KXEN Inc.
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| Developer(s) | KXEN Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.1 / May 2009 |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, Unix |
| Type | Predictive analytics |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.kxen.com |
| subsidiary | |
| Industry | software |
| Parent | SAP AG |
KXEN was an American software company founded in June 1998 by Roger Haddad and Michel Bera, based on an original idea from Léon Bottou using Dr. Vladimir Vapnik's SRM theory. Erik Marcadé joined as CTO in 1999.[1] It was based in San Francisco, California with major offices in Paris and London. On September 10, 2013 SAP and KXEN announced plans for SAP to acquire KXEN.[2][3] On October 1, 2013, the President of SAP's Platform Solutions Group, Steve Lucas, and KXEN's CEO, John Ball, announced in a letter to KXEN customers that SAP successfully closed the acquisition of KXEN.[4]
KXEN primarily manufactured predictive analytics software.[5]
Predictive Analytics
InfiniteInsight is a predictive modeling suite developed by KXEN that assists analytic professionals, and business executives to extract information from data. Among other functions, InfiniteInsight is used for variable importance, classification, regression, segmentation, time series, product recommendation, as described and expressed by the JDM API group, and a social network analysis solution. InfiniteInsight has been designed to allow the prediction of a behavior or a value, the forecast of a time series or the understanding of a group of individuals with similar behavior. Advanced functions include behavioral modeling, exporting the model code into different target environments or building predictive models on top of SAS or SPSS data files. Notable competitors are SAS Enterprise Miner, IBM SPSS Modeler, and STATISTICA. Open source predictive tools like the R package or Weka are also notable competitors, since they provide similar features free of charge.
See also
- The Java Data Mining community
- Data mining
- Predictive analytics
- Social network analysis
- About the importance of robustness in modeling
- Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, the Basis.
- Supervised learning
References
- ↑ CrunchBase KXEN. October 14, 2013
- ↑ "SAP Extends the Power of Predictive Analytics to Unlock Big Data With Acquisition of KXEN". September 10, 2013
- ↑ Chris Kanaracus, September 10, 2013, PC World. "SAP buying KXEN for predictive analytics".
- ↑ Acquires KXEN, Inc. - A Letter to Our Customers. October 1, 2013
- ↑ Garner, Rochelle (October 7, 2005). "KXEN: Predictive Analytics Made Easy". CRN. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
External links
- KXEN Web site www.kxen.com