Salford Systems' tools have accumulated numerous data mining awards since August 2000 and continue to garner new honors and awards each year. We are the only major data mining software provider with this kind of proven performance track record. Not one of our best known competitors has been able to garner a single win when going up against us in open competition.
Here is a brief outline of our track record:
| Competition | Award | |
| DMA 2008 Analytics Challenge Marketing optimization task |
First Runner-Up* | |
| DMA 2007 Analytics Challenge Targeted marketing task |
First Place* | |
| PAKDD 2007 Data Mining Competition Cross-selling task; financial dataset |
Grand Champion* | |
| PAKDD 2006 Data Mining Competition Upselling task; telecommunications dataset |
First Runner-Up* | |
| KDD Cup 2004 Particle physics task |
Most Accurate (1st Place*) |
Top Decile Lift (2nd Place*) |
| Overall Model Fit: Cross-Entropy Criterion (2nd Place*) |
Area Under the ROC (2nd Place*) |
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| Churn Modeling Tournament 2003 Teradata Center for CRM at Duke |
Best top decile lift | Best overall model fit |
| Best top decile lift (Future time period) |
Best overall model fit (Future time period) |
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| KDD Cup 2000 Web mining task |
Most accurate forecast of site visitor page viewing | |
| Best CRM Analytics | ||

