will significantly enhance the analytical capabilities of Azerity's ProChannel solutions suite. The partnership enables manufacturers in complex industries like high technology the ability to quickly and dynamically access and analyze leading indicators for their business resulting in more accurate forecasts and inventory allocation.  Azerity will integrate advanced SPSS web-based analytics, including key performance indicators and forecasting, into its collaborative sales solution, ProChannel.  The integration will give high technology manufacturers a unique and powerful customer relationship management (CRM) solution that leverages daily activity to formulate long term strategies.

Azerity's ProChannel offers manufacturers and their selling communities real-time market intelligence, end-to-end control of the sales process and fast accurate execution of transactions.  The alliance of the two award-winning companies will enable customers to analyze the sell-side transactional data captured by ProChannel to provide a deeper understanding of the activities across their multiple sales channels.

For more information visit www.spss.com/embed/ and www.azerity.com.