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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Anomaly Detection and Outlier Reporting

Anomaly Detection and Outlier Reporting

We continue to make improvements to intelligent planning to help you create more robust and accurate models. Anomaly detection and outlier reporting enable you to identify outliers in general ledger accounts on standard sheets. They also enable you to analyze comparisons between machine learning predictions and your plans and budgets.
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Self-Service Setup

Release: 2021-03-12
We now provide anomaly detection and outlier reporting to all Adaptive Planning instances enabling you to create more accurate plans with machine learning.
We also add a new Intelligent Planning section to Modeling, enabling you to generate the predictions after creating a special prediction version.

Generate Predictions

Release: 2021-03-12
We provide a new ML Predictions page that you can access from a new Intelligent Planning section on the Model Management page. On the new page, we also add a new Generate Predictions button that you can click to generate and display prediction information, helping you validate your intelligent planning setup.

Anomalies in Cumulative Accounts

Release: 2021-03-12
We remove cumulative accounts from the prediction version so that they no longer show anomalies, improving the accuracy of the algorithm.

Anomaly Thresholds Modeled Sheet

Release: 2021-04-09
To provide greater flexibility, we now enable you to define anomaly thresholds in modeled sheets. You can define thresholds for the upper and lower bounds either globally or for each account, level, and version.
To use this functionality, you must:
  • Name the modeled sheet AIML-THRESHOLD.
  • Select only 1 leaf level.
  • Use these columns: ad_level, ad_account, ad_version, upper, and lower.

Prediction Version Type

Release: 2021-04-09
We now provide a new Prediction Versions plan version type, enabling you to use any name for the machine learning prediction version. Now, you no longer must use AIML-FORECAST as the name of your prediction version.
To support the new plan version type, we display a new drop-down when you click the Create New Plan Version button. In the drop-down, we display these options:
  • Create plan version.
  • Create prediction version.
Note: When you generate predictions, we:
  • Enable you to copy the consolidation percentages and exchange rates from another plan version.
  • Use the date you select in the Start of Plan setting as the start date for the prediction.