From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro gps Subject: Industry Briefs: Quadstone; Angoss & Acxiom; MARS BOSTON, MA - August 9, 1999 - Quadstone Limited today announced that C&A, Europe's number one fashion retailer, has experienced a significant increase in direct mail response and profitability since implementing Decisionhouse™, Quadstone's customer behavior modeling software. Since the implementation of Quadstone's products and methodology, C&A has not only experienced direct mailing responses more than doubling to well over 6%, but has also achieved "mailing contribution" (i.e. profit) values more than 20 times better than their results in previous years. See www.quadstone.com for more info -- TORONTO, CANADA (August 5, 1999) - ANGOSS Software Corporation (ASE:ANC; www.angoss.com), developer of KnowledgeSEEKER(TM), KnowledgeSTUDIO(TM), KnowledgeExcelerator(TM) and KnowledgeAccess(TM), reports that Acxiom Corporation demonstrated KnowledgeExcelerator and KnowledgeAccess, with integrated access to the Acxiom Data Network(SM), at its annual shareholders meeting on August 4, 1999. These add-ins provide an easy to use, affordable data mining solution for a wide range of business users and feature automated access to the Acxiom Data Network (ADN) -- www.databyacxiom.com -- Salford Systems introduces the first commercial implementation of MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines), a completely NEW high-speed flexible regression tool for data mining and predictive modeling. Get a free MARS demo from http://www.salford-systems.com/products-mars.html
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