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Vienna / Austria, April 2009 Viscovery Software GmbH, a leading provider of data mining and predictive analytics solutions, licenses Viscovery Predictor to Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH, the leading Austrian sporting goods retailer, to augment their proprietary analyses with improved scoring capabilities for optimizing customer targeting.

To reach a decision, Sport Eybl & Sports Experts evaluated scoring solutions from multiple data mining vendors in the market. We chose Viscovery Predictor because it convinced us with its intuitive user guidance and its superior functionality and capabilities, stated Mag. Heinrich Hammerschmidt, Head of Direct Marketing. This enables us to perform our in-house scoring projects quickly and efficiently at reasonable costs.

Viscovery Predictor, a workflow-oriented solution for scoring, prediction and advanced analysis, along with expert predictive analytics consulting, will provide unique patented capabilities for both non-linear prediction and customer scoring. The ease of creation and handling of models, superior accuracy and advanced analytical functions will allow Sport Eybl & Sports Experts to use relevant aspects of their accumulated data for marketing and media optimization, to develop and assess targeted campaigns, as well as to facilitate decision making processes based on supply.

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Viscovery's visual workbench extends data mining to business users

Vienna / Austria, July 2008 - Viscovery Software GmbH, a leading provider of data mining and predictive analytics solutions, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Magic Quadrant for Customer Data-Mining Applications1. In the report, international data mining vendors were evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. In particular the companies' products and services were evaluated, as well as their market responsiveness and track records. Gartner's Magic Quadrant 2008 for Customer Data-Mining Applications includes eight companies worldwide.

"We believe our listing in the Magic Quadrant by Gartner confirms our ability to deliver proven predictive analytics solutions that help our clients easily and quickly evaluate their data and predict future customer behavior," said Gerhard Kranner, CEO of Viscovery Software GmbH. "With the recent launch of version 5 of the Viscovery line of products, we have taken a step further in our mission to make our intuitive visual data mining solution a strategic instrument for a wide range of users."

Intuitive predictive modeling and scoring accuracy set Viscovery apart

The Viscovery suite for visual data mining and predictive analytics covers all functions needed for customer analytics projects - from clustering, customer profiling and segmentation, through scoring and non-linear prediction, up to automatic generation and real-time integration of models. The interactive project environment supports effective model management and contains standard workflows with default parameterizations, which allow simple click-through usage and can be re-used as process patterns.

The robust, high-performance software combines statistical methods with Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), which allows huge quantities of data to be visualized and handled on a single screen. This intuitive visual approach enables even statistics laymen to explore complex data, recognize relationships, create scoring models and define target groups. Models can be easily deployed in real-time applications and flexibly integrated in verticals for specific application areas.

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Vienna / Avezzano, May 2008 - Micron, one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, successfully uses Viscovery SOMine for clustering of spatial failure patterns.

The industrial manufacture of integrated circuits is a complex and costly process. Continuous high-quality output and high yields are essential for successful production. Product defects, therefore, need to be detected at an early stage of the production process. Defect patterns on wafers are an important source of information for the identification of production problems.

An important step is to isolate clusters of similar failure patterns and assign individual defects to distinct failure classes. Using Viscovery SOMine, Micron obtained very good results in clustering shading patterns of failing wafers.

Traditionally, defect recognition is performed by yield analysis engineers who inspect the electrical failure map of each wafer. This manual approach is not only time consuming and expensive, but also leads to high levels of misidentification; thus, Micron aims to develop systems for automatic defect recognition.

Free 30-day licenses of Viscovery SOMine available

Viscovery is offering fully functional 30-day trial licenses at www.somine.info for users to explore the capabilities and powerful performance of Viscovery SOMine 5.0 for free.

About Micron

With net sales of $5.69 billion in 2007 and 22,600 employees worldwide, Micron is one of the world’s largest companies focused on memory, storage and imaging semiconductor products. Since 2006, Micron has successfully used the Viscovery software for the analysis of failure patterns in semiconductor production.

About Viscovery Software GmbH

As one of the first data-mining companies in Europe, Viscovery (formerly eudaptics software gmbh) is among the leading vendors of predictive analytics solutions. Since September 2007 Viscovery has been part of the Biomax group.

The Viscovery suite contains unique patented technology for exploratory analysis and statistical modeling of complex data. Comprehensive workflows support the generation of high-performance predictive models, which can be integrated in real time and updated automatically.

For many years, the Viscovery software has been used by more than 300 customers in diversified areas ranging from banking, insurance, telecommunications, industry, media and retail to research organizations and universities.