Created by Peltarion, Synapse allows data mining, statistical analysis, visualization, preprocessing, design and training of neural networks and adaptive systems and the deployment of them.

It utilizes a plug-in based architecture making it a general platform for signal processing.

A notable difference however is that in Synapse that cycle is not linear, but supports an iterative approach where the user can freely move between the steps.

In this mode the user can import, visualize, explore and transform data in a variety of ways.

The standard release includes format components for reading and writing data from CSV (text) files, SQL databases, images and XML.

The visualizers include a variety of plots and grids, which can be interconnected and branched out to perform complex data mining tasks.

The system in the development environment is downscaled so that it only contains the minimal necessary requirements for execution and then compiled into an assembly.