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ACTION NEEDED: Please Post To Your Group
Group Leaders: Please help promote the upcoming April 28 Anaplan Live! Spotlight event. Simply copy and paste the sample text and image below into a new Forum post. * Timed and targeted for the Asia Pacific region, so APAC Group Leaders: this is especially important for you!…
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Next Virtual Meetup - Ideas & Time Slot
Hi Four Corners! For our February event, we had a morning meeting. Drop us a note in the comments if you like the mornings or if you'd prefer a lunch time or late afternoon event. We are considering a "spring cleaning" theme for our next event - think cleaning and organizing your models. If you do this on a regular basis,…
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The 4 Ways Forecasting Goes Wrong
What makes a forecast accurate? Is it the frequency? Time spent on it? Maybe the numbers of colleagues involved? Perhaps the amount of data we need to include in it? What works for your organisation? In this article from CFO magazine hear about the 4 forecasting warning flags. Can you relate to them?…
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CIM is coming! Read all about Central Identity Management
* What is CIM? Central Identity Management is the new administration area for user management. It is designed to be a “single pane of glass” view where all of a company’s Anaplan users can be viewed in one place – your tenant. With CIM, administrators can easily add, manage, and remove users from the platform with no need…
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New UX Functionalities
During Last Weekend's release window Anaplan has released two of the new cool features within New UX. Here is a brief write up of it. Re: Row Height and Image Display in a Line Item - Anaplan Community If you wish to watch the Video Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnqpmJz7OQ4
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The Long Wait is Over! Word Wrap and Image in a Grid
Retail Team! It's here. @Misbah did a nice write up on it in this post. Image in a grid support and row height which should allow word wrap! https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/Row-Height-and-Image-Display-in-a-Line-Item/m-p/102692/highlight/false#M24019
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Use cases for Anaplan in Financial services
Hello everyone, Nice idea to have a dedicated Financial services group. I am interested to know how are you using Anaplan in your Financial services organisation. I do read https://www.anaplan.com/customer/financial-services-insurance/ but if anyone can talk about it more, then great!
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Weekly Tip: Anaplan Live! Spotlight (April 28)
Hello, Leaders! The next Anaplan Live! Spotlight event has been scheduled for April 28. As Group Leaders, we need your help promoting this event, as the content is specifically targeted to Model Builders and will be of high value to your Group Members. This particular event is timed to be accessible by the Asia Pacific…
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Please consider voting for this! Lock & Spread for New UX
As some of you may have already discovered, lock and spread is not supported in the New UX, only classic. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Hold-and-Release-functionality/idi-p/77486 @sandeep_bk posted this idea back in July but it hasn't gotten much attention. This is a pretty important feature for retail and…
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Get Ready! Today's the day!
Retail Anaplanners! Today, we should be getting three super power retail enhancements. This will take place between 1-4PM PST Saturday 3/20/2021 * Image in a grid support * Bar Code scanning * Word wrap. You can control the row height of the row in a grid. As this gets rolled out, I will give them a test and see how they…
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Follow-up from the forum on 17 March: Challenge yourself to communicate about Anaplan to your users!
Hi all, Thank you so much for joining yesterday - we had great discussions about the latest features and especially the end-user pivot and filter. How do you communicate to your users about this feature? Here are a couple of ideas that I implemented myself in my previous role and at Anaplan Idea 1: Communicate to your end…
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Customer Success Announcements | March 2021
Hi, everyone! There are some exciting announcements in this month's Customer Success newsletter. I wanted to post it here to make sure you see them. Please let us know what you're most excited about, and if there is anything you'd like to hear more about at a future event! Introducing Central Identity Management (CIM)…
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Customer Success Announcements | March 2021
Hi, everyone! There are some exciting announcements in this month's Customer Success newsletter. I wanted to post it here to make sure you see them. Please let us know what you're most excited about, and if there is anything you'd like to hear more about at a future event! Introducing Central Identity Management (CIM)…
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Board or Worksheet? Thoughts?
UX... To Board or to Worksheet, That is the question! Read here on some tips and differentiators from Anaplan in-house expert Anne-Julie. And please comment! What is your experience? What works best for your organisation? Do you just use a Board for everything? Did you know that some things can be done on a Worksheet but…
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Excel Upload Limitation?
Hi Team. Just wondering if there's a known issue with how many cells can be uploaded at once. I have a spreadsheet that can potentially upload 20,000 cells. Works great with 100 or so change but at 20,000 it crashes Excel. I'm using Version 4.1.2.295, the latest version. The previous version worked fine.
