Deployment

Creation of the model is generally not the end of the project. Depending on the requirements, the Deployment phase can be as simple as generating a report or as complex as implementing a repeatable data mining process. Given the software focus of this book and the spirit of sticking to the basics, we will really only cover using models for the scoring of new data. Real world deployment is much more complex and a complex deployment can more than double the length of a project. Modeler's capabilities in this area go far beyond what we will be able to show in this book. The final chapter of this book, Chapter 11, Model Assessment and Scoring, briefly talks about some of these issues.

However, it is not unusual for the deployment team to be different than the modeling team, and the responsibility may fall to team members with more of an IT focus. The IBM software stack offers dedicated tools for complex deployment scenarios. IBM Collaboration and Deployment Services has such advanced features.

The four tasks in the Deployment phase are:

• Plan deployment
• Plan monitoring and maintenance
• Produce final report
• Review project