Smart Discovery Simulation

The simulation view helps you understand how changing the values of your key influencers could have an impact on the value of your target measure.

To discover how changing the values of one or more of your key influencers could have an impact on the value of your target, simply specify a new value for one or more of your key influencers, and choose the Simulate button. The Simulate button is enabled only when you change one of your influencer values.

The underlying machine learning model assesses the quality of the analysis. Each visualization has an insight quality checkbox indicating when the quality of the analysis is good. If the underlying machine learning model analysis indicates low confidence in the analysis quality, you are also alerted to this in the visualization.

To change a key influencer value and simulate the impact on your target, use either the displayed slider or dropdown to specify a new value. Use the slider or input a number, if the influencer is a measure. Use the dropdown to select a different value, if the influencer is a dimension.

When you select the Simulate button, the effect of your changes are reflected in the target numeric point chart. Potential changes include:

  • the target column value increases, decreases, or stays the same

  • the percentage increase or decrease is displayed

  • a textual insight that offers a brief description of the positive or negative influence one or more of your influencer value changes. The level of impact is described in one of these ways:

    • strongly negative

    • weakly negative

    • negative

    • neutral

    • weakly positive

    • positive

    • strongly positive

Example
Expected Gross Margin is €0.14 Million, positively influenced mainly by Discount [252.29K] + Product [Orange Juice].
Note

  • Simulations are available only for discoveries with measures as targets.

  • The simulation view is not supported on Mobile.

  • The formulation of the currency in the numeric point chart depends on the Currency Position profile settings selected by the user from the home page in SAP Analytics Cloud.