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Author: Jonathan Cushing is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at Vuealta Consulting. My first experience of Anaplan was building an FP&A model in the company I worked in group finance. The company operated within the construction sector all over the UK with regional offices along with a centralized group…
Author: Seyma Tas is a Certified Master Anaplanner and product owner at Caliber Collision. A guide to help you get the answers you need The Anaplan Community is an incredible resource to share knowledge and get help. To get the best answers quickly, make sure you ask clear, well-crafted questions. Here are some tips on how…
Author: Avnish Goel is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Founder at ScriptStory. Recently, I led a model assessment initiative to identify suboptimal design elements in the data architecture for a leading investment banking firm. The project involved analyzing source systems and Anaplan models, leveraging both Anaplan best…
Author: Hanwen Chen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Professional Services Sr. Manager at Anaplan. Use case This is an interesting use case. One of our customers wanted to be able to include/exclude any list item/member in any level of a hierarchy to/from a group. The customer calls the group “Domain”. Domains are used…
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The 2025 Certified Master Anaplanner Program has begun and there's incredible opportunity for 2025 Certified Master Anaplanners (CMAs) to demonstrate their thought leadership, technical expertise, evangelism, and mentorship capabilities across the entire Anaplan Ecosystem! At their core, a Certified Master Anaplanner is…
In the world of Anaplan modeling, performance is key. Slow model calculations can be a major bottleneck, impacting productivity and decision-making. But what if you could pinpoint exactly what’s causing the slowdown? Enter the Calculation Effort column — a powerful new feature designed to help you identify and address…
Today, we’re kicking off our first Best Practices Challenge of 2025! This challenge series is an opportunity for Community members to share their expertise on a specific topic, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. This time, we’re focusing on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). What is your overall approach to…
If you missed our event today, Understanding the Customer Care Portal, a recording is now available. In this event, I provide a demo highlighting the value of the new comprehensive case visibility, self-service tools, and dynamic case submission form to reduce resolution times. Topics covered include: Seamless access to…
Intended Audience Level of Difficulty: Intermediate Requires familiarity with APIs and Postman Resources Required: Internal Expertise: IT Developer / API User Tools Needed: Postman, CloudWorks Access Requirements: CloudWorks, Postman, Anaplan Integration Admin Estimated Level of Effort (LoE): Low Approximately 1-2 hours…
Intended Audience Level of Difficulty: Intermediate Requires familiarity with APIs and python scripting Resources Required: Internal Expertise: Python Developer / API Expert Tools Needed: Python, CloudWorks, Code Editor Access Requirements: CloudWorks, Anaplan Integration Admin Estimated Level of Effort (LoE): Low A few…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our February 2025 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. Integrations and Extensibility Create a transformation view directly from a source dataset in Anaplan Data Orchestrator On the Source data page, a…
Addressing JDBC Driver Compatibility Issues Intended Audience Level of Difficulty: Intermediate Requires some familiarity with APIs, scripting, or database concepts Resources Required: Internal Expertise: Data Engineer/IT Admin/Integration Admin Tools Needed: Anaplan Connect, Snowflake, Notepad Editor Access Requirements:…
Author: David Edwards is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Associate Partner at Columbus Consulting. Whether you are an Anaplan customer or implementation partner, it can sometimes be difficult to convince business stakeholders to invest in large digital transformation initiatives. This is often the case when positioning…
Author: Soumya Bhattacharya is a Certified Master Anaplanner and technology consultant at Accenture. In this ‘How I Built It’ tutorial, I show how Anaplan can be used to demonstrate effective project-based planning. Also, how integrating a custom workday calendar can enhance the flexibility and accuracy of your planning…
Issue: When building dashboards for users, we ensure column widths are consistent across all columns. However, users often filter data and adjust column widths based on their specific needs. They can save these adjustments in a Personal Copy, but upon re-login, the column widths are reset, requiring them to manually resize…
Some customers have dimensions/lists with more than 1,000,000 list items. When leveraging Anaplan's options for connecting Excel to an Anaplan Module, the user will usually filter the selection (and the user may be limited to a subset based on Selective Access), so the user will not need the full data set. Unfortunately…
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: Lots of our UX pages have a summary grid at the top, then a series of grids below with the same column headings and more detail…
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: How often is this impacting your users? Our client wanted chart in right side panel on Worksheet and this required a module with only…
We have received a requirement to do bulk export from Management Reporting for all the intersections available. At the moment, we can only do for one intersection and it takes a few seconds for the pdf to be even available for export. Would be great to have this capability to do bulk pdf exports.
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: As an Anaplan Tenant Administrator, I need to be able to view my Anaplan UX adoption data in the following specific categories:…
As an Anaplan Tenant Administrator, I want to be able to view User Account Creation Dates for all my internal users as a separate column information. So that it is easier for me to centrally view and manage users who haven't been interacted with my Anaplan platform since their accounts creation. I know this will be…
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: The recently added Calculation Effort column is great. It would be nice to be able to highlight it in a Module to see a total. It…
Hi All, I am in a situation where the users are uploading a data file into Anaplan, that we are then wanting to create a report based on, to highlight some issues, that the end users then should be able to comment on. The problem I am facing is that loading the data file into a module, we want to show the raw data inputs,…
I wanted to start a discussion about the challenges businesses face when implementing AI or ML solutions. Whether it's related to cost, technical expertise, or finding the right team, there are often hurdles to overcome. For example, while some companies opt for Machine Learning Development Services to streamline their…
MS Edge is our preferred Chromium browser. Over the last couple of weeks we have started to receive a Bad Message 431 error when we try to relog in to expired sessions. Has anyone else experienced this change? Has anyone identified a fix?
I am taking all the free online courses I can find. There is a book "Anaplan A Complete Guide 2021", is a newer version available, soon? Is it worth buying? What about Anaplan - "Complete Self Assessment Guide"…or will this be covered in our kick off meetings with Anaplan staff? Any other recommended Books/Resources, other…
Hi, I'm tenant admin for our organisation. Our users run a lot of PDFs out of Anaplan and we decided to turn off email notifications by default to save each person having to go into their notification settings to amend the export to PDF toggle. However, there are some users, who need email notifications on, for example…
What is the maximum number of rows and columns a CSV file can be imported into the module when viewed as an Excel file?
I want to understand on how I can get access to new fluence/Anaplan disclosure management Is it part of the license? Also can multiple users work on a single report at the same time using this tool?
Hello, I keep seeing the following error message: Invalid formula: 'DAT03 Historic Volumes'.'Offset Volumes for 1st Forecast Year' = IF 'SYS01 Time Settings By Week'.'1st Forecast Year?' THEN OFFSET('DEM02 Volume Growth Rates by Week'.Growth %, -52, 0) ELSE 0 For function OFFSET, all line item arguments that vary by time…
When importing/exporting data using Anaplan Connect 3.0, if the file is 100MB or larger, it will be split into chunks according to the chunk size setting. When this happens, if the file contains multibyte characters such as Japanese, the characters will become garbled. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Or will…
Hi, We came across org charts (Hierarchy Charts) which are a great functionality. However, we want the client to be able to do scenario planning on the hierarchy and by Month. E.g. John could report to Smith in Jan, but in Feb , he report to Molly. Since Org Charts cannot refresh dynamically unless you incorporate time…
Hi Team, I have received a project that requires experience with PowerShell scripting. How does it work with Anaplan Connect? I have experience with CloudWorks, but I would appreciate any resources or insights on using PowerShell scripts with Anaplan. If anyone from the group can share guidance or useful links, it would be…
