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This page assists you in locating products and vendors associated with data mining.

Data mining is the process of sifting through large amounts of data to produce data content relationships. Data mining tools use a variety of techniques including case-based reasoning, data visualization, fuzzy query and analysis, and neural networks. These tools allow the user to find records similar to a specified record and view graphical displays of information from different perspectives.

Data Mining Tools

BioComp Systems, Inc. http://www.biocompsystems.com/pages/products.html Vendor: BioComp Systems, Inc. Product Description: BioComp Systems, Inc. provides a number of software applications that help organizations build models that can predict and optimize business processes using advanced neural forecasting technology. These products support the latest in application tested technology. BioComp Systems, Inc. provides the training and support required to ensure that you succeed in the development and deployment of solutions, which utilize neural network technology. Demo: A demo of the software is available for download but has limited features that may be used. Evaluation: This site is very comprehensive in conveying to potential buyers of their products and what the products offered can do for a company in helping them forecast and make decisions. E-mail: webmaster@biocompsystems.com Phone: (425)869-6770 Fax (425)869-6850

Clementine http://www.isl.com/. Vendor: SPSS Inc. Product Description: A visual programming interface helps you understand your customers and business better. Demo: YES Evaluation: Provides openness and interoperability. Email: webmaster@isl.co.uk Phone: None

CORONADO http://www.portola.com/products.html. Vendor: Portola Dimensional Systems. Product Description: Coronado Visual Analysis uses digital imaging and animated multidimensional graphics to represent data. Multidimensional graphs represent a number of business dimensions in a single graph. It animates sets of data to allow the user to watch fluctuations, including control over speed, type, and progress. The user can also switch between 2D and 3D and can isolate parts of the graph. Evaluation: Good graphics, animation interesting. Demo: No demo available. Email: sales@portolasystems.com. Phone: (888)868-9989

Darwin http://www.think.com/. Vendor: Thinking Machines Corporation. Product Description: Has the ability to scale as your data and problem complexity grows. Demo: YES Evaluation: Emphasis on cross selling, customer attrition, Customer Retention, Fraud Detection, and Market Segmentation. Email: customer-support@think.com Phone: (877)677-1400

DataVista and VantagePoint http://www.visualizetech.com Vendor: Visualize, Inc. Description: Visualize, Inc. designs and develops high-end data visualization software for enterprise level, Internet based services. Visualize's DataVista and VantagePoint are software products that take advantage of Visual Interactive Data Analysis (VIDA). DataVista and VantagePoint bring data visualization and analysis capabilities to corporate decision-makers and data analysts. These two software programs use Visual Interactive Data Analysis (VIDA) solutions empower end users to make better, faster, and more accurate mission-critical decisions based upon current (real-time) data. Demo: Visualize, Inc. provides downloadable demo versions of each DataVista and VantagePoint on their web page. Evaluation: DataVista and VantagePoint make massive groups of data easier to access and has simplified the distribution of the data. The major strength of this software is the Java-base tools and solutions that improve the presentation and analysis of the data.
E-mail: contact@visualizetech.com Phone:(602)861-0999

D.B. EXPRESS http://www.computerconcepts.com/products. Vendor: Computer Concepts Corporation. Product Description: It automatically presents the user with graphic representations of their database information. There is an interactive interface, which is simple to use and allows less experienced users to easily analyze data. It assists users in spotting trends and anomalies. Specific uses include cost allocation, auditing, billing and transaction analysis, sales force automation, marketing analysis, and database marketing. Evaluation: Good product for less experienced users. Demo: No demo available. Email: sales@computerconcepts.com. Phone: (800)619-0757

Esteem http://www.shai.com/esteem.html Vendor: SHAI. Product Description: ESTEEM provides great flexibility in developing CBR applications. It offers general-purpose case definition facilities, a wide range of developer selected similarity and retrieval options, techniques for incorporating rule-based inference for retrieval and case manipulation, the concept of nested case-bases, and specification of end-user functionality. Demo: A demo of the software is available, but a comprehensive brochure is downloadable. Evaluation: This site is excellent for companies looking to implement decision making and problem solving applications, which use reasoning on prior experience. E-mail: esteem@ix.netcom.com Phone: (650)655-7297 Fax: (650)655-7243

