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Predictive Analytics and Data Mining

Derive useful insights to make evidence-based decisions

Today's organizations accumulate huge volumes of data from a variety of sources on a daily basis. However, turning increasingly large amounts of data into useful insights and finding how to better utilize those insights in decision making remains a challenge for most.

To get answers to complex questions and gain an edge in today's marketplace requires powerful, multipurpose predictive analytic solutions so you can learn from, utilize and improve on knowledge gained from vast stores of data. SAS provides a wide range of software for exploring and analyzing data to help uncover unknown patterns, opportunities and insights that can drive proactive, evidence-based decision making within your organization.

Text mining applies the same analysis techniques to text-based documents. The knowledge gleaned from data and text mining can be used to fuel strategic decision making.

" "What your company's done in the past isn't necessarily going to work in the next decade. Our shift from a product-oriented company to focusing on solutions required us to think differently about analytics.""

—Dave Kepler

Chief Information Officer

Dow Chemical

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Components of Predictive Analytics and Data Mining

  • Exploratory Data Analysis – Get dynamic visualization, advanced statistical techniques and core data mining capabilities to quickly identify relationships and opportunities.
  • Model Development and Deployment – Streamline the data mining process to create highly accurate descriptive and predictive analytic models based on large volumes of data.
  • Analytics Acceleration – Generate faster results and improve data governance with in-database analytics.
  • Scoring Acceleration – Maximize the performance and accuracy of your analytic models.

For customers who are interested in in-database analytics with a Teradata data warehouse, be sure to learn about SAS Analytic Advantage for Teradata. 

How SAS® Is Different

Only SAS offers a rich suite of integrated predictive modeling processes so you can:

  • Grow and standardize on a common platform with multiple entry points for different types of users.
  • Use flexible data preparation and management capabilities to build models that generalize well and produce superior outcomes.
  • Take advantage of a rich, interactive visualization and data exploration environment to quickly identify the optimal opportunities.
  • Achieve better response times and fast results with in-memory, in-database and grid capabilities.
  • Facilitate continuous enhancement, refinement and maintenance of your analytic models.

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