SAP TechEd
DataRobot and SAP Datasphere:
Rapidly build AI-powered applications
Retail Inventory Forecasting
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SAP Datasphere is the foundation for a business data fabric architecture
Data consumers Planning and analytics Intelligent data apps ML and Generative AI
SAP Datasphere
running on SAP BTP Self-service data access | Virtual data products
Security Data discovery | Business content, data marketplace, recommendations
Access control
Orchestration | Data transformation and data ops
Availability
Processing and persistency | Warehousing, business semantics
(analytic/relational models), knowledge graph
Data governance | Metadata management, catalog, lineage, privacy, data quality
Data ingestion | Data replication, data federation, real-time data, application integration
On-premises Cloud Data Warehouses Relational Unstructured/
SAP and non-SAP data Applications
Data Warehouses and Lakehouses Databases Semi-structured Data
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End-to-end AI lifecycle executed within your SAP-governed
ecosystem
Securely leverage data from SAP Datasphere
1 with OAuth authentication support
SAP Datasphere running On SAP BTP 2 Accelerate prototyping, model evaluation,
and app creation with DataRobot Workbench
Create custom AI solutions like AI-powered
Predictive and Generative AI
3 advanced forecasting apps
BUILD OPERATE GOVERN 4 Write back into SAP Datasphere and then
surface AI apps in SAP Analytics Cloud
Analyze and Transform Deploy and Run Register and Manage
Train and Tune Learn and Optimize Audit and Approve
Compose and Compare Observe and Intervene Document and Comply
Deploy monitoring agents to fully monitor all
5 deployments using DataRobot Console
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Advanced Forecasting Use Case | Retail Inventory Planning
Business Problem Scope Considerations
● 50k different product SKUs 1. How do you ensure
● Multiple different Geos, forecast can handle scale
Retail company needs to create each with different buying
and speed of new data?
inventory forecast to ensure patterns
2. How do you manage when
critical inventory is in stock at ● Different holidays in each
Geo there are data issues or
the right time
● Massive variability in store model performance
performance changes?
DataRobot + Business Data + SAP Datasphere provide everything you need to handle both scale and
granularity to tackle the most complex use cases
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Demo | Sales Forecasting
SAP Datasphere and DataRobot
End-to-End Walkthrough
Key Points:
● Anyone in the business can leverage
● Combine data from multiple Data Sources
● Simplified Ingest and model development
● One-Click Deployment
● Full governance and monitoring
● Easy Write Back to Spaces in SAP
Datasphere
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Contact Information:
Katryn Cheng
SAP Product Marketing
Email: [email protected]
Farooq Azam
Lead Data Scientist, DataRobot
Email: [email protected]
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