What’s New in the Quadstone System Version 5

1. What’s New in the Quadstone System Version 5 Wednesday December 1st, 2004 7am PST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT Issue 5.0-2

2. Quadstone System Webinars • To increase your effectiveness with Quadstone by refreshing and developing your skills • Presented live by a Quadstone System expert, with interactive questions and answers • The format varies: demos, slides, post-webinar and/or click-along exercises • Topics include • Quick Start: re-acquainting yourself with Quadstone • Specialist: deeper drill-down on specific applications • What's New: awareness of latest enhancements • Customized: for your specific needs if required • To complement our face-to-face, in-depth training http://support.quadstone.com/services/training/

3. What's New in Version 5.0 • Presenter: Patrick Surry, VP Customer Services • Overview: Version 5.0 was launched in March 2004, with 5.0C released in October. This webinar highlights the key new features and functionality and illustrates some the release’s “best-kept secrets” • Audience: Existing Quadstone users that plan to use Version 5.0 and want to learn more about it • Format: A live demonstration with slides for sign-posting; no follow up exercises • Duration: 1 hour, including Q&A

4. Where to get help • Documentation: Start>All Programs>Quadstone, latest updates at http://support.quadstone.com/documentation • Quadstone System Help • What’s new in the Quadstone System 5.0 • Data-build command and TML reference • Managing Transactionhouse 5 Data Builds with QSBuild • Customer-specific release notes • Support: • Web: http://support.quadstone.com/ • Email: support@quadstone.com • Tel: (US) 1-800-335-3860, (UK/IE/BE) 00800 1220 4491 (All) +44 131 220 4491

5. The Vision – bringing people together Business Person: CMO LOB VP Product Manager Analytical Team Shared understanding Better decisions Results sooner Knows markets Knows channels Knows products Owns business goals Knows methods Knows models Knows tools Owns access to data

6. The Quadstone System

7. Collaboration Productivity Openness V5 design goals Shared understanding, better decisions; results sooner by involving business managers More output from analytical resources by making it easier and faster for less expert users Easier to integrate with existing systems and data

8. Demo Issue 5.0-2

9. New Shortcut Bar

10. More functionality in QSE

11. Data import/export improvements • Improved database access • Any ODBC source • SQL queries • Flat-file wizard • Third-party import/export • XLS, SAS, SPSS, dBASE etc. • Drag & drop desktop files

12. Usability improvements • Better overall look and feel • All Decisionhouse tables support drag-copy • Saved settings between sessions • Better EditPreferences… control • Ignore repeated warnings • Full-screen mode

13. Profile and Audits, Model Snapshots

14. Viewers • Clearer way to choose aggregations • More aggregation functions available • Controlled display of empty categories • Null results displayed as gray

15. Direct export of output to Excel • Send to Excel • From any tool displaying data • Link to Excel • Live update during Quadstone session • Copy & paste, drag & drop also work

16. Result Viewers and Plugins • Save views as a “cube” • Send or email them • Standalone viewers work like the real thing… • …but no need for access to a server

17. Main Window and Table Viewer • Comments are shown as hover text • Comments may be in HTML • URLs in Table Viewer act as hyperlinks • Table Viewer Go to Record option

18. Field derivation and FDL • Improvements to Derivation Functions window • Null-ignoring sum, mean etc. • Functions to convert (“cast”) datatypes • Ability to use “=” for string comparison • New isselected() function • Ability to use standard datatypes as user-defined function parameters

19. Binning Editor • Optimize binning improvements • New Field menu with Interpret, Copy, Paste and Delete operations • Simplified use of multiple binnings • Improvements to user-defined binning • More user-friendly handling of unbinnable fields • Editing of end bins • Changes to categorical edit panel

20. Decision Tree Builder • Uplift modeling • Gains table • Qini graph • Change to minimum segment sizes • Improvements to interaction with Decision Tree Builder display • Presentational improvements • Better zooming

21. Scorecard Builder • New customer satisfaction scorecard model types • A new preference to set the default model type (risk, churn etc.) has been added. • Simplified transformations 

22. Cluster Builder • Integrated visualization support

23. Modeling—General • Support for “What-if” analysis • Ability to add comments to decision trees and scorecards

24. Transactionhouse 5 XML Build Plan • Based on small modular utilities operating primarily on foci • Run via command-line, QSE GUIs, or XML build plan • More reliable, extensible, scalable than other approaches  More user-friendly, robust, automated data-builds RDBMS1 Measure RDBMS1 Sort RDBMS2 RDBMS2 FOCUS FOCUS Join Flat files Flat files Enhance Foci Foci etc.

25. Any questions?

26. Webinar follow-up • Slides are available from http://www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/ • Data is in $QSHOME/ext/demo/ on your server • For more in-depth training (our 1-day Version 5 Upgrade Course), contact support@quadstone.com

27. Any further questions? • Any follow-up questions, feedback, or problems, contactsupport@quadstone.com

28. Upcoming Webinars 2004: • Getting Started with the Quadstone System Wednesday, 15th December 7am PST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT / 4pm CET 2005: • Please let us know if there’s a webinar topic you’d like to see: support@quadstone.com http://www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/