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Q1 2021 Wrap Up - Webinar Recording!
Retail team! Here's the link to the webinar. What a great event. Thanks again @BobD @Dsabo @alicia_crowther for hosting and facilitating! Also, big thanks to @HannahT and Anaplan Support for helping me get the recording to YouTube! https://youtu.be/az93zG5Lr9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az93zG5Lr9Q
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Copy Branch Workaround - From Jan User Group
Here is the explanation of how to do the Copy Branch & Assign workaround as demonstrated at the January User Group
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Retail Anaplan Group Q1 2021 Wrap Up
Retail Anaplanners! What a great quarterly meeting today. Special thanks to @BobD, @Dsabo, and @alicia_crowther for hosting and speaking at todays event. Attached is the presentation. For those that missed the meeting, I will be adding a link to the recording. I'm limited to 71MB on this post, so I may have break it up.…
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Group Event on 7th April 2021
Hello Anaplan Family, We are going to have our First Group Event on 7th April 2021 at 10:00 AM IST. Please Register for the event. Link below See Virtual Group Event for India Modelers at Anaplan Modelers Forum India
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Retail Group virtual meetup today at 1500-1600 GMT
Morning all, just a heads up that the Retail Group meeting is at 1500 GMT today - we are in that strange time of year where the US has changed clocks and the UK has not, so we are 4 hours ahead of Eastern US time, not 5. Looking forward to seeing everyone this afternoon! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions…
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Weekly Tip: Easy Forum Engagement Strategies
When was the last time you posted in your Group's forum? Taking even just a few minutes each week to share something will create value for your Group members and go a long way toward generating the long-term engagement critical to your Group's success! Some easy ideas: * Welcome new members. You can see the dates your…
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Welcome to the NEW Anaplan Energy & Utilities Group!! Get started here...
Hello, and welcome to the very first Anaplan Energy & Utilities Group! This group has been created by Robin and I to bring together the ever growing population of Anaplanners working in the Utilities sector - that could be energy retailers, DNO's, generation, water companies and technology companies developing smart…
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #4
Here's the last teaser before the meetup next week. Hope you all can join! https://usergroups.anaplan.com/events/details/anaplan-retail-presents-retail-anaplan-group-q1-2021-virtual-meetup/#/
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A new approach to budgeting starts now!
Really interesting article from McKinsey's on how organisations need to be changing the way they approach budgeting and the time to start the change is now! Take a look. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/memo-to-the-cfo-a-new-approach-to-2021-budgeting-starts-now Do you…
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Ranking across Multiple Dimensions
Ability to rank dynamically can be achieved by using the Group by property/parameter in the RANK function. We will need to determine a method for calculating a group by value based on the values selected by the user. Normally, the RANK function is fixed to the dimensions in the grid, but in our case, we need it to change…
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Store Operations: Can they be Agile?
Hi Retail Team. Ran into this article today and thought I'd share it because it poses an interesting question about how planning, typically starting at the top and cascading down can be transformed to be more agile where top and bottom iterate with each other. What do you think? Can this be implemented in Anaplan?…
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Do not miss February 2021 Releases and March Sneak Peek!
* Released in February * Modeling Enhancements * Collaboration Updates * UX Updates * Mobile Enhancements * Admin Console * HyperCare 3.0 * Ideas Delivered in Feb * Targeted for March * UX Updates * Extensibility Updates * Security Enhancements * Upcoming scheduled maintenance: Released in February Modeling Enhancements *…
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Wow! The March Anaplan Release is all about Retail!!
Retail Anaplanners, If you haven't read @VickiA sneak preview or release notes before, this is the time to give it a try. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Releases/February-2021-Releases-and-March-Sneak-Peek/ba-p/99663 In March the retail industry will be handed a major gift! In March, we should be getting these features:…
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #3
Retail Anaplanners! Less that a week away, March 16, for the Retail Anaplan Group quarterly meeting! We'll take a closer look at how OTB is used in Anaplan and how retailers are reacting to the Pandemic in record time. As a bonus we'll also see a demo of price management in Anaplan. Our special guest is Alicia Crowther and…
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Weekly Tip: 3 Benefits of Smaller Events
Hi, everyone! Each week @HannahT and I will post tips for event success, boosting engagement, and other bite-sized ideas for helping you lead your Groups. Please let us know how you like this new feature, and be sure to react to the tips each week. We value your questions and comments! This week's tip: Events don't have to…