Magnum Opus: Setting New Standards in Pattern Discovery

Magnum Opus delivers the power of the most recent advances in pattern discovery technology.  With unrivalled flexibility and ease-of-use, it finds new and unanticipated patterns from data. Use Magnum Opus to unlock the wealth of information implicit within your data.

Magnum Opus employs unique k-optimal (also known as top-k) pattern discovery techniques.  Tell Magnum Opus what makes a pattern interesting to you and how many you would like.   Magnum Opus delivers the patterns that are most interesting according to the measure that you select.  Magnum Opus does all the hard work but lets you make all the decisions.

Other systems either employ undisclosed proprietary heuristics that select a few patterns for you, or indiscriminately present countless patterns that bury the gems amongst the dross.  In contrast, Magnum Opus will always deliver exactly the patterns that maximize the measure that you select, within whatever other constraints you choose.  These further constraints include unrivalled facilities for detecting and discarding spurious 'discoveries'.

Magnum Opus is the only system that supports statistically sound pattern discovery.

Some important features:

• Magnum Opus is easy to use and does not presume advanced knowledge of statistics or machine learning.
• Magnum Opus patterns are expressed in forms that are simple to understand.
• Magnum Opus includes a unique facility to automatically filter out spurious 'discoveries'.
• Unlike other pattern discovery systems, Magnum Opus does not rely on sparse data for efficient processing.
• Magnum Opus finds patterns from both transaction data and attribute-value data.
• Magnum Opus has been designed to analyze substantial databases containing millions of records.
• Magnum Opus is fast. It has linear compute time. If the amount of data is doubled then the compute time will approximately double^†.
• Magnum Opus is flexible.  The different search options support a wide range of differing analytic objectives.

The following pages outline the key features of Magnum Opus.

• For users of previous versions of Magnum Opus, New Features describes the new features of Magnum Opus version 4.2.
• Preliminaries provides a general introduction to using Magnum Opus.
• Transaction data and attribute-value data describes the two types of data accepted by Magnum Opus.
• Rules describes the rule patterns that Magnum Opus produces.
• Itemsets describes the itemset patterns that Magnum Opus produces.
• Interactive system commands and options describes the Windows interactive system's commands and options.
• Command line options describes the command line system's commands and options.
• Limits details the built-in limits of the system.

• Publications gives details of scientific papers describing the core technologies on which Magnum Opus is based.
• Applications provides pointers to scientific papers describing some representative applications of Magnum Opus.
• A free demonstration version (limited to small datasets) is available from our downloads page.
• An on-line form is provided for obtaining a ten-day evaluation licence for Magnum Opus.