Hello again, and thanks for asking a really interesting question.
I've followed data mining software developments in bits and pieces,
and this was a good opportunity to get more up to date as I researched
your question.
First thing I learned: A lot of the so-called "Knowledge Management"
companies haven't managed to learn to speak English...their sites are
dense, obscure and almost impossible to fathom. The second thing I
learned, is that a lot of them are out of business!
Third thing: most sites simply do not offer price information. I
always think this is a big business error, but there you have it. It
seems that the data mining software being offered is configurable in
so many different ways, that price lists are hard to come by.
That said, however, there are a number of professional looking sites
that are still in business, offer clear descriptions of their
products, and provided explicit prices or at least ballpark
information about costs. I did not come across any sites offering
comparative reviews or customer feedback on the applications.
I've summarized these below. If anything here is not clear, or if you
need additional information, let me know by posting a Request for
Clarification, and Ill be happy to assist you further.
Good luck with your mining efforts.
pafalafa-ga
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http://www.rulequest.com/MagnumOpus-info.html
Magnum Opus: Setting New Standards in Association Rule Discovery
Magnum Opus finds association rules from data. Association rules
provide competitive advantage by revealing underlying interactions
between factors within the data. They are often used to gain insight
into the drivers of behavior, such as which products, when purchased,
drive the purchase of which other products.
[The price listed for the Windows version of this software is $840 as
seen at this link]:
http://www.rulequest.com/price-gen.html
[Magnum Opus is one of a suite of similarly-priced data mining tools]:
Effective data mining tools that:
--construct classifiers See5/C5.0 1.19
--build numerical models Cubist 1.12
--find association rules Magnum Opus 1.3
--identify data anomalies GritBot 1.05a
--Add our data import utility ODBCHook 1.01a [free until June 2004]
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[No specific price given, other than to say that it's "a fraction of
the price" of competing products, but this product from Insightful.com
one sounds promising]:
This link has a DM Review article on the software:
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=194&EdID=5408
DATA MINING SOFTWARE DELIVERS PRICE/PERFORMANCE BREAKTHROUGH
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and here's the link to the Insightful.com company web page:
http://www.insightful.com/products/iminer/default.asp
Insightful Miner is a highly scalable data mining and analysis
workbench that gives new analysts and skilled modelers the ability to
deploy predictive intelligence throughout the enterprise. Insightful
Miner 3 increases support for large data environments with new
versions for Windows and Solaris servers and adds many new features
that allow data analysts and data miners to easily build and deploy
analytic applications that boost product performance and improve the
efficiency of critical business processes.
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http://www.datamineit.com/DMI_software.htm
DataMineIt?s solution to the computational demands of permutation
tests is PermuteIt? statistical software that performs fast,
two-sample permutation tests when one sample is large or both are
moderately sized and many permutation tests must be performed (e.g.
most multiple comparisons situations). PermuteIt has been benchmarked
against the available commercial alternatives (see table below or
.pdf) and has relative runtimes often more than an order of magnitude
faster under these conditions. This can make the difference between
meeting deadlines, or missing them, when performing thousands of
tests, and an hour?s runtime easily can become ten, twenty, or thirty
hours. This disparity obviously becomes even more magnified when, as
is the rule rather than the exception, analyses or reports need to be
rerun due to the receipt of revised data; or the reprocessing of the
input datasets; or any of the countless issues that arise when working
with large volumes of data.
[This is desktop PC software. No price is given, but a free demo
version is available from the site]
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Provalis Research offers a variety of desktop data mining applications
at prices in the $100-300 range:
http://www.simstat.com/
--Simstat for Windows is an innovative product that goes beyond mere
statistical analysis. It offers output management features not found
in any other program as well as its own scripting language to automate
statistical analysis and to write small applications, interactive
tutorials with multimedia capabilities, as well as computer assisted
interviewing systems.
--CodeMiner Text Management and Qualitative Analysis features:
This new qualitative data analysis program provides an easy way to
manage documents, and perform common qualitative analysis tasks.
[They also offer text mining applications.]
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Cygron offers several award-winning data mining applications and
suites. The two that are probably most relevant to your situation
are:
DataScope Explorer:
http://www.cygron.com/DSExplorer.html
Combining innovative and decision provoking database graphics with
data transformation, relationship finding, data hierarchies,
drill-down analysis and other powerful analytical tools, DataScope
Explorer provides an easy to use, intuitive and flexible environment
for performing data visualization, data exploration, querying and
"what-if" analysis.
