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. InfoSphere Warehouse 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.

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 business, government and academic sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS Analytics provides an integrated environment for predictive and descriptive modeling, data mining, text analytics, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more. From predictive analytics to model deployment and process optimization, SAS provides a range of techniques and processes for the collection, classification, analysis and interpretation of data to reveal patterns, anomalies, key variables and relationships, ultimately leading to new insights and confident answers. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW^®.

SPSS Inc. is a leading global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions. The Company's complete portfolio of Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) products - data collection, statistics, modeling and deployment - captures people's attitudes and opinions, predicts outcomes of future customer interactions, and then acts on these insights by embedding analytics into business processes. SPSS Solutions address interconnected business objectives across an entire organization by focusing on the convergence of analytics, IT architecture and business process. Commercial, government and academic customers worldwide rely on SPSS technology as a competitive advantage in attracting, retaining and growing customers, while reducing fraud and mitigating risk. Founded in 1968, SPSS is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, please visit www.spss.com.

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management, agile data integration software and revolutionary next generation analytics. The embeddable Pervasive PSQL(tm) database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. Pervasive DataRush(tm) is an embeddable high-performance software platform for data-intensive processing applications such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. Robin Bloor, founder of Bloor Research and partner at Hurwitz and Associates recently cited Pervasive as one of the 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2009. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com.

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.

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.

KNIME, pronounced [naim], is a free modular data exploration platform that enables the user to visually create data flows (often referred to as pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later investigate the results through interactive views on data and models. KNIME was developed (and will continue to be expanded) by the Chair for Bioinformatics and Information Mining at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

The NASA Data Mining & Trending Working Group (DMTWG) was established to strengthen data/text mining and trending within and across NASA datasets, to aid in the identification and mitigation of adverse trends and to raise the awareness and capability of data/text mining within the agency. This is accomplished in various ways, including understanding and communicating issues and proposed improvements associated with state-of-the-agency data mining/trending, developing appropriate strategies, approaches, and methodologies to minimize technical risk, and performing data mining activities as requested and/or defined.

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

Open Data provides management consulting, outsourced analytic services, and analytic staffing so that companies and organizations can analyze data and build analytic models that increase revenues, decrease costs, reduce risk, and improve business operations.

Rapid-I provides software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. The open-source data mining specialist Rapid-I enables companies to use leading-edge technologies for data mining and business intelligence. The main product of Rapid-I, the data analysis solution RapidMiner is currently the world-leading open-source system for data mining. It is available as a stand-alone application for data analysis and as a data mining engine which can be integrated into own products. By now, thousands of applications of RapidMiner in more than 40 countries give their users a competitive edge.

Togaware provides open source solutions for data mining and general computing. Togaware maintains and develops Rattle, the open source data mining application built on top of the extensive capabilities of the open source R statistical language. It also maintains the PMML package for R. Rattle both produces and consumes PMML. Models expressed as PMML can be exported as C code for standalone deployment. Rattle is used world wide for teaching data mining, and there is an international community of independent consultants, data miners, and academics using Rattle.

Angoss is a global leader in delivering predictive analytics to businesses looking to improve performance across sales, marketing and risk. With a suite of desktop, client-server and in-database software products and Software-as-a-Service solutions, Angoss delivers powerful approaches to turn information into actionable business decisions and competitive advantage. Angoss software products and solutions are user-friendly and agile, making predictive analytics accessible and easy to use. For more information on Angoss Software Corporation, please visit www.angoss.com

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TIBCO Software provides enterprise infrastructure software that enables real-time awareness, understanding and action. From a DMG perspective, this includes high performance statistics and analytics under the TIBCO Spotfire Business Intelligence product line, incorporating S+ and Miner from Insightful, and consuming the data and event mining in operational intelligence tools like TIBCO Business Events for complex event processing and rule execution, and TIBCO iProcess and ActiveMatrix BPM and SOA products.

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.