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Five inspiring years in the Anaplan Community!
This month we celebrate five years since the launch of the official Anaplan Community! From 2013 to 2016, Community forums served as a place for connection, conversation, and trouble-shooting — but we envisioned more. More learning, more sharing, and more opportunities for collaboration were just what the ecosystem needed…
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The Key to Aligning Missions at Academic Medical Centers
Disjointed manual spreadsheets are common pain points expressed by our higher ed clients. You may be able to consolidate all academic departments using the same templates on separate tabs, but what if you have a completely separate operating unit with an entirely different model? Or perhaps you have a legacy system in…
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Why Anaplan solutions are critical to global climate change challenges
Author: Asslam Umar Ali, Manager Financial Performance Management at Fortescue Metals Group The green economy of the future: More data, planning rigor, and technology support Climate change is the most critical challenge of our generation — it also provides opportunities for businesses to create economic value. Clean…
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Optimizing Your Budget for Success in Challenging Times
In these challenging times, corporate balance sheets have been stressed, the way people work has been turned upside-down and the future for many businesses has never been more uncertain. This has created greater urgency for companies to look at how they spend their money and find new and better ways to plan for the future.…
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Meet Master Anaplanner and former CoE Leader — Brittany Deaton
Meet Brittany Deaton — Actuarial Director at Unum, former Center of Excellence Founder and Leader, and 2019's Certified Master Anaplanner of the Year. We asked Brittany to share her thoughts on becoming a Center of Excellence leader, provide perspective on valuable skills learned, and elaborate on the benefits of having a…
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Pro tips: Troubleshooting calculations
The Anaplan team is always looking for stories of Anaplan in action, seasonal planning tips and tricks, and use case-specific studies on how to best use the product. Recently, Stephen Rituper and I (both from our Operational Excellence Group) sat down with a few top Master Anaplanners to hear from them on their specific…
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In case you missed it: UX Designer Hub event recording
Last week, I sat down with Felix Bein, @BCSFB Certified Master Anaplanner & Manager | Enterprise Performance from Deloitte, and Taylor Giesler, @taylor.swisher Manager from Lionpoint Group for a conversation about UX Designer tips and tricks. During the hour-long session we touched on: * Transitioning from Classic to UX…
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Getting your users engaged by giving them… laptop stickers?
So simple, and yet so effective! If you’ve implemented Anaplan in your company, you might agree with me that one of the biggest challenges after implementation is getting your users engaged. I want to share how I got my team of end users fully trained in basic functions *and* excited about Anaplan in the process. Spoilers:…
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Announcement: Community Advancement
The Anaplan Community offers several ways for members to progress and advance not only within the Community, but within the greater Anaplan ecosystem. Some members interact regularly with others, providing answers to questions and sharing out of their own experiences. Others opt to leverage their passion for Anaplan by…
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Accessibility and the Anaplan UX
Accessibility is something we in the Product Team are getting asked about more and more often—and not just from customers with a legal obligation to deliver accessible solutions to their users. Internal cultures have been changing, and organizations see inclusivity as a must when procuring solutions and building…
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Career advice for new Anaplanners
As our customers continue to realize increasingly more value from Anaplan and work to bring their Connected Planning visions to life, the need for certified Anaplan talent is more critical now than ever. This creates a unique opportunity for those looking to make a career change and capitalize on this period of…
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New: Persona Hub Event Series – March 29th
I’m thrilled to announce our new Event Series dedicated to all things Personas! As many of you are aware – we have been unveiling multiple Persona-Based resources via Community over the past few months. What better way to celebrate these hubs and our incredible Community Members – than with a fun event! On Tuesday, March…
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#BreakTheBias with Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi
This week the Anaplan Community blog is featuring employee, customer, and partner thoughts on how to #BreakTheBias in recognition of International Women's Day 2022. Today we welcome Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi to the blog. I am Sonal Tripathi, a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Anaplan Analyst with Adobe with a…
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#BreakTheBias with Master Anaplanner Alexandru Pavel
This week the Anaplan Community blog is featuring employee, customer, and partner thoughts on how to #BreakTheBias in recognition of International Women's Day 2022. Today we welcome Master Anaplanner Alexandru Pavel to the blog. The most efficient way to fight and break gender bias or any other biases in our workplaces is…
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#BreakTheBias this International Women's Day
Today, International Women's Day (IWD), is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The campaign theme this year is #BreakTheBias. The IWD website explains, “Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists…
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We are looking for your Anaplan expertise!
