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OEG Best Practice: Anaplan Performance Triangle
Building well performing models is a balance between the complexity and functionality of a model versus the number of concurrent users. If you have seen software development / project management triangles, where scope, time and cost control quality, this will be familiar. It is a good way to show the constraints of any…
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Anaplan Connect Quick Start Guide - Linux & macOS Installation
This Anaplan Connect Quick Start guide is specifically for the macOS and Linux platforms. Its purpose is to help you swiftly set up and get started with Anaplan Connect on these operating systems. Please follow the steps below to guide you through the installation process. If you are utilizing macOS, kindly refer to the…
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[UPDATED] OEG Best Practice: Integration Scheduling in Anaplan CloudWorks
Introduction Anaplan CloudWorks enables seamless data integration between Anaplan and other cloud-based applications. To optimize performance and efficiency, it's crucial to follow best practices when scheduling integration tasks. This article outlines recommended guidelines for creating integration schedules in Anaplan…
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OEG Best Practice: Best practices for module design
Introduction Hopefully, by now you've heard of the D.I.S.C.O. methodology for model and module design, but do you fully understand how to put it into practice? D.I.S.C.O. is part of the wider P.L.A.N.S. standard for Anaplan model building and falls under the L for Logical. D.I.S.C.O. provides a logical structure for one to…
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OEG Best Practice: Reduce calculations for better performance
Reducing the number of calculations will lead to quicker calculations and improve performance. However, this doesn’t mean combining all your calculations into fewer line items, as breaking calculations into smaller parts has major benefits for performance. Learn more about this in the Formula structure for performance…
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OEG Best Practice: The model design process
The process of designing a model will help you: * Understand the customer’s problem more completely * Bring to light any incorrect assumptions you may have made, allowing for correction before building begins * Provide the big picture view for building This process includes the following steps: * Understand the…
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OEG Best Practice: Inside the Hyperblock
What are blocks? How blocks are calculated – General Lists How blocks are calculated – Native Time/Native Versions Hyperblock performance Summary block counts Should I worry about blocks? A reason why we shouldn’t focus on just the block count Focus Points We recommend this article to Experienced Model Builders and…
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OEG Best Practice: Blueprint analysis: Model analysis techniques using Excel
What? A model analysis technique using metadata from your Anaplan model imported in to Excel, utilizing purpose-built formulas to identify line items of interest Why? We do this so that we have some extra information with which to arm ourselves when trying to optimize a model. It lets us look at every line item, apply the…
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OEG Best Practice: Import action management best practices
An import action section can quickly become disorganized, making ongoing management challenging. Learn why this happens and explore steps to take to prevent this from occurring. Import action section: why does it become disorganized? Anaplan saves every import action that you perform, no matter what. For a new build, the…
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OEG Best Practice: Implementation best practices: Leveraging personas
If you are transitioning from Classic to the UX, you may have read this article about our recommended methodology: U.S.E.R. (Understand, Sketch, Execute, and Repeat). One of the key concepts during the Understand phase is to really get to know your users. For this, we recommend a classic UX tool: Personas. Personas What…
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OEG Best Practice: Card templates: Some best practices
Why use them? When building out your apps in the UX, there are often instances where there is a requirement to replicate a card on multiple pages. For example, you may want to surface a grid card displayed in full on a board as an additional insight into the primary grid on a worksheet. Similarly, KPI cards could be useful…
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OEG Best Practice: Top five design best practices for UX: Desktop and mobile
Follow our UX team's recommendations and guidelines to leverage the UX to its fullest potential. Desktop best practices Our top five: * Minimize time to decision * Progressive disclosure * Smart grouping * Help and guide * Consistency Minimize time-to-decision Focus on the outcome your users are attempting to arrive at and…
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OEG Best Practice: Management Reporting: 5 Best Practices to make the most out of your reports
* 1. Design an attractive cover page * 2. Spacing and layout * 3. Text hierarchy * 4. Visuals * 5. Color * Other cool examples... Find here our recommendations on Best Practices for Management Reporting: 1. Design an attractive cover page When designing a cover page, the main elements you want to include are: Title The…
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OEG Best Practice: PlanIQ: Design and build your item list for forecasting
* What is the best practice for concatenation in Anaplan? * Step-by-step overview * Level 1 – code inefficient * Level 2 – code better * Level 3 – Code to use * Level 4 – Optimized code to use * How do we handle items with limited to no history? * Adding “Cold Start” Items Before diving in, if you need to refresh your…
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OEG Best Practice: HyperModel best practices
HyperModelsTM extend the Hyperblock calculation engine capabilities, allowing users to significantly increase scale to expand with new use cases, manage more historical and external data, forecast further into the future, and model more scenarios. The following HyperModel best practices are designed to ensure you can…
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OEG Best Practice: The importance of building and maintaining a clean model
During a typical implementation, it’s common to have multiple model builders build use cases and accomplish tasks simultaneously. During this critical time in the project, it’s important to plan for a key component that may be overlooked—keeping the model clean and tidy. Keeping a model clean has multiple benefits,…
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OEG Best Practice: UX transition: Overview of the U.S.E.R. methodology
Looking at transitioning from Classic to UX? The U.S.E.R. methodology can be your guide in this journey. Follow these four steps to facilitate your adoption of the UX: Understand The goal with understanding is to build a vision for the UX in your company and empathize with users and address their challenges. This is…
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OEG Best Practice: Best practices about Excel add-In
* General information * About this article * Best practices General information * We have listed below some of the best practices we recommend for the Anaplan product. These are based on our experience and are subject to change as we deliver new functionalities and learn more about how our customers use the product. * If…
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OEG Best Practice: Model load, save, and rollback
Model load A large and complex model such as 10B cells can take up to 10 minutes to load the first time it is in use after a period of inactivity of 60 minutes. The only way to reduce the load time is by identifying what formula takes most of the time. This requires the Anaplan L3 support (ask for a Model Opening…
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OEG Best Practice: Revision tag best practices
Would you spend weeks on your budget submission spreadsheet or your college thesis without once saving it? Probably not. The same should apply to making developments and setting revision tags. Anaplan recommends that during the development cycle, you set revision tags at least once per day. We also advise testing the…
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OEG Best Practice: Imports and exports and their effects on model performance
Overview Imports are blocking operations. To maintain a consistent view of the data, the model is locked during the import, and concurrent imports run by end users will need to run one after the other and will block the model for everyone else. Exports are blocking for data entry while the export data is retrieved, and…
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OEG Best Practice: Dashboard settings for improved model performance
Overview A dashboard with grids that includes large lists that have been filtered and/or sorted can take time to open. The opening action can also become a blocking operation; when this happens, you'll see the blue toaster box showing "Processing....." when the dashboard is opening. This article includes some guidelines to…
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OEG Best Practice: What are the benefits of creating a Data Hub?
If you're familiar with Anaplan, you’ve probably heard the buzz about having a Data Hub and wondered why it’s considered a “best practice" within the Anaplan community. Wonder no more. Below, I will share four reasons why you should spend the time to build a Data Hub before Anaplan takes your company by storm. 1. Maintain…