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Delivering actionable insight to every user

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through complete and intuitive data mining, seamlessly integrated throughout the Microsoft BI platform and extensible into any application.
  • Complete

    Inform business decisions with predictive insight through intuitive and comprehensive data mining tools available to all users.

  • Integrated

    Integrate prediction into every step of the data life cycle to discover hidden insight on the fly.  

  • Extensible

    Embed prediction to create intelligent applications, and extend data mining functionality to meet specific business needs.

Top New Features

  • Optimize forecasting with Better Time Series Support.

  • Get targeted insight by applying filters with Enhanced Mining Structures.

  • Deliver informative and actionable insight in reports with Extended Drill-through Functionality.

  • Partition data effectively to confirm the accuracy of insights with new Streamlined Built-in Support for Holdout.

  • Validate accuracy and stability of models simultaneously with new Cross Validation.

  • Take advantage of new features, introducing more actionable insight at the desktop, with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007. Learn more.

Highlighted Capability

Shopping Basket Analysis

Shopping Basket Analysis

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