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Anaplan Polaris – Getting Started
Are you a seasoned Anaplanner ready to harness the power of Polaris? You’re in the right place. Polaris, Anaplan’s next-generation calculation engine, is designed for fast, highly dimensioned calculation at scale. While the model building experience remains fundamentally similar to Classic, Polaris introduces key…
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Anaplan Polaris – Applying Formula Guards to Optimize Calculations
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. This is a deeper dive on the concept outlined in the Anaplan Polaris – Understanding Blueprint Insights and Optimizing for Populated Space article. A “guard” refers to an IF…
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Introducing New Resources for Anaplan Polaris: Benchmarking Performance
I'm very excited to share two new comprehensive technical resources that showcase the exceptional performance capabilities of Anaplan’s Polaris calculation engine. These documents provide detailed benchmarks and real-world performance metrics that demonstrate how Polaris delivers the scale, speed, and interactivity…
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Anaplan Polaris – Optimizing Calculation Performance Using Inline Conditions
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. This article explores a technique to optimize calculations in Polaris. We examine the practice of including formula conditions directly (“inline”) in the formula itself to…
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Anaplan Polaris – Calculation Effort
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. What is the Calculation Effort column? The Calculation Effort column is one of the Blueprint Insights contained within the blueprint view of a module (or the line items tab)…
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Creating more flexible export definitions in Anaplan
Anaplan exports, unlike imports, have no link to a saved view. However, there are ways to create Export actions that have more flexibility for future maintenance. After creating your view layout (using the view optimization best practices outlined in the Anaplan Polaris – View Optimization for Imports and Exports article)…
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Anaplan Polaris – View Optimization for Imports and Exports
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. This article explores how to optimize saved module views within the modeling experience, with particular attention to data import and export processes. We’ll revisit essential…
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Iterative Development in Polaris
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. As Anaplan solution architects and model builders begin to develop in Polaris, it's important to consider how you approach the development workflow. In Polaris the upper limit…
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Anaplan Polaris – Understanding Blueprint Insights and Optimizing for Populated Space
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. In this article, we’ll focus on understanding the blueprint columns in Polaris in more detail, and how we can use them to optimize formulas. Polaris Blueprint Insights When…
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Anaplan Polaris – Blueprint Insights
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. In this article we’ll review some of the blueprint insights available to help you optimize and improve efficiency in your Polaris models. Blueprint Insights defined Polaris…
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Anaplan Polaris – Populated Space
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. This article introduces the idea of Populated vs Empty Space and outlines why it is a key factor to keep in mind when building in the Polaris engine. Populated Space defined…
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Anaplan Polaris – Natural Dimensionality
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. Natural dimensionality defined Natural dimensionality can be defined as the inherent and most appropriate number of dimensions (aka “lists”) needed to accurately represent a…
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Unlocking the power of Polaris: A guide to efficient model building
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. Polaris is Anaplan's next-generation calculation engine, designed for highly dimensioned calculation at scale. It represents a paradigm shift in the ability to model business…
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Moving a model from Classic to Polaris
Author: Mike Henderson is a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan. There is growing interest in taking existing models that operate in the classic (Hyperblock) engine to Polaris. There are a variety of reasons motivating the move such as workspace optimization, accommodating natural model growth over time, and…