Migrating to S/4?

Migrating to S/4?

Many companies are now on the verge of implementing or migrating to S/4 HANA, and with SAP advertising the significant benefits of using their in-built analytics capability, one of the most pressing questions is ‘what should I do with my existing analytics investments? Can you just throw them out – or are they still of […]

Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part One

Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part Two

Following on from our brief overview in the last post, we will focus this post on the data exploration and transformation stages of the data science process.  We are deliberately constraining the scope of this article to data exploration and transformation in Automated Analytics, to keep the discussion concise and comprehensible. Rather than simply presenting a tool […]

Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part Two

Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part Two

Keeping up with the ever-evolving machine learning landscape can be difficult. It seems that every month new modelling software is released, or a tech company open sources a machine learning algorithm. In the context of the SAP technology stack, we want to understand the landscape of the machine learning models provided by SAP Business Objects […]

HANA + Hadoop – CompleteStream March 2017

HANA + Hadoop – CompleteStream March 2017

It was a pleasure to present recently at the LeadingInsights Conference here in Melbourne, hosted by CompleteStream. This conference brings together businesses and practitioners focused on SAP technology from Australia and around the globe, and allowed me to talk about a key passion area for me – the bringing together of SAP and Hadoop! Hadoop has […]

Data Science – CompleteStream March 2017

Data Science – CompleteStream March 2017

We recently presented at CompleteStream 2017 in Melbourne, it was a good turnout with some great presentations by knowledgeable practitioners. We began with a brief example that emphasises one of the less talked about benefits of machine learning, which is pertinent in SAP environments; that is its ability to replace hard-coded decision logic. In a sense, a […]

Machine Learning on your enterprise appliance; just add water

Machine Learning on your enterprise appliance; just add water

Enterprise back ends are typically a dry subject.  Not for me! That’s why I jumped at the challenge to pair a bleeding edge machine learning framework with a tried and trusted corporate system. SAP is one of the biggest software company you have never heard of. 76% of all worldwide business transactions touch their systems; you […]