Smart Features and Conversational AI in SAP Analytics Cloud #ASUG Webcast Recap
This was an ASUG webcast from yesterday. You can watch the replay here
Upcoming Webinars
- July 12 BI: Advanced Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud
- July 18 BI: Extend your planning with SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Standard
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Abstract:
Make better decisions, faster. Discover the next generation of smart discovery capabilities supported by the SAP Analytics Cloud solution. Ask your question in natural language and get insights instantly with Search to Insight, our newest Conversational AI feature.
Speakers:
Flavia Moser, SAP
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As usual, the legal disclaimer applies and anything in the future is subject to change.
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Use smart feature portfolio, which is business user friendly
Speak the language of the business user
Uses Machine Learning to accelerate the workflow
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Above are the features covering smart portfolio
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For example, say revenue is $500M. What is driving the revenue?
Smart insights helps, click on data point, present insight in form of natural language as well as textual format
Insights generated without knowing algorithm used
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You can also annotate charts
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Above shows a Scatter plot with 2 KPI’s – Deal value, # of licenses
Good understanding of grouping
Automatically segment in different groups
Running a clustering algorithms
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Time series forecasting used in area of planning and BI, and predictive
Biggest challenge is to know which algorithm to use
Challenge for business user to know which algorithm
Built automatic forecast algorithm
State of the art algorithm, selects best one
Take the guess work away
Reduce time spent on best algorithm to use
For BI and planning users
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R – statistical programming language
Not business user friendly
Customers are using R for World Cloud in SAP Analytics Cloud
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2 options:
1.Customers can bring in their own R server
2.Use SAC R server in the data centers listed above
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Smart Discovery is workflow acceleration
Select data set, select KPI
Try it out on your own data
Select key influencers; in background running
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You also have simulation
Run simulation, what if scenarios
In realtime, produce insight
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Unexpected values
100K sales transactions; identify those that are off
Would take time to do
Bring features into story
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Just released at SAPPHIRENOW last month
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Work on bots
In SAP Analytics Cloud, bring conversation piece into SAC, allow end users to write in English language
Democratization of information
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Planned Live Data Connection Support is on the right; I experienced this this week, so I am glad Flavia covered it
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SAP is working on this; hopefully we will have a separate webinar on this topic.
Question | Response |
Is the location of the ballon popup configurable? It appears to be placed at random location instead of next to the cursor. | tooltip; way to configure |
Does it work in German? | only support English – localization is on roadmap for next year |
I assume it will support voice, just like what we saw at Sapphire, right? | demoed voice at SAPPHIRE, have feature enabled, working through legal questions |
Please let me know how to integrate SAC story with Conversational AI BOT
Unfortunately I do not know how to do that; I recommend asking this as a question at answers.sap.com