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Anaplan Named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
Anaplan is thrilled to announce that we have been recognized by you — our amazing users, partners, and customers — as a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in two categories: Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions and Sales Performance Management. This is the second year in a row that Anaplan has received…
Anaplan Live! returns November 9 and 10—Register Today!
We are thrilled to announce our latest Anaplan Live! on November 9 and 10! Join us virtually for two days of exciting conversations and deep-dive sessions to help realize game-changing value and drive transformative outcomes using Anaplan. Wondering how other Anaplanners are applying our latest product features in their…
Architecture and Modeling Mistakes: Deep Dive
In today’s post, we’re doing a deep dive on the Anaplan Live! session: Top 10 Anaplan Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. Focusing on the Architecture and Modeling section, we’ll review a few best practices discussed and illustrate how we can leverage them in our daily model-building activities. Why You Need a…
Decision Making Made Easy—Optimize Supply Chain Allocations Using Anaplan Optimizer
Global supply chains in the modern business world have become more complex, and a lack of supply chain visibility can affect profitability. It becomes even more challenging when supply chain managers have to make a decision and match supply-demand, considering constraints and profitability. When it comes to supply chain…
The Anaplan for All Experience
Prior to the Anaplan for All program, I worked in the healthcare field as an authorization representative. After graduating college, I wanted to pursue a career as a healthcare provider. However, after working in healthcare I realized it was not for me and began to look towards other careers. I enrolled in programming…
Seasonality Chart—Simple as That
Comparison By Year Comparison By Year Several times I have been asked for a chart with the possibility to compare seasonality or month over years. It´s proven to be both popular and useful in its own simplicity. In a regular line chart, you’ll have all time periods after one another, whereas, in this version, you´ll be…
Digital CPX + Anaplan Live!: No Plane or Hotel But a Great Experience
I have attended a few HUB/CPX events in my seven-plus years of involvement with Anaplan. In all honesty, the experience has always been great: great location, great venues, food, networking, and insights into the future of the tool. I would leave home, get on a plane, attend the event, and come home with some T-shirts, a…
Introducing the Developer Hub
Happy International Programmers’ Day! In celebration and gratitude for all that programmers do, Anaplan is shining the spotlight on developers by bringing our Developer Hub to life. It is our goal to provide our customers with an open and extensible platform that seamlessly integrates with other systems. We want to boost…
New School Year Brings New Challenges for U.S. Universities
Anticipation is in the air, and perhaps, even a hint of cooler weather that signifies fall is coming. Recent high school graduates are eager to begin their higher education journey, and many continuing students are excited to see their classmates and professors in person after more than a year of online study and to take…
Introducing Anaplan's Connected Planning Curriculum on Coursera
Anaplan recently launched a three-course specialization, Connected Planning for Business Transformation, for professionals and students who are building business strategy and planning skills. The specialization is ideal for senior leaders who need insight beyond basic business modeling and scenario planning to capture…
Anaplan UX: Offerings and Roadmap
It has been more than two years since the inception of the UX (formerly, New UX). Anaplan has taken a huge step in the right direction as reporting was one of the key areas where Anaplan had to show improvements. Fast forward to 2021, Anaplan has delivered a modern look-and-feel with an ever-increasing list of new features…
Make an Impact — Be an Anaplan Group Leader!
