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Author: Sanja Boll is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Solution Architect at GlobalFoundries. Anaplan’s Data Orchestrator (ADO) is very effective tool to import, transform, and load data into your Anaplan models. When used correctly, it can cut your data integration and transformation efforts by 50%, however…
Author: Valeria Sicuro is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Professional Service Consultant at Bedford Consulting. In this ‘How I Built It’ video, I demonstrate how dimensionality decisions impact model design in Anaplan, and how the same business requirement can lead to different implementations depending on whether you…
Author: Vamshidhar Reddy Peesari is an Anaplan Solution Architect in the BI Planning Center of Excellence, specializing in large-scale Polaris models and model governance. If you build on Polaris, you live with the number 64. The Dimension Index Total — the sum of the index scores of every dimension on a line item — is the…
Author: Alexandru Pavel is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Solution Architect at Keyrus. In manufacturing, supply chain planning, and production management, it is often necessary to determine the quantities of raw materials required to produce a finished good. This process, commonly referred to as BOM (Bill of Materials)…
Author: Daniel Badura is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Solution Architect at Dr. Oetker. A consistent, transparent planning approach offers many benefits, but applying it across an international organization is no small task. Markets differ in priorities and business practices: customer preferences and buying habits,…
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Author: Hanwen Chen: Certified Master Anaplanner and Professional Services Sr. Manager at Anaplan. Dynamic Time Filters and Dynamic Line-Item Filters are common features in Anaplan models that provide users with greater flexibility when viewing reports. Dynamic Time Filter A Dynamic Time Filter allows users to select the…
Author: Pranjal Agrawal is a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Senior Anaplan Consultant at Hinduja Global Solutions Limited (HGS). The challenge I was working for a client who at the start of their fiscal year introduced some new functionalities in Anaplan. They initially estimated that the additional data flowing in for…
Author: Amrita Gopalakrishnan is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Decisions do not wait until you are back at your desk. In today’s fast-paced corporate landscape, executives, directors, and field managers are constantly on the move - traveling between sites, heading to board meetings, or catching flights. Yet, traditional…
Author: Chandresh Lad is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Building a great model is a significant achievement. Keeping it effective, reliable, and easy to manage as the business evolves is a different challenge. Many Anaplan implementations begin with a clear objective: deliver a planning solution that meets an immediate…
Author: John Carter is a Sr Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Organize, share and control access to sensitive data In our previous article here we focused on the basics of Virtual Datasets, what they are, where they are found in the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) UI, how a Virtual Dataset is defined, how it can then…
Author: Grégory Ponce is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Hello Anaplan Community! Today, we are diving into a game-changing feature in Anaplan FCR: the Unallocated Difference management. If you deal with financial consolidation and reporting on a daily basis, you know how tedious managing multi-dimensional…
Author: Reena Sethy is a Director, Product Management at Anaplan. We are excited to announce the official release of our new bidirectional Databricks connector within Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO). This release provides data integration between Databricks and Anaplan, giving users seamless read and write capabilities…
Author: Dave Waller, Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. As organizations grow, so does the volume of planning decisions. Re-forecasting headcount, adjusting regional sales promotional budgets, or approving operational expenses can quickly scale from a handful of decisions to hundreds or thousands of individual requests.…
Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In the world of enterprise planning, clarity is everything. When you're reviewing high-level data and making critical business decisions, the last thing you want is a cluttered dashboard that distracts from the core metrics. That's why we're thrilled…
Author: Avirup Sen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and a senior consultant and solution architect at EyeOn. A key reason for Anaplan’s global success story is how it is adopted easily across organizations for its ease of business adoption. Users globally love the platform, not only for the performance and scale of…
Financial planning models are constantly evolving throughout Forecast and Budget cycles. New requirements, model enhancements and business changes are essential to support better decision making. However, these ongoing developments can create a challenge when approved numbers used for management reporting remain directly…
Problem Statement Currently, Export Actions and Saved Views are not dynamically synchronized after an Export Action is created. This limitation creates additional maintenance effort for model builders and increases the risk of inconsistencies between export configurations and reporting requirements. Key Challenges 1. Saved…
The Integration Admin role needs to be assigned differently to a user than other roles. It would be great to harmonize these settings as I did not find it myself. Maybe other roles are affected as well Administration → User → Roles vs Access Control → Assignments
It would be helpful if we could change the Module Name “Style” setting to improve visibility, similar to the Line Item “Style” setting.
