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ALSO CALLED: Datamining, Analytics, Data Dredging, Database Analytics, Datamine, 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  … 
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Information Security Essential Guide to SIMs
sponsored by Information Security Magazine
EGUIDE: Security information management systems can now be used for proactive risk management and business intelligence. This Essentials Guide explains how this can be achieved. Read on to find articles that cover topics like today's SIM trends, incident response, threat management, and data analysis.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009


E-discovery Tutorial: E-discovery requests have growing impact on data storage
sponsored by FTI Technology
EGUIDE: The goal of this tutorial is to focus on the key issues involved in developing an e-discovery capability and to help organizations plan to become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process.
Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009


Video Whitepaper: The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEO: This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009


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


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


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


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


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


Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WEBCAST: This webcast discusses how you can accelerate your data analysis, reporting and business intelligence (BI) applications with the help of a column-based analytics server.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 11 Sep 2009


30% faster performance seen at CareerBuilder using Dell PowerEdge servers and Microsoft SQL Server
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
CASE STUDY: In this case study learn how Dell and Microsoft partnered to provide a new business intelligence solution based on Microsoft® SQL Server®, Microsoft business intelligence software, Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, and a Dell/EMC storage system.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009


Do You Have the Best Analytics Engine for the Money?
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
PRESENTATION: This paper compares the total cost of ownership (TCO) of both systems, and compares all the features of both systems to find out which one comes out on top. Read this paper to learn how Sybase IQ is considered to be a smarter way to deliver high-performance enterprise analytics without blowing your budget.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009


Sybase IQ 15: An InDetail Paper by Bloor Research
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Bloor Research determined that Sybase 15 will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytics, reporting, and data warehousing environments.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009


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


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


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


SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys™ 3.0 - Specifications
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
BROCHURE: Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009


Annual Fund Growth When You Need it Most
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
WEBCAST: Join William Jewell College and SPSS Inc. to learn how you can be incorporating data mining into your annual fund operations and focusing your limited resources on those most likely to give. This presentation is designed to give you a roadmap for getting started with data mining.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Premiered: 05 May 2009


The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
WEBCAST: Are spreadsheets a help or a hindrance when performing data analysis? Get the real story from the author of SPSS for Dummies, Arthur Griffith. In this informative and entertaining webcast, you'll receive expert guidance on the proper uses and limitations of spreadsheets, as well as the strengths and benefits of SPSS Statistics.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Premiered: 05 May 2009


Expand Your Reach: Mastering Multi-Modal Survey Research
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
WEBCAST: Whether it's in your call center, on the Web, or in-person, effective survey research requires proven practices that reach across the board. In this webcast, you learn how to cut the costs and improve the performance of your survey research efforts - regardless of where you reach your respondents or what language they speak.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Premiered: 04 May 2009


A Smarter Start: Preparing Data with SPSS Statistics Base
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
WEBCAST: Before you can analyze your data, you must prepare it for analysis. SPSS Statistics Base offers an array of techniques and features to help users validate data in order to ensure complete, effective, and accurate analysis. This webinar will show you some of these techniques so you can be certain you are getting the best information from your data.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Premiered: 04 May 2009


Coinstar Selects the Most Profitable Machine Locations
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
CASE STUDY: Coinstar, a coin conversion company, needed to identify new and profitable locations for their coin conversion machines. They turned to SPSS Inc.'s data integration and analysis capabilities with various demographic and geography-based variables. Read this case study for more details.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Published: 04 May 2009


Publisher Targets Most Profitable Subscribers with SPSS
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
CASE STUDY: To improve the profitability of its subscriptions and increase the value it provides to its advertisers, The Miami Herald Publishing Company used PASW Statistics to find and target new subscribers likely to be stable, profitable customers. Read this case study for more.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Published: 04 May 2009


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


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


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

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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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