Summary
Data mining provides insights into data well beyond those provided by reporting, and Analysis Services streamlines the mining process. Although the data must still be prepared, mining models hide the statistical and algorithmic details of data mining, enabling focus on analysis and interpretation.
Beyond one-time insights, you can use trained models in applications to allocate scarce resources, forecast trends, and identify suspect data, and for a variety of other uses.
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