Insightful Launches S-PLUS Validation and Clinical Reporting Solutions.

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2004

Solutions Support Biopharmaceutical Industry Need For Validated

Statistical Data Analysis and Reporting Meeting

Stringent 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP Standards

Insightful Corporation (Nasdaq:IFUL), a leading provider of software solutions for analysis of numeric and text data, today announced two turnkey solutions for clinical and pre-clinical data managers, analysts and IT professionals supporting clinical reporting and validated statistical data analysis. The solutions are based on S-PLUS 6.2, the new release of the widely used S-PLUS statistical and graphical analysis software. The S-PLUS Validation Solution provides on-site validation for S-PLUS software, meeting 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP standards. Insightful's S-PLUS Clinical Reporting Solution delivers a validated system for tabular and graphical reporting on pre-clinical and clinical studies.

"Insightful's S-PLUS Validation and Clinical Reporting solutions meet industry demand to perform rigorous statistical analysis and provide rich tabular and graphical reporting in a validated production environment, addressing 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP requirements," said Andreas Krause, senior statistician, Biostatistics and Statistical Reporting at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. "The release of S-PLUS 6.2 provides S-PLUS users with simple-to-use batch processing, verbose logging and XML-based reporting capabilities to supplement the powerful graphical and exploratory data analysis capabilities for which S-PLUS is well known."

Insightful solutions are providing a platform for validated statistical analysis and reporting in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry. Insightful's S-PLUS Validation Solution provides a proven process for testing installation, operation, security, functionality, and performance of S-PLUS software at customer sites. The solution allows researchers to spend more time performing data analysis to make important discoveries and provides IT staff with a validated and qualified software installation.

Insightful's Clinical Reporting Solution is a flexible, customizable solution for report generation. The solution provides a tabular and graphical summary reporting framework for a wide variety of pre-clinical and clinical studies including bioequivalence, dosing and drug interaction studies. Data managers can design and implement statistically comprehensive and flexible reports directly from S-PLUS while complying with standards such as 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP. Standardized reports can be created and automated easily using the new S-PLUS 6.2 XML library that supports .PDF, .RTF, HTML, PostScript, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and other reporting formats. The solution simplifies report construction by customizing the S-PLUS user interface to meet specific needs of the pre-clinical and clinical data management and analysis teams.

AVAILABILITY

The S-PLUS Validation Solution and Clinical Reporting Solution are available now.

ABOUT INSIGHTFUL

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, StatServer(R), S-PLUS Analytic Server(R) 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 www.insightful.com, email [e-mail] or call 1-800-569-0123.

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