RapidMiner is a powerful integrated data science platform created by the same company that performs predictive analysis as well as other advanced analytics such as data mining, text analytics, machine learning, and visual analytics without the need for programming. RapidMiner can connect to any data source, including Access, Excel, Microsoft SQL, Teradata, Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, Ingres, MySQL, IBM SPSS, Dbase, and others. The tool is extremely powerful, as it can generate analytics based on real-world data transformation settings, allowing you to control the formats and data sets for predictive analysis.