Listed below is a sampling of major companies involved in data mining.
High end market:
IBM
Intelligent Miner for Data
enables users to mine structured data stored in conventional databases or flat files. Its
algorithms address •customer relationship •marketing •fraud and abuse
detection. This can be used to discover associations or patterns, to segment (or cluster)
records based on similarity of attributes, to discover similar time sequences, or to
create predictive (or classification) models.
Intelligent Miner for
Text harvests information from text sources such as •customer correspondence
•online news services •e-mail and Web pages. It extracts patterns from text,
organizes documents by subject, finds predominant themes in a collection of documents, and
search for relevant documents using powerful and flexible queries. for navigating, sifting
through, grouping and prioritizing information in text data sources.
SAS Institute
Enterprise Miner
SAS Data Mining helps with:
•Customer retention (keeping existing customers) •Customer acquisition (finding
new customers) •Cross selling (selling customers more products based on what they
have already bought) •Upgrading (selling customers a higher level of service or
product, such as a gold credit card versus a regular credit card) •Fraud detection
(determining if a particular transaction is out of the normal range of a person's activity
and flagging that transaction for verification) •Market-basket analysis (determining
what combinations of products are purchased at a given time)
Silicon Graphics
MineSet
MineSet supports generation and analysis of association rules and classification models,
used for prediction, scoring, segmentation, and profiling. Some industry features are:
•Chemistry & Biology •Telecom •Manufacturing •Government
•Financial Services •Retail
Other Data Mining companies:
Angoss International -- KnowledgeSeeker and Knowledge Studio
www.angoss.com
Business Objects -- BusinessMiner
www.businessobjects.com
Cognos -- Scenario, 4Thought, PowerPlay
www.cognos.com
Data Mind Corp. -- DataMind and DataCruncher
www.datamindcorp.com
Mathsoft Inc. -- S-Plus, StatServer, S-Plus Software, Development Kit for Unix
www.mathsoft.com
Red Brick Systems Inc. -- Red Brick Data Mine
www.redbrick.com
Thinking Machines Corp. -- Darwin
www.think.com
Trajecta Inc. -- DB Prophet
www.trajecta.com