Artificial Intelligence for Planning and Analytics

SAP Analytics Cloud Artificial Intelligence features help users increase their insights, make more confident decisions faster with the following capabilities:

• Apply generative AI to search-driven analytics to ask questions in natural language and obtain immediate results
• Use machine learning algorithms to automatically reveal relationships in data, hidden patterns, and outliers in your data
• Predict potential outcomes and forecasts, and populate results back into your plan at any level for increased accuracy

• Article: Getting Started with Augmented Analytics
• Video: Explore and Analyze Data with SAP Analytics Cloud Augmented Analytics | SAP TechEd 2020
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Our aim is to integrate generative AI into the major workflows of SAP Analytics Cloud by the end of 2025. By transforming these workflows, we will unlock new possibilities and drive innovation for the distinct planning and analytics roles and responsibilities common to organizations globally.

Read the statement of direction for generative AI for planning and analytics.

Joule

SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule will let planning and analytics users get work done faster and drive better business outcomes in a secure, compliant way. Joule works by quickly sorting through and contextualizing data to surface smarter insights. Users simply ask Joule questions or frame a problem in plain language. In response, Joule delivers intelligent answers drawn from a wealth of business data, while retaining context.

Just Ask

The "just ask" feature of SAP Analytics Cloud was the first delivery on the roadmap for generative AI in SAP Analytics Cloud. It became generally available in Q1 2024.

The just ask feature: 

• Applies generative AI to natural language queries for search-driven analytics

• Enhances answer accuracy and consistency, surpassing existing search-driven solutions

• Enables users to quickly access trusted insights in their preferred language regardless of expertise

• Helps to increase data literacy and analytics

• Video: Just Ask Demo
• Webinar: SAP BTP - Ask me Anything about Artificial Intelligence
• Blog: Initial Release of SAP Analytics Cloud Just Ask

• 💡 Blog: Benefit from Machine Learning with Smart Insights and Smart Discovery
• Blog: Smart Insights for the Business
• 💡 Article: Smart Insights for Variances
• Blog: How to setup Smart Insights on Live HANA

• 💡 Article: Time Series Forecasting in SAP Analytics Cloud Smart Predict in Detail
  
• Video: Add predictive forecasts to charts
• Video: Create Time Series Forecasts on BW Live Data
• Help: Running a Forecast in a Time Series or Line Chart
• 💡 Blog: How Predictive Forecasting Can Benefit Your Business
  

• Video: Apply Smart Grouping to bubble and scatterplot charts
• Help: Apply Smart Grouping to your Chart (and enable for Live Data)

• 💡 SAP: SAP Global Controlling Modernizes Financial Planning
  

• 💡 My Top Five Predictive Planning Lessons
• Predictive Planning is the New Normal
  

• One Predictive Planning & Smart Predict Blog to Find Them All!
• Hands-On Tutorial: Predictive Planning
• Time Series Forecasting in Predictive Planning in Detail
• The Business Value of Predictive Planning – Episode 1: Speeding Up & Automating Planning

• The Business Value of Predictive Planning – Episode 2: Scenario Planning

• Help: About Forecasting with Predictive Planning

• Video Playlist: SAP Analytics Cloud Smart Predict
• Blog: Smart Predict – What goes on under the hood
• Blog: Regression in SAP Analytics Cloud in Detail
• Blog: Classification in SAP Analytics Cloud in Detail
• Use Case: Hands-on Tutorial - Customer Churn Analysis for online retail
• Use Case: Hands-on Tutorial - Used Car pricing