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Functionality
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Ideal for any kind of business with a large amount of data used for running predictive analytics algorithms. Extract, transform, and load your data into SEDGE and let SEDGE take you through a journey of data exploration, analytics, visualization, model building, and deployment, and simplify decision-making process for your business. 

**Functionalities of SEDGE?**

•	Predictive analytics – analyze current and historical data in order to make science-based predictions about the future
•	Exploration of data – analyze your data in a more comprehensible way through visual exploration, find out easily the characteristics of the data (for instance size or amount of the data, identify is some information is missing or incorrect and find out is the data elements are related to each other). You can also profile and edit your data manually. 
•	Machine learning – apply artificial intelligence (AI) while predicting your desired data, the software will automatically learn and improve from experience, so your forecasting will be improving at the same time
•	AI – train your software to think, learn and solve problems on your behalf


**What kind of industry is SEDGE suitable for?**

•	Healthcare
•	Banking
•	Finance
•	Retail
•	Insurance
•	Telecommunication
•	Logistics
•	Any industry in need of a powerful tool for predictive analytics

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*SEDGE functionality*


**Key functions of SEDGE**

    •Data analytics – analyze structure or unstructured data in order to make experienced insights about your data

    •Text analytics – translate unstructured text into quantitative data and generate value.

    •Optical Character Recognition (OCR) – digitize text inside images or PDF files

    •Time series – analyze the pattern of data taken over time to forecast and predict future trends

**Top features of SEDGE**
    •	Process large amount of data in a short period of time
    •	Compatible with popular data sources like MySQL, SQL, Server, CSV, Hadoop and more
    •	Create intuitive graphs for quick analysis
    •	Use Deep Neural Networks for your predictive analytics
    •	Prepare and edit your data easily on your own
    •	Use state of art algorithms with Automated Machine Learning
    •	Visualize your data in an interactive way and identify relationship between your variables
    •	Predict and forecast your business demands, sales and many more

Let us explore through the SEDGE and guide through a simple step by step process of how users can interact with a True AI and Machine Learning Engine`