Press Releases from Rapid-I (18 total)
Rapid-I at real-IT-y 2010
Germany, Dortmund, 17 May 2010 --“real-IT-y” is a job fair organized by the Technical University of Dortmund for students and graduates of the IT faculty. The young professionals visiting the fair get insights into the working environment of the presenting companies. The fair is organized by the Alumni of the University in collaboration with the IT faculty and aims at giving orientation in the job market as well as connecting…
Rapid-I launches extensions for RapidMiner 5.0 and RapidAnalytics
Dortmund, 10th May 2010 - Rapid-I, a leading provider of open source solutions for predictive analytics, data mining and text mining, is releasing three extensions for its solutions RapidMiner and RapidAnalytics. The extensions optimise the exchange of data mining results with other applications via PMML and support connection with the web as a source of data. Following the Wikipedia idea, the transfer of user-generated content (UGC) into the world of…
Rapid-I revolutionises business intelligence processes with RapidMiner 5.0
Germany, Dortmund, 30. April 2010 - Rapid-I, a leading provider of open source solutions for predictive analytics, data mining and text mining, is launching RapidMiner 5.0: The new version allows enterprises to map and manage the entire business intelligence process chain from analytical ETL, data mining and predictive reporting with a single solution. The fully revised user interface offers a significantly simplified operation, meaning that even newcomers to analysis can…
Rapid-I CEO Dr. Ingo Mierswa nominated for dissertation award
Germany, Dortmund, 30.04.2010 -- Dr. Ingo Mierswa, a computer scientist from Dortmund, was put forward by the Dortmund University of Technology for the 2009 dissertation award. With this award, the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society), Swiss Informatics Society (SI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the German Chapter of the ACM (GChACM) honour outstanding work in computer science. The prize of 5000 euro is awarded once a year…
Rapid-I is now Observing Member of the Data Mining Group (DMG): PMML Support Pla …
Germany, Dortmund 2009-10-06 -- The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor led consortium that develops data mining standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML). PMML is the leading standard for statistical and data mining models and supported by over 20 vendors and organizations.
Rapid-I now is observing member of the Data Mining Group beside companies like IBM, MicroStrategy, SPSS, and SAS. Those and several other companies…
Rapid-I supports first Open Source Golf Masters
Dortmund, Germany, 17.09.2009 --- You would most likely associate golf with adults - and the open source industry too has grown up. The American database manufacturer Ingres was therefore well aware when it chose a golf tournament with the aim of bringing decision-makers and senior management from IT and business together in a relaxed atmosphere near the Main metropolis of Frankfurt. The managing director of Ingres Germany, Bertram Mandel, said…
Restructuring at Open Source Data Mining Spezialist Rapid-I
Dortmund, Germany, 17.09.2009. --- Rapid-I, the world-wide leading vendor of open source data mining solutions and service provider, restructured his management level. As a result, the founders and former directors Dr. Ingo Mierswa and Ralf Klinkenberg now better split their different fields of responsibility. Dr. Ingo Mierswa was appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and is now mainly responsible for the operational processes of Rapid-I. Ralf Klinkenberg…
Rapid-I releases new version of the leading Open Source Data Mining, ETL, and BI …
Dortmund, Germany, 22.07.2009. --- Since the release of RapidMiner 4.4 in March, Rapid-I again invested a lot of effort into further improving RapidMiner to better meet the growing demand of data analysis, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), and BI (Business Intelligence). A lot of exciting new features found their way into the latest release of RapidMiner and can now be downloaded free of charge at rapid-i.com.
