PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2005 -- Attensity, the innovator in Text Analytics software solutions, announced today its selection as one of the "10 Rising Stars" in the magazine MIS: Managing Information Strategies. Attensity is profiled in the magazine's special annual issue highlighting "the Strategic 100 vendors that matter."

"We're honored the editors of MIS have named Attensity a 'Rising Star,'" said Craig Norris, chief executive officer of Attensity. "MIS magazine is written to help IT executives understand how to leverage leading technology, which is why we're grateful to have our Text Analytics solutions noted for its benefits to government agencies as well as the world's largest corporations."

Each year MIS adds 10 Rising Stars to its "Strategic 100" vendor list. Rising Stars "are the players to look out for, the startups with the fresh ideas," wrote Irene Tham, deputy editor, in the introduction.

Attensity was chosen for its innovations in Text Analytics. Attensity's technology grasps the nuances, relationships and context contained in freeform text from a variety of sources to quickly extract who did what, when, where and under what conditions. This previously inaccessible data is turned into a structured relational data format and is fused intelligently with existing tabular data found in relational databases. This enables analytics to be performed against a comprehensive view of an organization's information from both the structured and unstructured world, using either the Attensity Analytics application or any existing business intelligence tool in the enterprise.

"Attensity's invention could give knowledge management gurus a run for their money," Tham wrote.

About Attensity

Attensity Corporation delivers Text Analytics software solutions that rapidly and accurately transform unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. It enables government and Global 2000 customers to transform unstructured text, integrate it with structured data, and leverage it within an enterprise data warehouse for analytics and decision support. The company's patented software solutions provide the widest breadth of text extraction technologies available, and speed detection and response to critical events and issues related to intelligence analysis, money laundering, fraud detection, insurance claims processing, voice of the customer, and service and warranty analysis. Attensity has its corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and a technology center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Attensity has been named one of Fortune Magazine's 25 Breakout Companies of 2005. For more information, please visit www.attensity.com.

Stephen Hatch, 650-433-1713
shatch@attensity.com