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Five inspiring years in the Anaplan Community!
This month we celebrate five years since the launch of the official Anaplan Community! From 2013 to 2016, Community forums served as a place for connection, conversation, and trouble-shooting — but we envisioned more. More learning, more sharing, and more opportunities for collaboration were just what the ecosystem needed…
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Why Anaplan solutions are critical to global climate change challenges
Author: Asslam Umar Ali, Manager Financial Performance Management at Fortescue Metals Group The green economy of the future: More data, planning rigor, and technology support Climate change is the most critical challenge of our generation — it also provides opportunities for businesses to create economic value. Clean…
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In case you missed it: UX Designer Hub event recording
Last week, I sat down with Felix Bein, @BCSFB Certified Master Anaplanner & Manager | Enterprise Performance from Deloitte, and Taylor Giesler, @taylor.swisher Manager from Lionpoint Group for a conversation about UX Designer tips and tricks. During the hour-long session we touched on: * Transitioning from Classic to UX…
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Announcement: Community Advancement
The Anaplan Community offers several ways for members to progress and advance not only within the Community, but within the greater Anaplan ecosystem. Some members interact regularly with others, providing answers to questions and sharing out of their own experiences. Others opt to leverage their passion for Anaplan by…
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Career advice for new Anaplanners
As our customers continue to realize increasingly more value from Anaplan and work to bring their Connected Planning visions to life, the need for certified Anaplan talent is more critical now than ever. This creates a unique opportunity for those looking to make a career change and capitalize on this period of…
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New: Persona Hub Event Series – March 29th
I’m thrilled to announce our new Event Series dedicated to all things Personas! As many of you are aware – we have been unveiling multiple Persona-Based resources via Community over the past few months. What better way to celebrate these hubs and our incredible Community Members – than with a fun event! On Tuesday, March…
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#BreakTheBias with Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi
This week the Anaplan Community blog is featuring employee, customer, and partner thoughts on how to #BreakTheBias in recognition of International Women's Day 2022. Today we welcome Master Anaplanner Sonal Tripathi to the blog. I am Sonal Tripathi, a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Anaplan Analyst with Adobe with a…
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#BreakTheBias with Master Anaplanner Alexandru Pavel
This week the Anaplan Community blog is featuring employee, customer, and partner thoughts on how to #BreakTheBias in recognition of International Women's Day 2022. Today we welcome Master Anaplanner Alexandru Pavel to the blog. The most efficient way to fight and break gender bias or any other biases in our workplaces is…
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#BreakTheBias this International Women's Day
Today, International Women's Day (IWD), is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The campaign theme this year is #BreakTheBias. The IWD website explains, “Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists…
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We are looking for your Anaplan expertise!
Every day we are impressed by the expertise we see in the Anaplan Community — in our forums, groups, and the content you share. This year, we are looking to share a broader range of Anaplan voices in the Community — specifically, articles that focus on personal or company Anaplan-related success stories, how you overcame a…
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Introducing persona-based resources to support your individual Anaplan experience
The Anaplan ecosystem is vast, and no two experiences are alike. As an active model builder, you are at the forefront of building, delivering, and optimizing models for your organization. API and integration developers are focused on successful connections between platforms, and UX designers are aligned around the common…
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Join the User Research Program and help shape the future of Anaplan
Let's shape the future of Anaplan together! Join our User Research Program today to get started. What is the Anaplan User Research Program? Feedback from our users is critical to how we design and prioritize features -- and we've built a community of Anaplan users who directly influence the design of Anaplan. As a member,…
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2022 is an exciting year for the Anaplan Community!
This year, we find ourselves looking ahead and envisioning the art of the possible for the Anaplan Community. Everything in life must evolve and grow. Growth is not something that just comes in the form of a number—like having over 74,000 members of the Community—growth supports customer value in creating change that…
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Thank you...and Happy New Year - let's go 2022!
Just a note from @richardjones7 and I to say welcome back and we hope that 2022 is a successful and prosperous year for all our customers. We look forward to being on the journey with you. Also, thank you for being a part of this community - officially recognised at the end of last year as: * one of the fastest growing -…
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That's a Wrap!
You did it! You successfully navigated another extraordinary year while contributing to a vibrant and engaging Community experience. You are the foundation of Anaplan excellence. You show up every day with an unparalleled willingness to support your fellow members. You make Community great—and for that, we thank you! As we…
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Anaplan Live! Two day event - begins today!
