AI in SAP Analytics Cloud

There is very large current interest and investment in AI techniques. Various developments made by SAP within their SAP Analytics Cloud product are directly applicable to Photon’s product, which uses SAP Analytics Cloud as a dashboard and interrogation tool. 

Adam Hill (Founder and CEO) said: “our Financial Hub uses the AI features of SAP Analytics Cloud to provide greater exploratory functions and accessibility to the data.  The first of these is the ‘Just Ask’ feature of SAC, which was the first delivery in Q1 2024 on the roadmap for generative AI in SAP Analytics Cloud. The ‘Just Ask’ feature applies generative AI to natural language queries for search-driven analytics and enhances answer accuracy and consistency, surpassing existing search-driven solutions. It enables users to quickly access trusted insights in their preferred language regardless of expertise and also helps to increase data literacy and analytics”.

“The other novel capability of SAP Analytics Cloud is Joule, SAP’s natural-language, generative AI copilot, a conversational AI assistant that understands industry- and business-specific language. Joule allows work to be done faster by allowing users to frame a problem in natural language, to which Joule provides answers drawn from a wealth of business data, while retaining context”.

“Joule also allows the user to enrich models with calculations, discover data and design new visualisations. It can generate custom scripts to extend dashboards, simulate and analyse driver impacts and develop business plans. In summary, SAP AI tools are providing capability for users to improve their daily work lives”.

“Photon is delighted to be a partner of the SAP corporation, which is producing useful advances in AI, directly benefitting the user”.

Co-Founder Paul Newton, also commented: “AI is a hot topic and it feels like a race to see who can harness it the most effectively.  Given our Partnership with SAP it makes sense to leverage the investments they have made (which are substantial) and to utilise these capabilities within the Photon Financial Hub.  We are excited to see how these tools will automate and reduce risk for our customers”