ANP160 - SAP BusinessObjects Predictive

Analytics 101: Discovery Session

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Speakers

Las Vegas, Sept 19 - 23 Bangalore, October 5 - 7 Barcelona, Nov 8 - 10

Abdel Dadouche Abdel Dadouche Abdel Dadouche

Debraj Roy Jayanta Roy Robert McGrath

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Market trends - Shift in Mindset

Sense and respond Predict and act

Competitive Advantage

Prescriptive
Analytics

Predictive
Analytics
What is the best we can
Descriptive do?
Analytics

Smart BI What will happen?

Self Service
Ad Hoc
Reports & BI
EDW & ETL Standard
BIOLAP Agile BI Predictive Analytics
Why did it happen?

Cleaned Reports
Raw Data
Data

What happened?

Analytics Maturity

The key is to unlock your data to move decision making from “sense & respond” to “predict & act”

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But, What Can You Predict?

Probabilities of “yes/no” kind of question:

• Will he buy this product?
• Is this machinery going to fail?
• Will this employee leave?
• Is this insurance claim fraudulent?

Values and Numbers

• What’s this customer worth to me?
• How much revenue will we make this quarter?

Make Recommendations
• What product from my catalog should we offer

And much more….

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SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics Overview

Any Data Source

Relational Databases Big Data Sources CRM/ERP Stores Applications Cloud Services

SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics

Data Manager Visualization Automated Analytics SDK/API Predictive Factory

Scorer Social Recommendation Expert Analytics Connectors

SAP HANA Predictive Applications

In-Memory Processing Engine 25+ Industries  11+ LoBs

Predictive Analysis Automated

R-Scripts
Library Predictive Library Financial & Retail & Telecommunications Public Sector O&G,
Insurance Consumer & Healthcare Manufacturing
Services Products & Utilities

Cloud / On-Premise / Hybrid

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What do you feed “Predictive Analytics” with?

A Flattened Snapshot of Data

+
A Business Question

Who will buy product X in the 3 months following the

snapshot date?

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Hands On

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Use Case Description

Industry : Logistics/Goods Transportation

Context : In order to support the flows’ tension and improve operational costs at each site location,
a “new data driven strategy” must be implemented to better forecast movement of goods (weight and
volume) across the region

Solution : Implement a “Predictive ” solution with SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics to

produce actionable models to be deployed and maintained in an fully automated way.

Outcome: Forecast the volume and weight of good distributed delivered by each site location

Data : Historical logistic activity data, calendar

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Further information
Related SAP TechEd sessions:
ANP101 - SAP Predictive Analytics Without the PhD – What You Really Need to Know – 1hr Lecture
ANP104 - Massive Predictive Analytics - 1hr Lecture
ANP105 - Turning Big Data and IoT into Intelligence You Can Actually Use – 1hr Lecture
ANP108 - Predictive Business Intelligence: Give Your BI the Gift of Foresight – 1hr Lecture
ANP160 - SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics 101: Discovery Session – 2hrs Hands-On Workshop
ANP205 - SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Brings Predictive Tools to the Business Analyst – 1hr Lecture
ANP260 - Automate Scoring and Segmented Models with SAP Predictive Analytics – 2hrs Hands-On Workshop
ANP270 - Improve SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with Predictive Analytics - 2hrs Hands-On Workshop
ANP360 - Discover Integration and Scripting Capabilities in SAP Predictive Analytics - 2hrs Hands-On Workshop
ANP600 - Start Your SAP Predictive Analytics and SAP HANA Cloud Platform Journey – 1hr CodeJam

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