Anaplan Live! kicks off today! The Community’s tenth global Anaplan Live! event brings together Anaplan leaders, experts, certified Master Anaplanners, and model builders of all kinds. For the first time, this event focuses on three specific model building roles: Aspiring Solution Architects, UX Designers, and Developers.…
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Badges Returning Soon!
Community friends—we're taking a brief break on awarding our full scope of badges to implement some process improvements. Not to worry! All badge-earning activities will continue to be recognized, recorded, and rewarded early next year. In the meantime, you may experience a delay in receiving certain badges—for example,…
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Anaplan Named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
Anaplan is thrilled to announce that we have been recognized by you — our amazing users, partners, and customers — as a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in two categories: Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions and Sales Performance Management. This is the second year in a row that Anaplan has received…
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Anaplan Live! returns November 9 and 10—Register Today!
We are thrilled to announce our latest Anaplan Live! on November 9 and 10! Join us virtually for two days of exciting conversations and deep-dive sessions to help realize game-changing value and drive transformative outcomes using Anaplan. Wondering how other Anaplanners are applying our latest product features in their…
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The Anaplan for All Experience
Prior to the Anaplan for All program, I worked in the healthcare field as an authorization representative. After graduating college, I wanted to pursue a career as a healthcare provider. However, after working in healthcare I realized it was not for me and began to look towards other careers. I enrolled in programming…
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Congratulations to the Inaugural Class of Anaplan for All Fellows!
Anaplan for All is a first-of-its-kind program that opens doors for professionals from underrepresented backgrounds and connects them with jobs in the Anaplan Community. This spring, 45 fellows were selected from a pool of over 8,500 applicants. Each fellow first completed a 13-week data science training program led by…
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Anaplan Community Recognized as an Industry Leader
In the last several years, a growing body of research supports the proposition that communities provide tremendous value—to their members as well as to business. Here at the Anaplan Community, this has been a guiding principle of everything we do since we launched this site. We are here to support, inspire, and connect…
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Survey Opportunities: Share Your Anaplan Experience
On occasion, the industry analyst community will approach Anaplan for customer insights, typically to inform research, and most often, in survey form. We have two such opportunities in motion for the month of May. The first comes from the BPM Partner community, which is currently preparing its annual Vendor Landscape…
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Leveraging the Anaplan Community in a Remote World
It doesn’t take a genius to articulate the vast change that COVID-19 made in our work environments. The days of being able to walk over to a colleague’s desk for support are no more. The pivot to working in an entirely remote world challenged our teams to be resourceful in order to continue delivering superior end results…
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Thank You, Anaplan Community
During the last year—amid some very different and challenging times—we’ve seen the importance and impact of community. Whether it’s the physical community we live in or the community we choose to be part of, having a group of people to lean on helps us meet challenges through a shared purpose and journey. Our Anaplan…
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Anaplan's Victor Barnes on Diversity in Tech
As Black History Month comes to a close, we turn to Anaplan’s newly appointed Senior Vice President of Connected Planning Victor Barnes for insight on diversity in the tech industry. Before coming to Anaplan, Victor spent 26 years at The Coca-Cola Company. During that time, he traveled extensively and worked…
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#ChooseToChallenge on International Women's Day
Today we celebrate International Women's Day. On March 8 every year, we celebrate the social, political, and economic achievements of women. Beyond celebrating achievements, the day helps raise awareness about women's equality, lobby to accelerate gender parity, and fundraise for women-focused charities. This year's…
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Volunteer, Learn, and Grow on MLK Day
This Monday, January 18, we will celebrate the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, as well as his many contributions to the civil rights movement and society as a whole. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and equal rights activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement…
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Anaplan—2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
The Anaplan team is thrilled to announce that we have been recognized as the only vendor in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Sales Performance Management (SPM). View the Anaplan for Sales page on Gartner Peer Insights. As noted in the report, over the past 12 months, Anaplan received 50 published…
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You've Earned It: New and Improved Community Badges are Here
As an engaged member of the Anaplan Community, you deserve to be rewarded and recognized. After all, you help make the Community flourish. Badges are a visual representation of your dedication and commitment to making the Community a valuable resource to Anaplanners everywhere. Be proud—you’ve earned it! To show our…