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Articles about the Anaplan Community and Connected Planning

Harnessing LLMs for enhanced Anaplan planning
Author: Joe van Bolderen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and founder of Van Bolderen Consulting Group. Introduction AI is changing the business landscape. The integration of external AI systems, particularly Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models, into Anaplan's ecosystem marks a significant shift for the…
March 2024 Community Member Spotlight: Wendy Wen
March is Women's History Month and we're recognizing some of our outstanding female Community members! Our Journey podcast episode featured Silvia Di Feliciantonio (@SilviaDF) , and now in our Member Spotlight we are excited to introduce Wendy Wen (@Wendy)! Wendy is a trailblazing Certified Master Anaplanner whose…
How I Built It: Replacing the "group by" function of Excel in Anaplan
About the Author: Damien Bouquier has been a Certified Master Anaplanner for 5+ years and has developed solutions across a wide range of industries for FP&A, supply chain, and sales operations planning use cases. Hi Anaplan Community! Excel allows you to group and ungroup data areas to explore the data. Anaplan does not…
How I Built It: Number lists
Author: Soumya Bhattacharya is a Certified Master Anaplanner and technology consultant at Accenture. Hello Anaplan Community! This ‘How I Built It’ tutorial represents one of the benefits of a Number list and how we can use it to dynamically update the module line-item description. This function helps to build a dynamic…
Tips for successful key leader and stakeholder communications
Author: Aaron Overfors is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. In any Anaplan implementation, there is always a compelling event for the work to be done. There is some value to be realized, challenge to be overcome, and/or some process to be improved in part with the technology. Behind…
A conversation with Silvia Di Feliciantonio — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Just in time for International Women’s Day, today’s Journey podcast features two outstanding women in the Anaplan ecosystem: host Kas Gengadaren (@KasG), Anaplan’s APAC Ecosystem Manager, and Silvia Di Feliciantonio (@SilviaDiF), Anaplan Certified Model Builder and Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Silvia is an experienced…
Pro tips on troubleshooting large Anaplan formulas
Author: Andrew Barnett is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director at Allitix. The Planual serves as our guide for building things the right way in Anaplan. But let's face it, the real world can sometimes be a bit messier. Anaplan environments often consist of a series of models shaped over time by different people with…
How I Built It: Refreshing current date in an Anaplan model using Cloudworks
Author: Sai Bandaru is a Certified Master Anaplanner with six years of experience architecting Anaplan models. Hello Anaplanners! In today's fast-paced business environment, having accurate and up-to-date information is crucial for making informed decisions. In this ‘How I Built It’ tutorial, I'll explore a practical and…
February 2024 Community Member Spotlight: Alessio Pagliano
Join us in celebrating @Alessio_Pagliano as our featured Community Member Spotlight for February! Alessio's inspiring journey in the Anaplan ecosystem spans seven years, marked by notable achievements such as becoming a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Community Boss. Explore Alessio's impressive Anaplan journey and…
How I Built It: Data locking and validation within processes
Author: Noah Jackson is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Data and Insights Architect at Anaplan. Hello Anaplan Community! I’m excited to share this ‘How I Built It’ video with you. In this tutorial, I walk you through two types of actions that you can add to your Anaplan processes to improve your data access…
Anaplan for career growth
Author: David Edwards is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal at Columbus Consulting. Anaplan has long been a tool for driving growth and transformation within the companies that utilize its technology. However, it is also helpful to understand how being well-versed in Anaplan implementation and development is a…
Designing models that scale
Author: Arun Thakar, Certified Master Anaplanner and Vice President in the banking industry. One of the aspects which determine whether a model will meet the need of the business is how well it can scale. Whether the constraint is balancing numerous concurrent users, or having dimensions with high indices, or both and…
Tips on role communication and building Anaplan models
Author: Chad Frantz is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at Lionpoint Group. It can be tempting when developing a new model in Anaplan to jump right into the technical aspects and start building to get all the benefits as quickly as possible. But one aspect of optimizing the modeling experience that can…
A conversation with Austin van der Linden — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Welcome to our second podcast episode of 2024! Tune in today to hear Dennis Lemoine (@DennisL), Director of Customer Engagement & Experience, chat with Austin van der Linden (@Austinv) — Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Solution Architect, and Corporate FP&A Technical Lead at Dentsply Sirona. Austin has been with…
Strategies for clear and significant business insights
Author: Judee Dimapilis is a Certified Master Anaplanner and co-founder at Malaya Tech Consulting. Within the ever-changing landscape of business operations, reporting that is both accurate and informative has never been more crucial. However, there are common reporting challenges that many businesses encounter that makes…
