Angoss Software Corp., Toronto, CAN

Angoss is a well-respected data mining application developer. The world's most successful enterprises use ANGOSS data mining solutions to make better business decisions every day. ANGOSS is best known as the developer of KnowledgeSTUDIO^TM and KnowledgeSEEKER^TM, leading data mining software applications, and recently released to beta distribution KnowledgeExcelerator^TM and KnowledgeAccess^TM, data mining add-ins for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access.

Fair Isaac Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Fair Isaac Corporation is the leading provider of decision management solutions powered by advanced analytics. Fair Isaac solutions make mission critical business decisions that are more precise, consistent and agile. Thousands of companies in more than 60 countries use Fair Isaac technology to acquire customers more efficiently, increase customer value and retention, reduce fraud and credit losses, lower operating costs and enter new markets more profitably.

IBM Corp., Somers, NY

IBM Corp. is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM software offers the widest range of applications, middleware and operating systems for all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data brings IBM's core data-mining technology to a broader range of users, helping them uncover intelligence from large amounts of enterprise data, including information from transaction and e-commerce applications.

Insightful Corp., Seattle, WA

Insightful provides enterprises with scalable data analysis solutions that drive better decisions faster by revealing patterns, trends and relationships. We are dedicated to helping our clients understand reality and anticipate the future, using advanced analytical software and predictive modeling expertise.

KXEN, San Francisco, CA

KXEN (Knowledge Extraction Engines) is a global analytic software company that provides advanced analytics to be embedded in existing enterprise applications and business processes. KXEN makes cutting-edge data mining technology available to both business decision makers and data mining professionals.

Magnify, Inc., Chicago, IL

Magnify provides highly-accurate predictive modeling solutions for companies in the financial services, insurance and e-commerce industries. The company's comprehensive software suite instantaneously implements predictive modeling solutions within a client's existing data infrastructure, helping to improve performance and profitability faster than traditional methods. The privately-held, venture-backed company is headquartered in Chicago.

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft joined DMG in 2000.

MicroStrategy Inc., McLean, VA

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy's industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. Through its integration of PMML, MicroStrategy delivers predictive analytics to the masses by offering exceptional capabilities for the development and deployment of predictive models -- excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. The MicroStrategy BI Platform allows data mining analytics to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of predictive business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MINEit Software Ltd., Bracknell, UK

MINEit Software is an industy-leading provider of digital analytical solutions that interpret customer behavior patterns across multiple channels. Managing the customer conversation in the right context increases operation efficiencies, promotes contextual marketing application and ultimately encourages loyalty from the customer.

National Center for Data Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

NCDM is a national resource for research, knowledge transfer and standards development in data mining and data intensive computing.

NCR Corp., Dayton, OH

NCR is a recognized world leader in data warehousing solutions. Helping businesses gain new insights, NCR's Teradata provides industry-leading performance, unlimited scalability from 10 gigabytes to more than 100 terabytes and the lowest administration requirements of any database on the market.

Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA

Oracle is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the second largest independent software supplier. With annual revenues of more than $10 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world. Oracle Data Mining, an option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, enables companies to extract information and build integrated business intelligence applications. Data analysts can find patterns and insights hidden in their data. Application developers can quickly automate the extraction and distribution of new business intelligence predictions, patterns and discoveries throughout the organization. Oracle Data Mining supports functionality into the Oracle Database 10g for the following data mining problems: classification, prediction, regression, clustering, associations, attribute importance, feature extraction and sequence similarity searches and analysis (BLAST). All model-building, scoring, and metadata management operations are accessed via the Oracle Data Mining Client and either a PL/SQL or Java-based API and occur entirely within the relational database.

Prudsys AG, Chemnitz, Germany

Prudsys is a German data mining company founded in 1998. It provides data mining services and software solutions for retail, finance, and utility industries. Prudsys is focused on standardized and higly distributed mining systems.

Quadstone, Boston, MA

What Quadstone does is very simple. We've created software that can predict your customer's behavior. Whether you're in the banking, brokerage, insurance, retail, or telecommunications industries, we give you the ability to use past customer history as a tool to understand, predict, and influence their future behavior. In the end, that means you'll run a far more profitable marketing, sales and customer service effort.

SAP, Walldorf, Germany

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company, and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. SAP employs over 28,909 people in more than 50 countries. Our professionals are dedicated to providing high-level customer support and services.

SAS, Inc., Cary, NC

Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, SAS Institute is the largest privately held software company in the world. At SAS, our mission is to deliver superior software and services that give people the power to make the right decisions. We want to be the most valued competitive weapon in business decision making. SAS is the world leader in business-intelligence software and services, enabling customers to turn raw data into usable knowledge.

Salford Systems, San Diego, MA

Founded in 1983, Salford Systems specializes in providing new-generation data-mining and choice-modeling software and consultation services. Applications in both software and consulting span market research segmentation, direct marketing, fraud detection, credit scoring, risk management, bio-medical research and manufacturing quality control. Industries using Salford Systems products and consultation services include telecommunications, transportation, banking, financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and catalog sales, and education. Salford Systems software is installed at more than 3,500 sites worldwide, including 300 major Universities.

SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL

SPSS has become a leader in predictive analytics technologies through a combination of commitment to innovation and dedication to customers. Throughout our history, we have produced predictive analytics software that enables our customers - corporations, academic institutions, healthcare providers, and government agencies - to better focus their operations.

SPSS customers combine predictive analysis with their own organizational business knowledge to gain critical insights into customer acquisition and retention, up-selling and cross-selling, fraud detection, and patient outcome improvement.

StatSoft Inc, Tulsa, OK

StatSoft, Inc., founded in 1984, is one of the largest producers of enterprise and desktop software (STATISTICA) for Data Analysis, Data Mining, Quality Control/Six Sigma, and Web-based Analytics. Its products are used worldwide at most major universities, corporations, and government agencies and are supported with training and consulting services by a worldwide network of StatSoft offices in 24 countries on all continents. STATISTICA is based on the .NET compatible architecture and high-end technologies (such as multithreading and support for distributed processing for large enterprise installations) usually not found in such vertical market applications as data analysis software.

Xchange, Inc., Boston, MA

XChange data mining product Xchange 7^TM is unmatched in the marketplace, consistenly maximizing ROI in relatively short timeframes. Xchange 7 includes: Xchange Dialogue^TM (containing Xchange Analytics^TM, Xchange Campaign^TM, Xchange eMessaging^TM, Xchange EnAct^TM) and Xchange Real Time^TM. These award-winning components (used alone or in combination) make a comprehensive solution that creates more profit from your customer relationships.

Zementis Inc., San Diego, CA

Zementis, Inc. is committed to empower the industry with leading decision technology and advanced predictive analytics. We employ our scalable ADAPA decision engine platform to deliver industry-specific solutions which require an enterprise-wide approach to orchestrate business processes in real-time. Focused on business value, Zementis provides predictive analytics expertise and software solutions which help our clients leverage the true power of predictive models.