CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 12/17/12 -- Mattersight Corporation (NASDAQ: MATR) today announced the signing of a new customer, which is among the largest private sector universities in the United States. The customer has engaged Mattersight to deploy Behavioral Analytics in its Admissions area.

Mattersight's Behavioral Analytics solution drives significant business value for private sector universities by:

• Optimally pairing prospective students and admissions advisors based on communication style, personality, and behavioral characteristics
• Predicting future behaviors and outcomes of current and prospective students
• Enhancing the performance of admissions advisors

Mattersight leverages its strong competencies and expertise in managing big data to drive significant business value. Every day, Mattersight captures over 70 trillion data attributes, applies over 2 million algorithms, executes over 250 billion computations, and processes over 350 TB of data in order to provide new and contextually accurate information and improve operational performance.

To learn more about Mattersight and the Behavioral Analytics service, visit www.Mattersight.com.

About Mattersight

Mattersight is a leader in enterprise analytics focused on customer and employee interactions and behaviors. Mattersight's Behavioral Analytics service captures and analyzes customer and employee interactions, employee desktop data and other contextual information to improve operational performance and predict future customer and employee outcomes. Mattersight's analytics are based on millions of proprietary algorithms and the application of unique behavioral models. The company's SaaS+ delivery model combines analytics in the cloud with deep customer partnerships to drive significant business value. Mattersight's applications are used by leading companies in Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Cable, Utilities, Education, Hospitality and Government. See What Matters™ by visiting www.Mattersight.com.