Hi Udo, extremely helpful answer. much appreciate your effort! All I could observe as an outlier point is the one month of business (Jan'14). becz it has significantly less amount when compared to other years. For example: It looks like this Year            Amount (in Mn USD) 2011           150 2012           220 2013           275 2014           10 Regards ... View more

unfortunately I am in a position not to share the customer's data. Probably I could give you the exact scenario of how the data points are. will that help? - Satlr ... View more

Hi Udo, just a quick update. I just removed one data point from the year'14 which pertains to Jan and I am getting a smooth line now with correct forecast trend. All my upper and lower limits seems to be ok. As I mentioned early I have 4 years of data 2011, '12, '13, '14. For 2014 I have got only till Jan and the business is of less when compared to other years (coz only 1 month). So I filtered Jan to see whether it gives me correct forecast and seems to be fine. But could you suggest me whether this approach is correct. The data point (Jan 2014) has 10 million USD which got omitted after which I am getting a smooth increasing trend. But is it good to do this way by omitting such a huge value data point by considering that as an anomaly? regards, Satlr ... View more

Hi Udo, that was an useful information btw. Thanks. This was a question raised by one of my customer during demo. They expected that the forecasting line would have ups and downs exactly how the business would be in future. I am forecasting with the sales made in the last 4 years. Now what I see here is the amount shown in negative. I am getting all the forecast values in negative which cannot be the case. Pls correct if I am doing it wrong. All I have is the sales data which is the measure to forecast and I dont have any other measures to affect it. I understand as per your suggestion that it's a smoothing model selected automatically by VA which could be the best according to tool. But the forecast points in negative which concerns me. How will I correct this and get an exact forecast values? Also some suggestions on lower and upper confidence limit.. ... View more

Hi Peter, exactly thats the solution I was looking for. Thats good! Hope this functionality is not available in UI level in the VA. It would be good to get this as an option to perform this activities from UI level. Thanks.. ... View more

Thanks David...appreciate it! ... View more

exactly! it will help a lot! ... View more

wish I could have this option in VA  Thanks peter. ... View more

Hi David, Thanks for your brief reply. much useful. In distributed environment, using SASHDAT library, data can be distributed across the cluster. I gone through some of the documentations in hadoop website and ofcourse sas website. I could see the data is replicated (nodes) and stored which actually helps in many ways such as in load balancing, optimizing query process time etc etc (too many to mention here). Today every small analytics vendors to big vendors are moving towards in-memory based architecture. When I say non-distributed, is there any key benefits the customer would get? I am looking here for key differences that I can spot between sas and other in-memory based analytics vendors. satlr ... View more

ok so in this case (as a No-Colocated Data Provider) in no HDFS version of VA, how do files get stored in-memory? what format? what kind of DB structure? ... View more