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April 25, 2000
Hummingbird announces the industry's first data mining
solution with integrated data acquisition
Genio Miner to close the loop of end-to-end data integration and reporting solutions including data warehousing requirements.
TORONTO, April 25 /CNW/ - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: "HUMC" and TSE: "HUM"), a
world-leading enterprise software solutions company, today announced Genio Miner, a major new
solution offering. This release is designed to set new standards for business critical data mining needs
including customer relationship management, fraud detection and credit risk scoring. Hummingbird
Genio Miner is a unique data mining solution that integrates data acquisition and cleansing with
state-of-the-art algorithmic models. This revolutionary architecture provides more precise results by
improving the quality of the source data and facilitating access from heterogeneous sources including
flat files and direct database connections. Model deployment can be distributed between desktop and
back-end for enterprise-strength data mining.
"Genio Miner is an exciting product because it addresses the entire virtuous cycle of data mining, not
just the analytical modeling portion. Successful data mining requires complex transformations of the
source data. These transformations must be captured as metadata and incorporated into the models
themselves so that models can be deployed in the field to score customer databases," says Michael
Berry, founder and principal of Data Miners, Inc. a leading data mining consulting company. "Data
mining has become a crucially important tool that companies use to exploit the information provided by
their data warehousing initiatives to improve customer service and to optimize revenue streams. The
key to successful mining results lies in the quality of the source data and the ability to transform it into
mineable variables," he continues. Genio Miner presents the final steps in Hummingbird's end-to-end
data warehousing solution which includes Genio Suite, the data integration solution and BI/Suite, the
enterprise query and reporting solution. With this addition, enterprise users will not only have a familiar
user interface but also the ability to meet mission critical requirements for better informed and timely
decisions. "With the launch of Genio Miner, organizations now have a one-stop solution for all their data
warehousing, data reporting and analysis needs. Our strategy is to provide robust enterprise-scalable
technology that is platform independent and can be used as a standalone solution or integrated with the
Hummingbird EIP," said Sami Hero, director of marketing for Hummingbird Data Integration and
Reporting Solutions. "Our customers now have the technology to conduct data mining operations
including high quality data analysis. "
Redefining Data Mining Genio Miner provides an integrated environment to extract data from not only
flat files, but also from multiple heterogeneous sources including direct database connections. The
extracted information is used to create decision trees, predictive models or used to cluster and score
data using a highly graphical and intuitive interface. Models can be deployed on both the desktop and
back-end servers improving through-put for powerful data mining at the enterprise level.
Key features of Genio Miner include:
- Integrated data acquisition and cleansing functionality
- Enhanced Predictive Models
- Naive Bayesian with boosting
- Symbolic Nearest Mean(SNM) a variant of the K-th Nearest Neighbor
- LVQ (Learning Vector Quantisation)
- Multi-Layer Perceptron predictive model (neural net)
- Fuzzy Logic
- Clustering Methods
- Kohonen self-organised map
- Gaussian Mixture ( Expectation Maximization)
- K-means
- Decision Trees including Chaid, C4.5 and Gini
Pricing and Availability
Genio Miner will be available after May 15th at which date the final pricing will be announced. |
