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June 6, 2004, Somerville, MA and Seattle, WA - Spotfire, Inc., provider of interactive, visual analytics software, and Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ:IFUL), a leading provider of software solutions for statistical data analysis, today announced a framework agreement where Insightful has licensed to Spotfire its embeddable S-PLUS� OEM Toolkit for the purpose of generating a series of comprehensive analytic solutions across key business processes. The resulting applications are expected to integrate selected S-PLUS routines and libraries within Spotfire�s DecisionSite visual analytic application creating a series of easy-to-use, yet powerful analytic solutions designed to be deployed to large communities of business users.

Spotfire DecisionSite provides a rich analytic application that allows users to visually query information in either an interactive mode or through guided workflows that reflect critical customer business processes. Insightful�s S-PLUS is statistical data analysis software designed to delve deep into companies� operational information to provide new insights and predictive results. Insightful and Spotfire expect to deploy the power of S-PLUS analytics within DecisionSite in a series of integrated solutions tailored to extract significantly more value from customers� business data and answer challenging operational questions across Global 2000 businesses.

For more information, visit www.insightful.com.