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Meet UX Designer Steven Kraplin
Meet Steven Kraplin — UX Designer, Associate Financial Analyst at The MathWorks, and Master Anaplanner. Steven spends his days working to maintain internal systems, which include Oracle, Vertex, Anaplan, and others. He also works on product development, including new projects within those tools, as well as helping users…
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Accessibility: 5 tips for building and navigating Anaplan using voice input
Whether you’re disabled in the arms or hands, interested in preventing repetitive strain injury (RSI), or simply want to get more work done while pacing around the office, today I'm sharing my tips for any Anaplan Model Builder who wants to use the tool with their voice. For my computer activities, I primarily use the…
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Introducing persona-based resources to support your individual Anaplan experience
The Anaplan ecosystem is vast, and no two experiences are alike. As an active model builder, you are at the forefront of building, delivering, and optimizing models for your organization. API and integration developers are focused on successful connections between platforms, and UX designers are aligned around the common…
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Join the User Research Program and help shape the future of Anaplan
Let's shape the future of Anaplan together! Join our User Research Program today to get started. What is the Anaplan User Research Program? Feedback from our users is critical to how we design and prioritize features -- and we've built a community of Anaplan users who directly influence the design of Anaplan. As a member,…
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Celebrating Our Mentors
During November's Anaplan Live! @ChrisWeiss encouraged those in attendance to share the names of individuals within the Anaplan ecosystem who have been mentors in one way or another. From being experts in all things Anaplan, to helping guide others in their career paths, to just being a friendly voice - mentorship is…
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2022 is an exciting year for the Anaplan Community!
This year, we find ourselves looking ahead and envisioning the art of the possible for the Anaplan Community. Everything in life must evolve and grow. Growth is not something that just comes in the form of a number—like having over 74,000 members of the Community—growth supports customer value in creating change that…
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Save Space With Snapshots
When it comes to model size, few components add space quicker than versions. This is particularly true in use cases that rely heavily on scenario planning and what-if analysis. For example, a supply chain model may need to generate a monthly forecast with a best, worst, and average set of inputs. Especially when time…
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That's a Wrap!
You did it! You successfully navigated another extraordinary year while contributing to a vibrant and engaging Community experience. You are the foundation of Anaplan excellence. You show up every day with an unparalleled willingness to support your fellow members. You make Community great—and for that, we thank you! As we…
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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…
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Adopting and Expanding in a Connected World
The vast benefits of Anaplan are both widely known and constantly evolving. The ability to impact a business plan at the click of a button, understand a decision's downstream effects, quickly navigate between detailed planning and elegant visualizations are all attributes that make Anaplan offerings second-to-none. How can…
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The Truth About Sparsity: Part 1
Throughout my five-plus years at Anaplan the conventional wisdom has been that we should eliminate sparsity in order to model efficiently. Throughout the last year, as part of the PLANS standards initiative, we have been critically re-evaluating all of the existing best practices and techniques and sparsity was included as…
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Change Management: The Achilles Heel of Progress
Overview The scope of the solution is aligned among the project sponsor, key stakeholders, and the architect. The solution addresses all the concerns of the current business process and will drive the expected results once implemented. The project rests on a “Big ****” implementation: a swap out of tools and processes that…
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Anaplan Live! Two day event - begins today!
Anaplan Live! kicks off today! The Community’s tenth global Anaplan Live! event brings together Anaplan leaders, experts, certified Master Anaplanners, and model builders of all kinds. For the first time, this event focuses on three specific model building roles: Aspiring Solution Architects, UX Designers, and Developers.…
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Badges Returning Soon!
Community friends—we're taking a brief break on awarding our full scope of badges to implement some process improvements. Not to worry! All badge-earning activities will continue to be recognized, recorded, and rewarded early next year. In the meantime, you may experience a delay in receiving certain badges—for example,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The 3 Pillars of Connected Planning: Part 1—People
Chief Planning Officer Simon Tucker speaking at CPX 2019. As you’ve surely heard by now, Anaplan is the pioneer of Connected Planning—an approach that uses next-generation technology to connect people, data, and plans across the enterprise to combine strategic insight with business foresight. Ultimately, this allows…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
