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We’ve added a new set of transactional APIs that allow you to further improve your data integration processes. These APIs enable users to read large volume view and list item data that are larger than a million cells or list items. Integration users will now be able to read large volume data directly from a module view or list, and without requiring to setup Export actions beforehand.   See screenshots and descriptions below for more detailed information.   APIs for reading large volume view data & list item data: Initiate large read requests Retrieve status of large read requests Download pages Delete read requests   New Large Volume Read APIs   Check out the   Anaplan Integration API Guide   to learn more about these APIs. ... View more

Quick to set up and easy to assign, new configuration options for CloudWorks notifications give Anaplan users real-time visibility into integration statuses and exceptions—sparking faster action and more streamlined integrations. Integration administrators can quickly and easily assign alerts to workspace users who need visibility into integration statuses in CloudWorks. With real-time alerts assigned, users can respond faster to integration events that require their immediate attention. Integration admins can attach notifications to integrations to alert workspace users to status changes such as successes, partial successes, and failures.  Integration admins can attach notifications to integrations Notifications are added by choosing a list of Anaplan users from the dropdown list. Any users who are part of a workspace can be added as a recipient.  Assign alerts to users who need visibility into integrations Delivery channels, such as email and in-product notifications, can be selected and updated based on distribution preferences As part of this release, the combined integration limits, per tenant, in CloudWorks have also increased. CloudWorks now supports a combined total of up to 250 standalone integrations or processes per tenant. The number of steps within a process remains unlimited. Get up-to-speed on CloudWorks with these resources. We refresh these often so check back frequently for updates! Using Anaplan CloudWorks training (20 minutes) CloudWorks in Anapedia ... View more

New metadata transactional APIs available now! We’ve released new metadata transactional APIs that help you access and process your data more quickly. These new transactional APIs focus on your ability to monitor your models and workspaces more closely, as well as improve your data loading processes. Read below to learn more about these metadata transactional API updates: Return detailed metrics on Line Items in Anaplan model to enforce model governance Reset numbered list index to automate data loading process  Check out the Anaplan Integration API Guide  for more information ... View more

We’re excited to announce key updates to the Power BI Connector, expanding on its data analytics and visualization capabilities. Read below for the enhancements: Increased data export support up to 5GB in size Removal of 10-minute delay between consecutive runs of the same Anaplan data export You can access the Connector for Power BI here. ... View more

Last week, Anaplan announced that self-service (SS) OAuth is now available in the Anaplan platform, and is an optional feature tenant security admins can choose to enable. SS OAuth is an easy-to-use, industry-leading security protocol that helps you set up secure, frictionless integrations with Anaplan APIs without maintaining certificates or exposing credentials. In the release blog below, you’ll find more information about this new release and its features and capabilities. Links to updated Anapedia information are also included at the bottom of the post. SS OAuth Release Blog ... View more

Self-service (SS) OAuth is now available as an optional feature for tenant security administrators to enable in the Anaplan platform! SS OAuth is an industry-standard protocol for authorization delegation. It lets tenant security administrators share resources with a third-party client application without exposing privileged credentials or maintaining certificates. Simple to use and easy to configure, tenant administrators can enable SS OAuth to establish secure, frictionless integrations with Anaplan APIs. With SS OAuth, developers can: Build trusted integrations to Anaplan APIs using the de facto industry standard for delegated authorization Securely establish integrations to third-party applications without maintaining certificates or exposing privileged credentials Secure perpetual access to protected resources, aligning token rules and behaviors with organizational requirements Enabling SS OAuth in Anaplan     Additional features and capabilities include: Configuration and flow types: Select from different flow types, such as the authorization code grant and device grant, to create the appropriate OAuth client for each use case Creating an OAuth client Client and tokens: Refresh and access tokens are used to securely connect to Anaplan APIs to manage authentication, authorization, and access Managing refresh and access tokens   Access and devices: Token behavior and lifetime rules are set by the Tenant Security Admin for greater governance and compliance. Clients can be disabled by the Tenant Security Admin to deny services and prevent undesirable user activity at any time. Rotating the client secret   Learn more about SS OAuth in Anapedia here. ... View more

The Microsoft Azure Blob integration is now generally available in CloudWorks! Azure Blob Storage is massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning. With this newly released bi-directional integration, Anaplan users can connect to and schedule integrations with data in Azure Blob using the CloudWorks user interface. Simple to configure and free to use, joint customers can quickly and easily aggregate data from multiple sources and automate processes within the Anaplan platform. Additionally, the CloudWorks-Azure Blob integration makes it easy to: Model agile business scenarios, analyze data, and build forward-looking strategies with high volumes of data faster and easier. Schedule and automate Anaplan processes containing multiple integrations with Azure Blob directly in the CloudWorks interface Get up-to-speed on CloudWorks with these resources. We refresh these often so check back frequently for updates! Using Anaplan CloudWorks training (20 minutes) CloudWorks in Anapedia ... View more

