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Certified Master Anaplanner Rachel Goering Named CoE Lead of the Year!
This month we interviewed Certified Master Anaplanner Rachel Goering, who was recently named Center of Excellence Lead of the Year, about how her certification helps her guide her team of model builders. Rachel Goering is a finance manager at DaVita Kidney Care. She joined DaVita over three years ago after several years in…
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Anaplan’s UX: Changing the Way Companies Plan
"Hold on, I'll have to call you back. The model needs to update with those changes we just entered, and it's going to be a while before we can see the results." Does this sound familiar? Countless businesses across the globe are dealing with these inefficiencies within existing planning processes. This leads to untold…
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Five Lesser Known Features of the UX
The release last year of the Anaplan UX was one of the largest and most eagerly anticipated product updates that Anaplan has seen. In the months since the first public UX release, we have seen hundreds of updates to the UX with extra features being delivered on an almost daily basis. Some of these new features will be…
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You've Earned It: New and Improved Community Badges are Here
As an engaged member of the Anaplan Community, you deserve to be rewarded and recognized. After all, you help make the Community flourish. Badges are a visual representation of your dedication and commitment to making the Community a valuable resource to Anaplanners everywhere. Be proud—you’ve earned it! To show our…
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Announcing Predictive Insights Community Content
Anaplan’s Predictive Insights helps businesses optimize their sales team’s performance by connecting enterprise and market data with predictive scoring at scale to deliver actionable planning insights. With how-to guides and step-by-step tutorials, the new Predictive Insights section in Community helps Predictive Insights…
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Excel Add-in Q&A —with Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi
We're back this month with more from Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi, talking about the how the Excel Add-in was helpful in solving two key problems for admins and end users. From saving time to running sanity checks, Sonal's team recognizes some key benefits of the Add-in and is already considering more opportunities in…
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Utilizing the Anaplan Academy to Support Your Journey
As the days get shorter and schools are back in session, it’s a great opportunity to further invest in yourself and explore the offerings in the Anaplan Academy. Between the certifications, exams, and individual offerings, the Anaplan Academy has been a valuable resource to augment my growth as an Anaplan consultant. For…
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Community Update: September 2020
Things are heating up for DigitalCPX 2020! But, before we attend the "only global conference dedicated to operationalizing enterprise performance," let's take a look at what's new in the Community and what to expect during CPX month. Community Highlight Academy, Anaplan Live!, & Participation Badges August was all about…
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Anaplan Academy Wins Brandon-Hall Award!
Anaplan Academy is excited to share that we have won a Bronze Brandon-Hall Excellence Award in the category of Best Advance in Custom Content! Brandon Hall Group is a research and analyst firm and the premier thought-leader in learning and development, human resources, performance management, etc. The award recognizes…
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Anaplan in the Classroom Paves the Way for Future Connected Planning Practices
Professor Kaushik Ghatak is teaching the business value of IT and supply chain management to graduate and undergraduate students at the Singapore Management University (SMU) Business School. He is using the Anaplan Connected Planning platform in the classroom, through Anaplan’s University Connect program, to help inspire…
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New Anaplan Solution Architect Certification
Anaplan Academy is proud to announce the availability of the Anaplan Solution Architect Certification. This certification recognizes candidates who have extensive and proven knowledge of how to build and design models leveraging the latest Anaplan Best Practices. The Solution Architect Certification is an advanced level…
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Dynamic and Agile While Reducing Cost and Effort
Rapid deployment of financial technology has been at the forefront of digital-first organizations. The issues with legacy technologies have never been more apparent in the light of this year’s rapidly changing environment’s financial impact. How long will it take to build a usable application that handles the company’s…
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Community Update: August 2020
We’re back, and we've consolidated Community highlights from July—just for you, in one convenient place! Also, check out the sneak peek at what's coming next month, and then let us know what stood out to you in the comments. Community Highlight Anaplan Groups Change is in the air. Anaplan’s User Groups program is…
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Scale with Anaplan: Tenet 1—Modeling That Spans Multiple Use Cases
In part two of the scalability blog series, we’re taking a closer look at the first important tenet—modeling that spans multiple use cases. Before we dive deeper, let’s recap what differentiates Anaplan from other planning technology offerings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IA4JsZaBN8 Anaplan combines elements of…
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Scale With Anaplan: The 3 Tenets of Planning at Scale
As organizations evolve and expand to serve a growing number of use cases, customers, and employees, scalability—the ability to support greater demand without impacting performance—is critical to success. Yet, with many traditional point or on-premises planning tools that operate in silos, scalability can appear as an…
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Testing the Anaplan Office Add-Ins and Your Models — Featuring Technical Lead Eddie Dvorak
Our engineering team develops the Anaplan Add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. This team is primarily composed of developers and quality assurance engineers who write and test the code behind the add-ins. This month, we're sharing insights from Anaplan Technical Lead @edvard_dvorak to illustrate how we test our products…
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Anaplan Solutions That Helped Our Planning
Spaulding Ridge, a global professional services firm with over 165 employees worldwide, kicked off our digital transformation journey internally at the start of the year. The main three components of this journey included replacing our ERP system with NetSuite, developing a series of Anaplan use cases, and improving our…
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Connected Planning: How Do We Get There?
