Exporting major modules for archiving purposes

ThierryP

Hello everyone,

Do you have some insights to share on the process of archiving data outside of Anaplan?

Indeed, our current customer would like to store Anaplan produced data – each closing – in another tool. 

 

The constraints of our context are:

• Many modules from which to export
• Many lists in those modules (each time more than 3 when the views cannot have more than 3 lists in Rows)

 

We could use a concatenated list with all dimensions but this could have the following disadvantages:

• Could be performance consuming from the Anaplan model perspective
• Would be time consuming / maintenance intensive if dedicated lists and processes are to be created

 

Thanks.

 

Thierry

 

ben_speight

The most performant export from a module is one that:

1. Produces a text or CSV file.
2. Uses the tabular multi-column layout.
3. Works with a view with just line items in columns and everything else in rows/pages.
4. Ensures that any filter line item with more than one dimension has the default dimensionality of the module.

 

Try to avoid mixing dimensionality within each module, as that will balloon the dataset and only present a bunch of duplicate data to the receiving end.