#COUGARBYTE FRONTLINE SOLVER XLMINER UPGRADE#
Given XLMiner’s growth, we decided in early 2013 to invest in a major technology upgrade of the underlying software.
#COUGARBYTE FRONTLINE SOLVER XLMINER SOFTWARE#
We estimate that about half of all enrolled MBA students used this software in 2013 alone.Ĭompletely Rewritten Algorithms and User Interface In January 2013, we released Analytic Solver Platform, a deep integration of XLMiner with its very popular Risk Solver Platform software, yielding a comprehensive toolkit for advanced analytics.Īnalytic Solver Platform for Education, a special version with problem size limits suitable for teaching, has become the most popular software used to teach analytics in MBA education. In September 2012, we released a much-improved XLMiner version that featured new data visualization capabilities and integration with Microsoft’s Power Pivot add-in for Excel, extending XLMiner’s data-handling capabilities. In August 2011, Frontline Systems acquired rights to XLMiner and took over development, marketing and support of the software. XLMiner inspired a very popular textbook Data Mining for Business Intelligence, by Professor Galit Shmueli, Nitin Patel of Cytel and Peter Bruce of, published by John Wiley. They've both been friends of ours for a number of years. It was marketed by, a Virginia based firm whose primary business is offering online educational courses in statistics and data science. XLMiner was originally developed more than ten years ago, to bring data mining to a broad audience, by Cytel Software, a Massachusetts based firm whose primary business is advanced statistical software for pharmaceutical clinical trials.
Ten Years of Use in Teaching and Learning Analytics XLMiner Platform is completely new from a software technology perspective, but it is faithful to the design of "traditional" XLMiner (and we'll extend its user interface from there). If you Google "XLMiner" you'll find that it was the first-ever serious data mining tool for Excel, and that it's been around for a long time. We're pleased to introduce Version 2014-R2 of Frontline Solvers for Excel, including our new XLMiner Platform, a completely rewritten and far more powerful data mining tool.