The Best Practice

What does it mean being a Master Anaplanner in one of the most innovative companies today?

Meet Jerry Wu, Product Manager at Snap Inc.

Tune into hear Jerry’s journey across the Anaplan Ecosystem, from customer; to partner, to customer!

Are you a new Anaplanner? We’ve got a great guest for you today!

Welcome Jessica Medrano!

Jessica is a Teaching Assistant with the Correlation One program. She also recently started her career in the Anaplan Ecosystem as an Anaplan Consultant at Vuealta.

Tune in to learn about Jessica’s story from Correlation One, to getting her first Anaplan job, to now being an Anaplan Consultant.

Our guest this week is a current Master Anaplanner, she is a former Anaplan COE Lead with American Airlines and Docusign - and has particular expertise within the Sales Performance Management use case. Recently, she launched her new independent consulting company Double10 Consulting.

Meet Clarissa Hassfurder!

Tune in to learn more about Clarissa’s background, her road to Anaplan, her time in consulting and as a customer, her view on the Sales Performance use case, and her return back to consulting!

What’s better than 1 guest on the “Best Practice” podcast? 2 guests!

We are excited to share our conversation with Nusreth Baig and Greg Nishihira. Nusreth and Greg are both Majors Account Executives at Anaplan.

Hear from them about their backgrounds, their journey to Anaplan, learn about what the Anaplan sales process is like, the value proposition of Anaplan, and managing Customer relationships post-sale.

We are excited to bring you a special guest this week! He is a Supply Chain expert with over 30 years of experience in the field. He is also an Anaplan thought leader.

Please welcome Joe Cheng, Business Program Manager and Solutions Architect from Microsoft! 

Tune in as we discuss Joe’s professional background prior to Anaplan, his learning journey, and unique modeling challenges in Supply Chain.

Anaplan hosted their annual conference June 21st - June 23rd, 2022 which included Anaplan customers, Partners, and of course Anaplan Employees! This was the first in-person conference for Anaplan since 2019.

Tune in to hear the FSF team breakdown our Anaplan LIVE experience, our thoughts on important hot topics, and what we have in store for next year’s conference!

This week, we are joined by one of the more unique minds within the Anaplan Ecosystem. He is a finance subject matter expert, former Anaplan employee, customer, and now runs his own Anaplan consulting firm OpenVale Group, Caleb Maxson!

Tune in to hear Caleb address some of the more unique challenges around Anaplan implementations, talent management/retention, and tight finance cycles

Welcome back to Season 2 Episode 2 of The Best Practice podcast! This week we sit down with Master Anaplanner, Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan holds a degree in industrial engineering and currently works as an independent contractor specializing in Anaplan implementations. Jonathan also has over 2 years of data visualization and analytics experience, such as Tableau and PowerBI, as well as experience in SQL and Python coding languages.

Join in the conversation to hear how Jonathan was asked to learn Anaplan early on in his career, which led to him quickly becoming one of the "best kept secrets" in the greater Anaplan ecosystem!

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of "The Best Practice" Podcast!!!

We are very excited to kick things off once again for you, the Anaplan Community! To help us bring in the new jammed pack season of The Best Practice, we have special guest Mitch Aist.

Mitch is an inspiration to us here at FSF Consulting Group and his story of triumph through unexpected injury that left him unable to complete his normal day-to-day Anaplan model building tasks is anything but short of amazing!

Join us in this episode as we learn how Mitch tackled RSI and leveled up his expertise and teaching capacity to accomplish great things in the Anaplan ecosystem.

Enjoy!

What do we think about the Anaplan and Thoma Bravo acquisition? Why are Centers of Excellence valuable? What are some best practices with mergers and acquisitions use cases?

Tune in to hear Zack Fennessy, Jon Ferneau, and Daanish Soomar discuss these topics on the latest episode of the “Best Practice” podcast!