Planning Analytics with Watson: Get started

For Systems Administrators

 IBM Planning Analytics Overview
This video provides an overview of the key capabilities of IBM Planning Analytics with Watson

Title: I’ve subscribed to IBM Planning Analytics – what happens now?
This article describes what happens when you subscribe to IBM Planning Analytics, whether that is online, direct with IBM, or via an IBM Business Partner. It is a handy guide that will walk you through the steps that you will experience as your IBM Planning Analytics environment brought on-line

The IBM Planning Analytics with Watson Welcome Kit Video
The IBM Planning Analytics Welcome Kit file contains a set of account and system information that is unique for your IBM Planning Analytics system. The information includes the main user account credentials, system addresses, and URLs that you use to connect to your IBM Planning Analytics system. This video will guide you through the IBM Planning Analytics Welcome Kit. 

Title: Building Applications in Planning Analytics Workspace
In this video, we will show how to build applications: starting with dimensions and hierarchies, creating cubes, loading data, business rules and performing a reorganization.

• Planning Analytics on Cloud: Getting started with Planning Analytics on Cloud 
  
  
• Managing users and groups: Administrators want to familiarize themselves on what’s involved with managing users and groups. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=operations-managing-users-groups
  
  
• Administration: Administrators should understand all aspects of administering Planning Analytics on Cloud. All aspects and steps such as uploading and managing files, and migrating data in your Planning Analytics
  system. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=cloud-administering-planning-analytics
  
  
• Supported data source connections: Product Documentation: Planning Analytics is pre-configured with data source connections that are deployed during the provisioning process. Stay current with the supported data source connections. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=gateway-data-source-connection

• This section answers some common questions that customers might have about IBM Planning Analytics on cloud.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=cloud-troubleshooting-planning-analytics

For Modelers

• Video: Overview video
• Video: The beginner’s guide to OLAP modeling and modeling concepts
• Video: Beginners guide to OLAP Modeling: Cubes
• Video: Beginner’s guide to OLAP Modeling: Dimensions
• Video: Creating your first cube

For Analysts/Plan Contributors

• Video: Overview video
• How to Create a book
• Creating a visualization

Applications

• Introduction to Expense based Planning
• Introduction to profitability analysis
  • Navigating the profitability analysis template
• Gross Margin Planning
  • Navigating the Gross Margin template

Training Resources

• https://www.ibm.com/training/search?query=planning analytics

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