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How does SAC Smart Discovery use Automated Analytics?

Hello Experts

The Smart Discovery capability in SAC appears to my uneducated viewpoint to use standard deviation to identify the strongest influencers and outliers...however I have been told that is wrong and pointed to this excellent blog:

https://blogs.sap.com/2015/07/01/how-does-automated-analytics-do-it-the-magic-behind-creating-predic...

However although that blog explains how automated analytics works it doesn't describe how and which automated analytics SAC uses.

Can anyone answer that please?

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Hi Julian actually those blogs explain more the usage than the algorithms. I had an answer from andreas.forster on another thread that Smart Discovery uses primarily Regression/Classification, which is useful to know.

Any more information would be great though in order to help customers properly understand the meaning of the results.

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julian_jimenez
Active Contributor

Hi Angus,

The blog you posted is for another software: SAP Predictive Analytics and what you see there is not what SAC uses. I know that the naming can be confusing. You can see the two products comparison here: https://www.sap.com/canada/products/analytics/predictive-analytics.html

I believe you will find these blogs related to SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive very useful to clarify how the predictive capabilities work in SAP Analytics Cloud:

https://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/29/smart-features-in-sap-analytics-cloud-2017-review/

Specific information on Smart Discovery:

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/07/07/sap-analytics-cloud-smart-discovery/

Regards,

Julian

achab
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

Hello, just to add on Julian great answer, the Smart Discovery of SAP Analytics Cloud is relying on the Automated algorithm provided by SAP Predictive Analytics (through the use of the SAP Predictive service). So yes, the products are different but the algorithm used is the same.

Kind regards,

Antoine

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many thanks Julian i will review those