Anaplan Groups are where people with similar interests, business goals, or objectives can interact and collaborate along their Connected Planning journeys. Through a wide variety of member-driven events and dedicated Community spaces, group members can discuss and exchange best practices, collaborate on challenges, and…
2022 Solution Architect and Certified Model Builder Certification Requirements
Being a Certified Model Builder, Certified Solution Architect or Certified Master Anaplanner means that you’re an expert and highly qualified. You need to stay up to date on all the latest product releases and best practices, to maintain your certification and to enhance your expertise. Please review this new information…
How to Avoid the Top Anaplan Implementation Mistakes, Continued
Back in June, we were so fortunate to have nearly 700 people attend our live session discussing ways to avoid some of the most challenging Anaplan implementation tasks. In this blog, we summarize the top 10 as well as add a few more that were brought up by you during the session. Discover the best ways to prevent the most…
Anaplan’s Intelligence Capabilities Deliver Real-Time Insights
Rapid and unanticipated market changes require business leaders to leverage internal and external data to predict the future, rather than extrapolate from the past, in order to orchestrate the business performance needed for tomorrow. A modern, intuitive, intelligent, and holistic approach to planning that breaks down…
Helping Customers Implement New Functionality and Features
In the 16 months from March 2020 to July 2021, business, government, and social organizations in the United States have faced unprecedented challenges to their very survival, as well as vast uncertainty about when there would be a return to normal economic conditions, or even what “the new normal” might look like. But now…
Move Data Faster With Model-to-Model Import in CloudWorks
Model-to-model import is now available in CloudWorks! Easy to set up and ready to use, model-to-model import helps you automatically move data from one model to another—on the schedule that’s right for you and without additional IT resources. With CloudWorks, Connected Planning has never been easier—you can distribute data…
How to Make the Most of Mentorship
I'm fortunate to have had multiple helpful mentors throughout my career. From each, I’ve gained invaluable insights across a variety of areas (including job search, negotiation, and real estate). That’s the beauty of mentorship: no matter your goals, you can partner with someone that has “been there, done that” and work…
Get On-Demand DigitalCPX + Anaplan Live! Content
More than 3,000 people attended DigitalCPX + Anaplan Live! in June. The two-day global event kicked off with a lively discussion about how critical model builders are supporting executives in achieving their goals of thriving in the "next normal." Anaplan Live! offered technical sessions with an interactive Q&A that…
Top 10 Helpful Tips From Anaplan Learners
With so many new Anaplan learners joining the Community, everyone is at a different place on their journey—some just starting, others in the middle, and still others already finished and offering support or assistance to their peers. Recently, we invited members of the Learner's Lounge Group to share something they've…
My Road to Master Anaplanner
My Sign Story The power of social media and the power of good people—precisely what I realized during the longest job search of my early career back in the summer of 2018. Rejection after rejection, automated robotic email after email, and hundreds of recruiters, applications, and "get to know you" meetings later, I was…
Improving Forecast Accuracy
Improving forecast accuracy often features the business value expected from a system implementation like Anaplan for demand planning. In reality, forecast accuracy is not a business value—but it contributes to business value in terms of better service levels and economic inventory levels. Often, customers want to improve…
Using Anaplan to Prepare College and University Budgets
In the last 15 months, colleges and universities (perhaps more than any other sector of business and society) have faced enormous challenges when it comes to preparing annual budgets and long-range financial plans. There was great uncertainty about the major drivers of revenue such as enrollments, government support, and…
Congratulations to the Inaugural Class of Anaplan for All Fellows!
Anaplan for All is a first-of-its-kind program that opens doors for professionals from underrepresented backgrounds and connects them with jobs in the Anaplan Community. This spring, 45 fellows were selected from a pool of over 8,500 applicants. Each fellow first completed a 13-week data science training program led by…
Anaplan Community Recognized as an Industry Leader
In the last several years, a growing body of research supports the proposition that communities provide tremendous value—to their members as well as to business. Here at the Anaplan Community, this has been a guiding principle of everything we do since we launched this site. We are here to support, inspire, and connect…
Documentation: It Starts With the 'Why'
Documentation is one word that gives most model builders a cold shiver. It’s associated with binders full of information lost in archives or the output of rushed efforts to complete an implementation. As an Anaplan partner, we come across a bandwidth of different approaches to Anaplan model documentation. Let's discuss our…
Higher Ed: Optimize Resource Allocation for Financial Sustainability
In the past year, business, government, and civic and cultural institutions faced enormous challenges that forced them to re-evaluate and change how they operate in order to survive. This was especially the case in the higher education sector, which was already under pressure to adapt its business model to keep up with…
The Evolution of Talent Builder: Career Search
June 2023 update: please note this is an older blog post and the information has changed. Please go here for an overview of all our training programs. ………. During the March 2020 Anaplan Live! event, I announced a new initiative aimed at growing talent in the Anaplan ecosystem. We called it Anaplan Talent Builder. This…
Survey Opportunities: Share Your Anaplan Experience
On occasion, the industry analyst community will approach Anaplan for customer insights, typically to inform research, and most often, in survey form. We have two such opportunities in motion for the month of May. The first comes from the BPM Partner community, which is currently preparing its annual Vendor Landscape…
Leveraging the Anaplan Community in a Remote World
It doesn’t take a genius to articulate the vast change that COVID-19 made in our work environments. The days of being able to walk over to a colleague’s desk for support are no more. The pivot to working in an entirely remote world challenged our teams to be resourceful in order to continue delivering superior end results…