We’re excited to announce that Anaplan users can now connect to Google BigQuery through the CloudWorks user interface! As organizations continue to acquire and consume more data than ever before, IT resources are often backlogged trying to support business users as new data sources are added. By simplifying integrations with cloud storage solutions such as Google BigQuery, the CloudWorks interface in Anaplan gives business users faster, easier access to data—without burdening IT.  Our newly launched bi-directional CloudWorks-BigQuery integration gives joint customers an easy, no-code way to blend first-party and third-party data directly within the Anaplan platform. A native platform tool, the CloudWorks interface reduces the dependencies business users have on IT teams when it comes to accessing and aggregating external data sources in the Anaplan platform. Setting up the Google BigQuery connection in Anaplan CloudWorks   Consume, analyze, and act on large amounts of data Designed for business agility, Google BigQuery is a highly scalable, cost-effective, and serverless multi-cloud data warehouse. The bi-directional integration in CloudWorks connects to the customers’ Google BigQuery environment in their Google Cloud project to export and import data into the Anaplan platform.  With CloudWorks’ native, self-service interface, business users can easily aggregate data from multiple sources connected to Google BigQuery, simultaneously automating processes within a single source of truth. As a result, analyzing large amounts of data and modeling forward-looking projections and strategies becomes faster and easier. Schedule regular data-flows for agile decision making For plans and decisions that evolve in lockstep with data changes, business planners can use CloudWorks to schedule regular data-flows from Google BigQuery to Anaplan. Not only does this help planners quickly inform and refresh forecasts across channels, geographies, and product lines, but it also saves them time by scheduling automatic integrations at hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cadences.   This quick, regular access to internal and external data is a game-changer for teams like human resources and supply chain planners. While managing large volumes of data can make workforce planning challenging, HR teams can use CloudWorks to streamline processes and keep people, skills, channels, and geographies aligned and in sync with third-party data refreshes. Similarly, keeping on top of demand shifts across channels, geographies, and SKUs becomes easier with direct access to third-party data in Google BigQuery. Supply chain planners can replace manual data entries with automated integrations for faster, more granular demand planning—shortening lengthy planning cycles while speeding time to insight. Faster, easier data sharing in the Anaplan platform Native model-to-model import functionality in CloudWorks makes it easier than ever to share third-party data from Google BigQuery in downstream models. Data can be distributed from the Data Hub to Spoke models, such as a sales forecasting model in the Anaplan platform, to make data more readily available across different corners of the business. For example, users can quickly and automatically update sales forecasts with customer-, product-, and opportunity-level data from Google BigQuery, which can also be imported over to a revenue model to analyze progress to targets and address business gaps.   Ready to get started? Everything you need is in CloudWorks today Anaplan is thrilled to launch a bi-directional Google BigQuery integration that helps our joint customers drive even greater value from both products. Learn more about the Google BigQuery integration with these Anaplan resources. Learn how to connect to your BigQuery dataset in Anapedia  Get started using CloudWorks with our training courses in the Anaplan Learning Center   ... View more

You can use the native capabilities in CloudWorks to distribute data from the Data Hub to Spoke models, or between different models in the platform, any time you want with its model-to-model import functionality.   No activation or add-on services are required to use this—everything you need to get started is in CloudWorks today.   TL:DR: You don't need technical resources to run model-to-model imports in the platform; new functionality now available through the CloudWorks user interface.   Get up to speed with the following resources:   Academy : CloudWorks training (< 20 min) Community articles and series : CloudWorks best-practices series This is how we use it: model-to-model import Anapedia : CloudWorks technical documentation ... View more

Use the native capabilities in CloudWorks to distribute data from the Data Hub to Spoke models, or between different models in the platform, any time you want with its model-to-model import functionality.   No activation, add-on services, or technical resources are required to use—everything you need to move data between models in the platform is in the CloudWorks user interface today.   Get up to speed on what you can use CloudWorks for with the following resources: Academy : CloudWorks training (< 20 min) Community articles and series : CloudWorks best-practices series This is how we use it: model-to-model import Anapedia : CloudWorks technical documentation ... View more

Model-to-model import is now available in CloudWorks! Easy to set up and ready to use, model-to-model import helps you automatically move data from one model to another—on the schedule that’s right for you and without additional IT resources. With CloudWorks, Connected Planning has never been easier—you can distribute data from the Data Hub to Spoke models, such as finance or supply chain models, to make planning data more readily available for your planners across the business. The following use-case examples can all be scheduled and automated by model builders within the Anaplan platform using CloudWorks: Your finance team may have a finance forecasting environment separate from their AOP model—depending on the level of detail and stakeholders and planners involved—and they want to update and analyze the AOP model as forecast data is updated. More detailed sales forecast data, such as customer-level, product-level, and opportunity-level data, can be imported into a revenue model to analyze progress to targets and address gaps. An HR model with sensitive employee data could be used to update an OPEX model for a more comprehensive, holistic view. More About CloudWorks: CloudWorks—This is How We Use It, Part 1: The Basics CloudWorks—This is How We Use It, Part 2: Setup CloudWorks—This is How We Use It, Part 3: The CloudWorks API CloudWorks—This is How We Use It, Part 4: Using CloudWorks APIs With AWS Lambda CloudWorks: This is how we use it - Part 5: Model-to-Model Watch the on-demand session from Anaplan Live! in June 2021 to hear about the model-to-model launch in CloudWorks and the future of agile, intelligent planning: "The Future of Agile, Intelligent Planning: A Conversation with Anaplan Product Leaders. " In this session,  Anaplan Live! Host Chris Weiss has an in-depth conversation with Anaplan’s Product Leadership on the current state of Connected Planning. Find out how our latest innovations empower model builders to navigate the future and support executives to stay ahead of the curve. See what’s in store for the platform and how it will revolutionize the way model builders work within Anaplan. ... View more