computer science

KXEN Inc.

KXEN Inc. is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand KXEN Inc. rather than just read about it. In short: KXEN was an American software company which existed from 1998 to 2013 when it was acquired by SAP AG. History KXEN was founded in June 1998 by Roger Haddad and Michel Bera.

Key takeaways

KXEN Inc. belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect KXEN Inc. to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of KXEN Inc. from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

KXEN was an American software company which existed from 1998 to 2013 when it was acquired by SAP AG.

History KXEN was founded in June 1998 by Roger Haddad and Michel Bera. It was based in San Francisco, California with offices in Paris and London. On September 10, 2013, SAP AG announced plans to acquire KXEN. On October 1, 2013, a letter to KXEN customers announced the acquisition closed. KXEN primarily marketed predictive analytics software.

Predictive analytics InfiniteInsight is a predictive modeling suite developed by KXEN that assists analytic professionals, and business executives to extract information from data. Among other functions, InfiniteInsight is used for variable importance, classification, regression, segmentation, time series, product recommendation, as described and expressed by the Java Data Mining interface, and for social network analysis. InfiniteInsight allows prediction of a behavior or a value, the forecast of a time series or the understanding of a group of individuals with similar behavior. Advanced functions include behavioral modeling, exporting the model code into different target environments or building predictive models on top of SAS or SPSS data files. Competitors are SAS Enterprise Miner, IBM SPSS Modeler, and Statistica. Open source predictive tools like the R package or Weka are also competitors, since they provide similar features free of charge.

See also Data mining Supervised learning

References

External links Official website

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with KXEN Inc.

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what KXEN Inc. claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to KXEN Inc. before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about KXEN Inc. ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of KXEN Inc.

In research: KXEN Inc. appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses KXEN Inc. in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: KXEN Inc. is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 mergers and acquisitions, Business software, Companies based in San Francisco, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for KXEN Inc. outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study KXEN Inc. in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what KXEN Inc. means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain KXEN Inc. out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is KXEN Inc. in simple terms?

KXEN was an American software company which existed from 1998 to 2013 when it was acquired by SAP AG. History KXEN was founded in June 1998 by Roger Haddad and Michel Bera.

Why does KXEN Inc. matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study KXEN Inc.?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on KXEN Inc..