146 Mining Your Own Business in Telecoms Using DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data
8.1 What benefits does IM for Data offer?
The IBM mining products offer a full range of data mining techniques and
capabilities that can be used to address a wide range of business problems. The
techniques included support the identification of unknown patterns and trends
within your stored data. If you use DB2 as your database, then IM for Data is the
only mining product that is fully integrated with the DB2 database. If you do not
use DB2, then you can still use IM for Data through the Relational Connect
feature in DB2 for read only access or through a companion product called
DataJoiner. DataJoiner provides additional capabilities that give federated
access t