Information Discovery Inc introduces the Mark Twain edition of its IDIS Information Discovery System that generates narrative English language text reports describing the influence relationships found in a database and isolating trends and exceptions.. The PC version of the program costs $1,900; the Sun, AIX, and HP/UX versions cost from $15,000, and the Unisys SPP version costs $50,000.

DataMind Corp introduces its DataMind data mining software in three versions, the $4,999 DataMind Professional for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, the $2,495 DataMind Solo and the $25,000 DataMind DataCruncher.

Pricing for data mining tools ranges from about $2,000 for small, stand-alone products to$50,000 and up for custom tools for client/server environments.

Pilot Software Inc's Pilot Discovery Server is the data-mining component in the Pilot Decision Support Suite; Discovery Server costs $100,000.

BusinessMiner sells for $995, but costs only $495 when purchased with Business Objects' BusinessObjects 4.0 software.

IBM's IntelligentMiner, which costs from $30,000 to $150,000 per server, partitions very large DB2 databases and can be used to create models examining trends over time.

Data mining tools employ statistical and machine-learning technologies to search databases to identify relationships and predict future values or behavior. There are at least 50 data mining applications on the market and more are arriving…., The products are priced from $1,295 to than $135,000.

Oracle will display its new $39,500 Data Mart Suite working with a data mining tool by Information Discovery. MathSoft plans to announce its StatServer, a $35,000 tool accessing and distributing data mining analysis.

Cognos Inc's $695 Scenario and Business Objects SA's $ BusinessMiner 4.0 bring powerful data-mining techniques to PCs that were previously available only on larger systems

Teradata will be offered is part of three hardware/software data mining bundles designed for enterprise, department and workgroup use. Each will include the Knowledge Discovery Workbench package. Pricing will range from $10,000 to $2 million. NCR also plans to enhance its TopEnd middleware line with links to data mining tools.

MathSoft's $1,495 S-Plus 4.0 data mining tool offers very sophisticated data visualization and analysis with excellent statistical and graphing capabilities, although it cannot replace a standalone statistics or analytical program.

Sequent's Database Marketing product starts at $500,000 and includes campaign management and data mining tools. The company debuted the Complete Warehouse for Fraud Detection, a $500,000 hardware/software combination that includes a NUMA-Q server. It detects fraud using the Knowledge Discovery in Databases software.