Heatmaps Pro http://www.neovision.com Vendor: NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc. Description: NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc. is a software company that specializes in advanced software for the financial industry. Heatmaps Pro is a very useful software package for the use in the financial industry. The software takes large amounts of time sensitive financial information, organizing it, and presenting it through a highly effective interface. NeoVision designed Heatmaps Pro to cut through the clutter using simple and effective financial visualization technology. Heatmaps Pro graphical interfaces give traders, analysts, money managers and risk managers the ability to target key financial information quickly and effectively. Demo: This software package also has downloadable demo versions available at the NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc. web page. Evaluation: Although Heatmaps Pro is very successful at organizing and presenting sensitive financial information, that is the only use for the software. The software is extremely specific in its use for the financial industry.
E-mail: info@neovision.com Phone:(212)378-8412

Intelligent Miner for Data http://www.software.ibm.com/data/iminer/. Vendor: IBM. Product Description: It helps identify and extract high-value business intelligence from your data assets. Demo: YES Evaluation: This program helps identify relationships, trends, and previously undetected patterns hidden within a data store. Email: "Contact Us" Phone: (800)772-2227

NetMap http://www.ALTAanalytics.com/. Vendor: ALTA Analytics. Product Description: It is software designed to detect fraud. Demo: YES Evaluation: Highly effective in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Email: "Contact Us" Phone:(800)NetMaps

Parallel Visual Explorer http://www.ibm.com/ news/950203/pve-01.html Vendor: IBM Corporation
Description: IBM's data analysis software called Parallel Visual Explorer allows graphic analysis of data with dozens of variables. Users can display graphical representations of relationships between many different variables simultaneously, mapping coordinates as parallel axes rather than as the perpendicular axes used by traditional visualization tools. Parallel Visual Explorer is designed by IBM to handle large data sets and offer an easy-to-use visual query capabilities. Demo: IBM does not offer a demo version of Parallel Visual Explorer, but does offer numerous examples of how companies are benefiting from the software. Evaluation: The major advantage of Parallel Visual Explorer is the ability of the software to adapt to the needs of a corporation. Parallel Visual Explorer is a very adaptable software package. IBM stresses this fact by offering numerous examples of corporations in many different industries that have had success using the software.
E-mail:info@ibm.com Phone:(800)PVE-1234

S-PLUS http://www.mathsoft.com/splus Vendor: Mathsoft. Product Description: It offers several different versions to suit a business or user's personal preference. Users can create models to discover relationships between data. It allows users to perform a variety of data mining tasks, including: classification and regression trees, clustering, factor analysis, linear and nonlinear regressions, and predictive models. Demo available. Evaluation: offers users a great variety of choices and applications. Email: mktg@statsci.com. Phone: (800)548-5653

WizRule http://www.wizsoft.com/. Vendor: Wiz Soft. Product Description: Discovers the rules that govern a given data and points at the deviations from the discovered set of the rules as cases to be audited. Demo: YES Evaluation: Highly effective in accounting and inventory, computational linguistics, operations research, and data auditing. Email: Info@wizsoft.com Phone: (516)393-5841

Z-Solutions http://www.zsolutions.com/software.html Vendor: Z Solutions. Product Description: Uses neural network modeling to determine cause and effect relationships. The aim of neural network technology is to discover and predict relationships in the data. What distinguishes neural networks from traditional statistics is that neural network models can be 'trained' to discover relationships that cannot be described with linear algebra and, supposedly, can compensate for a fair amount of poor data quality. Demo: A functional demo is available for download. Evaluation: Z Solutions has a very comprehensive site for the organization looking to implement neural network technology to aid in problem solving. There are numerous training and consulting resources available to purchasers of the software. E-mail: info@zsolutions.com Phone: (770)992-1762