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Why planning needs a different kind of MDM — and how ADO delivers
Author: Miki Sato is a Product Manager, Product Management Team (Data Management) at Anaplan. Many companies are investing in Enterprise Planning, AI, and BI to improve forecasting and decision-making. Yet across industries, business users still ask the same question: “If we have trusted data, why can’t we use it in…
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Comparing SAP × Anaplan integration: Why ADO is the right fit for planning scenarios
Author: Miki Sato is a Product Manager, Product Management Team (Data Management) at Anaplan. To drive accurate and agile planning, it’s critical to integrate actuals from SAP ERP systems (such as S/4HANA) into Anaplan in a structure aligned with its model framework. This article compares three integration approaches — SAP…
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How Anaplan powers reliable reporting
Author: Miki Sato is a Product Manager, Product Management Team (Data Management) at Anaplan. Inconsistent KPIs, scattered data exports, and disconnected BI tools slow down business decisions. This blog highlights how Anaplan’s data and modeling capabilities — especially through Data Orchestrator (ADO) and Polaris…
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Announcing a new chapter in the Planual!
Chapter 8: Anaplan Data Orchestrator is now live! Learn best practice rules for connecting and transforming source data, organizing and cataloging Data Orchestrator objects, and integrating Data Orchestrator into Anaplan models. There are four sections that make up Chapter 8: Connect: review important rules pertaining to…
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ADO: Moving beyond data hubs to planning-aware integration
Author: Miki Sato is a Product Manager, Product Management Team (Data Management) at Anaplan. Legacy approaches to data integration — manual scripts, standalone hub models, or general-purpose ETL tools — often introduce complexity, delay, and governance risk in Anaplan environments. Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) offers a…
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How ADO is enabling smarter and faster decisions with built-in data transformation
Author: Reena Sethy is a Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. In today’s rapidly changing business scenario, organizations need the ability to make faster, accurate decisions to stay relevant. As organizations grow, their data landscape often becomes quite complex and disparate. This makes it more difficult to derive…
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ADO DB Connectors Preview
I had the opportunity to test a preview of the new database connectors developed by the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) Team, and I wanted to share my experience with you. To set up the testing environment, I used my AWS account and the RDS service to launch four types of databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server,…
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Data Quality Orchestration : a simple example with ADO & Workflow - Part 2/2
In this article, you'll find a simple but hopefully inspiring illustration of the power of Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) combined with Workflow. This is a 2 parts article. The Part 1 focuses on the Workflow and the steps to achieve Data Quality tasks. This Part 2 is a deep dive on some details. Above is the final Object…
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Data Quality Orchestration : a simple example with ADO & Workflow - Part 1/2
In this article, you'll find a simple but hopefully inspiring illustration of the power of Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) combined with Workflow. This is a 2 parts article. This Part 1 focuses on the Workflow and the steps to achieve Data Quality tasks. The Part 2 is a deep dive on some details. Summary For illustration,…
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How to test the ADO Snowflake connector
Author: Noel Rocher, Partner Success Manager at Anaplan Step 1: Snowflake trial environment Go to developers.snowflake.com and select the START FREE button at the top right of the page. To check if the trial account conditions meet your needs, look at the Trial Account overview. Choose the software edition and cloud…
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How to test the ADO Salesforce connector with a Salesforce Developer Account
Author: Noel Rocher, Partner Success Manager at Anaplan Step 1: Register for a Salesforce Developer Account Note: the Developer Edition is coming with API access enabled. If you are using a Professional Edition, you'll need to purchase this feature. Go to https://developer.salesforce.com/signup Fill out the form Validate…
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Setup your ADO Demo using an AWS S3 Connection
Author: Noel Rocher, Partner Success Manager at Anaplan The problem statement "I would like to Demo the ADO S3 Connector with a CSV file hosted on AWS S3 as an ADO Data Source." The solution Use a free AWS Account to host the example CSV file. Steps to take We will walk through how to setup an AWS environment using a free…