Happy new year and welcome to the January 2026 edition of your Anaplan ANZ Customer Newsletter! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season
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:
- Upcoming Anaplan Events
- Anaplan Academy Recertification
- Product and Feature Updates
- Content & Resources Highlight
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Anaplan Events: Subscribe to the Anaplan Status Page and Release Calendar for the latest Global updates.
Register for our January 29 platform release webinar!
Anaplan's next quarterly platform release webinar will be held January 29, 2026 at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. During this session, we will explore the latest features so you can optimize your Anaplan experience.
Our expert-led session will equip you with a practical guide and live demonstrations to help you get the most out of new features and innovations. Get your questions answered live during Q&A.
Features to be demoed:
- Modeling in Polaris: Explore how on-demand calculation can positively impact model performance.
- Dimensionality in Polaris: Learn how builders and users can pivot up to eight nested dimensions in a grid view.
- Planning experience: Check out new features that allow page builders to elevate the design of UX pages and present information side-by-side for end users.
- Forecaster: See the latest enhancements to Anaplan Forecaster, a next generation forecasting capability embedded in the Anaplan platform.
Upcoming events and webinars:
Keep an eye out for the upcoming morning in-person briefings ANZ Insight Exchange Series starting this March!
Topics will be on:
- Demystifying AI in Business Planning: Lessons from the Field and The Co-Modeler Playbook
- From Silos to Synergy: An IBP Masterclass for Supply Chain Leaders
- Workforce Planning: Aligning Your People with Your Goals
- The Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC): From Metric to Action
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Celebrating all the new and recertified Professional Model Builders, Solution Architects and Certified Master Anaplanners! Refresher below around the Master Anaplanner Program and how this can be you in 2026
At their core, a Certified Master Anaplanner is someone who elevates others across the Anaplan ecosystem through the many ways they share their expertise. This includes mentoring others, sharing community perspective and technical architecture thought leadership, demonstrating innovative solutions, providing product feature insight, ideating and inspiring others in the Anaplan Community to help define the future of the platform, leading CoE development, building innovative roadmaps to scale the platform for business decision-making, and championing Anaplan in the competitive market.
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Recap: Anaplan Product and Feature Updates:
Stay tuned.. Anaplan will be holding Kick off this February launching our upcoming Product Features, Applications and Anaplan Intelligence.
In the mean time, check out this community article on a recap of Anaplan Features in 2025:
Top 25 Anaplan Features Released in 2025 Anaplan has consistently released several features monthly to stay ahead of the competition and enjoy being a leader in the Connected Planning world. 2025 was no different and there were so many additions to each area of the platform which includes modeling, UX, extensibility, intelligence and Workflow. Although there may be some of you who have followed these releases, many may have missed these updates and releases. In this article, I’ll share more about top
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Content & Resources: Some of our recent favourite posts
- The new Anaplan IFP Apps: What you need to know. Anaplan’s IFP apps are designed to help finance teams build a full planning environment — income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, revenue, OpEx, headcount, CapEx, and even long-range plans — without starting from scratch.
- Harnessing the power of Combined Grids: A unified experience for developers and end users: One of the most impactful enhancements in the UX is the Combined Grids capability. Combined Grids allow page builders to bring together data from up to five modules into a single, unified grid. This transformation enables planners to analyze inputs and attributes side-by-side, reduces UX clutter, and streamlines real-world workflows.
- Speeding up ADO data syncs with Workflow Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) is used to connect, transform, and manage data from various sources to be used in Anaplan models. It is a data management system that enhances integration, efficiency, and data governance within the Anaplan platform. While ADO has been a welcome addition to the data integration options, and has included the ability to schedule data movements, by combining it with Anaplan’s workflow functionality, you get an even more intelligent and powerful solution. You can use Workflow to initiate ADO extracts and links as a seamless step within a larger business process.
- Automated license and size management Managing user licenses and keeping track of model sizes in Anaplan can be daunting for teams juggling multiple models across DEV, QA, and PROD environments. Traditionally, consolidating user information means manually exporting from each model — a time-consuming and error-prone process. This article outlines how an integrated license and size management model can centralize user details, automate license calculations, and improve oversight, saving teams significant effort. ============================================================================
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