Software

Information Discovery's High End Data Mining Software
Puts Leading Car Manufacturer on the Fast Track
to Large Scale Automatic Discovery

Information Discovery's unique PatternWarehouse(TM)
and SUN's high performance UltraSPARC System now empower
DaimlerChrysler, the world's leading international car company,
to fine tune its warranty and quality strategies.

Information Discovery's unique ability to MINE THE WORLDS
LARGEST DATABASES was affirmed by having the only system
capable of automatically distilling high quality patterns
from a huge volume of mostly non-numeric data.

DaimlerChrysler manufactures millions of cars, trucks and minivans
each year. With such a wide range of models offered, each with
distinct characteristics and usage patterns, a huge amount of data
is produced in terms of warranty claims. The analysis of this very
large and complex data set is practically impossible without
automated discovery.

Information Discovery's unique and highly scalable
PatternWarehouse technology combined with a high performance 10
processor SUN UltraSPARC system power one of the largest pattern
discovery systems in the industry, incrementally distilling
patterns from terabytes of warranty data.

Information Discovery's scalable discovery system mines and analyzes
DaimlerChrysler's data finding patterns by itself. These
refined patterns are incrementally combined and stored in  Quality
& Reliability Pattern Warehouse, enabling users to access the
refined patterns, not the data. Using Information Discovery's
Pattern Query Language and leveraging Sun's UltraSPARC platform
and Internet technologies this information is available to users
at large from within any web-browser.

The system has a four tiered architecture consisting of a data
warehouse, a discovery engine, a pattern server and end user thin
clients. The data warehouse stores terabytes of warranty data.
The UltraSPARC server acts as a powerful discovery engine, running
Information Discovery's unique data mining algorithms. The patterns
discovered by data mining are then transferred to NT pattern servers
for user access. All user access is browser based and requires no
training.

Discovery is performed directly on the SQL database without
sampling or data extraction. This is essential because there
are thousands of possible repairs that may be performed on
hundreds of vehicle models.  The combination of models and
repair operations makes any sample non representative of
the real database.

The Pattern Warehouse automatically identifies the unusual data
densities that may be caused by specific weather conditions or
those that are the tell-tale signs of process variations within
manufacturing and assembly operations. This helps quality engineers
to quickly zoom in on the problem sources.

As new vehicle models are introduced, the Information Discovery
Pattern Warehouse continuously improves product quality by
automatically identifying the key factors that give rise to claims
under a variety of conditions, thus helping to improve reliability
and increase customer satisfaction.

For more information on SUN please visit http://www.sun.com.

For more information on Information Discovery, Inc.'s products and
services please call (310) 937-3600 or visit www.datamining.com or
www.patternwarehouse.com.