Smart Discovery Results: Simulation

The simulation view helps you understand how changing the values of your key influencers could have an impact on the value of your target measure in relation to your entity.

How to Run a Simulation

  1. Go to the Simulation page in your story.

  2. In the Influencers section, choose or enter a new value for one or more of your key influencers.

    Note

    To change a key influencer value and simulate the impact on your target in relation to your entity, use either the displayed slider or dropdown to specify a new value:

    • If the influencer is a measure: use the slider or input a number.

    • If the influencer is a dimension: use the dropdown to select a different value.

  3. Choose the Simulate button.

    Note

    The Simulate button is enabled only when you change one of your influencer values.

The underlying machine learning model assesses the quality of the Smart Discovery results. Each chart has an insight quality checkbox indicating when the quality of the analysis is good. If the underlying machine learning model analysis indicates low confidence in the quality of the Smart Discovery results, you're also alerted in the chart.

Simulation Results

When you select the Simulate button, the effect of your changes is reflected in the target numeric point chart. Potential changes include:

  • The value of the Target for Entity column increases, decreases, or stays the same

  • The percentage increase or decrease is displayed

  • A textual insight that offers a brief description of the positive or negative influence one or more of your influencer value changes. The level of impact is described in one of these ways:

    • Strongly negative

    • Weakly negative

    • Negative

    • Neutral

    • Weakly positive

    • Positive

    • Strongly positive

Example
Expected Gross Margin is €0.14 Million, positively influenced mainly by Discount [252.29 K] + Product [Orange Juice].
Note

  • Simulations are available only for discoveries with measures as targets.

  • The simulation view isn't supported on Mobile.

  • The formulation of the currency in the numeric point chart depends on the Currency Position profile settings selected by the user from the home page in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Styling Options for Simulator

To customize the look of the Smart Discovery Simulator, do the following:

  1. Select a tile on the page.

  2. Open the Designer panel and select (Styling).

    The Styling panel displays options available for the selected tile type. Some options may not be available to all users.

    For charts and tables, you see only the styling options for the specific area that you've highlighted. The heading in the Styling panel identifies the area. For example, it can show Title, Data Cell, Axis Labels, and so on. Selecting a different part of the table or chart changes the heading and the styling options.

  3. Select desired tile options.

The following table contains the available Styling panel options.

Styling Options

Description
Background Color

Select a background color for this tile.
Border
Select to add a border around the tile. Options include:

  • Bottom Border

  • Left Border

  • Top Border

  • Right Border

  • All Borders

  • Top and Bottom Borders

  • Left and Right Borders

  • No Border
Text Selection
Select the text element you want to customize. Options include:

  • All Text

  • Title

  • Header

  • Input Label - the name of the influencer

  • Impact Description - for example, Neutral, Weakly Negative, Strongly Positive, and so on.
Font

Select the font you want to apply to the selected text.
Size

Select the font size you want to apply to the selected text.
Color

Select the font color you want to apply to the selected text.
Style

Select the font style you want to apply to the selected text.
Note

The Simulator widget is for use in Smart Discovery only.

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