1 What’s New in SAS ® Enterprise Miner ™ 5.2

SAS Enterprise Miner ™ 5.2 for SAS 9.1.3 provides many new enhancements to help both business analysts and statisticians carry out the data mining process more efficiently and with greater control and flexibility. A major focus of this release is to deliver new interactive statistical and visualization tools. The tool set has been expanded to include the new SOM/Kohonen, Decisions, and Replacement nodes. Major improvements have been made to nearly every other node. System administration has been enhanced through the use of the SAS Analytics Platform, which provides both thin-client distribution and server management functionality. Grid processing is now supported to manage the workload created by a large group of data miners. Customers will find many reasons to upgrade to SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2