SPSS Brings Data Mining Solutions To The Enterprise With Clementine Solution Publisher

Creating a data mining model for better decision making is smart. But sharing that model throughout your enterprise for faster, more consistent decisions is smarter. Clementine Solution Publisher, now shipping from SPSS Inc., can take data mining models and help users quickly share them throughout an enterprise. Now, an entire network of employees can use the same model at the same time for consistent decision making.

Unlike other products, Clementine Solution Publisher enables multiple users to work with a model and complete data access and data transformations without additional programming. The companion product to Clementine, SPSS' award-winning modeling software for rapid data mining, this software delivers an application that is ready to run and deploy solutions - ranging from data access and data preparation to modeling and results - on a variety of platforms, independent of Clementine.

Wolfgang Martin, vice president of Application Delivery Service at technology analyst META Group said, "Deploying a data mining solution throughout an organization is the big issue. This would help companies to close the decision support loop and integrate data mining results into their operational systems. Whereas today organizations are relying on professional services to develop data mining applications, a tool like Clementine Solution Publisher provides a faster means to automate the power of data mining."

"Our focus is on finding the easiest way to put the right information into the hands of the right people," said SPSS President and CEO Jack Noonan. "Clementine users know their data and they know their business. Clementine Solution Publisher helps them put their personal knowledge together with their data models and share those tools throughout the enterprise for better business decisions. The result is a smarter and faster way to deal with a variety of issues, including cross-selling, churn analysis and fraud detection."

To make data mining information more accessible to all users, analysts complete the data mining process in Clementine, then replicate the solution and share it across the organization. If the business or technology environment changes, users can quickly publish a new version of the application by updating the code and revising the Clementine solution for all users. For more widespread deployment, developers can also easily write a less technical user interface for the application, providing pertinent information to non-analyst decision makers.

Clementine Solution Publisher provides data mining solutions that a variety of organizations can use such as:

• Cross-selling - telemarketing representatives can recommend other financial products to customers as they wait for their information.
• Churn analysis - marketers can rank customers daily on likelihood to switch to a competitor, enabling them to develop specific counteroffers.
• Fraud detection - agents can identify those most likely to commit fraud, in revenue services and unemployment.
• Credit risk scoring - loan officers can assess applicants in real time at the point of credit application.
• Product selection - field sales reps can access a laptop-based decision support aid that advises what to offer a specific customer.
• Medical risk analysis - physicians and nurses can monitor changes in patient condition, alerting physicians and nurses of potentially high-risk patients.
• Education analysis - administrators can identify students at risk of not completing a program.
• Reduced defects - manufacturers can analyze the effect a given variable has on the outcome of production, predicting the quality of the finished product.

Clementine was the first enterprise-strength data mining offering aimed at business users and is consistently acknowledged by users and analysts as the leading interactive data mining system. More than 250 organizations worldwide use Clementine, including companies such as American Century Investments, Daimler-Chrysler, Glaxo Wellcome, Reuters and Unilever. Clementine has established a leading position in the data mining tools market, and is used in a wide range of industry sectors including finance, retail, telecommunication, pharmaceuticals, utilities, broadcasting, government and higher education. For more information about Clementine and the Solutions Publisher, visit http://www.spss.com/software/publisher/.

Pricing And Availability

Clementine Solution Publisher pricing starts at $21,900. The product is currently shipping domestically and will ship internationally in late June.

System Requirements

• Clementine 5.0.1 or higher
• Windows NT 4.0
• Also available for HP Workstations, SG Workstations, SunSPARCStations, DEC Alpha (using UNIX), IBM RS6000, Data General AviiON and NCR UNIX
• C compiler and environment for deployment platform
• Deployment on Windows 95/98, as well as the above platforms

Company Information

SPSS Inc. is a leader in business intelligence, especially data mining, as well as three vertical markets: survey/market research, quality improvement and scientific research. SPSS products and services transform organizations by helping users leverage information to improve processes that increase revenues and reduce costs. Today, more than 250,000 organizations use SPSS software to create and distribute information for better decision making.

Founded in 1968, SPSS has been a leader in data analysis for more than three decades. SPSS has won the following awards: named No. 28 in DM Review's Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 23 on the 1999 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 87 in the 1998 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has offices and distributors around the world. For more information, visit http://www.spss.com.

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