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RTI International and SPSS Form Strategic Alliance
New Partnership Combines Survey Research, Predictive Analytics Capabilities
Source: www.spss.com
Copyright SPSS, Inc. 2005
03/01/05

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CHICAGO, 02/24/05 — RTI International, the nation's second largest independent research company, and SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS), the leading global provider of predictive analytics and survey research software, today announced a strategic alliance that will combine their respective strengths to offer innovative data collection and analysis solutions to government and business.

"The agreement significantly increases our capabilities in the areas of survey data collection and predictive analysis," said Don Camburn, RTI's research vice president for Statistical, Survey, and Computing Sciences. "Through this partnership, RTI researchers and their clients will have access to a much wider range of cutting-edge software solutions for information capture and management."

Initial areas of collaboration will include several large data collection and survey projects in the public sector, K-12 education, and projects in support of law enforcement. SPSS and RTI are also collaborating in the creation of a services’ architecture for cutting-edge data- and text-mining analytics combined with data visualization.

"Through our association with RTI, we will develop new research software solutions, such as real-time predictive analytics that will drive the survey process," says Joe Federer, vice president of SPSS Worldwide Services and Support. "Additionally, SPSS software will provide RTI scientists with custom-tailored solutions to suit their growing business needs."

In addition to its broad range of predictive analytic software and solutions, Chicago-based SPSS offers a full complement of survey research technologies, from instrument design, sample management, and data collection to real-time analysis.

RTI, headquartered in North Carolina, has more than 1,000 ongoing research projects in the United States and 30 other nations, including two multi-year assessments of U.S. students' academic performance in mathematics and reading for the U.S. Department of Education.