Hi.

With the recent article from Devin about mining, he has made me remeber that I was about to ask one thing to all of you about this subject.

SSAS provides data mining. Are there a wide variety of models provided by SSAS, or just the most known ones? And people doing ssas data mining, are people with deep knowledge of mining or SSAS provides easy tools so anyone can create mining models?

I ask you this because I see you people from US working a lot with this tool and here in Portugal, unfortunatly,  I've noticed that decision makers (and companies) are not sensitize to use this great tool.

This is one question. The other is that I've started a master degree in business intelligence but because of professional reasons I decided to quit. In here I've learn a lot from mining models like clusters, neuronal net, and many others. But what I want to ask is, even if I hadn't learn anything about mining, can anyone create a ssas mining model? Or you must have knowledge to decide wich mining model fits better to the business where we are working on?

There are a number of built in models  as well as the ability to create your own. It's worth checking out. SQLServerDataMining.com is a good place to get started !