Information Mining with the IBM Intelligent Miner Family

Information mining refers to the process of extracting previously unknown, comprehensible, and actionable information from any source including transactions, documents, e-mail, web pages, and other, and using it to make crucial business decisions. The two most pervasive types of information are structured data and text, therefore information mining includes data mining and text mining.The IBM Intelligent Miner Family that comprises the IBM Intelligent Miner for Data and the IBM Intelligent Miner for Text, provide the most advanced and comprehensive set of solutions for information mining in the industry. This document describes the information mining operations and techniques as they are implemented in the IBM Intelligent Miner Family, and highlights the applications that have proven to provide competitive advantages in many enterprises world-wide.