

“ "For a function such as 'Detect Categories, ' what the add-in is doing is building a clustering model in the background, but we don't expect the Excel user to understand that.

It's not that there's nothing they don't miss, it's that they are able to achieve the same business results using our tools. , they actually use the Excel data mining add-ins to do it. These guys were all SAS users, but when they joined Microsoft, they started using our tools. Our market just has to be a much larger market“ “We have a huge database marketing team who do classic customer analysis. Microsoft takes a different approach to Data Mining DATA MININ Donald Farmer - Principal Program Manager for Microsoft’s Data Mining "We don't have all the functionality of something like a SAS or an SPSS, because that's just not our market.
