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Anaplan Modeling for Enterprise Scale
Summary: Designing and implementing a network of connected models is an important strategy for ensuring optimal Anaplan performance at enterprise scale. In this lesson, you’ll learn practical approaches to use for large Anaplan implementations. Audience: Advanced Model Builders, Solution Architects Lesson Duration: 7…
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What is Snapshotting?
Summary: Snapshotting is a great way to do what-if analysis or efficiently store final version results or plan scenarios within an Anaplan model. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to harness the real-time calculation power of Anaplan while storing many versions for comparison purposes. Audience: Advanced Model Builders,…
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Methods of Snapshotting
Summary: Snapshotting addresses an end user’s need to reference model results in the future. In this short lesson, you’ll learn about several methods for snapshotting that you can consider. Audience: Advanced Model Builders, Solution Architects Lesson Duration: 7 minutes Lesson Location: This micro-lesson is included…
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Do You Need to Snapshot?
Summary: In this quick lesson, you’ll learn how to determine if snapshotting is an appropriate modeling solution for the situation. Audience: Advanced Model Builders, Solution Architects Lesson Duration: 4 minutes Lesson Location: This microlesson is included in Using Snapshots course in the Learning Center Start the…
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Custom Time - Avoid Republishing Charts
Summary: This lesson demonstrates a method of using a custom timescale for charts that will automatically update without having to republish when the timescale changes. This reduces the administrative tasks that are needed to keep charts in sync. Audience: Advanced Model Builders, Solution Architects Lesson Duration: 3…
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Custom Time - Rolling Weeks
Summary: A rolling forecast is a tool that allows organizations to continuously plan over a set time horizon. Many companies must plan in shorter increments, and on a weekly rather than monthly basis. This lesson reviews recommended best practices to add a weekly rolling forecast using a custom timescale. Audience:…
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Custom Time - Setting Up for a 4-4-5 Timescale
Summary: If you set up your model correctly, you can include automated processes that make it easy to keep your custom time scale current. In this lesson, you will learn techniques and model set up options that can minimize the amount of administrative work necessary to maintain a custom timescale. Audience: Advanced Model…
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Custom Time - Using Custom Timescales
Summary: Anaplan has built-in functionality that work with the native calendar. But there are situations when the native calendar does not match the needs of the organization. This lesson provides information on considerations before using a custom timescale. Audience: Advanced Model Builders, Solution Architects Lesson…
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Authentication Options
Summary: Security is always a concern when working with data connections. When using tools like Anaplan Connect, Informatica Cloud, or various ETL or iPaaS connectors, there needs to be an authentication protocol that lets the system know the data is coming from a verified and trusted source. This lesson reviews different…
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Choosing a Data Integration Option
Summary: There are several options for integrating data with Anaplan: Manual integration, Anaplan APIs, Anaplan Connect, HyperConnect, and Anaplan iPaaS connectors. Once you understand the available options, the next question becomes how do you choose the right one? This lesson will look at the questions you need to ask…