Data Mining Reports against a Cube using Excel

I'm quite new to Data Mining so please bear with me if these are silly questions.
1. Can you create a data mining model against a Cube from within Excel? I seem to only be able to target a relational database.
2. Once you have a DM model in place and it's run against data in Excel... can these be published to Sharepoint and automatically updated? So for instance, you have 10,000 rows of data in Excel that have been categorised... you want this updated on a weekly
basis so that the categories are updated as the data in the rows changes - someone might change category based on their usage of "something" for instance.
Thanks,
Marcus

Hello Markus,
1. No, to modify the SSAS database, which contains the Data Mining model, you Need BIDS (Business Intelligence Developer Studio) for the Version 2005-2008R2 or SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) for Version 2012-2014.
You could use the Data Mining Addin for Excel to create local data mining models, see
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/data-mining-add-ins-HA010342915.aspx
Olaf Helper
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