Smart Discovery provides you with a powerful aid to data exploration by using machine learning to explore data and uncover valuable insights. It allows you to do the following:
- Discover the key influencers driving your key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Gain insights about these influencers
- Identify outliers
- Analyze patterns in your data
- Use historical data to predict future outcomes
- Simulate what-if scenarios
Smart Discovery uses a combination of statistical analysis and predictive analytics to discover insights that are difficult and expensive to find manually. It automatically generates a story containing the analysis of the data that can be used to drive further analysis. The visualization generated can be used in a final story.
![An SAP Analytics Cloud story is open on screen showing the Smart Discovery pane open on the right side of the screen. An SAP Analytics Cloud story is open on screen showing the Smart Discovery pane open on the right side of the screen.](/service/media/topic/f3da4f98-0e40-41b0-bf34-d099153fbcfc/SACR21_39_en-US_media/SACR21_39_en-US_images/SACR21SmartDiscovery.png)