Put the Weather to Work for Your Company

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1 SAP Data Network Put the Weather to Work for Your Company Extend the Value of Your Business and Transactional Solutions by Incorporating Weather Data 1 / 7

2 Table of Contents 3 Enrich Business Data with Weather Information 3 The Effect of Weather on Your Business 5 Weather History 6 Weather Forecasts 6 Severe Weather 7 Learn More 2 / 7

3 Enrich Business Data with Weather Information Turn business data into actionable insights that enable you to create new value in the form of revenue opportunities, efficiency improvements, and better customer experiences. By enriching data with weather information, you can discover its relationship to daily or seasonal climate patterns. With data-driven insight services from the live customer cloud service on SAP Data Network, you can incorporate weather data when you benchmark, plan, predict, and simulate business scenarios. THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ON YOUR BUSINESS Many aspects of a business are affected by the weather. Sales of products change from winter to summer, consumers behave differently, and logistics are affected by the seasons. To turn business data into insights, it is essential to capture all the factors that affect that data, and weather is a common factor across many industries. With the live customer cloud service of SAP Data Network, we can add data on weather and climate from a curated set of relevant data sources to your business data. We can transform and manipulate the weather data to test for correlations and discover relationships. Ultimately, we can build predictive models and deliver them through interactive visualizations. We transform and manipulate weather data to test for correlations, discover relationships, build predictive models, and deliver them through interactive visualizations. 3 / 7

4 We can use our geospatial capabilities, as described in the brochure Put Your Data on the Map, to put business and weather data into a spatial context. Figure 1 shows the coverage of one publicly available source of weather data in California: on the left, the individual weather stations; and on the right, the aggregation of weather stations by county to show the density of coverage. Figure 1: Weather Station Coverage in California1 1. Generated from publicly available data using SAP and open-source software. 4/7

5 WEATHER HISTORY To provide information on the overall weather and climate patterns across a wide area, we use publicly available weather observation data that has been curated to a high standard. This is data with global coverage, dating back 175 years in some locations. If the business use case requires it, we can also connect to paid sources of hyperlocal weather observations. Figure 2 shows past weather patterns for a location in southern Washington: the monthly average minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and precipitation throughout a 10-year period. We can use this kind of data analysis to describe past weather patterns and determine if the weather this year is significantly different than in previous years. Figure 2: Ten-Year History of Temperature and Precipitation 2 2. Generated from publicly available data using SAP and open-source software. 5 / 7

6 WEATHER FORECASTS With the live customer cloud service, we can add short-term weather forecasts from paid and public data sources to customer data. We can set up custom alerts when a forecast exceeds predefined parameters that affect your business process, for example, if something is unusually sensitive to temperature or rainfall. Figure 3 shows the forecast daily high and low temperatures for a location in California compared to the normal temperatures for the time of year. SEVERE WEATHER The live customer cloud service can add data on severe weather events, such as storms, extreme heat or cold, or high winds, and weather-related risks, such as floods or fire. We can examine the past responses of your business to such severe weather events and provide insight on how your business processes could be affected by similar events in the future. The service can also incorporate alerts from public agencies for upcoming severe weather events. Figure 3: Forecast Versus Normal Temperatures 3 3. Generated from publicly available data using SAP and open-source software. 6 / 7

7 LEARN MORE To find out more, call your SAP representative today or visit us online. We can examine the past responses of your business to severe weather events and provide insights on how your business processes could be affected by similar events in the future. 7 / 7

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