It would be helpful if users could select the time scale (e.g., Year, Quarter, Month, Day) when creating a new module.
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: Model builders often need to test formulas before adding them to a live calculation module. Today, testing typically requires…
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: When having pictures shown in a line item in the new UX, the summaries levels all take the same height as the lowest list item, even…
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: In our company, we work a lot with Workflow templates for different models and different time periods. It doesn´t make sense to have…
When selecting two or more cells in Anaplan, a calculation menu appears in the bottom-right corner displaying useful statistics such as Count, Min, Max, Average, and Sum. This is a helpful functionality for quickly analyzing selected values. However, the current functionality is limited to contiguous cells. Users cannot…
When we are designing boards for clients we often have a trade-off between: Too many pages Too much information on the page A really powerful feature would be to have the ability to show hide elements of the page (example: fields, cards, grids, charts or even entire rows) based on a line item that can be a user selection /…
I can't seem to get the correct answer of 73.48 for the question of Default Forecast in Week 6 FY26 for Nutzo Bar_EN in the Candyate? Based on the historical sales and growth rates, IDFC should be 72.76: Nutzo Bar_EN - Candyate Week 6 FY25 Baseline Forecast 69.94 Week 6 FY25 Weekly Growth Rate % 3.0% Week 6 FY25 Initial…
Has anyone deployed Anaplan Analyst across multiple connected apps or workspaces? How do you handle context switching so the agent doesn’t mix up assumptions or hierarchies between models?
I have a question about the new Expand or collapse grid rows option. Is it possible to publish a grid containing a 5-level hierarchy so that all items from levels 1 and 2 are always visible? And I do not want to use a filter for this.
Hello there, I just had the most unenjoyable experience in speaking with someone from the Academy tech support. Level 2, Dynamic Cell Access 2.4.5 has a model to download. Seems simple enough. However, what they fail to remind you in the training video or anywhere on the screen, is that if you don't have the Page Builder…
Since account targets are allocated by the ratio of previous year revenue, an account with no history would get a target of zero. Is that expected, or do new accounts get a target another way?
We've been building a tool called aplan4sheets and we'd genuinely like input from this community — both on what we've built so far and on what we should prioritize next. The problem we set out to solve: Anaplan's Excel add-in is Windows-centric, and there's no real native way to pivot Anaplan data in Google Sheets. We…
We are looking for Anaplan end-users to provide feedback on their experiences with the Excel add-in. Interested individuals will respond to this 5-minute survey to help us understand personal needs and behavior when using the add-in. The feedback provided by survey takers is essential to the roadmap of Anaplan's products.…
Estimated Level of Effort:4-8 Hours of Model Building Level of Difficulty: Beginner Recommended Training: L2 Model Builder Training Persona: Casual Model Builder Potential ROI: Decreased planning time Increased accuracy of targets/spreads You Might Also Like: * Historical Snapshotting Top-Down Allocations Whether it's…
Retail Knowledge | Detecting Trend INTRODUCTION Using machine learning to detect a sales trend is a science and an art. Obviously no computer program or set of calculations could ever know everything that’s going on with your business. The creative side of detecting a trend is built upon your familiarity with the way your…
I have designed a simple new UX Page (Page:A) so it can be viewed on a regular laptop / monitor size screen. This Page (Page A) is also viewable on the Anapaln mobile App (with no loading issues), but involves lots of scrolling to see the whole Page content I have been trying to design a simple mobile App friendly size…
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Join Anaplan experts for a practical deep dive into how Anaplan Workflow helps organizations streamline business processes, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and automate planning approvals at scale. This session will explore how structured workflows direct stakeholders to the right task at the right time, helping…
Anaplan's next quarterly platform release webinar will be held October 28, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time. During this session, we will explore the latest features so you can optimize your Anaplan experience! Our expert-led session will equip you with live demonstrations to help you get the most out of new features and…
