The end of year calls for another edition of Anaplan Wrapped, and we wanted to take a moment on behalf of the entire Customer Success team to say a huge thank you.
In 2025, the ANZ customer group continues to achieve outstanding outcomes and great customer stories through use of the platform. To support this, the Anaplan product team have continued to deliver in the strategic focus areas of UX, Polaris, AI and Applications.
We are so excited for what’s to come in 2026 and look forward to another year of innovation and shared success. We can't wait to continue partnering with you to achieve your goals.
So, welcome to the end-of-year 2025 edition of your Anaplan ANZ Customer Newsletter! This is the Australia and New Zealand specific content that 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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This newsletter includes:
- Anaplan Events
- Training Re-certification reminder
- New customer story from ANZ - Woodside
- Product Release Highlights 2025
- Content & Resources
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Anaplan Events: Subscribe to the Anaplan Status Page and Release Calendar for the latest Global updates.
In November, our customers and partners got together for collaborative events in Melbourne and Sydney. With topics including AI, customer journey presentations and deep dive into model optimisation strategies, as well as some time for peer networking, these sessions are proving to be both informative and fun. Both events reached attendance capacity, we’re looking forward to running more next year.
Thank you to our presenters:
Andrea Maher, Mick Wilson, Adam Trainer, Jake Lazarus, Shihab Khan, Sindy Tang, Socvun Lee, Steve Bows
…and to our Organisers, Leaders and Contributors:
Carrick Mortimer, Margaret Loo, Michael Angeles, Niels Van Tendeloo, Reza Makouei, Sandi Micallef, Shihab Khan, Silvia Di Feliciantonio, Steve Bows and Toni Muller.
On 25th November we also held our end-of-year appreciation event in Sydney, looked like a fun night, this must have been one of the earlier photos taken:
Quarterly Release Webinar – if you missed the platform release highlights in October, the recording is now available here: Platform release event - Anaplan Community. This highlights recent feature launches including updates to the planning experience, UX< Anaplan Data Orchestrator and Polaris.
Anaplan Training Re-certification – If you are a Model Builder, Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner, don’t forget to re-certify by 31st December. Recertification details and resources are here: Anaplan Certification Center - Anaplan Community
New ANZ Customer Story - Woodside. Many thanks to @NataliiaG for sharing this view into how Wooside use Anaplan in their Finance function and elsewhere, along with the results that they have achieved.
Planned maintenance dates in December 2025 and January 2026 (local A/NZ) -We will be taking the platform offline to perform regular updates and maintenance to the Anaplan platform.
- December 2025 – no planned maintenance
- 18th January (12am AEST)
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Product Release Highlights 2025:
Subscribe to Anaplan’s Release Notes to stay informed about upcoming releases.
- Calculation Effort column for Classic Engine - Calculation Effort which displays the percentage of computational effort required for each line item. Once the model is opened, the Calculation Effort column will show which line items in the model require the most computation and may require optimisation.
- Classic and UX – Keyboard based undo, simple but useful keyboard shortcut keys to undo: A single-cell paste, multi-cell paste, single-cell delete, and a multi-cell delete.
- Increased nested dimensions & improved filtering performance in Polaris: Polaris will now supports eight nested Dimensions on an Axis, as well as improved filtering performance, enabling users to analyse complex data sets more efficiently and gain deeper, multi-dimensional insights.
- Workflow Advanced: Extends Anaplan workflow capabilities with sophisticated features including; branch and reconnect, send-back loops, value-based decisions and parallel steps. More information can be found HERE
- Combined grids: our pick of many UX enhancements this year, combined grids enables page builders to build a single grid using up to five modules, improving the filtering and views for end users.
- Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO). More new connectors for MySQL, PostreSQL, OracleDB, and export to csv.
- Apps: new pre-built and customisable apps to deliver best practice faster in Integrated Business Planning, Merchandise Financial Planning, Financial Planning & Consolidation and many more.
- NEW: Anaplan Forecaster. The new product release of Forecaster delivers transparent and explainable Machine Learning (ML) Learn more about Forecaster here, also a getting started guide with a time-series forecasting example here.
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Content & Resources: Some of our recent favourite posts
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Thanks for reading, please comment below if you have any suggestions for topics to be included in future newsletters.
