The company has been on the radars of many data miners since late last summer when it lured one of the industry's best developers, Ronny Kohavi, from Silicon Graphics. The product incorporates Datasage's data mining engine with third-party OLAP and relational database technology. Healthcare META Group's Healthcare Information Technology Strategies service recently released a report on the health of IT systems in U.S. hospitals. The consultancy created a six-stage evaluation system that outlines what it sees as a mandatory evolution in IT capability. At the top of the food chain is the capability to perform clinical outcomes and disease management.
Data mining is a critical enabler of both applications, according to the report's lead author.
Volume 2, No. In the increasingly competitive financial environment in which it operates, sophisticated modeling is seen as a decisive competitive advantage. The company's philosophy is pragmatic. By keeping entire data warehousing and decision support infrastructure plug and play, a tool is only as good as the last model it produces. When It Looks in the Mirror SAS Institute Inc. has come a long way since 1976, when it launched its first product, an analytical tool for studying agricultural data on IBM mainframes at North Carolina State University.