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API

UMAMAHESH123

Hi Team,

1. What is API In Anaplan?

2. How to configure API and can you please explain step by step.

Regards,

Mahesh

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Misbah

@UMAMAHESH123

Question 1: API (Application Programming Interface), in layman terms is an intermediate software that allows two applications to talk to each other. This definition holds true even in Anaplan

Question 2: Are you asking about API in general? How do we build/configure APIs? Or how does API help us in data integration with Anaplan?

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prabhu

Hi @UMAMAHESH123,

API - Application Programming Interface

Which means, API acts as a middleware(Interface) between source(CSV, ORACLE, SALES FORCE, WORK FORCE etc) and Targets(ANAPLAN, here in our case).

Purpose of the API is,

we can easily get data from the various source system

We can schedule our task at some time intervals.

Read this for more information

https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Best-Practices/Using-Python-3-with-the-Anaplan-API/ta-p/33150

https://help.anaplan.com/anapedia/Content/Data_Integrations/Anaplan_API_Guide.html

Hope it helps,

Thanks,

Sorna Raja Prabhu

SathyaM

Hi Mahesh,

You can access the below link to get more details on Anaplan API

https://help.anaplan.com/anapedia/Content/Data_Integrations/Data_Integration.html

Thanks
Sathya

Misbah

@UMAMAHESH123

Question 1: API (Application Programming Interface), in layman terms is an intermediate software that allows two applications to talk to each other. This definition holds true even in Anaplan

Question 2: Are you asking about API in general? How do we build/configure APIs? Or how does API help us in data integration with Anaplan?

UMAMAHESH123

Hi @Misbah ,

How do we build/configure APIs?.

Regards,

Mahesh

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