SPSS Among Chicago's Fastest Growing Technology Businesses; Analytical CRM Solutions Provider Receives Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Award.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2000 Highlighting its success in delivering analytical CRM (business) analytical CRM - Software which helps a business build customer relationships and analyse ways to improve them. solutions, SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. Inc. (Nasdaq:SPSS) was granted the 2000 Greater Chicagoland Technology Fast 50 Award. Deloitte & Touche, the program sponsor, announced that SPSS placed No. 30, a ranking based on company revenues. "We are proud of this recognition and of our long term revenue growth," said Jack Noonan, SPSS Inc. president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Looking to the future we expect to see on-going success as SPSS provides solutions at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. of the fast-growing analytical CRM and BI markets, as well as an increased demand for the analytical Web solutions. The combination of our technology, including depth and breadth of analytics and data mining with deployment, along with our expertise in analytical customer relationship management solutions, uniquely positions SPSS to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this growth opportunity as the market matures. This is what will enable us to continue to deliver long-term value to our customers and to our shareholders. When announcing the winners, Timothy J. McCarty, partner-in-charge of the Deloitte & Touche Technology and Communications practice - Midwest Region, said, "The strong vision and total business focus of each of the Fast 50 winners and Rising Stars have been demonstrated clearly in their outstanding revenue growth." To identify winners, Deloitte & Touche reviewed the companies' revenues for the past five years (1995-1999), calculated the growth percentage, and then compared the growth of all the technology companies in the region. The Fast 50 Program is sponsored by Deloitte & Touche in association with Kirkland and Ellis, One Motorola Ventures, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the University of Chicago School Chicago School Group of architects and engineers who in the 1890s exploited the twin developments of structural steel framing and the electrified elevator, paving the way for the ubiquitous modern-day skyscraper. of Business. About SPSS SPSS Inc. enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence. SPSS analytical solutions integrate and analyze market, customer and operational data in key vertical markets worldwide including: telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , health care, banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , market research and the public sector. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has more than 40 offices, over 900 employees and 1999 revenues of $142 million. The company also has won the following awards: No. 77 on Forbes 2000 list of the "200 best small companies" and as the 22nd most profitable company on the Nasdaq exchange by Equities magazine; 1999 World Class Solution award in business intelligence and named "best decision support system for business intelligence" in the 1999 RealWare award competition; No. 14 in DM Review's 1999 Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 16 on the 2000 Softletter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ; and No. 115 in the 2000 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine; listed on Working Mother magazine's 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers for 2000. For more information, visit www.spss.com. |
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