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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…
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Q&A: Launching Your Certified Model Builder Journey
As more people outside of the Anaplan ecosystem hear about the power of our platform, they're asking, "How can I get involved?" We recently spoke to two such individuals who took an interest in Anaplan and paved their own way toward becoming a model builder. Meet David McCarthy and Garie Walsh. Both individuals come from…
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Excel Add-In Use Cases and Benefits — With Master Anaplanner Alessio Pagliano
Certified Master Anaplanners are Connected Planning pioneers, building industry best practices and shaping the way Anaplanners everywhere utilize Connected Planning solutions every day. They understand the possible and are passionate about helping set the direction of the platform This month, we're sharing insights from…
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Announcing the 2020 Master Anaplanner of the Year!
Each year the Master Anaplanner Program recognizes a customer who exemplifies the qualities of an ideal Certified Master Anaplanner — including technical Anaplan ability, contributions within the broader Anaplan ecosystem, and a dedication to enabling Connected Planning within their company. We turned to the community of…
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As Easy As 1, 2, 3
We’ve heard from more than a few talented Anaplanners that their passion for the platform is so strong—they couldn’t imagine working on any other platform out there. They want to continue to expand their skill set and stay within the Anaplan ecosystem, while also advancing their careers. Great news! Anaplan has developed…
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Kick Off Summer by Improving Your Consolidations Process
School is almost out, but you can still ace your corporate reporting by performing your consolidations process in Anaplan! The close and consolidation process can lead to late nights at work, but Anaplan’s real-time calculations can save you some extra hours—giving you more time to spend outside in the summer sun.…
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Anaplan Academy: Micro-Lessons Now Available on Community
The Anaplan Academy team designed the updated platform training (Level 1-3 Model Building), understanding that learning is constantly happening—developing tools to enable you and your team. These micro-lessons—the short interactive eLearning modules—are now available on the Anaplan Community. The Anaplan Academy On-Demand…
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Join the Anaplan Community LinkedIn group!
Did you know the Anaplan Community is on LinkedIn? We are nearly 3,300 members strong and growing daily! Join the group to connect and learn from like-minded individuals in the Anaplan ecosystem. In the group, you can stay up to date on what's happening on the Community, including events, new content, and trending forum…
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Anaplan Careers: Industry vs. Consulting
A career as a model builder in Anaplan has two avenues: industry and consulting. In over three years of model building, I worked in two distinct industry jobs. In September 2019, I moved into the consulting avenue when I joined Spaulding Ridge, 2020 AMER Partner of the Year. In this blog, I will address the different…
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Community Vlog #5: New York Area Pre Sales—Jen & Yelena
In this Community Vlog, Jen **** and Yelena Keselman—members of the New York area Pre-Sales team—discuss their roles within Anaplan, how they serve new and existing customers, how their team works with customers to create successful implementations, and so much more! Get to know these amazing members of the Anaplan team…
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Sales and Finance Cross-Functional User Group— May 12
Anaplan invites you—customers and Community members—to come together for a Sales And Finance Cross-Functional User Group on May 12 to share questions, challenges, and best practices for supporting sales and/or finance organizations. Unless you’re a firefighter, work shouldn’t feel like you are just putting out fires.…
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New User Groups Offer Help for Business Disruptions
To say we are living in a time of disruption would be an understatement. Planning for next week (let alone next quarter or next year) has become challenging. However, this is also a time of tremendous collaboration. In that spirit, we want to make it easier for people to offer and receive help for their businesses in their…
