INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
SAP announces availability
of Predictive Analytics
Application Edition
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AP SE has announced the general
availability of the application edition
of SAP Predictive Analytics software
to help enterprises create and manage
predictive machine learning models for
applications that run business activities,
including supply chain, finance and
accounting, human capital management
and customer management.
Co-developed with Accenture, the
application edition enables intelligent
enterprises by embedding predictive and
machine learning capabilities in their
applications, putting powerful data-driven
insights at the fingertips of every business
user. The announcement was made at the
Gartner Data and Analytics Summit being
held in London.
“Partnering with Accenture, we are arming
enterprises with the tools, such as the
application edition of SAP Predictive
Analytics, needed to become intelligent
enterprises,” said Mike Flannagan,
SAP Leonardo and Analytics Senior
Vice President. “With the rapid pace of
advancements in machine learning and
artificial intelligence, SAP will continue to
deliver innovation that brings powerful new
capabilities to our customers.”
The application edition of SAP Predictive
Analytics uses machine learning to provide
business users with predictions about the
future. Once embedded, the application
can independently manage the end-to-end
lifecycle of predictive and machine learning
models that can adapt automatically to
changing business conditions.
It provides enterprises with the flexibility
to add, modify and extend predictive and
machine models within these applications to
solve new problems. With a single click, users
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can easily automate the retraining, scoring
and deployment model.
The ability to provide valuable business
insights is accomplished through machine
learning libraries in the SAP HANA business
data platform. Users can take data in SAP
S/4HANA and build predictive models that
can be integrated into the application to
understand predictions under changing
variables and relationships.
SAP and Accenture are committed to helping
customers experience greater business value
from their SAP investments through the
additional availability of digital technologies.
“In addition to our investment in
accelerating the development of the
application edition of SAP Predictive
Analytics, we are making our enterprise- and
industry-specific solutions available to clients
to help them unlock new business value,”
said Glenn Gutwillig, Accenture managing
director and Enterprise Analytics lead.
“Using resources from Accenture Applied
Intelligence and the Accenture Liquid Studio
for SAP Leonardo, our SAP teams work
directly with clients to quickly turn ideas
into innovative solutions and have already
developed more than 80 SAP Leonardo–
based intelligent applications.”
The application edition of SAP Predictive
Analytics is part of the broader SAP
Leonardo offerings. SAP Leonardo provides
a rapid path to digital innovation by
combining design services, an industry-
leading cloud platform and applications,
deep expertise in business processes, and the
most innovative new technologies such as
analytics, blockchain, the Internet of Things
and machine learning. n
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