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Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. I’ve seen how Anaplan Centers of Excellence (CoEs) start with strong momentum. There’s enthusiasm, executive support, and a clear ambition to make connected…
Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. Hello Anaplan Community! I’m sharing a short walkthrough of my Anaplan Center of Excellence (CoE) App designed to help new CoE leads set up their CoE with clarity…
Author: Parmod Kumar, Certified Solution Architect, and Financial Planning & Supply Chain Specialist at TCS. Reading time: approximately 8-10 minutes. Why the Polaris engine Is powerful and beautiful Polaris is Anaplan’s next‐generation calculation engine, built from the ground up to handle high dimensionality, sparse…
Author: Vijay Pasumarthy is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Principal Consultant at Genpact. If you had two modules with a common dimension and wanted to show information from both on the same page, your options were limited: Build a new “combo” module and recreate all the line items or Drop two grid cards side by…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our January 2026 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. Dataspaces in Anaplan Data Orchestrator Dataspaces are partitioned areas of a tenant-wide Anaplan Data Orchestrator instance. Integration…
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Author: Veronica Pietrobon is a Product Manager at Anaplan. You can enhance your Anaplan Disclosure Management Word documents by using headers and footers, which work just as they do in Microsoft Office. To get them just right, it’s helpful to understand how both Word and Anaplan DM handle these elements. This guide will…
Author: Mark Warren is the Architecture and Performance Director at Anaplan. Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) is used to connect, transform, and manage data from various sources to be used in Anaplan models. It is a data management system that enhances integration, efficiency, and data governance within the Anaplan…
Author: Werner Priels is Product Manager at Anaplan, focusing on Financial Consolidation. When managing multiple data interactions in Anaplan FCR, having a clear and transparent audit trail is not just a nice-to-have; it's a necessity. The out-of-the-box drillthrough feature is a powerful tool that provides deep insight…
Author: Philipp Erkinger, Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Solution Architect at Bedford Consulting. Dear Anaplan Community, The Anaplan Polaris Engine has brought a significant transformation in the way I construct and design Anaplan models. Over the past three years, I have had the privilege of working on…
In the last post, we showed how to retrieve logs using our API. Today, we will also show how to automate an Optimizer process using our API. That way, you can schedule the solving of an Optimizer action using code. You can also use Anaplan Connect to automate the request, and soon you will be able to use Workflow as well.…
If you missed our January 29, 2026 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlighted 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: Anish There has 2.5 years of experience in Anaplan and is an Analyst at Deloitte. Managing user licenses and keeping track of model sizes in Anaplan can be daunting for teams juggling multiple models across DEV, QA, and PROD environments. Traditionally, consolidating user information means manually exporting from…
The 2026 Certified Master Anaplanner Program has begun, and there is incredible opportunity for 2026 Certified Master Anaplanners (CMAs) to demonstrate their thought leadership, technical expertise, Anaplan championship, and mentorship capabilities across the entire Anaplan ecosystem. At their core, a Certified Master…
Author: Vinay Varadaraj Mirajkar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. Imagine you are modeling inventory projection in the classic engine with below assumptions: Large number of products and locations Planning horizon with daily buckets (let’s say 60 days) This is very common in use…
Author: Dave Smith is a Senior Product Manager at Anaplan. We are thrilled to announce the rollout of On-Demand Calculation in Polaris, a feature that significantly enhances performance and efficiency for our users. On-Demand Calculation is designed to compute values only when they are needed, leading to a more optimized…
Currently, when an error occurs in the web application, the error message shown to the user is very generic and does not provide enough detail to understand the root cause. To properly analyze the issue, users must manually access the server and inspect log files. In a recent case, the issue was caused by missing folder…
In the world of Anaplan, "Fake Time" lists are often a necessity when native time doesn't offer the flexibility your specific business case requires. However, the real magic happens when you can map those custom list items back to Native Time Periods. If you are working in a Polaris-enabled model, efficiency is the name 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: When in a View and adding conditional formatting, if you click the x in the top right-hand corner while you're editing a rule you…
