ThinkVine Announces General Availability of its Marketing Simulation and Planning Tool

CINCINNATI, OHIO (March 31st, 2009)

ThinkVine, a marketing simulation & planning software provider, announces the general availability of The Emerging Marketplace, the company's flagship product application.

Over the past 3 years, ThinkVine has built, market tested and sold its Marketing Simulation & Planning Tool into Fortune 500 companies in response to requests for a more insightful, responsive approach to marketing analysis and planning. Built on an agent-based modeling (ABM) framework, ThinkVine's Tool puts scenario planning into the hands of marketers. Benefits include:

• Three forms of return-on-investment (ROI)
• Revealing the collective & cross marketing impact of advertising and promotion on the consumer
• Actionable output presented in days vs. months
• The ability to run an unlimited number of "what if" scenarios
• An application that stays current with ever-changing marketplace conditions

"Marketers are actively looking for an alternative to static, aggregated snapshots of a marketplace that isn't static," said Damon Ragusa, President & CEO of ThinkVine. "Arming marketers with ThinkVine's Marketing Simulation & Planning Tool means basing important decisions off of the most current information available and turning responsiveness into a competitive advantage."

"Agent-based modeling (ABM) as a technique promises to be a major leap forward in helping Advertisers understand the collective impact of marketing on the consumer and as a means to capture the ROI from advertising," said Joel Rubinson, Chief Research Officer at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). "As advocates for transforming research, we're pleased to see leading marketing simulation & planning software providers like ThinkVine see such strong success."

ThinkVine will be officially launching its tool today at the 2009 ARF Annual Convention in New York City.

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About ThinkVine Corporation
ThinkVine helps some of the world's most respected companies better align marketing & advertising with consumer behavior. Our application, ThinkVine's Marketing Simulation & Planning Tool simulates the interactions between different mixes of marketing and consumers in a virtual environment that mirrors the "real world." Built on an agent-based modeling (ABM) framework, the Tool lets marketers run "what if" scenarios and turn marketing/media planning into an iterative exercise versus a "one shot" approach. ThinkVine is currently deployed in consumer packaged goods (CPG), food & beverage, pharmaceutical, technology and other vertical markets.

Email:     pr@thinkvine.com
URL:       http://www.thinkvine.com