Re: Insightful Miner vs. SAS Enterprise Miner

[<Dario.Ciraki@ubs.com>]

I-Miner comes with S+, so you can use S language, with SAS if you don't have a button for something you are in the world of pain. Also unless you are in academia and getting software for nomial cost you are comparing two applications with price ration of 1:10, which has more to do with the size of the problems SAS is supposed to be able to handle then with the methods it implements. Given you know what you need, you choice should be easy.

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From: s-news-owner@lists.biostat.wustl.edu [mailto:s-news-owner@lists.biostat.wustl.edu] On Behalf Of A.J. Rossini
Sent: 02 October 2007 20:33
To: Overstreet, Jason
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: [S] Insightful Miner vs. SAS Enterprise Miner

You havn't given the constraints for what you want to accomplish, but 
I disagree with the spirit of what your friend said. 

(similarly, most of 
the functions and procedures can be duplicated with assembly language, but we 
aren't going there, either). 

Without knowing what you want to accomplish 
and a bit about the environment and constraints, all you'll get are biased 
opinions which if you are really lucky, might be relevant to your case.

On 10/2/07, Overstreet, Jason <joverstreet@hotwater.com> wrote:

I need to make an objective decision on whether to use Insightful Miner or SAS Enterprise Miner.  If anyone has any references, opinion, or otherwise helpful inputs into something that will describe the basic differences between the two – this would be greatly appreciated.  I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is a professor and he said that most of the functions and procedures can be duplicated within the base languages.  I don 't think this is a realistic option since I have to produce results and don't have a lot of time reinventing the wheel.  Please throw your opinions out there on the subject.  Thanks very much in advance…

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