Data mining is a process with many stages. For more information about the overall flow of a data mining solution, see Data Mining Concepts (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
After you have identified the problem you want to solve, you can use Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop your data mining solution. For an overview of the development process in Business Intelligence Development Studio, see Data Mining Projects (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
A critical part of any data mining solution is to identify and obtain relevant data, clean the data, and integrate it into your solution. For more information about data integration and data cleaning using SQL Server Integration Services, see Profiling Data with the Data Profiling Task and Viewer and Typical Uses of Integration Services.
When you have secured the right kind of data for analysis, you can use Business Intelligence Development Studio to model the data, analyze the results, make predictions, or simply browse the models. You can also use SQL Server Management Studio to make predictions, manage, and browse models. For more information, see Using the Data Mining Tools.
Finally, you may want to publish the results of your analysis, or make the model available to users for prediction or browsing. For more information about reporting scenarios and solutions, see Report Lifecycle: Creating, Managing, and Delivering Reports.