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Anaplan ANZ Newsletter – September 2024

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Welcome to this month’s Anaplan Customer Newsletter! This content will help keep you apprised of the latest in our collaboration, inform you of product updates and industry news, and connect you with our broader Anaplan community and resources to stay at the top of your game.

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SEPTEMBER newsletter includes:

Anaplan Product and Feature Updates

  • Product & Feature Updates
  • ICYMI
  • Upcoming Anaplan Events
  • Content & Resources / On demand Webinars / Customer Stories

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Anaplan Product and Feature Updates: subscribe to Anaplan’s feature updates page to stay on top of upcoming releases. 

Recent Highlights:

  • UX
    • Page Builders can now re-order Pages within an App via drag-and-drop functionality as well as change the order of categories from the lefthand panel (remember to refresh the browser post category changes 😊). Video here
    • Font colour conditional formatting + Rich text (for end users). Video here & here
  • User Administration
    • To enhance the ability to segregate the duty of managing user provisioning across the platform there I now an option to turn on a switch to only allow User Administrators to add/remove users in administration. Note Workspace Administrators will not be able to add Users when this is switched on. Anapedia link here
  • Workflow Customers
    • Numerous updates with the ability to:
      • Line-item driven decision steps
      • Skippable decisions and approvals
      • Model role driven decision steps

All Release notes from September 4th may be found here: August 2024 releases

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ICYMI

Community Challenges!

Share your fun modelling builds & best practices tips and tricks

Check out the past challenges from this great initiative by the Community!

Who knows there may be something you and your team can incorporate into your Anaplan models.

Also look out for future challenges and contribute if you have any great tips & tricks!

Customer Care Toolkit

Within the Support webpage there is a Customer Care Toolkit may help end-users and alleviate burden on the CoE for common issues and queries. Find out more here

User Research

Passionate about the direction of the platform and want to be involved in shaping the future?

You would have received an in-platform notification but ICYMI…..

Find out more and join our User Research Program by signing-up here

The “App Hub” has moved and been renamed

For those that have been an Anaplan customer for many years may be aware of the App Hub, well it’s moved and been renamed to “Modelling Showcase” and can be found here.

Still a great resource for inspiration or structures of models designed for a number of use cases and for learning practice models! (Unable to be downloaded to AWS Australia customers at this stage, however, speak to your BP for any exceptions)

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Upcoming Anaplan Events: subscribe to the Anaplan Status Page and 2024 Release Calendar for the latest updates. Dates in Australia / New Zealand:

  • 20th October 2024 - Platform unavailable: Scheduled maintenance
  • 27th October 2024 - Platform unavailable: Scheduled maintenance
  • 10th November 2024 - Platform unavailable: Scheduled maintenance
  • 17th November 2024 - Platform unavailable: Scheduled maintenance

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Content & Resources / On Demand Webinars / Customer Stories:

  • All Upcoming Global Events here *note the modelling tips & tricks recap will be presented at the ACO Spotlight event
  • Anaplan CEO: How decision excellence drives enterprise performance here
  • Anaplan Connect Global Events On-demand Sessions
    • Choose what’s most relevant to your business and hear from some of the world best companies and their Anaplan journey here
  • Events in an APAC time zone

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