SAP Predictive
Analytics is a statistical
analysis and data mining solution that enables you to build predictive models to
discover hidden insights and relationships in your data, from which you can make
predictions about future events.
SAP Predictive
Analytics combines
SAP InfiniteInsight and SAP Predictive Analysis in a
single desktop installation. SAP Predictive
Analytics includes two
user interfaces, Automated Analytics and Expert Analytics.
Automated Analytics includes
the following modules:
- Data Manager is a semantic layer tool used to facilitate data preparation.
- Modeler helps you create models such as classification, regression, clustering, time
series, and association rules. Models can be exported in different formats so that
you can easily apply them in your production environment.
- Social extracts and uses implicit structural relational information stored in
different kinds of data sets, improving the decision and prediction capacities of
the models. It can represent data in the form of graphs that show how the different
data are linked. Dedicated workflows help you create colocation and frequent path
analyses based on geo-referenced data.
- Recommendation generates product recommendations for your customers based on a
social network analysis.
- Model
Manager (installed separately) helps you manage ongoing tasks by scheduling
model training and data set deviation detection.
Expert Analytics enables you
to do the following:
- Perform various analyses on the data, including time series forecasting, outlier
detection, trend analysis, classification analysis, segmentation analysis, and
affinity analysis.
- Analyze data using different visualization techniques, such as scatter matrix
charts, parallel coordinates, cluster charts, and decision trees.
- Use a range of predictive algorithms, the R open-source statistical analysis
language, and in-memory data mining capabilities for handling large volume data
analysis efficiently.