Community Challenge

This month, we're launching a new type of Community Challenge focused on learning and discovery! We're excited to spotlight the board layout enhancements from the July Release, and we're challenging you to get hands-on, explore how they work, and share what you discover. This is your opportunity to experiment with these…

Ready for something a little different? Today we are kicking off a brand new, lighthearted challenge just for fun! We want to celebrate the connections that make this Anaplan ecosystem so great. You are curating the ultimate Anaplan Community dinner — bringing together people who inspire, challenge, and elevate the…

Get ready for our latest Community Q&A Challenge! This time, it's all about Anaplan Workflow. We will be exploring different strategies regarding the implementation, use, and benefits of Anaplan Workflow. This Community Challenge is all about sharing your real world experience. We want to spotlight the…

We recently hosted a Community Q&A Challenge inviting members to test their skills in Polaris modeling and optimization. Our internal experts developed a series of challenges, featuring a module rebuild alongside optimization challenges focused on the optimization of high calculation effort and high calculation complexity.…

Think you’ve mastered the Polaris calculation engine? It's time to put your skills to the test! For our next Community Challenge, we're moving into hands-on problem-solving. We have put together several real-world modeling and optimization problems that will require you to apply your Anaplan expertise. This is your chance…

Last month, we hosted a Community Challenge inviting members to share their annual rollover best practices. We provided prompts to encourage members to share how they prepare for this critical time-of-year activity, their strategies for a smooth and successful rollover, and to inspire others in the Community with their…

We’re excited to launch our September 2025 Community Challenge, focusing on one of the most critical aspects of Anaplan success: data integrations. Whether you’re just getting started with CloudWorks or Anaplan Connect, or you have built advanced orchestrations using APIs and Anaplan Data Orchestrator, integrations are at…

As 2025 comes to a close, we're wrapping up the year with our final Community Challenge — and we want your input! Share your experiences with the Anaplan features that made a real difference in your work this year, and hear other Community member perspectives. Question for the Community Challenge: What were your favorite…

The first Community Challenge of 2026 is officially here, and it's all about preparing your models for the future with seamless annual rollovers! A well-built Anaplan model anticipates the future. One of the most critical, yet often overlooked, aspects of model design is preparing for the annual rollover. Models are often…

Last month, we hosted a Community Challenge inviting members to share their best practices on data integrations. We provided both beginner and advanced prompts to encourage members to discuss how they move data in and out of Anaplan, share tips for smooth integrations, and inspire others in the Community. Yesterday, we…

In July, we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their best practices on guiding users through the UX. We shared prompts with the Community to get members thinking about how they how craft the user journey through the app. Yesterday, we held an event highlighting the responses we received from the July…

Our latest Best Practices Community Challenge is here, and we’re diving into guiding your users through the user experience! Each Challenge highlights a specific topic where Community members can share their expertise, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. Are you an expert in crafting intuitive and impactful user…

In May, we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their insights on boards, reports, and worksheets best practices. We received insightful responses from Community members on these UX topics. In the follow-up event from the Challenge, Anaplan's Seb McMillan (@seb_mcmillan) and Russ Goza (@R_Goza), both…

We’re kicking off a new Best Practices Challenge this month! Each Challenge highlights a specific topic where Community members can share their expertise, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. This time, we're focusing on the topic around boards, reports, and worksheets. Below are some prompts to spark your…

Last month we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their insights on ALM best practices. We received 25 comments with insights on how to best utilize ALM! Yesterday, we held an event highlighting the responses we received from the March Community Challenge. Ryan Kohn (@ryan_kohn), Principal Platform…

Today, we’re kicking off our first Best Practices Challenge of 2025! This challenge series is an opportunity for Community members to share their expertise on a specific topic, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. This time, we’re focusing on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). What is your overall approach to…

In the Anaplan Community, we believe that growth comes from connecting, collaborating, and sharing knowledge. Every day we see our members coming together to share ideas, solve problems, and support one another in forum discussions, blog posts, and beyond. As we start the new year, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the…

If you missed our event yesterday, November Challenge Recap: Model design best practices, a recording is now available. Last month, we invited the Anaplan Community to share their best advice for model design. In this recap event, speakers Rob Marshall (@rob_marshall) and Adam Trainer (@AdamT), both from Anaplan’s…

We’re excited to announce our second Best Practices Challenge of the year! This Challenge series is open for Community members to share their expertise and tips on a specific topic. Join us to spotlight your knowledge and explore fresh ideas from other members in Community! For our second Best Practices challenge, we’re…

Last month we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their thoughts on modeling best practices — over 30 tips were shared! Yesterday, we held an event highlighting that guidance every model builder should know. Jason Blinn (@jasonblinn), Principal Solution Architect and Employee Community Boss at Anaplan,…

As we step into September, we’re thrilled to introduce a new and exciting addition to our Anaplan Community Challenges: the “Best Practices” challenge! Throughout the year, we’ll be inviting Community members to share best practices and tips around a specific topic. It’s a fantastic opportunity to showcase your expertise…

Our August Community Challenge invited people to share creative or useful Anaplan models they've built, and WOW — the Community delivered! We recently hosted an event to walk through a few of the unique and fun model builds — a recording is available below. Tune in to see four fun model builds: Kirill Kuznetsov…

Happy New Year to the Anaplan Community! We are thrilled to kickoff 2024 with a new Q&A Challenge, providing an opportunity to reflect on the previous year one more time. In the fall of 2023, we introduced our Community Q&A Challenge series centered around Anaplan-related questions, encouraging Community members to reflect…

We're thrilled to announce a brand new Community Challenge kicking off this month — the Builder Challenge! This is an opportunity to showcase your creativity and share the fun and innovative Anaplan model builds you've created. As a bonus, we will select participants to present their model builds in a special Community…

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Author: Misbah Ansari is a Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Boss, and CEO/Founder at Miz Logix. Within this fast-pacing world it is important for technologies to move even more faster. Anaplan — being a leader in the Connected Planning world — released a plethora of changes and/or updates in 2023 to almost…

Author: Julie Ziemer is a Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Boss, and Solution Leader/Business Analyst at Akili. There were so many detailed answers to the September Community Challenge — it was a challenge just to sort through all the great information! To help the Community, I thought it would be helpful to…

Building on the incredible success of our inaugural Community Q&A Challenge in September 2023, we're thrilled to announce our second Q&A Challenge! In the Anaplan Community, we've always believed that the key to success lies in members coming together to connect, share knowledge, and support one another. Your enthusiastic…

Earlier this month we launched our inaugural Community Q&A Challenge, where we presented an Anaplan-related question to our Community to answer and share their perspective. We asked, “As an Anaplan model builder, what steps do you take to ensure that changes you make to an existing module don't create unexpected results in…

In the Anaplan Community, we believe that success stems from members connecting, sharing, and helping one another. As we witness members supporting each other daily in forum discussions, sharing ideas and best practices, and showcasing their expertise across various content, we are excited to introduce a new challenge that…