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Clementine® 9.0: Using the new SPSS Model Manager™

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What features does the new SPSS Model Manager™ in Clementine® 9.0 provide?

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SPSS Model Manager, a new component of Clementine, improves the management of Clementine predictive models. Models are created in the Clementine application and stored in the SPSS Model Manager server.

Clementine 9.0 supports the publishing and sharing of objects—including streams, models, and output files (*.cou)—through SPSS Model Manager. Objects are stored in a central repository, where they can be shared with other applications and tracked using extended versioning, metadata, and search capabilities.

SPSS Model Manager enables you to:

Store streams, models, and output objects
Update an object by adding a new version (note that some properties cannot be changed)
Add a version to an element, while retaining all previous versions
Move labels from one version of an object to another. For example, you can label the current "production" version and move that label to a newer version when it becomes available. However, only one version can carry this label at any given time. You can choose from a list of previously used labels, choose<none>, or choose <add new label> to define a new label.
Keep all versions accessible and searchable by multiple criteria

To connect to SPSS Model Manager, use the following menu path:

Tools
- SPSS Model Manager
  - Options...

Specify the login options as desired (see Figure 1). Settings are specific to each site or installation. System administrators can configure SPSS Model Manager to enable multiple users to work with the models. Capabilities include establishing access privileges, configuring the system, creating folders, setting security permissions, and modifying properties for users.

Figure 1: Logging in to SPSS Model Manager

For example, if you create a CAT stream and store it in SPSS Model Manager, and then later update the stream, you can add the updated stream to SPSS Model Manager without overwriting the previous version.

Figure 2: Select version to retrieve in SPSS Model Manager.

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Clementine® 9.0: Using the new SPSS Model Manager™

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