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Page Content SQL Server Analysis Services
SSAS delivers online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality through a combination of server and client technologies, further reinforced through the use of a specialized development and management environment coupled with a well-defined object model for designing, creating, deploying, and maintaining business intelligence applications.
Analysis Services combines the best aspects of traditional OLAP-based analysis and relational-based reporting by enabling developers to define a single data model, called a Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) over one or more physical data sources. All end user queries from OLAP, reporting, and custom BI applications access the data in the underlying data sources through the UDM, which provides a single business view of this relational data.
Analysis Services provides a rich set of data mining algorithms to enable business users to mine their data looking for specific patterns and trends. These data mining algorithms can be used to analyze data through a UDM or directly from a physical data store.
Some examples where Art2link has helped designing mining models to specific business scenarios are: Forecasting sales, targeting mailings toward specific customers, determining which products are likely to be sold together, finding sequences in the order that customers add products to a shopping cart. |
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