Angoss Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Customer Data Mining Magic Quadrant


TORONTO, Canada, July 10 /PRNewswire/ --      Angoss Software Corporation (Angoss) (TSX-V: ANC), a leading provider 
of data mining and predictive analytics solutions for the financial 
services and information and communications technology industries, today 
announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the challengers 
quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining Applications'(1) 
report.

"Angoss remains focused on a roadmap of continuous innovation, 
providing proven customer analytics solutions empowering sales, marketing 
and risk management professionals to drive measurable business performance 
improvements," said David Stott, head of Angoss product management. "We 
believe our positioning in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects our 
dedication to delivering rich solutions designed to accommodate the needs 
and abilities of a wide range of users while allowing for a variety of 
scalable deployment options."

Some of the world's leading financial services, information and 
communications technology, and retail organizations use Angoss, including 
Citigroup, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, GE Money, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, 
Washington Mutual, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, ABN Amro, Royal Bank of 
Scotland, Standard Chartered, AIG, Allstate, Norwich Union, Nationwide, 
Genworth Financial, AXA Insurance, Allianz, AGF, Russell Investments, 
Franklin Templeton, T-Mobile, eBay, MSN, Dell, Yahoo, O2, Rogers 
Communications, Yellow Pages Group, Genpact, ChoicePoint, Equifax, Experian
, First Data Corporation, Sedgwick CMS, Milliman, and hundreds of others.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused 
with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a 
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's 
analysis of how certain vendor's measure against criteria for that 
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, 
product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise 
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" 
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is 
not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all 
warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including 
any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Angoss

Angoss Software Corporation empowers people to make "Better Business 
Decisions. Every Day."(TM)

Some of the world's leading financial services, information and 
communications technology, and retail organizations use Angoss On-Demand 
predictive analytics software and services to grow revenues, while reducing 
risk and cost. Angoss helps our clients utilize business data to discover 
the key drivers of behavior, predict future trends and events, and act with 
confidence when making business decisions.

Angoss combines powerful market proven software with focused industry 
services expertise in the deployment, integration and use of predictive 
analytics in enterprise environments. Our differentiators include broad 
user acceptance, a commitment to open standards, rich functionality, rapid 
deployment, exceptional ease-of-use and affordability.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Angoss has offices in the UK and has 
partnered with the world's leading enterprise software and services vendors
. For more information, visit http://www.angoss.com.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 1 July 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is 
reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of 
a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's 
analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that 
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, 
product or servicedepicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise 
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" 
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is 
not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all 
warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any 
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. 
These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. 
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The accuracy of these 
statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties 
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected 
or anticipated, including: the risk that the sale of our products and 
services involves a long sales cycle; the risk that the economic 
environment and business conditions will remain difficult to predict; the 
risk of competition in our target markets; the risk that we may not respond 
adequately to evolving technologies; the risk that we or our customers may 
have difficulties in introducing our products or services; the risk that we 
will encounter difficulties in continuing to offer services; the risk that 
we will encounter difficulties in integrating the operations of acquired 
companies with our own; the risks of conducting our operations in a variety 
of international locations; the risk that we may need to record future 
write-downs of assets arising from our investments in other companies; the 
risks relating to the costs that we may incur as a result of litigation 
against us; and other risks described in our filings with securities 
regulatory authorities, including our annual reports, interim financial 
statements and similar disclosure documents. ANGOSS Software does not 
undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking information after 
the date of its initial publication, except as required under applicable law.

Note: The Toronto Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved
the above information.

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(1) Gartner "Magic Quadrants for Customer Data-Mining Applications" by G.

Herschel, et al. July 1, 2008.



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