IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data V6R1, Greater Competitiveness Through Informed Decision Making
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Software Announcement September 21, 1999 IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data V6R1, Greater Competitiveness Through Informed Decision Making Overview IBM GBIS: Global Business Intelligence Solutions continues to At a Glance IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for offer data mining consultancy, Data enables knowledge workers to recognized as the best in the Now even more business identify and extract high-value industry. Also announced today is intelligence users can readily business intelligence from large DB2 Intelligent Miner for obtain the information they need to amounts of enterprise data. Relationship Marketing V6R1 which develop smart business strategies. Version 6 Release 1 (V6R1) offers provides industry-specific mining The enhanced capabilities of this new analysis, data exploration, and solutions such as cross selling and product let you: attrition analysis, and is part of the scalability options that enhance core • data mining capability while making DecisionEdge family. Analyze business information critical data more accessible to those more effectively with: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data is who need it most. Business analysts − A new Associations and managers are empowered to based on a client/server architecture and mines data directly from DB2 as Visualizer make better informed decisions to − well as from other data sources via Extended data exploration improve customer relations, − DB2 DataJoiner . V6R1 executes in DB2 Intelligent Miner for maximize profits, and reduce risk of Relationship Marketing fraud and abuse. either serial or parallel mode on Windows NT , AIX , and Sun • Improve productivity through: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data V6R1 Solaris servers. Supported clients places increased focus on bringing are Windows 95, Windows 98, − Visual Warehouse the value of data mining to more Windows NT, AIX, and OS/2 . Integration business intelligence users. − Export to spreadsheet Enhancements include integration Key Prerequisites − Copy to clipboard with warehouse and business − Print Visualizations • intelligence tools. Additional Server: Workstation running AIX, • Control costs with new business intelligence offerings Sun Solaris, or Windows NT scalability options: leverage product enhancements to • deliver end-to-end mining solutions Client: Workstation running AIX, − DB2 UDB Version 6.1 to the business analyst. Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, support or OS/2 − SMP for AIX, Windows NT, SAP Business Warehouse: Joint SAP Sun Solaris and IBM technology pilots are Installation planning information is available on the Intelligent Miner for − Parallel processing for Value underway to enable SAP users to Prediction utilize Intelligent Miner to mine data Data Internet Web site: • Take advantage of powerful sourced from their SAP Business http://www.software.ibm.com resources through enhanced Warehouse. /iminer/fordata/ mining solutions: SPSS: SPSS integration can provide Intelligent Miner for Data users with − SAP Business Warehouse additional statistical analysis and Planned Availability Date integration data exploration capabilities. Other − SPSS integration at the glass recent SPSS announcements — September 24, 1999 − IBM GBIS consultants Version 10 client-server For ordering, contact: implementation, and intent to Your IBM representative, an IBM develop a direct interface for DB2 Business Partner, or IBM Americas access — further complement the Call Centers at solution. 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 299-263 DataJoiner. Data and metadata can also be exchanged Description with warehouses and business intelligence tools and applications. Intelligent Miner for Data executes in either DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data enables knowledge workers serial or parallel mode on Windows NT, AIX and Sun to identify and extract high value business intelligence Solaris servers. Supported clients are Windows 95/98/NT, and communicate results to business users for further AIX, and OS/2. analysis and decision making. DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data is an integrated solution for the sophisticated Enhanced Intelligent Miner Solutions analysis of large amounts of enterprise data. SAP Business Warehouse: Joint SAP and IBM technology From its initial release, the Intelligent Miner has pilots are underway to enable SAP users to utilize embodied proven data mining technology with Intelligent Miner to mine data sourced from their SAP best-of-breed scalability and has been deployed in a Business Warehouse. Generated models are applied and variety of customer mining solutions. Version 2 ported back to the warehouse. As both data and enhancements included additional scalability options and metadata are imported and exported, users will be able placed significant emphasis on usability and productivity to define data once. for data mining analysts. While Version 6.1 offers further enhancements in core capabilities, a new area of SPSS: SPSS integration will afford Intelligent Miner for emphasis supports the emerging maturation of data Data users additional statistical analysis and data mining in Intelligent Miner customer installations. exploration capabilities. Integration at the glass will provide a seamless user interface to utilize Intelligent Version 6.1 (V6R1) Objectives: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Miner for Data and SPSS functions iteratively during the Data V6R1 offers new analysis, data exploration, and data mining process. scalability options which enhance core data mining capability. In addition, V6R1 places increased focus on Concurrently, SPSS announces the availability of bringing the value of data mining to more business Version 10, a client/server implementation, for its intelligence users by broadening access to mining statistical analysis offerings. These announcements function and results at the business analyst′s desktop. augment the recent SPSS stated intent to develop a direct Enhancements include integration with warehouse and interface for DB2 access. business intelligence tools, and improved communication of data mining results to business analysts. Integrated IBM GBIS: Global Business Intelligence Solutions (GBIS) business intelligence solutions leverage product announces DB2 Intelligent Miner for Relationship enhancements to deliver custom mining solutions to Marketing V6R1 and continues to offer data mining business analysts. consultancy which is recognized in the industry for excellence and expertise. Enhancements Targeted to the Data Mining Analyst: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Relationship Marketing (IM for V6R1 offers an additional scalability option in symmetric RM) becomes a program product with V6R1 and utilizes multiprocessor (SMP) support. Users will be able to the mining technology of DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data exploit the parallel processing capabilities of SMP V6R1. Intelligent Miner for Relationship Marketing hardware configurations operating AIX, Windows NT, or provides industry-specific solutions such as cross selling Sun Solaris for parallel data mining with the Intelligent and attrition analysis. IM for RM is part of the Miner. In addition to mining algorithms which already DecisionEdge family. operate in parallel, the value prediction algorithm will be — enhanced with parallel processing models generated Version 6.1 Highlights can be applied in parallel. All algorithms implemented to execute in parallel on an SP system will now be able to • A new, highly interactive Associations Visualizer execute utilizing SMP support as well. facilitates interpretation of mining results created by Associations Discovery. A variety of textual and DB2 Universal Database (UDB) V6R1 databases will be graphical representations are provided with user fully supported by all mining algorithms. New DB2 UDB customization and filtering options. (Available on index features and extended column names will be Windows clients only.) utilized by the Intelligent Miner. DB2 DataJoiner can be used by the Intelligent Miner to mine non-DB2 databases, • SMP processors are supported under AIX, Sun Solaris, including both read and write operations. and Windows NT, thereby increasing Intelligent Miner parallel processing options available to users mining Enhancements Targeted to the Business Analyst: A very large databases. powerful new visualizer is provided for interpreting the • mining results created by the Associations Discovery Parallel enhancements to the Value Prediction algorithm. Actually comprised of a linked set of textual algorithm provide potential performance improvement and graphical representations, the new visualizer is when applying generated models in parallel. aimed at facilitating business communications. • Support for DB2 UDB V6R1 includes mining data from, and applying model results to, DB2 UDB Version 6 Enablement features of the DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data databases. New Version 6 index features and provide the mechanisms for integration of business extended column names are utilized by the Intelligent intelligence tools at the glass. Applying model results to Miner. the database enriches the information available to business analysts through familiar business intelligence • DB2 DataJoiner can be used to mine non-DB2 tools they use every day. Seamless tool integration at the relational data, including both read and write glass facilitates