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Visualize and Insightful Corporation Form Strategic Marketing Alliance Agreement to Co-market Web-based Solution for Predictive Analysis and Visualization PHOENIX and SEATTLE, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Visualize, Inc., a leading provider of visual intelligence software, and Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ:IFUL), a provider of software solutions for analysis of numeric and text data, today announced a joint marketing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Visualize and Insightful will co-market their software in the life science and financial services industry. "We're excited to be working with Visualize to broaden our ability to meet customer demand for easy-to-use analytic systems that support decision-making enterprise-wide," said Jeff Coombs, CEO of Insightful. "This agreement demonstrates our efforts to support our customers during the entire data analysis lifecycle from data access to effective decision-making. With Visualize, we are able to provide our customers with new ways to visualize data, and introduce and expand the reach of the S-PLUS Product Family in key markets." "The combination of our visual intelligence software delivered using a unified Web-based platform complemented by Insightful's advanced, predictive analytics will make it easier for customers to extract better, more reliable information faster improving their business performance," said Brad Edwards, CEO, Visualize, Inc. "We are very pleased to launch what we expect to be a long and prosperous relationship with Insightful." Visualize and Insightful share common core markets and many common customers in the life sciences and financial services industries. The initial marketing focus will be in applications such as genetic data analysis for life sciences research, and trading strategy development, investment research, and scenario testing in the financial services industry. Radical improvements in decision-making across the enterprise can be made by deploying Web-based analytics using Insightful's S-PLUS Product Family and delivering the data and output of the analytics with Visualize web-based data visualization user interfaces. ABOUT VISUALIZE, INC. Visualize, Inc. (http://www.visualize.com/) is a leading provider of visual intelligence products and solutions enabling organizations and individuals to radically improve business, scientific, and engineering decision making. Founded in 1996, Visualize has helped many large financial services and life sciences firms solve complex problems through its advanced visual intelligence technology. The underlying design principles in Visualize solutions enable end users to view, manipulate, and interpret information from multiple data sources in real time in a rich, highly interactive, visual environment. This leads to better understanding of mission critical data and results in better decisions, better business performance, and competitive advantage. Visualize solutions have been rapidly implemented in a number of customer environments with user bases ranging from less than 10 to more than 250,000. ABOUT INSIGHTFUL CORPORATION (http://www.insightful.com/) Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ:IFUL) provides enterprises with scalable data analysis solutions that drive better decisions faster by revealing patterns, trends and relationships. The company is a leading supplier of software and services for statistical data analysis, data mining and knowledge access enabling clients to gain intelligence from numeric and text data. Insightful products include S-PLUS(R), Insightful Miner(TM), S-PLUS(R) Server and InFact(R). Insightful consulting services provide specialized expertise and proven processes for the design, development and deployment of customized solutions. The company has been delivering industry-leading, high-ROI solutions for 17 years to thousands of companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, telecommunications, manufacturing, plus government and research institutions. Headquartered in Seattle, Insightful has offices in New York City, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, with distributors around the world. For more information, visit http://www.insightful.com/, email or call 1-800-569-0123. Note to Investors -- Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements about Insightful Corporation, including statements about our easy-to-use analytic systems that support decision-making enterprise-wide; our efforts to support our customers during the entire data analysis lifecycle from data access to effective decision-making; our ability to provide our customers with new ways to visualize data our ability to introduce and expand the reach of the S-PLUS Product Family in key markets; and the impact of the co-marketing relationship on improving customers' business performance and decision making. Forward-looking statements are based on the judgment and opinions of management at the time the statements are made. Inaccurate assumptions and known and unknown risks and uncertainties can affect the accuracy of forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements for a number of reasons, including the risk that we are unable to meet customer demands; the risks associated with error or defects in our software; and the risks associated with our ability to attract and maintain key partners. More detailed information regarding these and other factors that could affect our actual results is set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. You should not unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this release. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events, or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated events. DATASOURCE: Visualize, Inc. CONTACT: Raveen Sharma of Visualize, Inc., +1-617-417-6318, ; or Judy McOstrich of Insightful Corporation, +1-206-283-8802, ext. 356, Web site: http://www.insightful.com/ Web site: http://www.visualize.com/

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