In version 4.5, you will…
KDnuggets Poll: RapidMiner again the Number 1 Open Source Data Mining Tool
Dortmund, Germany, July 15th, 2009. -- KDnuggets.com is the leading web portal for information on data mining and knowledge discovery and KDnuggets News has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on data mining and knowledge discovery reaching more than 11,000 professionals (subscribers) twice a month. Once each year, KDnuggets asks its readers “What data mining tools have you used for a real project (not just for…
Rapid-I the only data mining provider at CeBIT 2009
Dortmund, Germany, 24 March 2009. ---- Many visitors could hardly believe it: the big data mining and predictive analytics companies like SAS and SPSS skipped this year's CeBIT. As a consequence, Rapid-I was the only data mining solutions and services company presenting itself with an own stand at the world’s largest information technology fare, which is considered the No.1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends, and innovations. And…
Rapid-I releases new version of the leading Open Source Data Mining, ETL, and BI …
Dortmund, Germany, 17 March 2009. --- Since the release of RapidMiner 4.3 in November 2008, Rapid-I again invested a lot of effort into further improving RapidMiner to better meet the growing demand of data analysis, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), and BI (Business Intelligence). The result, RapidMiner 4.4, can now be downloaded free of charge at www.rapid-i.com and offers improved usability, 35 new operators, more than 30 bug…
Winner of the Open Source Business Award 2008 - Rapid-I - also in 2009 participa …
Dortmund, Germany, January 22nd, 2009 -- At the Open Source Meets Business (OSMB) congress from January 27th to 29th, 2009, in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) in Germany, the winner of the Open Source Business Award 2008, Rapid-I, will again contribute. On Tuesday, January 27th, 2009, 16:00h (4 PM), Rapid-I co-founder and CEO Ralf Klinkenberg gives a talk entitled „RapidMiner – Open Source Data Mining Delivering Predictions“ and presents…
Rapid-I presents Product Premieres at CeBIT 2009
Dortmund, Germany, January 20th, 2009. -- CeBIT is the No.1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends, and innovations and inspires and energizes the international ICT industry. Rapid-I will present the world-leading open-source data mining software RapidMiner, the data mining and business intelligence services of Rapid-I, and further products and solutions from March 3 to March 8, 2009 in Hall 4, Stand No. A69 at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover,…
RapidMiner 4.3 extends functionality and speeds up data analysis processes
Dortmund, Germany, December 8th, 2008. -- With more than 500 basic process building blocks (operators) for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) from all kinds of data sources, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, text and web mining, time series analysis and forecasting, predictive analytics, business intelligence (BI), and reporting, the open source software RapidMiner is one of the most comprehensive solutions for a wide range of data…
Data Mining Solution RapidMiner Gains Ground in Commercial Predictive Analytics …
Boston, MA, USA / Dortmund, Germany, September 23rd, 2008. -- The US-based data mining consultancy Rexer Analytics performed its second “Annual Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey” in 2008 and had several hundred data miners from 44 countries answer their detailed questionnaire. When asked for their primary data mining software, most data mining professionals stated that they most frequently used products by the market leaders SPSS and SAS…
RapidMiner finds out “new detergent stinks”
Dortmund, Germany, September 1st, 2008. -- A leading detergent producer wanted to know, what consumers think about one of its newly launched products. Instead of starting a time-consuming and expensive study with the help of a traditional market research company, the producer placed an order with Rapid-I, an expert for web mining and automated online market research, in order to gain an affordable and highly up-to-date market…
First US Training Courses for Leading Open-Source Data Mining Solution RapidMine …
Dortmund Germany August 21.2008 -- Open-source software is nowadays widely used and turns out to be a reliable and often more powerful alternative to closed source-software. This is especially true in the case of software for data mining, predictive data analysis, and business intelligence (BI). Open-source based solutions in this field provide powerful functionality for a price much less than that for proprietary alternatives. As a consequence, freely available data…
Ovum analysis: Rapid-I pushes open source data mining forward
Dortmund, Germany / London, UK -- July 28th, 2008. -- Ovum has a market leading position among the research companies in the information, communication and telecom sector. When researching the open source business intelligence market, they identified RapidMiner as a leading open source data mining solutions ( www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=7137 ). Ovum analyst Laurent Lachal compares RapidMiner to its proprietary counterparts SAS and SPSS and writes: “RapidMiner…
