Visual Insights Joins Analytical Solutions Forum - A New Consortium in Business Intelligence Industry.

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1999--

Visual Insights today announced that it is a founding member of the newly created Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF), a non-profit business intelligence industry consortium whose mission is to establish solution-oriented performance criteria and interoperability requirements within and between classes of decision support tools.

Visual Insights' patented visual query and analysis software enables business decision-makers to better understand their customers and make better business decisions - fast. Visual Insights is a business venture of Lucent Technologies [NYSE: LU].

"The opportunity to implement systems that enable businesses to better understand their customers and operations has never been greater," said Michael Tatelman, Visual Insights vice president of marketing and business development. "Through the ASF we will enable our customers to bring together best of breed solutions across a broader set of business challenges."

"Visual Insights represents a new class of decision support solutions. Its visual query and analysis based applications are a perfect example of the kind of new energy and diversity in decision support," said Erik Thomsen, chairman of the ASF and chief scientist at the DSSLab in Cambridge, MA. "The ASF is proud to have Visual Insights as a founding member and we look forward to its contributions."

ABOUT VISUAL INSIGHTS:

Visual Insights, headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, is a business venture of Lucent Technologies. Founded in 1997, Visual Insights' patented visual query and analysis techniques are revolutionizing business decision-making by allowing front-line decision-makers to make better business decisions faster. Its software solutions are in use today in customer relationship management applications including: call center analysis, credit card marketing, e-commerce solutions, data mining, supply chain management, telecommunications fraud prevention and more. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.visualinsights.com.

ABOUT LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES:

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information is available on the company's web site at www.lucent.com.