Data mining gives access to the information that is needed to make intelligent decisions about difficult business problems. Data mining is a “decision support” process in which advantageous patterns of information in data can be discovered.
Businesses face a number of problems when attempting to analyse their data. There is generally no lack of data. In fact, many businesses feel they are drowning in data; they are unable to make sense of it all and turn it into information. To this end, data warehousing was developed to allow organisations to take a wealth of data from disparate data sources and turn it into actionable information.
The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Data Mining Platform introduces significant capabilities to address data mining in both traditional and new ways. Firstly, Microsoft data mining tools support the entire development lifecycle of data in the organisation. This ability frees the data mining results from the hands of a select few analysts and opens those results up to the entire organisation. Secondly, Data Mining is a platform for developing intelligent applications, not stand-alone applications. You can build custom applications that are intelligent, because the data mining models are easily accessible to the outside world. Finally, Microsoft data mining algorithms can be run in real time, allowing for the real-time validation of data against a set of mined data.
Quick Start Package - £3995*
The five day Quick Start Package begins with a workshop session to identify the business issues experienced in the area of data mining. Using a selected model and datasets we will present examples of how Data Mining capabilities can explore your data, discover patterns, uncover business data to reveal the hidden trends about your products, customer, market, and employees, and to analyse those components that are critical to your organisation's success. The Microsoft Excel Data Mining add-in will also be used to demonstrate the user interface for data mining models.The final step is to set out a road map of how you can move forward as a company. Using the issues identified in the workshop we will map them out to the various models of SQL Server Data Mining and outline an implementation plan, optimising the benefits of such an investment.
The Quick Start Package is charged at £3995*
*Price is exclusive of expenses and VAT.
