Early versions of the software were called Clementine and were Unix-based. The first version was released on Jun 9th 1994, after Beta testing at 6 customer sites. Clementine was originally developed by a UK company named Integral Solutions Limited (ISL), in Collaboration with
artificial intelligence researchers at the
University of Sussex. The original Clementine was implemented in
Poplog, which ISL marketed for that University. Clementine mainly used the Poplog languages,
Pop-11, with some parts written in
C for speed (such as the neural network engine), along with additional tools provided as part of
Solaris,
VMS and various versions of
Unix. The tool quickly garnered the attention of the data mining community (at that time in its infancy). In order to reach a larger market, ISL then Ported Poplog to
Microsoft Windows using the NutCracker package, later named
MKS Toolkit to provide the Unix graphical facilities. Original in many respects, Clementine was the first data mining tool to use an icon based
graphical user interface rather than requiring users to write in a
programming language, though that option remained available for expert users. In 1998 ISL was acquired by
SPSS Inc., who saw the potential for extended development as a commercial data mining tool. In early 2000, the software was developed into a
client–server model architecture, and shortly afterward, the client front-end interface component was rewritten fully and replaced with a new
Java front-end, which allowed deeper integration with the other tools provided by SPSS. SPSS Clementine version 7.0: The client front-end runs under Windows. The server back-end
Unix variants (
SunOS,
HP-UX,
AIX),
Linux, and
Windows. The
graphical user interface is written in Java. IBM SPSS Modeler 14.0 was the first release of Modeler by IBM. IBM SPSS Modeler 15, released in June 2012, introduced significant new functions for
social network analysis and
entity analytics. ==See also==