Recording now available! April 30 platform release event
If you missed our April 30, 2025 platform release event, the recording is now available!
In this webinar, we highlight the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
Topics covered include:
- User Management: Limit exception user assignments to admins.
- Calculation Effort: Visibility to help you optimize model performance.
- Data Presentation: Override column widths and use absolute sizing in charts.
- ADO Navigation: Additional ways to create transformation views and view objects.
- Workflow Enhancements: Context in notifications and improved task completion checking.
Recording
Q&A
Questions answered live:
Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO)
- What are the performance constraints for data integration? Is there a limitation in terms of file size to be integrated?
Upcoming release information
- Will the new release changes be added to relevant course sections in Academy? Can we receive section links to those when they are added?
- Can we at least get short gif links (not necessarily videos) in release notes displaying the functionalities? Sometimes short gifs would show/explain a lot more and easier than long descriptions pf changes.
Questions answered in chat:
Limit exception user assignment to Admin only
- Existing non-SSO users aren't impacted?
- Existing exception users are not impacted in their respective models/workspaces.
- Existing exception users are not impacted in their respective models/workspaces.
- When will the SSO exception tab be available?
- What was demonstrated in this event is available now.
- What was demonstrated in this event is available now.
- If we enable the SSO exception to tenant will that remove the possibility to change that in models?
- Yes.
Calculation effort
You can find a helpful article about this here: Calculation Effort column for Classic Engine.
- Is it possible to get a measure of the total calculation time from a model?
- Not directly in the model, but yes via your Business Partner or your own timing.
- Not directly in the model, but yes via your Business Partner or your own timing.
- Do you have to close and re-open the model to re-calculate?
- No, it will update whenever there is a line item change anywhere in the model.
- No, it will update whenever there is a line item change anywhere in the model.
- Is this the case for Polaris too or only Classic? This is a follow up to the re-calculation question.
- Polaris has the same functionality, but it gets refreshed every 10 minutes and then falls out, while in Classic the percentage remains.
- Polaris has the same functionality, but it gets refreshed every 10 minutes and then falls out, while in Classic the percentage remains.
- Percent effort is a great new feature and my team are already using it. One drawback is the % is only at two decimal places — can this be increased?
- At this time, two decimals is the only option
- At this time, two decimals is the only option
- What calculation effort % is deemed too high that require investigation?
- There is no such threshold, sometimes, even often times, a few line items take up a large %. That is ok by itself, however it should help you better focus efforts as you work to optimize the model.
- There is no such threshold, sometimes, even often times, a few line items take up a large %. That is ok by itself, however it should help you better focus efforts as you work to optimize the model.
- Is the calculation effort in the model is the same as the information given in the report analyzing model?
- Similar, but not strictly the same.
- Similar, but not strictly the same.
- Is there a best practice threshold to keep the calc % for an ideal model performance?
- No, there is not a threshold, but you can use it to potentially find poorly performing line items. Just like in the demo, the ”sum” piece could not have been improved, but the latter part of the logic could by doing the “lookup” and the multiplication in the source module.
All of the % will equal to 100%, so you could have a very high calculation effort on a line item, but it very well could be created the best possible way. Remember, this is not time based (seconds), but it is the percent of CPU time it takes to render that line item.
- No, there is not a threshold, but you can use it to potentially find poorly performing line items. Just like in the demo, the ”sum” piece could not have been improved, but the latter part of the logic could by doing the “lookup” and the multiplication in the source module.
Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO)
- What does the 25 GB limit on the ADO overview refer to? Is it related to a package?
- 25GB is not a limit, it is just the size of one package. It applies to the 'managed data' which is the primary data loaded into ADO, not the transforms and other objects.
- 25GB is not a limit, it is just the size of one package. It applies to the 'managed data' which is the primary data loaded into ADO, not the transforms and other objects.
- I do not have no access to Data Orchestrator — is it available for everybody, how can I get access ?
- Not every customer is entitled to Orchestrator, please reach out to us if you would like to learn more about adding it to your environment.
Other
- Can you add a link to info on basic Workflow functionality in the Anaplan community?
- Do you have a site to deep dive more into exception users?
- Anapedia should cover it, please let us know if something there is not clear.
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