Stone Analytics, San Diego, CA—November 21, 2002—Stone Analytics®, a leading provider of embeddable analytic engines, today announced that ESRI® resellers Mapping Analytics of Rochester, New York, and GeoData AS of Oslo, Norway, will begin selling Stone Analytics' Scoring Science™ and Valuation Science™.

Scoring Science and Valuation Science are sophisticated yet easy-to-use software modules that automatically generate powerful behavioral models from customer and client databases. For ESRI users, Scoring Science and Valuation Science are offered as a fully integrated extensions of both ArcView®, the world's most popular desktop Geographic Information System and mapping software, and the ESRI business product, ArcView Business Analyst. Designed specifically for integration into enterprise applications that process and store large amounts of data, these modules provide actionable insight to improve decision-making and business performance.

"We are delighted to welcome Mapping Analytics and GeoData as Scoring Science and Valuation Science resellers, and look forward to a long and successful relationship," said Christy Joiner-Congleton, CEO of Stone Analytics. "Mapping Analytics' expertise with spatial analytic solutions and GeoData's success in the European market make them an excellent additions to the Stone Analytics partner program."

"Our association with Stone Analytics will allow us to bring substantially enhanced analytical products to our customers," said Cindy Reid, Vice-President of Mapping Analytics. "Scoring Science and Valuation Science will, for the first time, allow customers interested in increasing their returns from marketing activities to easily marry advanced predictive statistics and spatial analysis."

GeoData's manger of Business Development, Christer Sandum, concurred: "With Scoring Science and Valuation Science, our clients now can perform advanced consumer analyses with an easy-to-use interface."

Founded in 1989, Mapping Analytics provides spatial analytic solutions that enable sales and marketing executives to make more profitable decisions faster. Offering extensive consulting services, as well as comprehensive collation of software and data products. Mapping Analytics helps clients see their options more clearly, so that they are better able to identify opportunities, allocate resources, and manage their assets.

GeoData AS is the leading GIS company in Norway, and one of the most active GIS business solutions vendors in all of Europe with more than 70 employees.

About Stone Analytics
Stone Analytics develops analytic software for integration into enterprise applications. Designed with the business user in mind, these engines can increase the value and ROI of data-rich application environments by enabling users to leverage the data stored in these systems. In addition to software products, Stone Analytics provides a wide range of analytical consulting services tailored to the customer's need. Based in San Diego, Stone Analytics is a subsidiary of Stone Capital, and is the founding sponsor of SecondMomentâ, a news and business resource for applied analytics. For more information, please visit www.stoneanalytics.com.

For more information:

Bill Abrams
Stone Analytics
858 503-7540 x208
press@stoneanalytics.com

Cindy Reid
Mapping Analytics
Rochester, New York
585 271-6490
creid@mappinganalytics.com

Christer Sandum
GeoData
Oslo, Norway
47 23 24 90 00
christer.sandum@geodata.no