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Dear All,

My company is looking to purchase some form of 'data mining' software;
unfortunately however our analysts are only involved in quite low
level analysis (and spss is well outside their abilities) and are
really after a package that can graphically represent the data
relationships rather than provide statistical analysis.

The problem is that I have a lot of data in both aggregate,rollup and
cube form within both Oracle and SQL Server databases, however I need
some form of 'front end' that I can point at these data structures and
configure to allow drill-down analysis and graphically represent the
data.

The primary need of the business is to demonstrate click streams
through web-sites and although there is software out there which can
do this it is all limited to web analysis whereas I need something a
bit more generic.

Has anybody any experience of using a product which meets my need.

Regards

Gavin

Gavin,
You should take a look at a product called DeltaMiner from MIS-AG.
DeltaMiner is a hybrid OLAP front end/data mining tool.  I've seen a demo of
the product and it provides an interesting set of pre-configured analysis
and reporting tools.  As you work with your data, the software provides
suggestions for which paths to explore.  All-in-all, I was very impressed
with the product's capabilities.  I know it will connect to a SQL-Server
database and I'm pretty certain Oracle is also on their list of supported
products.

Good luck!

Quote:> Dear All,

> My company is looking to purchase some form of 'data mining' software;
> unfortunately however our analysts are only involved in quite low
> level analysis (and spss is well outside their abilities) and are
> really after a package that can graphically represent the data
> relationships rather than provide statistical analysis.

> The problem is that I have a lot of data in both aggregate,rollup and
> cube form within both Oracle and SQL Server databases, however I need
> some form of 'front end' that I can point at these data structures and
> configure to allow drill-down analysis and graphically represent the
> data.

> The primary need of the business is to demonstrate click streams
> through web-sites and although there is software out there which can
> do this it is all limited to web analysis whereas I need something a
> bit more generic.

> Has anybody any experience of using a product which meets my need.

> Regards

> Gavin

Quote:> Dear All,

> My company is looking to purchase some form of 'data mining' software;
> unfortunately however our analysts are only involved in quite low
> level analysis (and spss is well outside their abilities) and are
> really after a package that can graphically represent the data
> relationships rather than provide statistical analysis.

> The problem is that I have a lot of data in both aggregate,rollup and
> cube form within both Oracle and SQL Server databases, however I need
> some form of 'front end' that I can point at these data structures and
> configure to allow drill-down analysis and graphically represent the
> data.

> The primary need of the business is to demonstrate click streams
> through web-sites and although there is software out there which can
> do this it is all limited to web analysis whereas I need something a
> bit more generic.

> Has anybody any experience of using a product which meets my need.

Are you quite sure you actually want 'data mining' software?  It sounds more
like you just need a good OLAP front-end tool.  Data mining is something
used by mathematically inclined power users, to look for complex statistical
relationships.

Nigel Pendse
OLAP Solutions
http://www.olapreport.com