Put planning into action using outlier detection

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users, automatically	Jun 2025	-

Business value

Organizations can streamline their planning process with outlier detection, increasing their business agility and reducing time to take action in the planning cycle.

Feature details

Planning is a critical part of an organization's process that helps it model out potential growth or business changes and get insight into the details and impact of new or divested investments. Organizations strive to do more continuous planning to get a competitive advantage by moving faster, getting insights earlier to be more agile and dynamic than their competition.

Using algorithms for outlier detection or for forecasting, businesses can have a more reliable plan. By automating these planning actions and creating new scenarios and reports, companies can save time by eliminating manual processes. Automating the full plan to act to analyze process is possible with the business performance capabilities, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365 Finance.

This feature will provide:

• Visualization of outliers
• Ability to exclude outliers from planning scenario