DataScope Explorer is the base for all DataScope suites and is a very
powerful analytic tool by itself. By connecting various DataScope
modules its functionality can be extended further to resolve specific
business problems.
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DataScope Lite
http://www.cygron.com/DSLite.html
DataScope Lite is a lightweight data visualization, analysis and query
tool suitable for personal use on small databases. Combining
innovative and decision provoking database graphics with data
transformation, relationship finding, data hierarchies, drill-down
analysis and other powerful analytical tools, DataScope Lite provides
an easy to use, intuitive and flexible environment for performing data
visualization, data exploration, querying and "what-if" analysis on
small databases.
DataScope Lite offers the same analytical tools as DataScope Explorer
but has certain data capacity limitations (see below).
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You can ask for a trial version of their software at this "Try IT" page:
http://www.cygron.com/TrialDownload.html
These both appear to be in the right price range, though up-to-date
prices are not available from the site.
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DBMiner offers Windows-based software (requires SQL as well) that
comes in just under the wire at $995:
http://www.dbminer.com/products/ax2002.html
DBMiner AX 2002 identifies which things frequently occur together. It
analyzes patterns and trends of market basket, cross selling,
e-commerce transactions, customer support, defect correlations,
suspicious activities, and as well as combinations of product and
service offerings purchased in different geographical areas. DBMiner
AX 2002 synergistically performs multi-dimensional, multi-level and
transactional analyses on relational, data warehouse and OLAP data
sources.
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The company offers related data mining applications as well.
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KnowledgeMiner offers a number of Windows-based applications, most of
which are priced at well under $1,000:
http://www.knowledgeminer.net/
An overall description can be found here:
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http://www.knowledgeminer.net/aboutkm.htm
KnowledgeMiner is a data mining tool that enables anyone to use its
unique form of modeling to quickly visualize new possibilities. It is
an artificial intelligence tool designed to easily extract hidden
knowledge from data. It was built on the cybernetic principles of
self-organization: Learning a completely unknown relationship between
output and input of any given system in an evolutionary way from a
very simple organization to an optimally complex one.
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and detailed pricing is here:
http://www.knowledgeminer.net/buy.htm
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Here is a windows-based shareware program, the only shareware/freeware
I found that seemed to meet your specifications:
http://www.gr-fx.com/graf-fx.htm
Graf-FX® is ... designed to provide tools to explore your databases
with graphs and queries using a technique called Data Mining. It is
also a quick way to generate/prototype Access Graphs without running
the Wizards. If you are an Access/Office User, you don't need to learn
how to use another data mining product. All you have to do is link
your tables to any Access/ODBC database and then start exploring your
data. If you wish, you can then write your own queries to join tables
or limit the data returned and drilldown on these. The software
imports table and query filters to add initial flexibility to the
drilldowns without the need to write queries. This enables you to use
filter by example and filter by form.
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Some applications that seem worth a look, even though no on-line
pricing information is available, include:
http://www.fqspl.com.pl/ghostminer/generalInfo.asp
The GhostMiner Software (FQS Poland Trademark) is a powerful,
general-purpose data mining system. Its primary goal is to discover
hidden knowledge: facts, patterns, and subtle relationships in
databases, and thus extract relevant information from the data. Data
mining is crucial for decision support, giving commercial
organizations competitive advantage, as well as for scientific data
analysis. To achieve its goals the GhostMiner system uses a
combination of neural networks, machine learning, statistical
analysis, visualization techniques and database technology.
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http://www.data-mine.com/bin/site/wrappers/default.asp?norelay_hier_id_155A25150=3&pane_2=content%2Ddesktop%5Fdata%5Fmining&NC=3039X
Introducing Nuggets, our premier enterprise data mining software for
the desktop. Nuggets is our powerful solution that builds models that
uncover hidden facts and relationships. These models can predict for
new data, allow you to generalize and reveal which indicators (i.e.
variables) most impact your decisions. Nuggets is available on the
Windows platform.
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http://www.megaputer.com/products/index.php3
PolyAnalyst, the jewel of our product line, is the most complete and
versatile suite of unique knowledge discovery algorithms in the world.
The system provides simple connectivity with data storage
architectures, an easy-to-use visual workspace, and a broad range of
machine learning algorithms. PolyAnalyst is the first data mining
system to utilize the COM architecture, facilitating simple data
scoring with the help of models developed by PolyAnalyst's knowledge
discovery engines.
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A good listing of available desktop data mining application software
can be found at his Knowledge Discovery site:
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html
Many of the applications here appear to be interesting, but did not
provide price information.
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Again, just let me know if you require any additional information. |
