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Meet our 2021 Community Bosses!
As we kick off 2021, we couldn’t be more thrilled to announce this year's Community Bosses! The Community Boss program aims to recognize customers, partners, and employees who go out of their way to encourage, advise, and share knowledge with their fellow Anaplan Community members. This select group of Community…
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Anaplan Extensions: Building Reports in PowerPoint to Present User Stories
Recently, I interviewed Jared Dolich, a Principal Consultant at Columbus Consulting, about his clever use of Anaplan Extensions as a consultant in an Anaplan implementation project. Q: Tell us about yourself and your Anaplan journey Well, first, Magali, thank you for your interest! It means a lot to me to have the…
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Demand Planning: A Cornerstone of Every Business Plan
Businesses and their environment are growing more complex by the minute. Despite the many approaches, stakeholders, and circumstances around it, there is one invariable truth: serving customer demand is the reason for the existence of any firm. In pursuit of better serving their customers, companies have adopted…
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Happy New Year From Our Family to Yours!
In 2021, we'll work to turn challenges into opportunities and drive transformative change! We'll fill the year with new ideas, bold plans, and big accomplishments. The new year is here, and we’re kicking it off by celebrating with you. From the Anaplan family to you, Happy New Year!…
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Volunteer, Learn, and Grow on MLK Day
This Monday, January 18, we will celebrate the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, as well as his many contributions to the civil rights movement and society as a whole. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and equal rights activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement…
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A Tipping Point for Finance
Profit& (and most of my career as an accountant) is about promoting more relevant and agile planning and forecasting. Decision-makers need our best view of the future, not confirmation of the past. I regularly try to persuade management information providers to focus on predicting the future rather than reporting the past.…
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The Age of Anaplan
You have probably heard this at least once recently from a co-worker, a friend, or maybe even a heartfelt marketing email from your favorite big-box retailer: “We are living in unprecedented times.” While that is definitely true, the reality is that our businesses often face unprecedented disruptions and changes. Now more…
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Headcount Alignment Executive Summary
Overview Anaplan has had challenges getting our finance, human resources, and sales team on the same page of what our headcount is and what our headcount is forecasted to be in order to hit our revenue targets. We struggled to understand where requisitions were in the cycle and how many were currently open. We built a…
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The Anaplan Way—Supporting a Remote Working Environment
When working with a cloud-based platform like Anaplan, we are used to building models and collaborating remotely, but how easy is it to run an entire project without any real face-to-face contact? This year most employees have had little choice but to work from home. In my latest project for a large insurance company, we…
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Anaplan Live! December: That's a Wrap
The Anaplan Live! December event was a huge hit with Anaplan model builders across the globe! With content tailored to support Anaplan model builder’s expertise at every level, there was a record turnout with nearly 1,500 people registered—representing 38 countries and 346 companies. After a lively kickoff—with a surprise…
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Releasing the Anaplan Add-in for Excel 4.0
The Anaplan Add-in for Excel is key for many Anaplan users, helping their business processes for reporting and ad-hoc analysis. We’ve made it even easier to take advantage of the Excel Add-in, with a seamless experience from installation to support. Version 4.0 makes it easier for anyone to install and upgrade the Excel…
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How do I get a UX Research Superstar badge?
The Anaplan Community recently came out with many new badges to award and show appreciation to our members for their involvement. One of those badges—the UX Research Superstar badge—awards Community members for participating in research carried out by the User Experience (UX) team. At Anaplan, our UX team spends a lot of…
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Gather 4 Clues to Find the Mystery Roadmap Item
The end of the year is fast approaching, and in the UK this usually means lots of quizzes (now done virtually, as opposed to at the pub). In June, I did a quiz about the Extensions, but many things have changed since then—so here is a new one for you to polish your knowledge about those products, as well as to discover an…
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Anaplan—2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
The Anaplan team is thrilled to announce that we have been recognized as the only vendor in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Sales Performance Management (SPM). View the Anaplan for Sales page on Gartner Peer Insights. As noted in the report, over the past 12 months, Anaplan received 50 published…
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Supply Chain Planning: The Power of Co-Creation
With the world changing at a faster pace than ever before, the need for organizations to be able to react quickly is drastically increasing. This impacts the way we design our business processes. In the complex environments of today, it is not enough to just have processes in place without system support. This was exactly…
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How I Became an Anaplan Addict
Anaplan was not even a blip on technology’s radar when I started college, and I never could have predicted the seriousness of my ultimate relationship with the company and platform. I started out as a nerdy auditor at one of the top accounting firms in the country. While I hate to admit my age, this was a time when a MAC…
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Using the U.S.E.R. Methodology to Move to the UX
Anaplan’s UX is a great feature that can be used to condense multiple dashboards into meaningful apps and pages. I see this as a huge improvement to users' overall experience of the product. By taking an example of a simple case study, I'll explain how to use the new U.S.E.R. methodology to move from Classic to UX. Case…
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Anaplan Live!—Your Opinion Matters!
The team is energized on the heels of this year's CPX, and we're moving quickly to bring you even more valuable content to support you in your Anaplan journey. Planning is under way for Anaplan Live!—an event with you specifically in mind, the Anaplan model builder. Anaplan Live! is a two-day online experience packed with…
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Designing a Better Upgrade Experience: How Customers Helped
As a Master Anaplanner and the Extensions product manager at Anaplan, I'm excited to share today lessons learned from building a better Anaplan product, how our users have contributed to our decision making, and how you can apply those principles as a model builder for your community of Anaplan users. In August we launched…
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HEC Paris Students Augment Anaplan’s Internal Sales Performance Management Tool
HEC Paris Batiment Building—copyright HEC ParisA few months ago, we were lucky to meet three HEC Paris students who wanted to try their hand at the Anaplan platform by improving the Sales Performance Management tool we use internally. HEC Paris is one of the world's best business schools and a leader in research and…
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Anaplan Groups: Further Your CPX Journey!
DigitalCPX—Anaplan’s global conference dedicated to operationalizing enterprise performance—continues this week. We’ve already heard amazing announcements, dived deep into Connected Planning concepts and principles, and explored the impact of today’s technological advancements on our businesses now and into the future.…
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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…
