The "Zementis" Name

The name Zementis, symbolizing "concrete thoughts", is derived from the German word Zement (cement, concrete) and the Latin word Mentis (thought, intellect) and relates to the company's core competence in machine learning and AI.

The Road to ADAPA

Founded in 2004 with the goal of providing predictive analytics

Predictive analytics

Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events....

 to the marketplace, Zementis is composed of two main divisions, analytics and engineering. Although it started as a company focused on building predictive models, Zementis scientists soon realized that their models needed a platform in which they could be easily deployed and managed. From this need, the ADAPA

ADAPA

ADAPA is intrinsically a predictive decisioning platform. It combines the power of predictive analytics and business rules to facilitate the tasks of managing and designing automated decisioning systems.-Automated decisions:...

 Decision Engine came to be.

ADAPA initially supported only neural networks

Neural Networks

Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...

, but it soon became a platform for the deployment of a myriad of statistical techniques as well as data processing. From its inception, ADAPA has been based on open-standards, including PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language. As a member of the Data Mining Group (DMG), the committee defining PMML, Zementis has helped shaped the standard as it becomes the necessary vehicle for the sharing of predictive solutions between applications.

In 2008, ADAPA was launched as a service on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...

and is currently being used worldwide by companies and individuals who want to execute their predictive models and decision logic.

In 2011, building on the heritage of its ADAPA Decision Engine, Zementis launched the Universal PMML Plug-in, a highly optimized, in-database scoring engine
for predictive models, fully supporting the PMML standard. With PMML, the Plug-in delivers a wide range of
predictive analytics for high performance scoring. It shortens time to market for predictive models and empowers
users through instant deployment of predictive models.

Zementis is a privately held company with offices in the USA and in Asia.

Zementis Locations

Zementis HQ is located in San Diego in California. It also has an office in Hong Kong for servicing clients in the Asia-Pacific region.

External links

• Zementis Web site www.zementis.com
• DMG Web Site www.dmg.org