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KNIME (/nm/ ), the Konstanz Information Miner, is a data analytics, reporting and integrating platform. KNIME integrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining "Building Blocks of Analytics" concept. A graphical user interface and use of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) allows assembly of nodes blending different data sources, including preprocessing (extract, transform, load (ETL)), for modeling, data analysis and visualization with minimal, or no, programming.[citation needed] It is free and open-source software released under a GNU General Public License.

Since 2006, KNIME has been used in pharmaceutical research, and in other areas including customer relationship management (CRM) and data analysis, business intelligence, text mining and financial data analysis. Recently, attempts were made to use KNIME as robotic process automation (RPA) tool.[when?]

KNIME's headquarters are based in Zurich, with other offices in Konstanz, Berlin, and Austin (USA).[citation needed]

Development of KNIME began in January 2004, with a team of software engineers at the University of Konstanz, as an open-source platform. The original team, headed by Michael Berthold, came from a Silicon Valley pharmaceutical industry software company. The initial goal was to create a modular, highly scalable and open data processing platform that allows easy integration of different data loading, processing, transforming, analyzing, and visual exploring modules, without focus on any one application area. The platform was intended for collaborating, research, and for integrating various other data analysis projects.

In 2006, the first version of KNIME was released. Several pharmaceutical companies began using KNIME, and several life science software vendors began integrating their tools into the platform. Later that year, after an article in the German magazine c't, users from a number of other areas joined ship. As of 2012, KNIME is in use by over 15,000 actual users (i.e. not counting downloads, but users regularly retrieving updates) in the life sciences and at banks, publishers, car manufacturer, telcos, consulting firms, and various other industries, and a large number of research groups, worldwide.[citation needed][needs update] Latest updates to KNIME Server and KNIME Big Data Extensions, provide support for Apache Spark 2.3, Parquet and HDFS-type storage.[citation needed]

For the sixth year in a row, KNIME has been placed as a leader for data science and machine learning platforms in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.[citation needed][year needed]

These are the design principles and features that KNIME software follows:

KNIME allows users to visually create data flows (or pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later inspect the results, models, using interactive widgets and views. KNIME is written in Java and based on Eclipse. It makes use of an extension mechanism to add plug-ins providing added functions. The core version includes hundreds of modules for data integration (file input/output (I/O), database nodes supporting all common database management systems through JDBC or native connectors: SQLite, MS-Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Vertica and H2), data transformation (filter, converter, splitter, combiner, joiner), and the commonly used methods of statistics, data mining, analysis and text analytics. Visualization is supported with the Report Designer extension. KNIME workflows can be used as data sets to create report templates that can be exported to document formats such as doc, ppt, xls, pdf and others. Other KNIME abilities are:

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