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Author: Mitch Aist is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. In this episode of ‘How I Built It’, Master Anaplanner Mitch Aist shows us how to use the Anaplan UX hands-free using voice dictation and command software, Dragon Naturally Speaking. ‘How I Built It’ video Timestamps 0:00 – Intro…
Ready for something a little different? Today we are kicking off a brand new, lighthearted challenge just for fun! We want to celebrate the connections that make this Anaplan ecosystem so great. You are curating the ultimate Anaplan Community dinner — bringing together people who inspire, challenge, and elevate the…
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…
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…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our July 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: User Experience Board layout enhancements Grid row level expand/collapse CoModeler Edit existing import data sources through conversation Create list import actions from file type data…
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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: Sripriya Rao is a Tech Lead at Prudential Financial and an Anaplan Solution Architect. How to choose safe, predictable behavior for file and model-to-model imports Quick takeaway Use “Only update imported cells” for delta/partial sources and most automated runs. Use “Clear target prior to import” only when the…
Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In modern business, change is constant. Departments restructure, sales territories split, and product lines evolve. Yet for most planning teams, reflecting these changes in a traditional planning tool has historically been a slow, rigid, and highly…
Author: Karim Bhaidani is a Certified Master Anaplanner & Transformation Director at Spaulding Ridge. In this 'How I Built It' video, I demonstrate how to build Process Logging in Anaplan to enable non-workspace admins to view a summary of the most recent hour and date any process ran within the model on a front end…
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 /…
Dear Anaplan Product Team, I would like to suggest an enhancement regarding the consolidation process when a model requires "double consolidation" (e.g., consolidating by the standard 'Entity' dimension alongside a custom dimension, such as 'Business Unit'). Currently, we face a structural limitation regarding how the…
Quick Collapse of expanded grid rows will help improve usability of this new feature.
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: New Maintain \ Consolidation \ Clear tool Great improvement on the old solution thx BUT ..... If there is one place where having…
The new expand/collapse functionality for hierarchies on rows is a great improvement! It would be helpful to have the same functionality when a hierarchy is pivoted to the columns. This would give users more flexibility in how they structure a view while still being able to hide or show detail. It would also be useful to…
I have encountered a gap in ADO's filtering capabilities for transformation views that I believe many integration professionals share. When working with source data, it is common to receive files that contain codes — currency codes, cost center codes, product codes — that are not relevant to the current Anaplan setup.…
Dear All, With freeze panes, when using the zoom in the browser at other rate than 100%, lines are not correctly aligned if on a schedule we use some fixed columns. See below, with 100% zoom : and when using at 75% zoom : This a real problem for users who need to enter data in large templates. Every users are facing this…
With the recent release of the Board background customization feature, it would be a fantastic addition to also have the ability to define a specific background color for individual published cards. Currently, cards blend into the main background or rely on default styling. Allowing a dedicated background color for cards…
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 have a singular workflow for budget monitoring that is identical across 20 models. Currently, we need to create a new workflow for…
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…
Multi-Cell Selection for Calculation Summary 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…
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…
Please read out my latest article on Imports featured under best practices. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Best-Practices/Importing-With-Varied-Dimensions/ta-p/89698 Misbah
I would like to reproduce the above stacked column graph in Anaplan, but can't get the labels on the bottom axis to appear in the same way. The best I have achieved is this (I have limited the data selection to make the issue more obvious). I have two columns for each month, but it doesn't show which is forecast and which…
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Join us as Anaplan experts share practical strategies for building smarter, more scalable models using Polaris and Planual best practices. During this session, attendees will learn how to: Learn how to align your model development with recommended Polaris and Planual best practices. See how to improve system performance…
Registration and events details will release closer to the event date. Join us for the fourth session in our Workflow Expanded series as part of the Anaplan Community Experience program. In this session, we continue building on the concepts and best practices discussed throughout the series, with a focus on helping model…
