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Leading real-time analytics platform selected from more than 650 products SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Visual Sciences, Inc. (formerly known as WebSideStory, Inc.) (NASDAQ:VSCN), a leading provider of real-time analytics applications, today announced that Visual Sciences Technology Platform 5(TM) has been selected by KMWorld magazine as a "Trend-Setting Product of the Year" for 2007. Introduced to the market in May 2007, Platform 5 is a tera-scale analytics platform which enables massive volumes of streaming and historical data to be analyzed in real-time and is the foundation for Visual Sciences' real-time analytics applications. The prestigious list, which will appear in the September 2007 issue of KMWorld, recognizes the most innovative products and services in the knowledge management marketplace and the unique value they offer user organizations. Companies included in the list exemplify a dedication to creating, redefining and/or enhancing the market. This is the fourth consecutive recognition of the company by KMWorld: WebSideStory Search was recognized as "Trend-Setting Product of the Year" in 2005 and 2006, and in March 2007, KMWorld listed the company as one of the "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management." "More than 650 individual products were considered by our team of editors, analysts, integrators and users. Each and every company whose products were chosen for this year's list of Trend-Setting Products is being acknowledged for its willingness to listen and serve its customers in useful and innovative ways," said Hugh McKellar, editor in chief at KMWorld. "As organizations face the need to interact with and manage increasingly large volumes of streaming and stored data, businesses recognize the value of real-time data analysis to significantly improve operations, drive down costs and make smarter business decisions," said Jim MacIntyre, chief executive officer at Visual Sciences. "By its inclusion of Platform 5 on this year's list of 'Trend-Setting Products of the Year,' KMWorld validates Visual Sciences' ability to understand challenges facing organizations today and to create innovative solutions that offer an entirely new approach to analytics." Visual Sciences Technology Platform 5, a tera-scale real-time analytics platform, harnesses the explosion of data facing Visual Sciences' clients with superior performance, understandability, flexibility, granularity and scalability. Platform 5's unique real-time analytics engine delivers the ad-hoc customer segmentation and metrics analysis capabilities not possible with the most expensive data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Its speed and flexibility delivers answers to the hard questions that traditional solutions cannot address quickly or cost-effectively. Platform 5 provides an integrated platform for measuring, collecting, integrating, managing, analyzing, reporting on and visualizing high volumes of streaming data. Platform 5 serves as the foundation for Visual Sciences' industry- leading real-time analytics applications, including Visual Site(R), Visual Call(R) and Visual Mail(R), and is also used by Visual Sciences' clients to quickly deploy real-time analytics solutions tailored to their unique requirements. About KMWorld The leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market, KMWorld covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management and informs more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes and subsequent success stories that together offer solutions for improving business performance. About Visual Sciences Founded in 1996, Visual Sciences, Inc. (formerly known as WebSideStory, Inc.) (NASDAQ:VSCN) is a leading provider of real-time analytics applications. The company's analytics applications, based on its patent pending on-demand service and software platform, enable fast and detailed analytics on large volumes of streaming and stored data. More than 1,590 enterprises worldwide rely on the answers delivered by these applications to provide them with actionable intelligence to optimize their business operations. The company provides real-time analytics applications for Web sites, contact centers, retail points-of-sale, messaging systems and the intelligence community. Visual Sciences flexible technology platform, Visual Sciences Technology Platform 5(TM), allows the company to rapidly introduce tailored solutions to meet its clients' needs. Visual Sciences is headquartered in San Diego, Calif., and has East Coast offices in Herndon, Virginia and European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For more information, contact Visual Sciences. Voice: 858.546.0040. Fax: 858.546.0480. Address: 10182 Telesis Court, 6th Floor, San Diego, CA 92121. Web site: http://www.visualsciences.com/. Visual Sciences is a registered trademark of Visual Sciences, Inc. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements. You should not regard any forward- looking statement as a representation by Visual Sciences that any of its plans will be achieved. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in this release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in Visual Sciences' business, including, without limitation: Visual Sciences' reliance on its Web analytics services for the majority of its revenue; potential impacts on Visual Sciences' business, results of operations and common stock price resulting from the process the company is undertaking with an investment banking firm to evaluate potential strategic transactions with interested parties; blocking or erasing of cookies or limitations on the company's ability to use cookies; Visual Sciences' limited experience with real-time analytics applications beyond Web analytics; the risks associated with integrating the operations and products of acquired companies with those of Visual Sciences; privacy concerns and laws or other domestic or foreign regulations that may subject Visual Sciences to litigation or limit the company's ability to collect and use Internet user information; Visual Sciences' ongoing ability to protect its own intellectual property rights and to avoid violating the intellectual property rights of third parties; the highly competitive markets in which the company operates that could make it difficult for Visual Sciences to acquire and retain customers; the risk that Visual Sciences' customers fail to renew their agreements; the risks associated with the company's indebtedness, including the risk of non-compliance with the covenants in the company's credit facility; the risk that Visual Sciences' services may become obsolete in a market with rapidly changing technology and industry standards; the risks associated with renaming the company and undertaking related branding activities; and other risks described in Visual Sciences' Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Do not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date of this news release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Visual Sciences undertakes no obligation to revise or update this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news release. DATASOURCE: Visual Sciences, Inc. CONTACT: Liya Sharif, , or Patty Ladegaard, , both of JHG-Townsend for Visual Sciences, +1-858-457-4888 Web site: http://www.visualsciences.com/

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