AI forecasting

Boost your team’s speed and accuracy with AI demand forecasting—right inside IBM Planning Analytics

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Go from reactive to predictive planning analytics

Let’s integrate AI into your workflows to quickly produce predictions that are accurate, compliant, and easily auditable. The built-in AI forecasting in IBM® Planning Analytics operates with your existing tools and models. The outcome? Watch an instant impact ripple across sales sheets, financial statements, workforce plans, and KPI goals.

AI-based forecasting in IBM Planning Analytics

See how you can make informed business decisions that drive your business forward with AI-infused forecasting. 

Forecast faster

Spend just minutes—not days—on analytics planning and model tuning with guidance from AI automation.

Improve accuracy

Uncover patterns and seasonality that’s sometimes overlooked when shuffling so many spreadsheets.

Use more of your data

Sharpen your predictive analytics with historicals, real-time feeds and market signals—even future state variables.

Integrated with PA assistant

Generate a concise forecast summary that explains drivers, shifts, and confidence ranges by using LLMs.

What you can do

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Use historical data to project outcomes on a schedule—perfect for monthly and quarterly planning cycles. Analysts have full control over frequency, horizons, overrides and approvals. See technical details
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Run quick forecasts from actuals by using time series AI that detects trends and seasonality with automatic outlier detection and correction. Learn how to forecast from actuals
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Choose your forecast data spreading—proportional or relative proportional from consolidated member. Learn how to spread forecasting data
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Save statistical details for future forecast executions. Learn how to save statistical data
Product screenshot of baseline demo UI dashboard
Use historical data to project outcomes on a schedule—perfect for monthly and quarterly planning cycles. Analysts have full control over frequency, horizons, overrides and approvals. See technical details
Product screenshot of Forecast preview chart outliers UI dashboard
Run quick forecasts from actuals by using time series AI that detects trends and seasonality with automatic outlier detection and correction. Learn how to forecast from actuals
Product screenshot of Spread data options UI dashboard
Choose your forecast data spreading—proportional or relative proportional from consolidated member. Learn how to spread forecasting data
Product screenshot of backup statistical details UI dashboard
Save statistical details for future forecast executions. Learn how to save statistical data
Customer results 25% Time savings across the department

Idaho Forest Group cut forecasting effort from over 80 hours to less than 15 hours, freeing executive time.

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50% Faster production of bank stress test reports

ICBC reduced processing from 4 weeks to 2 weeks.

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97% Benchmark achieved by the forecasting process.

Learn how IBM developed a platform for integrated enterprise data called Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

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