Part 1 is here Analytics Innovations Community Call: SAP Predictive Analytics Notes Part 1
First, another poll:
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The poll above shows that the biggest barrier to adopting Predictive Analytics (per 43%) is cost.
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SAP's Charles Gadalla provided this part of the session.
Predictive Analytics 2.0 combines both Predictive Analysis 1.x and SAP InfiniteInsight as shown above
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Predictive Analytics 2.0 offers BW offline support (including the BEx Query), a recommendation engine in one component, APL for HANA SPS9 – sister library to the PAL library – on AFL of HANA
Charles said to look for wide datasets – lots of fields, variables
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It uses "Smart BI" with the "light bulb" in Lumira which comes from KXEN
It supports Big data
In the green boxes, under future direction, there will be a unified UI with one seamless experience, supporting massive analytics and huge datasets
APL offer auto algorithms to optimize
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Skyrock is aompany in France with 2x increase in acceptance rate using predictions and personalized recommendations
Questions and Answers
Q: What are some key use cases?
A: Churn, loyalty, freemium to premium
Q: Roadmap talked about Hadoop – what is integration with Hadoop?
A: Work closely with distributions for Hadoop – connect to Hadoop, Hive, Spark interface
Q: What is roadmap with integration of R?
A: R is already integrated
Q: What training is available for business analysts to make the right choice
A: tutorials, official training program
Another poll appeared:
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Yet another poll:
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The business analyst will build models; the above adds up to more than 100% because you could select multiple answers.
There was a demo of predictive analytics using hybris. Embedding the prediction analytics inside your operational applications is interesting.
Reference
Meet Charles at ASUG Annual Conference in this session: BI109 Predictive Analytics 2.0: Roadmap, what's new and what's next
ASUG BI Schedule 2015.xlsx | ASUG
Also some upcoming ASUG Predictive Analytics webcasts are listed below: