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ALSO CALLED: Datamining, Analytics, Data Dredging, Database Analytics, Datamine, and Data-mining DEFINITION: Data mining is sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Data mining parameters include:Association - looking for patterns where one event is connected to another event Sequence or path analysis - looking for patterns where one event leads to another later event Classification - looking for new patterns (May result in a change in the way the data is organized but that's … Definition continues below.
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Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| ETL (Software)

Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Classification \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Management

Email Archiving: Cut Costs, Improve Productivity, and Mitigate Risk sponsored by Mirapoint Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Mirapoint's RazorSafe™ email archiving appliance addresses e-discovery, email server management, end-user productivity, business mining, and compliance/audit challenges in an all-in-one solution. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Data Mining \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Email Management \| Email Server Software \| Indexing (Information Management) \| Messaging Security

Email Archiving: Do More with Less – Cut Costs and Improve Productivity sponsored by Mirapoint Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how Mirapoint's RazorSafe™ email archiving appliance addresses email server management, end-user productivity, business mining, e-discovery, and audit challenges in an all-in-one solution. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Mining \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Email Management \| Email Server Software \| Messaging Security

The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration – How to Get it Right the First Time sponsored by Siperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The initial goal of Customer Data Integration (CDI) was to create the most reliable customer data for the entire company. We now know that the golden opportunity for CDI lies within Master Data Management and the ability to uncover interactions and understand the relationships that companies have with their customers. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Interaction Services \| Data Classification \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Master Data Management

From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy- to- use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company. Posted: 04 Jun 2009 \| Published: 04 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Synchronization \| Middleware \| Oracle (Product)

StorExpress: Integrating Solid State Storage in a PCI Express Clustering Interconnect sponsored by Fusion-IO WHITE PAPER: Direct PCI Express (PCIe) attached flash storage offers unparalleled performance levels and vastly outperforms SAS/SATA-attached flash storage solutions. However, such PCIe attached flash storage cards have many restrictions. Read this white paper to learn about an enhanced PCIe flash storage solution from Dolphin, in partnership with Fusion-IO. Posted: 12 May 2009 \| Published: 12 May 2009 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouses \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management

IDC Technology Spotlight: Everyone's a Genius: SaaS-Delivered Business Intelligence Tools Put Decision Making in the Hands of Decision Makers sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects WHITE PAPER: Inexpensive, easy-to-deploy SaaS BI can help companies put easy-to-use data mining and reporting tools for smart decision making into the hands of more employees and uncover the real “geniuses” of decision making hidden in every department. Posted: 10 May 2009 \| Published: 10 May 2009 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Query Tools \| Reporting Software \| Software as a Service

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive Analytics sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 20 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Service \| Data Mining \| Databases \| Instant Messaging \| Marketing

The Five Keys to Organic Growth: How to Drive Profitable Relationships with Predictive Analytics sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters WHITE PAPER: This paper makes the case for using predictive analytics to drive organic growth, and gives two different methods for measuring financial return. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 20 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| CRM \| Data Mining \| Marketing \| Risk Management \| ROI

Hard Hat Area: Myths and Pitfalls of Data Mining sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters WHITE PAPER: The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte." Myths and misconceptions create their own risks and need to be debunked. This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and provides some protective "hard hats" for data miners. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 20 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Process Management \| Collaboration \| Customer Interaction Services \| Data Mining \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 19 Sep 2008 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Data Management Software \| Customer Service \| Customer Support Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Enterprise

Improve Your Vision and Grow your Career with Visual Analysis sponsored by Tableau Software WHITE PAPER: Understand your data on a whole new level with visual analytics. Learn techniques and software that will help you interact with, visualize and navigate your data. Posted: 20 Feb 2008 \| Published: 20 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Data Visualization \| Data Visualization Software \| Graphics Displays \| Market Trends \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

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DATA MINING DEFINITION (continued): … Data mining is sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Data mining parameters include:Association - looking for patterns where one event is connected to another event Sequence or path analysis - looking for patterns where one event leads to another later event Classification - looking for new patterns (May result in a change in the way the data is organized but that's ok)Clustering - finding and visually documenting groups of facts not previously knownForecasting - discovering patterns in data that can lead to reasonable predictions about the future (This area of data mining is known as predictive analytics.)Data mining techniques are used in a many research areas, including mathematics, cybernetics, genetics and marketing. Web mining, a type of data mining used in customer relationship management (CRM), takes advantage of the huge amount of information gathered by a Web site to look for patterns in user behavior.
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