One Predictive Planning & Smart Predict Blog to Find Them All!

[achab]

SAP Analytics Cloud Smart Predict has been released in 2018 and Predictive Planning in 2020.

In the last couple years, we had numerous blogs created in the SAP community.

I thought it was a good time to recap what we have available and group these blogs through meaningful categories to ease the life of our customers and partners.

Updated last: October 16th, 2023

Predictive Planning Blogs

Future & Past Events

• March 2023 Hackathons

Predictive Planning Introduction 

• Predictive Planning is the New Normal

• Say Hello to Confident Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

Best Practices

Learning Journeys

• Machine Learning Made Easy! Learn How with SAP Analytics Cloud

Tutorials and Walk-Through Examples

• Hands-On Tutorial: Predictive Planning

• Hands-On Tutorial: How to Schedule your Predictive Planning Model

• Predictive Planning: Forecasting US National Park Visits

• SAP Analytics Cloud – Predictive Scenario into rolling Forecast

• Building a Time-Series Forecasting Performance Evaluation Metric in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Measure Accuracy of Time Series Forecasting Models in Stories

• Leveraging Influencers to Improve Your Predictive Forecasts Accuracy in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Predictive Planning What-If Simulation in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Forecasting with SAP Analytics Cloud

• Implementing Predictive Step in Multi Actions

• Automate Forecast Update With Predictive Planning

• Can SAP be carbon-neutral by 2023?

• Carbon Emission Forecasting: How SAP Analytics Cloud Can Help

• TechEd 2022 – Build an Integrated Planning Scenario with Data and Analytics Solutions

General Best Practices

• Best Practices for Predictive Planning: General Tips and Tricks

• Best Practices for Predictive Planning: Advanced Knowledge

• Predictive Planning – How to keep a private version after publishing predictive forecasts?

• Predictive Planning – How to use influencers

• Predictive Planning – Flexibility with Currencies

• Predictive Planning – How to go beyond 1000 entities

• Week-Based Date Pattern with SAC Predictive Planning

• Focus the predictive forecasts to your planning needs

• Automating an annual forecast in Predictive planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

• Predictive Forecast Disaggregation

Managing the impact of major disruptions to time series (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic) 

• Adapting Predictive Planning to the New Normal of Planning

• Forecasting Time Series in COVID-19 Days

• Forecasting Time Series in COVID-19 Days: Handling Minor Impact Scenarios

Frequently Asked Questions

• SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive Planning – Frequently Asked Questions

Thought Leadership Blogs

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

• The Business Value of Predictive Planning – Episode 1: Speeding Up & Automating Planning

• My Top Five Predictive Planning Lessons

• FP&A of the Future: Agile Planning and Predictive Analytics

• Putting Finance at the Front of the Ship to Drive Business Agility and Performance

• How to REALLY use predictive when planning

Automated Machine Learning Happening Behind the Scenes

• Understanding Time Series Forecasts with Smart Predict

• Predictive Planning Algorithm – New Year, Fresh Start!

• Forecasting Intermittent Time Series with Automated Predictive (APL)

• Piecewise Linear Trend with Automated Time Series Forecasting (APL)

• Exponential Smoothing inside SAP Analytics Cloud time series forecasting scenarios

• Understand accuracy measure of time series forecasting models

• Time Series Forecasting in SAP Analytics Cloud Smart Predict and Predictive Planning in Detail

Roadmap Influence

• Vote your favourite Predictive Planning enhancement requests…or create new ones to influence the roa...

Customer Testimonies

• SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive Planning: A Framework from Global Controlling SAP

• Learnings on Predictive Planning at the SAP Global Controlling CoE forecast team

• Roche: Advancing medicine by optimizing financial forecasting with predictive planning

• Infuse Intelligence into Finance with Predictive Planning at Roche

The full and up to date list of Predictive Planning blogs is available in one-click.

Smart Predict Blogs

Getting Started

• SAP Analytics Cloud: Introduction to Predictive Scenarios, and their applications

Learning Journeys

• Machine Learning Made Easy! Learn How with SAP Analytics Cloud

Tutorials and Walk-Through Examples

• Predict League of Legends Game Outcomes using SAP Analytics Cloud

• Classification Prediction Scenario in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Regression Prediction Scenario in SAP Analytics Cloud

• The Titanic blog series
  
  • SAP Tech Bytes: Your first Predictive Scenario in SAP Analytics Cloud
  
  
  • SAP Tech Bytes: Understand your classification model in Smart Predict
  
  
  • SAP Tech Bytes: Feature Engineering using Data Wrangling
  
  
  

• Prediction Explanations For Classification Predictive Models in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Prediction Explanations for Regression Models in SAP Analytics Cloud

• The Anybody can do Data Science blog series
  
  
  • Anybody can do data science with SAP Analytics Cloud – Part 1
  
  
  • Anybody can do data science with SAP Analytics Cloud – Part 2
  
  
  • Anybody can do data science with SAP Analytics Cloud – Part 3
  
  
  

• Hands-On Tutorial SAP Smart Predict, Used Car pricing (regression)

• Hands-On Tutorial SAP Smart Predict, Customer Churn Analysis for online retail (classification)

• Hands-On Tutorial SAP Smart Predict, Product Forecast (time series forecasting)

• The Rugby World Cup prediction blog series
  
  
  • Predicting Rugby 2019 Results
  
  
  • Predicting Rugby 2019 Results: Kicking Off!
  
  
  • Predicting Rugby 2019 Results: No Data, No Win!
  
  
  • Predicting Rugby 2019 Results: The Knockout Stage (and a Look-Back)
  
  
  

• How can Smart Predict help you to optimize your marketing initiatives?

• SAP Analytics Cloud: Live Smart Predict with SAP HANA

• Combine the power of SAP HANA and Smart Predict to generate predictions on live data

Automated Machine Learning Happening Behind the Scenes

• Understanding Classification with Smart Predict

• Understanding Regression with Smart Predict

• SAC Smart Predict – What goes on under the hood

• Regression in SAP Analytics Cloud in Detail

• Classification in SAP Analytics Cloud in Detail

[achab]

Kudos to all the Predictive Planning blog writers:

• thierry.brunet
• chrischansap
• pras.chatterjee
• schristos11
• marc.daniau
• sarah.detzler
• harieshragavendra9
• andreaskroon.lang-jensen 
• maximilianpaul.gander 
• dirk.pelz
• pierre.saurel
• eric_schuenemann
• david.serre
• nick.verhoeven2
• yaoyaoustc

[achab]

and kudos to our Smart Predict blog writers too!

• bregninge


• thierry.brunet


• rasmusbenjamin.ebbesen


• ian.henry


• sharan_07


• dhivalogu


• spmagehee


• vitaliy.rudnytskiy


• david.serre


• vriddhishetty


• cindy.venet

[poornasac]

The best starting point for individuals interested in learning about predictive planning, regardless of their prior machine learning experience. It emphasizes how SAP Analytics Cloud eliminates the need for machine learning experts and empowers users to leverage predictive capabilities through its user-friendly interface.

Thank you Sir, for gathering all the necessary information in one place. Your guidance and support make the learning process smoother and more convenient.

We are very lucky to have you.

Poorna

[achab]

My pleasure!

[Galin_Manolov]

Great collection, many thanks!

[achab]

Hi Galin, thanks for the word of appreciation, you are welcome! It's a lot of investment & passion from all the blog writers & contributors that made it possible.

Best regards

Antoine