Following is a list of key analytics software sources. Each of these plays an important role in the data and analysis landscape, and each offers tools with some analytics capability. All of them are known to some extent as data-mining tools.
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About the developer: Alteryx Inc. is a privately held corporation based in the United States.
Key product: Alteryx Designer
Technical support: Available
Free product: Alteryx Project Edition
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About the developer: Angoss Software Corporation was acquired in 2013 by Peterson Partners, a private equity firm.
Key product: KnowledgeSTUDIO
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: IBM is a publicly held multinational corporation.
Key products: IBM SPSS Modeler, IBM SPSS Statistics
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: KNIME.com AG is an offshoot of the original KNIME development project of the University of Konstanz (Germany).
Key products: KNIME Desktop, KNIME Professional
Technical support: Available
Free product: KNIME Desktop
KXEN, an SAP Company
About the developer: KXEN was acquired by SAP in September 2013. KXEN continues to offer and develop its predictive analytics products.
Key products: InfiniteInsight Explorer, InfiniteInsight Modeler. (SAP also offers SAP Predictive Analysis.)
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: Megaputer is an offshoot of research projects at Moscow State University (Russia), Bauman Technical University (Russia), and Indiana University.
Key product: Megaputer PolyAnalyst
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: Oracle is a publicly held multinational corporation.
Key product: Oracle Advanced Analytics Option
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
R Foundation
About the developer: R is an open source project developed through voluntary collaboration of individuals around the world.
Key product: R
Technical support: R Foundation does not offer support agreements. R has an active user community with user groups around the world; most users participate informally in these groups for informal support.
Free product: R
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About the developer: RapidMiner is an offshoot of the YALE development project of the Dortmund University of Technology (Germany).
Key product: RapidMiner Studio
Technical support: Available
Free product: RapidMiner Studio Starter
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About the developer: Revolution Analytics is a privately held company.
Key product: Revolution R Enterprise
Technical support: Available
Free product: Revolution R Enterprise is available free to academics, students, and other researchers.
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About the developer: Salford Systems is a privately held company founded in 1983 by Dan Steinberg, who remains as president of the company today.
Key product: Salford Predictive Modeler
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: SAS Institute Inc. is a privately held multinational corporation.
Key products: SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, JMP, SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS Visual Analytics
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: Dell, a privately held multinational corporation, acquired Statsoft Inc. in 2014.
Key product: Statistica
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
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About the developer: Tableau Software is an offshoot of research conducted at Stanford University.
Key product: Tableau
Technical support: Available
Free product: Tableau Public
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About the developer: Teradata is a publicly held multinational corporation.
Key products: Teradata Warehouse Miner, Teradata Aster
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
University of Ljubljana
About the developer: The Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, develops Orange in cooperation with an open source community.
Key product: Orange
Technical Support: University of Ljubljana does not offer support agreements. The Orange user community provides informal support through an online forum.
Free product: Orange
University of Waikato
About the developer: University of Waikato is a New Zealand University.
Key products: Weka, MOA
Technical support: University of Waikato does not offer support agreements. The Weka user community provides informal support through a mailing list and online forum.
Free products: Weka, MOA
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About the developer: Wolfram Research is a privately held multinational corporation.
Key product: Mathematica
Technical support: Available
Free products: None
