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AI-Powered Capabilities in IBM Planning Analytics

With Sami El Cheikh, IBM Product Manager

Overview of newly-released features including IBM PA Assistant, Impact and Outlier Analysis, Chart Insights and Rule Tracer. IBM also provided insight and a quick intro view of future roadmap items for release in later 2025.

February 26, 2025, 11am-12pm EST

We hosted a great session with IBM's Sami El Cheikh to walk us through the recently-released AI-powered capabilities in IBM Planning Analytics. These new features are integrated in IBM PA and leverage Watson X to help increase usability and adoption of the tool by all types of users. They are currently available in the platform.

The session covered the following items:

  • AI Capabilities Powered by Watson X
    • IBM PA Assistant - Manipulate and source IBM PA content for review and analysis
    • Chart Insights - Obtain insights and key points in natural language
    • Outlier Analysis - Identify outliers in a specified data set
    • Impact Analysis - Discover dependencies and correlations across multiple variables
    • Rule Tracer Explains - User-friendly explanation of cell calculation logic
  • Feature Availability (Cloud, On-Prem, Licensing)
  • Future Roadmap
  • Q&A

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