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Community perspective: Version switchover management from UX Page with API
The Anaplan API offers many improvements to model management, which can help improve the data quality and make work more efficient by eliminating repetitive tasks, which are error prone. One area where I have found myself doing repetitive tasks is switchover management. Especially when dealing with multiple models it…
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Community perspective: Add a timestamp to processes utilizing Anaplan API and Python
Anaplan is a critical tool for different business processes, and it is used to handle a variety of data. One key attribute for data quality is the timeliness and reliability of the data. It is a known best practice to use Data Hub for centralized data management and then import data to different spoke models. Even though…
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Community perspective: Using Anaplan APIs with R
R offers different ways to consume the REST APIs. This article aims to provide a foundation to use Anaplan APIs with R. This article assumes you have installed R or RStudio IDE. To work with APIs in R, we need to install and load R packages. These packages contain functions that facilitate HTTP requests, manipulate and…
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Community perspective: Central User Access Management
What is Central User Access Management? "Central User Access Management" is an Anaplan model through which we can maintain user access management for all the models within an enterprise. This is not readily available in Anaplan AppHub, but it is easy to create and maintain. This article will explain how to do it. Why we…
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Community perspective: RANK and row counts – Management Reporting with multiple lists
A common request within any planning project is to create well-formatted, standard reports for the business to consume. However, these aren’t always as simple to create as first thought. The Management Reporting capabilities within Anaplan produce great looking outputs. However, they require a fixed number of rows for each…
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Community perspective: IFO – UPPER and LOWER to the rescue
IFO is a very crucial formula to use when working with raw data, staged in Data Hub, to create lists from within the data's metadata. It truncates the metadata within its line item to "Its First Occurrence" to prevent duplicates being imported into its target list. This keeps the action results clean and optimizes…
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Community perspective: Data Hub organization
This article is intended to help assist and standardize Data Hub organization across the Anaplan platform. This methodology is intended to help the technical teams, not end users, navigate and create your Data Hub model and troubleshoot problems with individual data sources efficiently. Functional areas To begin, setup…
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Community perspective: Employee grouping for sales targets
Within sales and target setting use cases, there are often situations that require assigning specific targets to a group of employees. While this can be done manually or through a blanket allocation, it may be more advantageous to designate groups within regions or markets for the purpose of distributing targets. There are…
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Community perspective: Centers of Excellence Benefits
Listen to Magali and Andrew discuss the benefits and impacts of Master Anaplanners and Centers of Excellence.