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Think IES Release 8.0

Components

Listed below is some of the new functionality included in Think IES 8.0:

• A Business Rules Management System and Rules Engine component to execute business rules from a Think IES plan


• Support for Windows Vista


• Support for Java 6


• Firewall tunneling between the Think IES server and clients


• Import/Export of the library of Think IES plans


• A component to execute a JSR94-compliant rules engine from a Think IES plan


• A variety of diagnostic and data transformation components to support time series analysis and forecasting:
  • Differencing
  • Inverse Differencing
  • Auto Correlation Analyzer
  • WaldWolfowitz Runs Test
  • Insert Missing Time Stamps
  • Transpose
  • Local Average
  • Add Date Stamp
• The ARIMA time series algorithm


• Generalized Linear Models for Normal distribution/Identity link and Binomial distribution/Logit link functions


• A new geographic Location Finder component to calculate the destination latitude/longitude from the source latitude/longitude, distance and bearing


• The SAS Server components have been updated to use a newer mechanism to communicate with the SAS server.


• Updated the regression components to provide more support for collinear data and with additional co-linearity diagnostics.


• The Association Rules component has been updated to allow the following:
  • Input of “interesting items” in a similar way to that already provided for the Targeted Associations
  • User to specify if the “interesting items” are allowed to be on the left, right or either side of a rule
  • Maximum length of the right hand side of a rule to be set
• The Expression, Simple Expression and Select Records components have been updated to add the following functions:
  • Random number generation
  • Rounding, Ceiling and Floor
  • Convert to Degrees/Convert to Radians
  • Max/Min
  • Arc Cos, Arc Sin, Arc Tan, Arc Tan 2