This ensures quick time to market and rapid deployment. We hope that this fast, easy route to data mining will expose hundreds of thousands of developers to this exciting new technology. We support two classes of data-mining techniques called clustering and decision trees. Both classes can also offer valuable data-prediction capabilities. As a result of this focus, SQL Server will ship with a scalable clustering algorithm for segmentation and a scalable decision-tree algorithm for classification.
More algorithms are under development.
These are cutting-edge algorithms that have been in research and development for up to five years at Microsoft Research. Some of the world's best minds in data-mining research work here, and this team developed algorithms that have proved to be extremely scalable, highly accurate and high performing. Our data-mining algorithms were also optimized, tested and validated by the academic community before they went to our product team. This is a great example of how the immense investment that Microsoft has made in its research labs is becoming fruitful in terms of incorporating technology into products. Numerous vendors have already adopted this interface.