Every day we are impressed by the expertise we see in the Anaplan Community — in our forums, groups, and the content you share. This year, we are looking to share a broader range of Anaplan voices in the Community — specifically, articles that focus on personal or company Anaplan-related success stories, how you overcame a…
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A Good Plan: Spend Time on User Stories
In this guest blog series, Anaplan partner Spaulding Ridge examines what they have found to be integral parts of a good plan: the level of detail, the process, the people involved, the timing, and pitfalls to avoid. Writing user stories is one of the most impactful and exciting phases of the early Anaplan implementation…
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We've Updated The Anaplan Way Guide Experience
Have you adopted The Anaplan Way, our tried-and-true methodology for implementing Anaplan applications? If not, now’s the time! We recently updated The Anaplan Way experience on the Anaplan Community, allowing for easier navigation and referencing. The Anaplan Way Guide’s New Experience Now, on The Anaplan Way on PDF…
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Meet UX Designer Steven Kraplin
Meet Steven Kraplin — UX Designer, Associate Financial Analyst at The MathWorks, and Master Anaplanner. Steven spends his days working to maintain internal systems, which include Oracle, Vertex, Anaplan, and others. He also works on product development, including new projects within those tools, as well as helping users…
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Accessibility: 5 tips for building and navigating Anaplan using voice input
Whether you’re disabled in the arms or hands, interested in preventing repetitive strain injury (RSI), or simply want to get more work done while pacing around the office, today I'm sharing my tips for any Anaplan Model Builder who wants to use the tool with their voice. For my computer activities, I primarily use the…
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Introducing persona-based resources to support your individual Anaplan experience
The Anaplan ecosystem is vast, and no two experiences are alike. As an active model builder, you are at the forefront of building, delivering, and optimizing models for your organization. API and integration developers are focused on successful connections between platforms, and UX designers are aligned around the common…
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Join the User Research Program and help shape the future of Anaplan
Let's shape the future of Anaplan together! Join our User Research Program today to get started. What is the Anaplan User Research Program? Feedback from our users is critical to how we design and prioritize features -- and we've built a community of Anaplan users who directly influence the design of Anaplan. As a member,…
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Higher Ed: Planning for the Future in a Time of Constant Change
It has now been more than a year since the coronavirus pandemic began wreaking havoc on all segments of U.S. business and society. Some sectors and organizations have learned how to adapt to the vast changes in how we do business and go about our daily lives while we all await a return to some semblance of normalcy.…
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Celebrating Our Mentors
During November's Anaplan Live! @ChrisWeiss encouraged those in attendance to share the names of individuals within the Anaplan ecosystem who have been mentors in one way or another. From being experts in all things Anaplan, to helping guide others in their career paths, to just being a friendly voice - mentorship is…
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2022 is an exciting year for the Anaplan Community!
This year, we find ourselves looking ahead and envisioning the art of the possible for the Anaplan Community. Everything in life must evolve and grow. Growth is not something that just comes in the form of a number—like having over 74,000 members of the Community—growth supports customer value in creating change that…
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Save Space With Snapshots
When it comes to model size, few components add space quicker than versions. This is particularly true in use cases that rely heavily on scenario planning and what-if analysis. For example, a supply chain model may need to generate a monthly forecast with a best, worst, and average set of inputs. Especially when time…
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That's a Wrap!
You did it! You successfully navigated another extraordinary year while contributing to a vibrant and engaging Community experience. You are the foundation of Anaplan excellence. You show up every day with an unparalleled willingness to support your fellow members. You make Community great—and for that, we thank you! As we…
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Adopting and Expanding in a Connected World
The vast benefits of Anaplan are both widely known and constantly evolving. The ability to impact a business plan at the click of a button, understand a decision's downstream effects, quickly navigate between detailed planning and elegant visualizations are all attributes that make Anaplan offerings second-to-none. How can…
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Decision Making Made Easy—Optimize Supply Chain Allocations Using Anaplan Optimizer
Global supply chains in the modern business world have become more complex, and a lack of supply chain visibility can affect profitability. It becomes even more challenging when supply chain managers have to make a decision and match supply-demand, considering constraints and profitability. When it comes to supply chain…
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The Truth About Sparsity: Part 1
Throughout my five-plus years at Anaplan the conventional wisdom has been that we should eliminate sparsity in order to model efficiently. Throughout the last year, as part of the PLANS standards initiative, we have been critically re-evaluating all of the existing best practices and techniques and sparsity was included as…
