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Inform decisions with intuitive and comprehensive data mining tools available to all users.
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Introduce prediction into every step of the data lifecycle to discover hidden insight on-the-fly.
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Embed prediction to create intelligent applications, and extend data mining functionality to meet specific business needs.
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Highlights - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007
The new SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins enable organizations to make predictive analysis accessible to a much wider audience by empowering end users to harness the highly sophisticated data mining technology of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services within the familiar environment of Microsoft Office.
- Data Mining Overview
SQL Server 2005 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through intuitive data mining, seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft BI platform, and extensible into any application.
- Test Drive Data Mining
Take a hands on approach to learning more about Analysis Services with this virtual lab.
- Tutorial: Data Mining
Microsoft SQL Server provides an integrated environment for creating and working with data mining models. This tutorial walks you through scenarios for targeted mailing, forecasting, market basket analysis, and sequence clustering, to demonstrate how to use the data mining algorithms, mining model viewers, and data mining tools that are included in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS).
- Book: Data Mining with SQL Server 2005
This book shows you how to create and implement data mining applications that will find the hidden patterns from your historical datasets.
- SQL Server Analysis Services Guided Tours
Take a tour through Analysis Services. Learn more about why Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the choice to deliver on rich and powerful analytics for your organization.
- MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence
Preparation guide for exam 70-445: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence - Implementation and Maintenance
- MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer
Preperation guide for exam 70-446: Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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News and reviews -
Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008
Microsoft delivers full range of personal, team and organizational BI tools, tightly integrated, with a focus on making the right decisions to drive a business forward.
- Sometimes Microsoft does things very well
"...having looked at the data mining services in Microsoft SQL Server, I am very impressed!... this is fully-fledged corporate data mining, ...everything scales, and operation is fast and reliable ...simply building a model will now become available to everyone who uses SQL Server and Office, with speed and precision." David Norris, Associate Analyst, Bloor Research, November 2006
- SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007
"Many analytical tools integrate with Microsoft Excel, and for a simple reason: People who crunch numbers for a living spend a lot of time with spreadsheets. SQL Server 2005's data-mining algorithms offer powerful capabilities for analyzing data, ...Let's walk through the installation and configuration of the Data Mining Add-ins and look at a comprehensive sample." Tyler Chessman, From the May 2007 edition of SQL Server Magazine
- Putting the "Smart" Into Smart Clients
"One of the design principles of SQL Server 2005 data mining is not only to support analysts who are setting up, training, and deploying the model but also to make it easy for business users to consistently, repeatedly consume the results of a data mining model without any special knowledge of the underlying data-mining technology." Matt Nunn, From the October 2005 edition of SQL Server Magazine
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