The Best Practice

Anaplan India - we are excited to release Episode 10 of The Best Practice podcast! We are joined by the number 1 Master Anaplanner on the platform today, presenting the amazing Misbah Ansari!

You may know Misbah from all of the work he is doing on Anaplan Community where he serves as a moderator and ranks number 1 in kudos and solutions or from his efforts with the Anaplan India user group!

Tune in to learn about Misbah’s journey to Anaplan, his career story, his early struggles which led him to where he is today, and what his thoughts are on how Community plays such a big role!

Guess who’s back? We are excited to return to you this week with Episode 9 of the “Best Practice” podcast!

Joining us this week is one of the more influential people behind where Anaplan Model Building stands today. Meet Nathan Price. Nathan has played key roles at Anaplan as an Anaplan Solution Architect and as a Model Optimization team manager!

Tune in as we learn about Nathan’s story of perseverance, his insight into Anaplan best practices, model optimization strategies, and how to approach model building. We also will touch on the cool work Nathan is doing with space exploration!

(Note: episode was recorded before Nathan started at NASA in early February)

We are joined by one of the most well-known names in the Anaplan Ecosystem. He is a co-author of the Planual, a Community Moderator, and THE Master Anaplanner, Rob Marshall.

Rob is one of the top Anaplanners in the world today, however, as you will learn, it was not an easy process to earn that distinction.

Join us as Rob talks about his early trials and tribulations with the Anaplan platform, his learning journey, his advice for new model builders, best practices on Anaplan modeling, his advice for Anaplan Customers, and the evolution of the Planual!

Grab your popcorn and ENJOY!

We are joined this week by the 2019 Master Anaplanner of the Year, Brittany Deaton!

Brittany currently is a Master Anaplanner working in the actuarial industry. Join us as we explore Brittany's path to Anaplan, her learning journey, her experience with Centers of Excellence, what she is doing now in her new role, and her advice to new people entering the industry.

Enjoy!

Welcome back to Episode 6 of The Best Practice Podcast. We are joined this week by FP&A guru Sourjya Rudra.

Sourjya currently is an independent Anaplan Solution Architect with a background in Finance. Prior to Finance he spent time in the Education industry.

Tune in as we explore Sourjya’s journey to Anaplan, how some of his prior experiences translate over to Anaplan, his insights from working with many different Anaplan clients, and what advice he has for new Anaplanners joining the Ecosystem.

As always, Enjoy!

We are joined this week by one of the best leaders in our space, Stephanie Weiland!

Stephanie is a leader in Finance at her organization within the Healthcare industry. She has been an Anaplan customer for 6+ years.

Tune in as Stephanie discusses her road to finding Anaplan, the importance of change management, her advice for Consultants from a customer perspective, and the principles by which she leads within her role.

This week, we bring you David Smith! To say that David is well known in the Anaplan ecosystem would be an understatement.

David has worked with various planning platforms and through those experiences has developed core best practices, including most recently, The Planual for Anaplan.

The Planual is THE Best Practice handbook for Anaplan. It has quickly become the source of truth and inspiration when setting out on a model building journey or even a model optimization task.

This episode is full of best practices that aren't just Anaplan related; they're technology agnostic! David uses various analogies (including one about a car) to describe why best practices are important, and how implementing them can both save you time and your sanity.

If there ever is an episode of "The Best Practice" podcast that you DO NOT want to miss, it WOULD be this one!

Sit back, take notes, and ENJOY!

Welcome back to Episode 3 of “The Best Practice” podcast. We are joined this week by end to end extraordinaire, Matt Budd!

Matt is an independent consultant focusing on end to end implementations, providing services from Data Warehousing, Data Transformation, and Data Integrations all the way to Anaplan and Data Visualization. 

In this episode, Matt talks about each area’s role in successful Anaplan implementations and in high functioning organizations generally. Tune in as Matt shares his wealth of knowledge and insight into the EPM and Anaplan Ecosystem.

In this episode, you will get to hear from hosts Zack and Daanish, as well as the behind the scenes producer, Jon Ferneau as we share our background and journey to the creation of FSF Consulting Group.

We will give a high level overview of what's to come in the future for The Best Practice podcast and why we are excited about the idea of giving back and paying it forward to the Community.

Chris is currently a Principal Program Manager at Anaplan. Prior to his time at Anaplan, Chris has been both a Customer of the Anaplan software, as well as an implementation consultant for an Anaplan Partner.

During this episode, Chris discusses his implementation experiences, training resources, how to get involved with Anaplan, and his optimistic outlook on the software for the future.

Enjoy!