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Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ: IFUL), a leading provider of predictive analytics and reporting solutions, announced today its upcoming user conference, Insightful Impact 2007, to be held October 9th through 12th, 2007, at the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Keynotes for the event will include Dr. Thomas Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics, The New Science of Winning, and Douglas Niemann of Zurich Financial Services, an Insightful customer and Impact Award nominee. The Impact of Predictive Analytics Insightful Impact 2007 will feature three industry tracks showcasing the best practices and practical reality of implementing predictive analytics within an organization. Among the many speakers Insightful has scheduled are executives from General Mills, Genentech, Standard & Poor�s, DemandTec, Bank of America and AstraZeneca. Applications, case studies and industry standards will be presented and discussed within tracks for Financial Services, Life Sciences and Customer Analytics. Research Posters and Special Sessions Insightful has put out a call for research posters to provide a forum for authors to present their work in an informal setting. Poster submissions should provide information about how the presenters have applied S-PLUS� technology for data analysis and/or reporting to gain insight into a specific business problem. Poster submissions are being accepted at http://www.insightful.com/news_events/impact2007/participate/poster_ registration.asp. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) The conference will also provide two special sessions. The first is a presentation by Dr. Travis Moebes from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) at NASA who will present a recently released paper on his work analyzing Lithium Ion Battery data from the Shuttle, Space Station and Space Ship programs. The second session will be a panel discussion on the future of statistical computing chaired by Dr. Stephen Kaluzny. Impact Award Nominations Deadline August 9th The Impact Award recognizes Insightful customers who are making an impact in their organizations using predictive analytics to deliver the knowledge to act upon critical decisions and delivering results that benefit the bottom-line. This awards program is designed to recognize innovative solutions that deliver measurable return-on-investment. The award encourages the exchange of ideas and publicly acknowledges the finalists for their outstanding achievement. Nominations are being accepted online at http://www.insightful.com/news_events/impact2007/participate/ registration_impact.asp. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Online Registration Available Register for this conference and a special S-PLUS 8 training course at http://www.insightful.com/news_events/impact2007/. ABOUT THOMAS H. DAVENPORT Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the Director of Research for the School of Executive Education, and the Academic Director of the Working Knowledge Research Center, the Institute for Process Management, and the Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship Research Center. He is the former Director and current Fellow of Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business. For more information please visit his website at http://www.tomdavenport.com. For more information about Zurich Financial Services please visit the Zurich website at http://www.zurich.com. ABOUT INSIGHTFUL Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ:IFUL) is a provider of predictive analytics and reporting solutions. Insightful products S-PLUS�, Insightful Miner�, S-PLUS� Server and InFact� allow companies to perform sophisticated statistical data analysis, data mining and create high-quality graphical reporting from numeric and text data. Insightful has been delivering industry-leading, high-ROI solutions to thousands of companies in financial services, life sciences, biotechnology, telecommunications, and manufacturing, plus government and research institutions, for 20 years. Headquartered in Seattle, Insightful has offices in New York, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, with distributors around the world. For more information, visit www.insightful.com, email info@insightful.com or call 1-800-569-0123.