Hi @szechovsky From my experience Anaplan data integrations is categorised into four main categories Manual :- This is where users will upload / download data into and from Anaplan manually via a dashboard button aur via anaplan provided excel add ins Anaplan Connect :- It uses windows batch files for uploading downloading data normally automated using windows scheduler . Third Party Connectors :- Multiple connectors available like mulesoft connector , informatica connectors etc. RESTful API :- Anaplan has surfaced API points which can be used to import / export data in and out of Anaplan . In terms of choosing which method :- It depends on many things like customers capabilities , scope, budget, scalability requirements, security policies etc. For eg. if your use case is working with multiple models and lots of data points segregated geographically ,things like manual or anaplan connect are not the best options . On the other hand if your use case is simple but your company policy mandates that it has to be through let say informatica then you have to use informatica connector or RestAPI. If you are doing a Proof of concept (POC) then its quicker to do manual etc. It is not an easy question to answer but from my exp I always prefer to go automated rather than manual . prefer to do most of my data transformations outside anaplan where applicable , always try to have an ETL later before anything goes into or outside anaplan Always try to have Single source of truth for data coming in and going out API is picking up a lot as it can be used by many tools and even programming scripts like python etc. With every thing moving to cloud , Use of API's is becoming very common . hope this helps
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