KXEN was an American

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which existed from 1998 to 2013 when it was acquired by

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History

KXEN was founded in June 1998 by Roger Haddad and Michel Bera. It was based in

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with offices in

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and

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. On September 10, 2013, SAP AG announced plans to acquire KXEN. On October 1, 2013, a letter to KXEN customers announced the acquisition closed. KXEN primarily marketed

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software.

Predictive analytics

InfiniteInsight is a

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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,

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, regression, segmentation,

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, product recommendation, as described and expressed by the

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interface, and for

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. InfiniteInsight allows 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

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data files. Competitors are SAS Enterprise Miner, IBM SPSS Modeler, and

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. Open source predictive tools like the

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are also competitors, since they provide similar features free of charge.

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* {{Official website, kxen.com Business software Data mining and machine learning software Companies based in San Francisco Software companies based in California Software companies established in 1998 SAP SE acquisitions 2013 mergers and acquisitions Defunct software companies of the United States

History

Predictive analytics

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