Revolutionizing sales operations with Anaplan's Workflow
Author: Einas Ibrahim, Finance and SPM Consultant and Certified Master Anaplanner. Anaplan's Workflow feature leads the way in revolutionizing sales operations, particularly with its group approval functionality. This comprehensive tool simplifies the approval chain by defining clear responsibilities for each step in…
Top 25 Anaplan features released in 2023
Author: Misbah Ansari is a Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Boss, and CEO/Founder at Miz Logix. Within this fast-pacing world it is important for technologies to move even more faster. Anaplan — being a leader in the Connected Planning world — released a plethora of changes and/or updates in 2023 to almost…
January 2024 Community Member Spotlight: Tristan Silverio
We are thrilled to kick off 2024 with our latest Community Member Spotlight, @TristanS ! Tristan has been part of the Anaplan ecosystem for the last eight years and an active contributor in the Community for nearly seven years. Continue reading to get to know Tristan, his inspiring Anaplan journey, and contributions below!…
A conversation with Misbah Ansari — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
We’re kicking off our 2024 podcast season with a well-known Community name! Join host Kas Gengadaren (@KasG), Anaplan’s APAC Ecosystem Manager, as she interviews one of top Community members — Misbah Ansari (@Misbah), Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Boss, Planual co-admin, and CEO and Founder at Miz Logix.…
Creating and measuring value from Enterprise Performance Management solutions
Author: Mitch Max is a Certified Master Anaplanner with over 10 years’ experience in implementing Anaplan solutions, and 40 years' experience guiding and advising financial services organizations on best practices for Enterprise Performance Management. Currently, Mitch leads the EPM practice in North America for Lionpoint…
Case study: Exploring innovative use cases with Anaplan
Author: Kyle Sakowski is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director of Anaplan Center of Excellence at Everest. In the realm of reinsurance and risk management, Everest Group LTD stands as a beacon of industry excellence. As the landscape evolves, Everest recognizes the imperative to not just adapt but actively seek new…
The Anaplan Way: Essential documents for implementation
Author: Laiza Tagumpay is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Customer Success Business Partner at Anaplan in the Philippines, and is now a Solution Architect at an implementation partner in Canada. The Anaplan Way (TAW) follows an agile approach emphasizing speed, adaptability, and iteration. However, this can sometimes…
How I Built It: Extending LISS capabilities
Author: Kamal Verma is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director at Accelytics. Hello Anaplanner Community! I am excited to participate in my first ‘How I Built It’ tutorial. Clients and end users are always looking for methods to concisely display relevant data and streamline their data interactions. This video will…
January 2024 Community Q&A Challenge — join the discussion and collect a badge!
Happy New Year to the Anaplan Community! We are thrilled to kickoff 2024 with a new Q&A Challenge, providing an opportunity to reflect on the previous year one more time. In the fall of 2023, we introduced our Community Q&A Challenge series centered around Anaplan-related questions, encouraging Community members to reflect…
Get inspired — Community Bosses share their 2024 goals!
It’s the first week of the new year, and if you’re not yet in goal-setting mode, we’re here to inspire you with a few ideas from our Anaplan Community Bosses! We asked a few of our Bosses to share their perspective on any or all of the following questions: What are your Anaplan-related goals for 2024? What do you hope to…
Embracing the journey: reflecting on 2023, anticipating 2024
I was recently reading a LinkedIn News article, 34 Big Ideas that will change our world in 2024, and one quote from it made me laugh — “Humans just aren’t very good at predicting” by Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner. While this normally may be true, my first thought was, “I can — with 100% certainty — predict that…
Step-by-step: User-based sorting
Author: David Edwards is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal at Columbus Consulting. While there is sufficient documentation regarding how the user list can be an effective tool for UX filtering and dynamic cell access, there is also the opportunity to leverage users when designing custom sorting functionality…
My favorite new Anaplan features in 2023
Each year, Anaplan strives to not just maintain, but to enhance their platform in the form of periodic monthly new releases. This can take various forms. It could take the form of major sweeping updates like unveiling the New UX or Management Reporting pages. On the other hand, it could be focused on more micro-level…
A conversation with our Community Bosses — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
2023 is rapidly coming to an end, and to wrap up the year we invited a few of our Community Bosses to join Dennis Lemoine, Director of Customer Engagement & Experience, for our nineth episode of Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast. Please welcome: Andrew Tye (@andrewtye) , Anaplan Process Developer at Aviva. Location:…
Center of Excellence: centralized vs decentralized
Author: Bram Kurstjens is a Certified Master Anaplanner and leads a consulting team at EyeOn. You might expect a five-step plan to build a successful Center of Excellence (CoE) from a consultant, but that would be highly misleading in my experience. With this post I would rather like to start a discussion and hopefully…