SAS Factory Miner

SAS Factory Miner is the tool of profound analytics for creation, assessment, improvement of arrays of analytical models.

On July 1, 2015 the SAS company provided the product SAS Factory Miner intended for the automated creation of hundreds of analytical models on methodology of Data mining.

Sphere of use of a product: from the directed marketing campaigns in retail chain stores, before identification of cases of fraud in insurance companies.

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"Already quite progressive tense in the market is felt an acute shortage of competent specialists in processing and data analysis and SAS constantly looks for methods how to reduce this personnel gap how to make analytics more available to end users how to simplify and accelerate work of specialists mathematicians who have special preparation for work with difficult analytical models. SAS Factory Miner is directed just to increase in productivity of the analytical divisions which are already available in the organizations", - told [[Svirshchevsky Andrey|Andrey Svirshchevsky, head of analytics of the company SAS Russia/CIS.

Representation of SAS Factory Miner, 2015

SAS Factory Miner automates the tasks requiring huge costs of time and human resources during the work in the manual mode: at the same time to build models on each of several tens regions or on each of several hundred products using several clicks by "mouse". In addition to actually creation of hundreds of analytical models, the product helps to make automatically their retraining, to select the best model from a set of options.

The application offers technology of machine learning and the forecast analysis for processing of large and difficult data sets. When the model does not cope with a task, it is possible to switch to other input data or methods of the analysis. Changes of the existing variables or emergence new can be controlled, without changing at the same time structure of all process of data analysis or the operating set of algorithms.

In SAS Factory Miner specialists of different level of technical and mathematical training as the application gives different opportunities for use of methods of predictive analytics can work. Beginning users can apply the ready templates of forecast models entering a delivery package. They can be finished under individual needs of the certain analyst, working group, department or all organization. Users can exchange templates and results of work that simplifies and accelerates distribution of best practices in the organization.

SAS Factory Miner is a part of a product family of SAS for profound analytics. The release of a product is planned for the middle of July, 2015.