For those like me who like visual aids, I put together a diagram of when to use sum vs lookup in a formula. Hope this helps if you are struggling when to use each.
@MCRIST thanks for sharing this.
Would you mind if I borrowed this for my L1 training course? I'm teaching several new Anaplan modelers and this diagram would be awesome!
Please feel free to share!
We're looking to feed live or near-live Anaplan data into Claude through MCP, but our current approach — exporting CSV files via the Anaplan Bulk Export API, loading them into MySQL, and querying from there — has a significant lag (hour-long turnaround). Curious if anyone has found a faster path, whether that's through the…
Has anyone tested Analyst’s response quality/speed on large, sparse models (think 10+ dimensions, millions of line items)? Wondering if there’s a practical ceiling before it starts timing out.
We've been building a tool called aplan4sheets and we'd genuinely like input from this community — both on what we've built so far and on what we should prioritize next. The problem we set out to solve: Anaplan's Excel add-in is Windows-centric, and there's no real native way to pivot Anaplan data in Google Sheets. We…
