2608.1 FCR Release Announcement

AnaplanFCR

We are pleased to announce the upcoming FCR 2608.1 GA release. Check out the latest FCR feature updates and enhancements in our 2608.1 official release notes.

Release Schedule: FCR 2608.1 GA

• Tuesday, September 15, 2026: US, CAN, CA environments
• Monday, September 21, 2026: EU, JP, ID environments

Highlights

General

• Global System Folder: "Fluence" renamed to "Global"
  The system folder previously labeled "Fluence" will now appear as "Global" across the platform. Renaming this folder will give users a clearer, more intuitive label that reflects its true scope and purpose, helping teams navigate the system structure without confusion carried over from legacy branding.

UI/UX

• Mappings UI/UX redesign
  Users will experience a redesigned mappings interface, including a new status badge, a streamlined AI-assisted mappings workflow, and front-end validations. Having a more visual and guided mapping experience will give users a faster, more intuitive way to build and verify mappings, helping them catch errors earlier and reduce time spent on setup and troubleshooting.

Journals

• Enhanced Journals module
  Users will benefit from a range of improvements to the journals module, including visibility into autogenerated lines, auto-post on copy, an improved JE query that retains last-execution parameters, and overall performance gains. Having greater transparency and control over journal entries will give accounting teams a more reliable and efficient way to manage journals, helping them work faster while maintaining a clear audit trail.

Note: The enhanced Journals module requires a one-time migration process – contact Support to get started, or Support will reach out to you with your scheduled system update date.

Consolidation Engine

• Matrix Consolidation
  Users will be able to run consolidations in parallel across multiple dimensions simultaneously. Being able to consolidate in a matrix structure will give finance teams a faster, more scalable way to process complex, multi-dimensional consolidations, helping them shorten close cycles even as organizational complexity grows.
• Inventory Margin
  Users will be able to eliminate intercompany inventory profit, including unrealized gains, directly within the consolidation engine. Having built-in support for inventory margin elimination will give consolidation teams an accurate, automated way to remove intercompany profit from inventory balances, helping them ensure compliant, audit-ready financials without manual adjustment entries.
• Merger
  Users will be able to unify two or more legal entities into a single entity within the system. Having native support for entity mergers will give finance teams a structured, reliable way to reflect organizational restructuring in their consolidation model, helping them maintain accurate historical and go-forward reporting without rebuilding entity structures from scratch.
• Netting for multiple accounts
  Users will be able to apply account netting across multiple accounts at once, rather than one at a time. Being able to net multiple accounts simultaneously will give finance teams a more efficient way to offset intercompany balances, helping them streamline the close process and reduce manual netting effort.

Integration

• Hierarchy Extract
  Users will be able to extract hierarchies to staging tables for integration with Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) or third-party applications. Having a direct hierarchy extract capability will give data integration users a consistent, automated way to synchronize hierarchy data across systems, helping them maintain alignment between Financial Consolidation and downstream platforms without manual rebuilding.

Data Import

• View staging table
  Users will be able to preview staging table data directly through an Excel-style report view. Having visibility into staging data before it's processed will give data teams a quick, practical way to verify accuracy and catch issues early, helping them troubleshoot with confidence before data moves further downstream.

Product discontinuation and changes notice

• App version of Financial Consolidation: No longer supported
  The App Version of Financial Consolidation will no longer be supported going forward. Retiring this version will help consolidate the product experience around a single, actively developed platform, helping users benefit from ongoing improvements without the added maintenance burden of supporting a legacy interface.
• Removal of ability to edit running workflows
  Users will no longer be able to edit a workflow while it is currently running. Removing this capability will help protect data integrity and prevent unintended disruptions to in-progress processes, avoiding errors or inconsistencies that could arise from mid-run changes.
• Legacy report deprecation
  Certain legacy reports and input forms will be deprecated and replaced by web reports or forms. Retiring these legacy reports will help streamline the reporting experience around modern, actively supported formats, helping users transition to more flexible and better-performing reporting tools over time.

WernerP

Love this! Great to see all these new features go live