SAP Predictive Analysis

Document Version: 1.19 - 2014-09-03

SAP Predictive Analysis What's New
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1 SAP Predictive Analysis Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 New in SAP Predictive Analysis 1.19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 SAP Predictive Analysis documentation resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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1 SAP Predictive Analysis Overview
SAP Predictive Analysis 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.
With SAP Predictive Analysis, you can perform various analyses on the data, including time series forecasting,
outlier detection, trend analysis, classification analysis, segmentation analysis, and affinity analysis. This
application enables you to analyze data using different visualization techniques, such as scatter matrix charts,
parallel coordinates, cluster charts, and decision trees.
SAP Predictive Analysis offers a range of predictive analysis algorithms, supports use of the R open-source
statistical analysis language, and offers in-memory data mining capabilities for handling large volume data
analysis efficiently.
Note
SAP Predictive Analysis inherits data acquisition and data manipulation functionality from SAP Lumira. SAP
Lumira is a data manipulation and visualization tool. Using SAP Lumira, you can connect to various data
sources such as flat files, relational databases, in-memory databases, and SAP BusinessObjects universes, and
can operate on different volumes of data, from a small matrix of data in a CSV file to a very large dataset in SAP
HANA.
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2 New in SAP Predictive Analysis 1.19
The following new feature is available in this release of SAP Predictive Analysis:
New in this release Description
Custom R Component Chart It is now possible to render charts for custom R com
ponents in online mode. To be able to see a chart in
the Results view after running a component analysis,
you need to have selected the Show Visualization
checkbox when creating the custom R component.
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New in SAP Predictive Analysis 1.19
3 SAP Predictive Analysis documentation
resources
The following table provides the list of guides available for SAP Predictive Analysis:
Table 1:
What do you want to do? Then go here..
Get instant help on using SAP Predictive Analysis, or
find information on a feature or workflow.
The Online Help is available within the application as
follows:
Click the Help icon (?) on a dialog box or window.
Select Help Help .
Get complete documentation on using SAP Predictive
Analysis (English)
SAP Predictive Analysis Home page
Get complete documentation on using SAP Predictive
Analysis in a different language.
SAP All Products page
Click a language, then select SAP Predictive Analysis
and the version required from the drop down lists.
Get the latest information on database and software
support for SAP Predictive Analysis.
SAP Products Availability Matrix
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