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Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our April 2025 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. UX New UX for Models section in Administration The Models section in Administration has been redesigned with a more intuitive interface. Tenant…
Author: Saikrishna Bandaru is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Anaplan consultant. In this video, I demonstrate how to create a user-friendly Anaplan UX page that allows end users to upload or update specific data directly into Anaplan. The example covers account mapping, enabling users to mark accounts as "strategic"…
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here to learn more. Polaris is Anaplan's next-generation calculation engine, designed for highly dimensioned calculation at scale. It represents a paradigm shift in the ability to model business planning challenges without compromise. This deck and the…
We’re kicking off a new Best Practices Challenge this month! Each Challenge highlights a specific topic where Community members can share their expertise, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. This time, we're focusing on the topic around boards, reports, and worksheets. Below are some prompts to spark your…
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We’re celebrating @alexpavel in our latest Community Member Spotlight! For the past eight years, Alexandru has been a steady, helpful presence in the Community — with over 500 comments, and a role as a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Community Boss. He consistently shows up with thoughtful insights and a genuine desire…
Author: Chris Allen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Allitix Part of Accenture. Hello, and thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ video tutorial on replacing list items! The video will walk you through the process of replacing list items. The key feature leveraged here is importing a new code into a…
Author: Laiza Tagumpay is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Customer Success Business Partner at Anaplan in the Philippines, and is now a Solution Architect at an implementation partner in Canada. When developing effective plans, companies often rely on multiple layers of prioritization criteria. In this blog, we’ll…
Author: Ekaterina Garina is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Consultant at Keyrus. Does your Anaplan model feel cluttered with too many line items and modules, making it difficult to find anything? Are you dealing with redundant calculations? Need a little optimization? Or perhaps you have a large model that needs…
If you missed our April 30, 2025 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlight the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”,…
Author: Casey Pham is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director of FP&A Systems at Yext. Hello Anaplan Community! In this ‘How I Built It’ demo, I'm going to show how we dynamically hardcode data in cells in order to preserve values that were previously derived from calculations. An issue I've seen in past implementations…
We’re currently working to improve our Support Experience and would greatly appreciate your feedback to help shape the future of our customer support services. We are especially interested gathering feedback from our Hypercare customers. We’ve created a survey that will take only a few minutes to complete. Your input 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…
Author: Mike Henderson is a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan. There is growing interest in taking existing models that operate in the classic (Hyperblock) engine to Polaris. There are a variety of reasons motivating the move such as workspace optimization, accommodating natural model growth over time, and…
Author: Piotr Weremczuk is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Deloitte. Throughout my career, I have guided both large corporations and smaller enterprises in selecting Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools. A recurring pattern I’ve noticed is that most clients focus…
Following on from his recent article on best practices in data integration, Dmitri Tverdomed – Data Architect and Director at Zooss Consulting – takes a closer look at Anaplan’s APIs: What they are, why do they matter, and how should you get started to unlock efficiencies for business? In this article: Learn the basics of…
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: We are encouraging our users to stay within the Anaplan environment as much as possible when manipulating data. Analysis requirements…
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: UX limitations – lacks flexibility, constrained by predefined rules, and formatting is not easy (line items need to be formatted one…
Hi team, I am using cloud works to schedule a job to run, but I need you help to set up the process integration biweekly. How to schedule a job biweekly?
Excel opens CSVs and changes CSV's date formats depending on users' PC regional setting whereas Anaplan only accepts single date format in importing CSVs. When users import CSV files to Anaplan, they edit source CSVs in Excel. However, in case of apps for multinational users, depending on regions of users date formats vary…
Would be great to be able to have a line item format of time - not this isn't knowing what the current time is but users being able to put in 12:00, 12:30 etc or imported via datasets As we look towards having operational planning models being able to capture time as a pre-defined dataset rather than creating a list would…
Anaplan has the potential for good internal documentation with Notes on most Model objects. It would be great to be able surface this in UX: Module Notes, Line Item Notes.
As a model builder, some of the native version functionality is great. However, there are limitations that prevent it from being preferable in several cases. For this community idea, I am requesting the ability to have both of the below functionalities for the native versions in Anaplan: 1 . The ability to set a line item…
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: Why is Drill to Transaction not available in the UX? How often is this impacting your users? Always Who is this impacting? Everyone…
When an ADO link is created, it generates an associated action in the model. However, these are generally non-descript in their name (eg. something like "ADO Import 10000001"). While this is not an issue itself, you are unable to edit this while still allowing the Link to function. This means the actions end up with…
Hello Team, I am working with a Geo Map and I realize that when I hover over a territory, it shows the details I want it to show but when I click on a territory, it becomes 'checkered' and remains like that until I select something else, which makes the new selection checkered. Why does Anaplan do that? How do I…
Did anyone of you used Anaplan 'Hierarchy card' for below needs i.e., to define, design, maintain org data and chart (this is not really modelling of workforce): Base-lining org data and org chart. Org design with collaboration. Ability to extract an org chart, at all levels, with specific formatting and legends to support…
Hi Everyone, I am writing to inquire about the integration options available for connecting Synapse Cloud with Anaplan. I am trying to explore a way to streamline data flows and processes between these platforms, and we are keen to understand the best practices and methods for achieving this integration. Specifically, we…
I’ve started the basic training module on Anaplan Consolidation and completed a few lessons, but there are still some things unclear to me. How do we get started with Fluence as a platform? In Anaplan, there’s a workspace where users create and work on models based on their use case. How does this work with Anaplan…
Hello to everybody, We are facing some problems extracting information from SAP to ANAPLAN. We are trying to connect SAP with ANAPLAN just to export data from SAP to ANAPLAN. We need to extract information from tables of SAP (master data tables and transactional data tables like A DOCS). But we also need to extract…
I'm trying to set up an integration to get our consolidated balance sheet ending balances from NetSuite into Anaplan. Initially I was able to load transaction data using a saved search, which works for our income statement, but for the balance sheet it doesn't allow me to get the right values for foreign accounts that have…
Hi, We have created some really great looking customer reports in Anaplan but it is very time consuming exporting each individual customer report and then renaming the file to the customer name. We have over a hundred customers to issue reports to. Has anyone in the community come up with a way to expediate this process? I…
It looks like the latest version of the Anaplan Connector for MuleSoft is 4.0.2 which only supports Java 8/11. The Mule Runtime Extended Support for Java 8/11 will end for the following: - v4.8 Edge will End June 2025 - v4.6 LTS will End February 2026
I'm trying to execute an Action to export data with the use of a Mapping in Informatica. But it gives us null rows .If we export directly from Anaplan , the export file has all the rows filled. Both exports have same number of rows but in the informatica export the values appear as blank. This issue is with only some…
Hi, Does anyone know how to get an outbound OData Rest API, (OAuth2) to establish a connection between SAP and Anaplan. Thanks Khaled
