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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Anaplan Live!: Upcoming Events and New On-Demand Videos
Packed with valuable insights from top Anaplan experts and thought leaders, Anaplan Live! is a free, virtual event series designed with model builders, end-users, and learners in mind. The reoccurring event lets attendees interact in real-time with presenters and fellow Anaplanners, getting all the benefits of an in-person…
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Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly: A Supply Chain Optimization Journey
During the past months, the supply chain world has experienced several major disruptions (COVID-19, the Suez Canal blockage, etc.). Agile supply chain planning and fast decision-making have become more important than ever. On the other hand, due to the increasing complexity of value chains, decision-making is becoming more…
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Thank You, Anaplan Community
During the last year—amid some very different and challenging times—we’ve seen the importance and impact of community. Whether it’s the physical community we live in or the community we choose to be part of, having a group of people to lean on helps us meet challenges through a shared purpose and journey. Our Anaplan…
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5 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Anaplan Groups
Anaplan Groups exist to help you go further in your Anaplan journey by sharing and collaborating with like-minded peers. In essence, Groups are micro-communities within the larger Anaplan Community, each built around a specific region, topic, or another unifying theme that brings people together. Groups provide places to…
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Scenario Planning in Anaplan, Part I: The Power of 'What If'
The term VUCA—an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity—was first leveraged in the business environment in the late 1980s, but the impact of that term in our modern world has rarely met the tests that the year 2020 brought. Organizations around the world are united in finding ways to meet the…
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Capture the Value of Rebates Through Connected Planning
Large organizations receive a variety of discounts in the form of rebates. And while these rebates present a great opportunity, it’s far too easy for the company to lose track of the many offerings, receipts, invoices, and payments that come with them. This problem results in a decentralization of data—with information…
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Planning From the Ridge
In February of this year, I was in the middle of the third grueling 2,000-foot ascent up a mountain on the second day of a three-night backcountry yurt trip when I conceptualized the power of Anaplan’s Connected Planning solution. “Strategize and collaborate with agility amid constant change"—the words on Anaplan’s…
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Anaplan's Victor Barnes on Diversity in Tech
As Black History Month comes to a close, we turn to Anaplan’s newly appointed Senior Vice President of Connected Planning Victor Barnes for insight on diversity in the tech industry. Before coming to Anaplan, Victor spent 26 years at The Coca-Cola Company. During that time, he traveled extensively and worked…
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The 3 Pillars of Connected Planning: Part 4—Connecting the Pillars
In the first part of “The 3 Pillars of Connected Planning” series, the Community team spoke with Chief Planning Officer Simon Tucker ( @simon_tucker) about the importance of the 'people' pillar of Connected Planning and the need for a cultural shift within an organization. In part two, we took a look at the 'data' pillar…
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Announcing The Master Anaplanner Program 2020 Maintenance Requirements
The Master Anaplanner Program formally launched maintenance requirements, effective starting calendar year 2020. Participation is required for all members who wish to retain their designation as a Certified Master Anaplanner for the following year (2021) and will continue on an annual basis thereafter. The Master…