It is important as model calculations increase to ensure that the calculations and structures are as optimal as possible. Easy checks include:
See the following articles for more information on the above:
The truth about sparsity (part 1)
The truth about sparsity (part 2)
Best practice for Dimension ordering
Reduce calculations for better performance
Formula optimization in Anaplan
General recommendations also include, whenever possible, challenging your customer’s business requirements when the customer requires a large list (>1M), a large amount of data history (this should be kept out of the planning model if possible), and high number of dimensions used at the same time for a line item (>5).
Once these general recommendations have been applied, you can optimize performance in different areas. The articles below will expand on each subject:
Contributing authors: Guillaume Arnaud and Prakash Hariharan.
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