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Improve enterprise data mining productivity with Clementine® 9.0
How do you improve the leading data mining workbench? Clementine, developed to help organizations meet business goals through data mining, now offers enhanced in-database modeling and scoring, an even wider range of analytical techniques, and a new model storage module. Improve data mining productivity by building and scoring models directly in IBM® DB2® Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition or Oracle® Database 10g.
Plus, gain greater control of model outcomes using three new modeling algorithms--CHAID, Exhaustive CHAID, and Quest--that enable you to interactively build and split decision trees.
In addition, the new SPSS Model Manager™ module enables you to store and access models, streams, and more in a central repository.
See what’s new in Clementine 9.0.
Yamaha accelerates product development with SPSS Web survey tools
As an alternative to costly, time-consuming product development focus groups, Yamaha Motor Europe developed the Yamaha Design Café, an online portal for sports bike enthusiasts. The Design Café includes links to surveys, designed and fielded with mrInterview™ from SPSS Inc., that give the company valuable information about its core customers. As a result, Yamaha has improved the speed and effectiveness of its new product evaluation process, and kept existing products competitive by using customer feedback to refine its designs. Yamaha also uses mrInterview for internal research with its dealers, to improve bike delivery and other processes.
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Chelsea Building Society improves retention with Clementine
The Chelsea Building Society, a member-owned provider of mortgages and other banking products in the United Kingdom, needed an effective method for retaining its mortgage customers. Using the predictive analytics capabilities of Clementine, the society developed a borrower-retention model that enabled it to increase retention by 147 percent—and pay for its initial investment—in just one year. The society is now considering expanding the project to areas such as retail savings.
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SPSS helps students achieve Six Sigma Black Belt certification
A new course at the University of Colorado uses SPSS® for Windows to help its students achieve Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
The Six Sigma approach, which aims to reduce quality failures to fewer than 3.4 per million, originated at Motorola and is used at companies such as General Electric and Ford.
The students use SPSS’ advanced statistical analysis capabilities within a problem-solving methodology to identify solutions to difficult and costly problems. The university offers the course in conjunction with the ROI Alliance and the Boulder, Colorado, chapter of the American Society for Quality.
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