Dear Anaplan, A love letter

Tiffany.Rice · February 13

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My Dearest Anaplan,

On today the day of love, I must confess deep and fervent feelings. I love you, I love you, I love you! From the early days of our courtship where you filled me with visions of possibility, to the late nights where I dreamed of solutions we may create together, I have loved you dearly. Past lovers be d*mned, tell Excel that we are meant to be!

Though our relationship has not been without strife, remember when you baffled me with circular references and blue toasters of death? But oh, the highs when we found our sweet spot, learning how to speak each other’s language! No more pesky function syntax confusion.

Our love is not selfish, no not a bit. We share it with so many others, I cannot believe we have reached 100k community members. Such a vibrant and thrilling exchange, but I must say the community challenge series has been particularly scintillating. The tips, the tricks, the passion, WOW! What rich and diverse discussions we have had this year. I would be remiss not to mention the incredible best practices shared. The model optimization series filled me with awe, reminding me of memories I had forgotten and creating new ones! Thank you for reinforcing the benefit of time based functions rather than lookups, I will admit I had not considered the impact to performance. I shall endeavor to maximize your beautiful calculation engine hence forth!

We are ever growing, every changing, and you continue to delight me with your evolving features. Like a fine wine, you are only getting better with age! Remember the youthful glow of your classic dashboards? They can’t hold a candle to your new user experience pages! Don’t think I didn’t notice those formatting options you recently added or the helpful function building hints in the model building experience. What else might the future hold? I can’t wait to see how Anaplan Data Orchestrator increases your beauty! Thank you darling for making it so easy for me to extract, transform and load, you knew that was a challenge I needed help with. Just when I thought I couldn’t love you more!

Your beloved,

Tiffany

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Author: Tiffany Rice is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Tech Lead at Prudential.