SAS Factory Miner industrializes predictive analytics ZDNet

SAS on Tuesday marked the general release of SAS Factory Miner, an automated tool that uses machine learning techniques to develop, test and identify hundreds of best-fit predictive models within minutes. Announced last month, Factory Miner promises better, segment-specific predictive performance, and it also goes a long way toward easing the analytic talent shortage. See how the cloud is disrupting traditional operating models for IT departments and entire organizations. SAS Factory Miner is a response to all of these imperatives. It helps companies with find-grained segmentation by automating model building across hundreds of segments and, potentially, thousands of sub-segments.