SYBASE AND SPSS announced a reseller agreement Tuesday designed to extend Sybase's end-to-end business intelligence offering
by folding in SPSS' data mining workbench.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sybase will resell SPSS' Clementine data mining workbench as part of its foundation for
customer-focused analytical solutions, according to company officials.
With the addition of Clementine to Sybase's enterprise analytics infrastructure, Sybase customers will be able to evolve
their BI (business intelligence) capabilities by mining data from their operations, said Mark Battaglia, president of the
SPSS business intelligence division. Clementine will help provide Sybase customers with insight into their business problems
to allow them to identify new opportunities, he added.
Clementine, which was developed specifically for business users, is designed to discover the meaningful patterns and relationships
in data and create new, predictive information that can be used to make better decisions.
Sybase's BI software is designed to supply the foundation for enterprise analytics through its Industry Warehouse Studio
and Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex product lines. Sybase has also forged partnerships with Informatica for data acquisition
functionality and Business Objects and MicroStrategy for visualization for its end-to-end solution.