Use of Machine Learning in SAP

[former_member706747]

I have 4+ years of experience as a Functional Consultant (SD,FICO.CRM) and really interested in Machine Learning currently. If I devote my time to learn Machine Learning along with Python in next couple of months or a year, how is that going to be useful in my SAP career.

Please consider my ignorance to SAP IoT / AI / PAL as I have not explored these yet and might be mentioned while answering to my question, but besides these, can I contribute any other way ( besides BW or IoT ) with ML / python skill as a Techno-functional consultant as I have ABAP knowledge also.

Appreciate if someone clarify this doubt so that I can start my ML journey with a positive attitude and passion and make my career much more interesting.

[matt · Accepted solution]

I've applied ML in two ways so far in my career. One was taking rules that had been developed by data scientists and building a BW application (using ABAP routines) to apply those rules to the data.

The second was a clustering algorithm. We had to get a mathematician to verify that the metric we wanted to use was, indeed, a metric on our topological space - after that it was just a matter of applying the algorithm, plus a little bit of calculus. All done in ABAP.

[AndreasForster]

Hi D, The Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management (ISLM) could be very interesting for you, to build on your SAP skills with ML. That's a new layer that allows customers and partners to bring their own ML requirements into S4. https://community.sap.com/topics/intelligent-scenario-lifecycle-management-s4hana