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Hosting Images on Google Drive, Box, or Sharepoint
* What is Visual Reference? * Image Hosting * Google Drive * Box Folder * SharePoint * Imgur What is Visual Reference? Visual reference while planning can be a very powerful tool. The human brain processes image 60,000 times faster than text, and 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain is visual. Since we are…
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[Start Here] Anaplan APIs in a Nutshell
* What is covered in this article? * What is NOT covered in this article? * What pre-requisites do I need? * Introduction * Authentication * Integration API * Bulk API * Transactional API * CloudWorks API * Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) API * Audit API What is covered in this article? High level description of…
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Transactional APIs - Part 3: SQL Query Anaplan data using Transactional API via Data Virtualization
Here’s a sample transcript of conversations I routinely have with our customers who are new to Anaplan platform: * Customer: I have a need to query Anaplan ‘table’ and integrate Anaplan data to my database. Is this possible? * Anaplan: Certainly, using Anaplan Transactional APIs, you can query a saved view and output the…
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CloudWorks–This is how we use it - Part 5: Model-to-model
If you need a reminder on CloudWorks; go here. Why we are excited With the new CloudWorks release comes a long-awaited feature: “model-to-model" (or M2M) actions. Until now, you had 2 options to automate Anaplan-to-Anaplan flows: Implement a third-party tool such as Anaplan Connect (requiring a server that can run Java) or…
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Impact of Model Archival on UX Pages–and the Workaround
If you have been using the current UX for quite some time you would have probably realized by now that models and apps are two different entities/sections within Anaplan, and they are not connected to each other by default—unlike Classic UX where dashboards were part of the same model and were always connected or attached…
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PlanIQ - Dealing with outliers
Outliers in time series data are values that differ greatly from the rest of the time series. Outliers can be caused by measurement errors, data entry errors, organic real occurrences such as seasonal effects and other reasons. Since outlier values could impact the accuracy of the predictions produced by forecast models…
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OEG Best Practice: Model cut-over checklist
Introduction There are many ways to go about building a new model or rebuilding an existing model. The most important piece is the proper transition and cut-over. This checklist is a starting point to help you begin gathering all impacts building or rebuilding a model will have on the Connected Planning Ecosystem within…
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Impacts of copying or importing a model
Introduction When copying or importing a model to a different workspace within the same tenant, it’s important to understand all the pieces that are impacted by this action. It's commonly thought of as 'moving' a model. However, the reality is that a completely new model is being created with a new model GUID.…
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PlanIQ - Deep dive on the algorithms under the hood
Baseline time series algorithms Advanced statistical time series algorithms Flexible local algorithms Neural network algorithms Summary Companies often develop plans and business strategies to drive decisions and actions around finance, operations, supply chain and other areas. They do this based on how they perceive the…
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PlanIQ - How to manage NULL values?
In real-world forecasting applications, it is common for datasets to contain null values, which represent missing values for specific points in time. There can be multiple reasons for the presence of missing values. For example, a transaction may not have occurred, or a device or service that monitors data may have…
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PlanIQ - Algorithm selection by item: mix and match your forecast
What is algorithm selection by item? Algorithm selection by item is the use of more than one algorithm to produce optimal forecasts across multiple items. Instead of using forecasts generated by a single algorithm for all items in the historical data module, where the algorithm is selected based on best overall performance…
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PlanIQ - New product introduction: all you ever wondered about starting your forecast from scratch
New Product Introduction (NPI) or Cold Start in time series forecasting is a scenario where forecasts should be produced for new items (e.g. new products, new SKUs) for which there is limited historical data, or no historical data at all. Items with no historical data In scenarios where the new items have no historical…
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PlanIQ - How to use item attributes to refine your forecast
Metadata attributes are static, non-time dependent categorical text features that describe the items in the historical time series data. Examples for attributes could be style, category, geographic location, size, item hierarchy level etc. The advanced neural network machine learning algorithms supported by PlanIQ can…
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PlanIQ - Probabilistic forecasting using forecast quantiles
Probabilistic forecasts & forecast quantiles PlanIQ produces probabilistic forecasts. This means that PlanIQ algorithms output a distribution of possible values, rather than a single point forecast typically outputted by other solutions. This distribution can be divided into quantiles. Applied to forecasting, quantiles…
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OEG Best Practice: PlanIQ: Design and build your item list for forecasting
* What is the best practice for concatenation in Anaplan? * Step-by-step overview * Level 1 – code inefficient * Level 2 – code better * Level 3 – Code to use * Level 4 – Optimized code to use * How do we handle items with limited to no history? * Adding “Cold Start” Items Before diving in, if you need to refresh your…
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[Start Here] PlanIQ overview and resources
* First things first * What is PlanIQ? * Who is it for? * Use case examples * Now, let's go under the hood * To get started * Once you get more comfortable * Deep dive on algorithms * Support You are interested in starting time series forecasting with PlanIQ on Anaplan, but you don’t know where to start? You have come to…
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Anaplan Connect 2.0 - Approaches to Anaplan integration using On-Prem integration platforms
This article is the last one on our series about Anaplan Connect 2.0. To refresh your memory on Part 1 & 2, go here and there. There are several On-Prem integration platforms that are popular amongst Anaplan customers. These include Informatica Power Center, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, and Talend Studio. However, none of…
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Anaplan Connect 2.0 - Advanced Scripts
This article is the 2nd part of our 3-blogs series on Anaplan Connect 2.0. If you missed part 1, go here. Disclaimer:The scripts and examples in this article have been fully tested by our team, but they are not supported by Anaplan; if you have any issue, please use the comments below. Target Audience: Integration…
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[Start Here] Anaplan Connect 2.0 and JDBC Connectivity
* What is Anaplan Connect? * What is covered in this article? * What is NOT covered in this article? * What pre-requisites do I need? * Deep Dive on Integration * Integrating with SAP HANA Cloud * Integrating with Snowflake * Integrating with Azure SQL Database * Integrating with Google Cloud (GCP) BigQuery * Integrating…
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Transactional APIs - Part 2: Use Cases
Introduction Following use cases will be presented in this section: How to retrieve id for a given dimension/list & list member from its name or code How to retrieve allocated & consumed space for a Workspace & Model Workspace Sizing Use case Model Memory Usage Use case How to retrieve permitted number of Items & Index…