On February 16th, 2007, the web site of the start-up company Rapid-I is launched to extend the web pages of the open-source data mining project YALE. Rapid-I is a software and consulting company helping its customers to significantly improve their efficiency and profitability with innovative data mining and business intelligence solutions. YALE remains open-source (GPL) and free of charge for end users. For closed-source software developers, an alternative developer license (OEM) is available. For and beyond YALE, Rapid-I also offers services like consulting, professional support, customization, and integration.

The new version 3.4 of the free data mining and machine learning environment YALE was released on October 3rd, 2006. Among other features, this release offers enhanced input handling methods for various file formats and database systems. Together with the powerful visualization engine - which was already completely revised for YALE 3.3 - and the huge amount of learning and preprocessing methods, YALE 3.4 is the first choice for the development of real-world data mining applications.

YALE will be presented at the twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2006) in a paper and a poster presentation. The conference will take place between August, 20 - 23 in Philadelphia, USA. Read here about the contents of this paper and how to cite it.