cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

InfiniteInsight Vs Predictive Analysis

Former Member
0 Kudos

Hi SCN,

What is the main difference between II and PA ??

What is the product history of SAP Predictive Analysis ??

With regards

Sateesh

Accepted Solutions (1)

Accepted Solutions (1)

Former Member
0 Kudos

Hi Sateesh,

For a overview of II you can refer to Henry Bank's excellent blog post:

http://scn.sap.com/community/predictive-analysis/blog/2014/03/11/sap-infinite-insight--introduction-...

Also, to understand how II and PA play together, please refer to our current roadmap:

https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001160102012E.pdf

In short, the main difference between PA and II is that II has a limited set of highly automated algorithms and is targeted towards business users while PA has a broad set of algorithms available with a wide range of configuration option to allow custom modeling. PA is targeted more towards experienced Business Analysts and Data Scientists. Both solutions work together with SAP HANA while the integration of PA is - due to historic reasons - still a bit tighter than for II.

I hope this helps!

Best regards,

David

abdel_dadouche
Active Contributor
0 Kudos

Hi,

Just to add some more details here.

II now have something named the "Automated Predictive Library" for HANA, whihc is the equivalent of PAL but for the II algorithms. It means that you can run the II algorithm to produce models directly in HANA just like with PAL

PA use a "data stream processiong" approach where you add block to execute algorithms, transform data via aggreagtion etc whereas II implment a wizard driven approach where the user navigate from panel to panel where each one has a dedicated purpose.

And a few more thing:

- you can also leverage II algorithms in PA (the algorithms are there in the list)

- II provide a "data preparation/extraction" engine called Explorer which allows the user to define a population, a target and an analytical record via a simple UI, then transpose that into the proper SQL to be executed in the database to extract the data (onlie mode) as well as the ability to mass score after the mode is created.

- II provides an SDK for Java and C which opens the door of embedability in your apps

Hope this helps!

Best regards

@bdel

Answers (1)

Answers (1)

Former Member
0 Kudos

Thanks to both of you for the replies posted.