July 10, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PV-WAVE NAMED BEST VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE

Visual Numerics’ flagship product singled out by readers of leading trade magazine

BOULDER, Colo. -- Visual Numerics, Inc., a developer of data visualization, numerical analysis and enterprise software solutions, today announced that PV-WAVE has been chosen as the Best Visualization Software Product by readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, a monthly trade journal with a circulation of some 48,000 technical professionals.

Based in Morris Plains, New Jersey, Scientific Computing & Instrumentation is the scientific community’s leading source for new technology. The winners of the Readers’ Choice Awards, an annual competition now in its 10th year, were those products that generated the most reader votes in 14 product categories. Voting was conducted online at the magazine’s website (www.scimag.com) from March through May 2001. The winning products were publicly announced in Scientific Computing & Instrumentation’s July 2001 issue.

PV-WAVE, Visual Numerics’ flagship product, beat out two other finalists in the "Visualization Software" category. "Our readers, primarily scientists and engineers, understand fully the value of data visualization software -- many rely on visualization technology everyday," said Kim Sekel, the editor of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation. "For any product to have been singled out as the best by such an educated readership bodes well for its continued success in the marketplace."

PV-WAVE is an easy-to-use software environment that lets engineers, scientists, researchers, and business analysts understand large and complex datasets using a wide variety of visual techniques. Its interactive, array-based scripting language allows users to rapidly develop platform neutral applications for manipulating, analyzing and visualizing these datasets to detect and display trends, patterns and anomalies. The software includes hundreds of sophisticated mathematical and statistical functions from Visual Numerics’ renowned IMSL C Numerical Libraries, as well as image processing, signal processing and mapping functionality.

Availability & Price
PV-WAVE, which currently stands at Version 7.01, is available for many popular operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Unix (Sun, HP, SGI, Compaq & IBM), OpenVMS, and Linux.

Windows and Linux pricing starts at $1,500*.

Unix and OpenVMS pricing starts at $3,495*.

About Visual Numerics, Inc.
Privately held Visual Numerics develops software products that help users understand complex data, which is typically in the form of rows and columns of numbers. The company provides its data visualization and numerical analysis software tools to major corporations, academic institutions, and research laboratories worldwide. Typical users include scientists, researchers, engineers, and financial analysts at organizations such as Bear, Stearns & Company; Sandia National Laboratories; American Association of Railroads; Boeing Company; and Coleman Research Corp.

Visual Numerics' products include the IMSL Libraries for mathematical and statistical analysis; the PV-WAVE Development Environment for desktop visual data analysis applications; the PV-WAVE Web Development Environment for network-based visual data analysis applications; and PV-WAVE Applications and Toolkits for time-series data analysis, image processing, and signal processing.

Editor’s Notes:
*All pricing is for North America. IMSL, PV-WAVE and JWAVE are registered trademarks or trademarks of Visual Numerics, Inc. All other company, product or brand names are the property of their respective owners.