{"id":952,"date":"2015-03-12T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/business-intelligence\/?p=952"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:09:10","slug":"sap-releases-new-horizontally-focused-bi-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/business-intelligence\/sap-releases-new-horizontally-focused-bi-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Releases New, Horizontally Focused BI Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SAP<\/a>In their second software release this week, SAP<\/a> announced the general availability of a new analytics solution. Cleverly named Predictive Analytics<\/a> 2.0, SAP combined the performance of predictive analytics software with the functionality of their InfiniteInsight<\/a> solution. Predictive Analytics 2.0 allows a broad range of users the ability to spot opportunities in real-time in order to make swift and accurate business decisions with confidence. The simplicity of SAP\u2019s new solution is its selling point, as business users, analysts and data scientists are granted ease of use.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made at the company\u2019s\u00a0SAPinsider BI<\/a> 2015 conference\u00a0in Las Vegas. We also covered the unveiling of their Lumira, Edge edition solution here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Predictive Analytics solution provides an integrated environment to give users the ability to uncover trends from their big data, the blooming Internet of Things, and existing SAP and third-party data sets. Real-time functionality is at the forefront of this new release, providing an organization with more complete business insights as a result of gaining a better understanding of customer behavior. Understanding customers will allow any organization to service them better, thus resulting in expanded business opportunity and profitability.<\/p>\n

Clemens Praendl, Senior VP and GM of Analytics at SP notes: “The growth of data sources and sensors and the increased demand for actionable insights mandate broader access to predictive analytics. SAP Predictive Analytics is designed to help bridge the skills gap by placing complex predictive capabilities in the hands of many more users. By incorporating predictive results into more applications and business processes, users will be able to identify hidden patterns like never before, revealing new or expanded business opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

2.0’s real-time features assist the user in fraud detection, risk mitigation, revenue optimization and customer retention with the following features:<\/p>\n