PolyAnalyst 4.0 Released In Final Beta Form

Megaputer announces the final beta-testing program for PolyAnalyst 4.0, the newest version of Megaputer's data mining solution. The rules for participation in the program and the corresponding system requirements are described at the Megaputer web site. Users can participate in the beta-testing program until the official release of PolyAnalyst 4.0 on November 20th, 1999. Interested parties are invited to download and try a hands-on evaluation copy of PolyAnalyst 4.0 from http://www.megaputer.com/webshop.html.

Version 4.0 represents a major upgrade of the system. PolyAnalyst now utilizes Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technology, features ten machine learning algorithms, and furnishes data manipulation, visualization, and scoring capabilities. In addition to clustering, predicting, dependency detecting, and yes/no classifying, PolyAnalyst 4.0 solves tasks of explicit modeling, detection of association rules in transactional data, and classification to multiple categories.

New features of PolyAnalyst 4.0 include:

• New Market Basket Analysis algorithm for processing transactional data. Groups of products sold together well and the corresponding directed association rules are identified an order of magnitude faster than by traditional algorithms.
• New Memory Based Reasoning algorithm based on a combination of Nearest Neighbor and Genetic Algorithms.
• Implementation of the DCOM architecture.
• Support for the analysis of large datasets. The maximum volume of data accepted by the system has been increased and new mechanisms for dealing with large datasets have been implemented.
• Redesigned user interface. The project contents are organized in a Windows-standard tree-like style.
• HTML reports for exploration engines. The new interactive reports can be customized, saved, printed, or copied in a standard portable format, and exchanged with external applications.
• Lift and Gain Charts for interpreting the results obtained by machine learning algorithms.
• New Snake Chart for visual comparison of different data sets.
• New Chart Designer for the development of custom charts and data visualization capabilities.
• New PA Scheduler enabling batch process data mining in PolyAnalyst. The user can record a sequence of actions and schedule the created script to be run by PolyAnalyst at a specified time and on the specified datasets.
• Sampling capabilities, allowing random selection of records from a dataset.
• Direct data exchange with Oracle Express and IBM Visual Warehouse.

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