What pros need to know about SAP's 5 new machine learning services

SAP has expanded its SAP Leonardo Machine Learning platform to enable developers and data scientists to create more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools and drive business value. The updates come alongside a new investment in intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) intended to help eliminate time-intensive manual tasks across the firm's portfolio, as noted in a Tuesday press release. The company touted its SAP Conversational AI as its true enterprise-grade offer, giving users a platform for building custom bots for their business. It's due out in late October 2018, the release said, but SAP is working on other AI products as well. The machine learning capabilities available through SAP are intended to give data scientists a new option for creating and customizing their own machine learning models, the release said.