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SPSS Selected as Oracle Data Mining Partner
March 23, 1998 10:57 AM
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1998--As part of a plan to offer a total data mining solution, Oracle Corp. ORCL has chosen SPSS Inc. SPSS to join a select group of data mining partners in the Oracle Warehouse Initiative (WTI) joint marketing and product development program. This is the first group of Oracle data mining alliances to be formally announced and is based on a qualification program designed to ensure customers are offered the market's best data mining solutions.
According to a recent META Group report, SPSS is the data mining market leader with a 30% share. Employing open, best-of-breed solutions, SPSS products are suitable for all levels of analytical needs. At the end of March 1998 SPSS will ship AnswerTree, a multi-algorithm decision tree tool, which will extend the reach of the already robust SPSS data mining product line.
"We are pleased to announce a closer working relationship with Oracle," said Jack Noonan, SPSS president and CEO. "Many of our major customers, who are already doing data mining, are also users of Oracle's products. We look forward to leveraging this relationship with Oracle for the benefit of those mutual customers."
Oracle selected SPSS and six other WTI data mining partners based on three fundamental criteria:
--Leadership - Members display leadership through effective and innovative products.
--Architecture - Oracle selected partners whose product architectures integrated well with Oracle's data warehouse and decision support solutions.
--Industry focus - Selected members provide a wide-range of industry specialization.
"Oracle has effectively taken some of the legwork out of selecting a top-notch data mining solution as well as providing the best possible database foundation," said Jagdish Mirani, director of product marketing, Oracle Data Warehousing Solutions.
About SPSS Inc.
SPSS Inc. is a multinational company that delivers reporting, analysis and modeling software products. The company's primary markets are data mining/business analysis, marketing research, scientific research and quality improvement analysis. The SPSS mission is to drive the widespread use of statistics.
Used throughout business, academia and government, the company's major products include: SPSS for in-depth analysis and modeling; NewView for multidimensional reporting; SmartViewer for electronic report distribution; SYSTAT and SigmaPlot for scientific research; QI Analyst for quality improvement and statistical process control; allCLEAR for flowcharting and process documentation; and the Quantime and In2itive products for data collection and tabulation.
In 1997, Forbes ranked SPSS No. 11 among the 200 Best Small Companies in America. SPSS ranked No. 73 in Business Week's Top 100 Growth Companies for 1997. The company also placed No. 23 on the 1997 Softletter 100, which ranks the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 93 in the 1997 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. In 1997, SPSS' pivot table technology was added to the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has offices and a network of distributors serving countries around the world. More information is available on the World Wide Web at spss.com. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.
SPSS information is available on the World Wide Web through the SPSS Press Center at spss.com
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ISL and SPSS in Partnership To Provide the Complete Enterprise Data Mining Solution
March 3, 1998 09:04 AM
KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1998--ISL Decision Systems Inc., U.S. affiliate of leading data mining product supplier Integral Solutions Limited, Basingstoke, U.K., announced today the completion of an alliance with SPSS Inc., the leading supplier of desktop business analysis and data mining software. Under the agreement, the companies will develop an interface between ISL's award winning Clementine(R) data mining product and SPSS data mining and statistics product line, SPSS for Windows(TM).
The resulting interface will provide a seamless data link between Clementine and SPSS for Windows. Clementine users will now have access to SPSS data transformations, a wider range of statistical and other data mining procedures and new graphics capabilities that are available in the newly released SPSS 8.0 for Windows. The interface will provide SPSS users with data mining process support and the ability to easily link the steps of the data mining process in the visual environment that Clementine provides.
Both SPSS and ISL are recognized leaders in data mining. According to a recent META Group report, SPSS Inc. is the market share leader in data mining with a 30% share. META has also stated that ISL's Clementine offers the best support for the data mining process.
"This partnership benefits data mining practitioners, combining the strength of ISL's data mining process support in the Clementine product, with the wide range of data preparation and statistical data mining tools in the SPSS product line," said Jack Noonan, President and CEO for SPSS. "By adopting an open and comprehensive approach to data mining we provide customers with a complete solution, combining discovery and confirmation methods with process support in a joint offering."
"We are delighted to announce this alliance with SPSS," said Alan Montgomery, ISL president and CEO. "SPSS provides the easiest and most widely used desktop statistical software. This partnership combines the recognized ease of use and data mining discovery strengths of Clementine, with the powerful analytical and graphics capabilities of SPSS. ISL is widely acknowledged as having set the standard for data mining software usability and productivity. Putting Clementine and SPSS together provides the most complete, open, and interactive data mining solution in the world, it combines the leader in the discovery process with the leader in statistical analysis and validation."
About SPSS Inc.
SPSS Inc. is a multinational company that delivers reporting, analysis and modeling software products. The company's primary markets are marketing research, business analysis/data mining, scientific research and quality improvement analysis. The SPSS mission is to drive the widespread use of statistics.
Used throughout business, academia and government, the company's major products include: SPSS for business and general applications; NewView for analytical reporting; SYSTAT, SigmaPlot and DeltaGraph for scientific research; QI Analyst for quality improvement and statistical process control; allCLEAR for process documentation and management; and the Quantime family products for market research.
SPSS ranked No. 73 in Business Week's Top 100 Growth Companies for 1997. The company also placed No. 23 on the 1997 Softletter 100, which ranks the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 93 in the 1997 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. In 1997, SPSS' pivot table technology was added to the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has offices and a network of distributors serving countries around the world. More information is available on the World Wide Web at spss.com.
About ISL Decision Systems Inc.
ISL develops data mining products that put analytical power into the hands of the people who best understand the significance of data patterns, the business users. Clementine led the way by "putting data mining into the hands of the business people who need to know the answers," says Chris Hawkins, a Clementine user at Halfords. Professional data analysts using Clementine claim a ten-fold productivity boost.
Based in King of Prussia, ISL Decision Systems Inc. is part of the ISL group which also has affiliates in the U.K. and Singapore and distributors around the world. More information is available at isl.co.uk.
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