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 the earlier versions (XLCubed and FluenceXL), users always started directly in the folder tree, whereas now it takes quite a few…
Current behavior: When the Multi-Select Members option is enabled in the slicer settings, the user’s previous selections are not saved when reopening the workbook. As a result, users must reselect the slicer members each time they open the workbook. However, when the Multi-Select Members option is disabled, the previously…
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: I would like users that have been logged in and idle for 15 minutes to be automatically logged out as part of their security…
In the current Anaplan UX, there is no native heatmap visualization option within pages built on spoke models. Users must rely on conditional formatting in grids, which: Is limited in visual flexibility Is not intuitive for business users Does not scale well across multiple dimensions Requires manual setup in each module…
Problem Description: When a dependent line item used to filter a dropdown is deleted or has its format changed , Anaplan's underlying dependency link for the filtered dropdown can become stale. While the UI might show a newly created line item with the same list format as the dependency, the filter itself remains…
Current behavior: Hard validation checks have been implemented when maintaining dimensions manually. If an invalid character is found in a member name, an error message is displayed (see below). Issue: However, the same hard validation checks are not currently supported when importing hierarchies in bulk. As a result,…
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 users export data from Anaplan Apps (CSV or Excel), the default file name is derived from the underlying module name or saved…
We transitioned from PlanIQ to Forecaster and started importing explainability results into the model. But I’m struggling to interpret some of the since there is no information in Anapedia. Here are examples from the sales explainability results list: Historical: trend (ETS, ENSEMBLE) Historical: linear_trend (ENSEMBLE,…
I’m having a problem connecting to “Google Cloud Storage” with Anaplan Data Orchestrator. The GSP Service Account Email is correct and the GCP Private Key is correct, but it will not accept the bucket name. Please provide some guidance. Thanks.
I get the undefined_onFileChange error on uploads. I get the error on every item I try to upload(Lists, Modules) I have tried the following: Refreshed Browser Cleared Caches Changed browsers Restarted machine Redefining the file Recreating the file Changing the file type I probably tried some other things also. Anything…
Hi, we need to bulk export approximately 150 customer Management Reports as PDFs each month from Anaplan. It involves selecting each customer from the context selector, exporting to pdf and then renaming the file. Currently this is a manual process. Has anyone implemented an automated solution to bulk export Management…
Hi, I'd like to know if my issue already occurred to anyone here. I created a saved view out of a module using different hierarchical lists. In the saved view, I pivoted the dimensions and restricted the view only on a specific line item. Then, I used that saved view to import data into another module however the data…
Hi, I have the following problem to solve and I’m not sure whether it’s even possible in Anaplan. I have List A with a certain number X of elements. For selected elements from List A, based on which I create a subset, I determine the components that make up each element. There can be a maximum of 6 components. Each line…
Hi everyone, I am trying to create a connection ADO from PostgreSQL, but I consistently receive the following error: Failed to establish a connection The following message was sent from the target system: The SSL certificate is either invalid or not in unencrypted PEM format. Please check your certificate and try again.…
For auditing purpose I need RTO and RPO details. Could you please share the details and also along with the source URL.
I am working in dairy milk packing industry. my thinking about ISO related documents and regular momonitoring reccords with digital model. Give me susuggestions.
Any idea —- How can an AI‑driven monitoring layer be built for Anaplan integrations to analyze logs, schedules, and execution results, and generate contextual alerts for support teams when failures occur ?
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We’re continuing the conversation! Following the success of our first Anaplan Workflow event, we’re bringing you a deeper look at what’s next. Join us in March as we expand on the insights shared in the previous session and explore how Workflow continues to evolve to support planning collaboration and process efficiency.…
In this ACE Spotlight event, we will cover the most effective techniques for making your annual rollovers seamless and repeatable, based on the solutions from our latest Community Q&A Challenge.