The term “Connected Planning” embodies the potential power and value-add the Anaplan platform can provide to organizations of all sizes. What is Connected Planning? It means connecting parts of the business that would not traditionally speak to each other, creating faster decision-making processes, and allows for a full…
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Connection: The Road to Anaplan
Anaplanners are, by nature, a unique group of curious, tenacious, problem-solvers—dedicated to a technology that is designed to be agile and resilient. Anaplan connects communities of people with data to enhance and optimize decision-making capabilities. And speaking of connections, that's exactly how Madison Marino began…
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Learn in the New UX with Level 1 Model Building
A lesson from the Level 1 Model Building course featuring new content and screenshots around the New UX. Today we will launch the updated Level 1 Model Building on-demand training. This is a newly updated course that includes the Anaplan New UX. For those of you just starting your Anaplan learning journey, please use this…
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Lionpoint Group: Enhanced Anaplan Model Performance
Maximizing your Anaplan models helps ensure that you're getting the best results. Lionpoint Group provides a unique perspective and tactical applications to improve overall model performance by achieving a more thorough understanding of how the Anaplan engine works. Here we share our viewpoint and approach to optimal…
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Announcing the 2020 Student Anaplanner of the Year!
Each year, Anaplan recognizes one student from across the University Connect program who has developed strong Anaplan knowledge and model-building skills, demonstrates leadership on a project team, acts as a coach/mentor to others, and has the potential to make an impact across the Anaplan ecosystem as a model builder,…
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Real-time Insights for Pharma Commercial Business Leaders
Today’s healthcare landscape is a challenging one, and commercial business leaders in the pharma/biopharma industry are realizing they need to both respond to the urgent challenges of today and innovate so they are ready for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Successful commercial business leaders have been…
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Community Update: July 2020
Welcome to the inaugural Community Update—July edition. In this blog series, we're bringing you all the latest Community updates and a look at what's coming soon. We know you're busy, so enjoy this quick view of what's new and subscribe to get real-time updates! Community Highlight Anaplan Access for Independent Learners…
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Delivering Successfully in the 'New Normal'
The dog needs a walk, the kids are hungry, and your boss is calling—this is our 'new normal.' As we navigate new and challenging environments, our ways of working and how we conduct business need to be examined under the lens of these shifting circumstances. While working remotely is not new for some of us—you may have had…
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Quiz Time: Test Your Knowledge About the Extensions and Learn Whilst Having Fun!
This is the quiz we ran at the UK&I virtual user group in June. For customers who are part of the group, the recording of the session will soon be available. This was a fun session and the top 5 participants won some Anaplan swag 🎁 It couldn't be simpler: * Read the question and select your answer(s). * Click on the…
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Defining Anaplan Add-ins, Add-ons, and Extensions
We have simplified the terminology we use for Anaplan Add-ins and Add-ons. In order to provide complete clarity about these products, “extensions” now represents the product family for the individual Anaplan Add-ons and Add-ins. The blog below breaks down the new naming details and best practices. Individual product names…
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Becoming an Anaplan Certified Model Builder Just Got Easier!
Demand for skills and capabilities are highly sought after across our customer and partner ecosystem, and this is especially true for those of a Certified Anaplan Model Builder. In order to help grow the talent pipeline of Certified Model Builders, Anaplan is pleased to announce the following: Anaplan Academy Virtual…
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Weathering the Storm: Overcoming Challenge and Achieving Success
At Spaulding Ridge, we've been working closely with many clients who have found new and creative ways to leverage Anaplan during this tumultuous year to closely monitor their business and prepare for the future. Some are finding significant value in pre-existing Anaplan applications to help guide them to solve complex…
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Optimizing Warehouse Space Utilization
With the unprecedented events of this year, warehouse space utilization planning becomes a key decision-making point to balance supply and demand. Inappropriate warehouse space planning may lead to safety concerns like accidents, higher vehicle turnaround times, demurrages, and product quality that can affect the overall…
