How is successful integration into Anaplan achieved?

valantic offers a range of integration options with the connected planning platform Anaplan, from a selection of standard tools in the Anaplan ecosystem to customized API (Application Programming Interface) implementations. Leverage your investment in Anaplan through seamless integration with your IT environment and business processes to generate meaningful insights and make reliable, data-driven decisions.

With valantic as your partner, you are set to enjoy the power of an award-winning planning platform that features true interoperability with your existing systems.

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Integrations to and from Anaplan typically only provide one connection to this data hub model, which drastically reduces the complexity of your integrations and thereby also the implementation overhead. If you are using an ETL-tool, for example, you can achieve your entire integration with only one newly added connection.

1. File Upload via Web UI
   Import of a flat file containing target data through the web UI.
2. Flat File Upload via Anaplan Connect
   Data can be exchanged from cloud or on-premise systems with Anaplan as flat files or through JDBC.
3. CloudWorks
   Brings together data from your Anaplan model and cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, Google BigQuery.
4. SAP FastTrack
   Seamless, native Integration for SAP ECC and S/4HANA Systems. Provided as an add-on, runs directly on the SAP system.
5. Informatica Cloud Data Integration (CDI)
   Access various data sources using different internal or 3rd party ETL-tools such as Informatica. (MuleSoft, Boomi, snapLogic, and others are also possible.)
6. Custom-built API Integration
   A tailored integration using Anaplan’s Rest API.

Anaplan Connect is an (on-premise) command line interface for automating the exchange of flat files or connecting to compatible databases with JDBC. In theory, you can deploy Anaplan Connect in the cloud, but if the need to do so arises, it is likely that you should reexamine the architecture and consider a solution better suited to your needs.

Anaplan Connect enables you to quickly and efficiently implement batch- or shell scripts in order to achieve fully automated data exchanges that are reliable and offer comprehensive, built-in logging every step of the way.

You can use Anaplan Connect most efficiently when paired with a system that automatically dumps and or uses flat files from a given directory. This is the preferred approach, since it allows the system to remain in full control of the data exchanged. Anaplan Connect can be set up to accommodate any exchange model and run in cycles, specific intervals, or be triggered by file changes.

Implementing separate scripts to fulfill your company’s needs also enables you to combine both JDBC and flat-file based connections in either direction, which can be called simultaneously.

Anaplan Connect layers an abstraction over the Anaplan Integration API which is built in a synchronous manner. This offers the advantage that you do not have to asynchronously poll task statuses, but it also means that the entire runtime of the process will be blocked.

Anaplan CloudWorks is a powerful, Anaplan-native integration service, that enables direct connection to Amazon Web Services S3, Google BigQuery & Microsoft Azure Blob instances and eliminates the complexity and manual work required by traditional integration methods. From the set-up and configuration of the connection, the definition of the import & export processes, to the scheduling and validation, everything can be done from within Anaplan.

For the table-based integrations, Anaplan also provides an interface to perform the mapping of the dimensions in Anaplan to the ones found in the cloud system.

With CloudWorks, business users can leverage an easy-to-navigate user interface to access a wider data set to help make more agile, better-informed plans and decisions. This also enables business partners to become sole owner of the integrations, while allowing IT-stakeholders to maintain ownership of the connection and access control.

CloudWorks also provides full interoperability of all the listed cloud service providers, so you will not be forced to choose only one.

Your tool of choice for integrating SAP ECC & S/4HANA with Anaplan. FastTrack is distributed as an SAP add-on and runs directly on your SAP system, enabling SAP-owned integrations with Anaplan.

FastTrack can be setup in a minimally invasive manner, ensuring that your system and processes are not disturbed, while allowing your SAP team to use the familiar environment and SAP GUIs to set up and configure connections and integrations, as well as using a custom mapping within SAP to map native data to the structure reflected in Anaplan.

FastTrack also provides seamless incorporation of your Anaplan integration into existing data update cycles in SAP; this enables you to handle events such as IDOC triggers and others in the system itself. It is also highly extensible and allows you to combine and extend it with any custom SAP development.

FastTrack uses SM59 connections for authentication with and communication to Anaplan, reducing the need for exceptions in security policies and enabling uniform access management.

Enterprise-scale, modular, customizable, and scalable integration pipelines for your company. Informatica and other ETL tools like it work with so called connectors, allowing easy connection to and integration with a vast array of source systems and the modelling of complex transformation pipelines, while ensuring performance, scalability and data quality.

From SaaS Applications, on-premise SQL Databases and applications and ERPs, to REST & Soap APIs; everything can be connected and integrated with one solution.

Leverage decades of experience and expertise built into one solution and benefit from a vast selection of pre-built, reusable, and scalable functions without having to pay for anything you do not actually need. Enjoy additional benefits such as 24/7 support, 100% uptime and availability, and continuous updates and improvements, as well as other offerings that will allow you to trust your integrations beyond any doubt.

Use on-premise runtime environments for sensitive data that may not be sent to a cloud system and stay in full control of where your data is stored.

Effortlessly combine schedules, cycles, and event-triggered integrations, and easily orchestrate their coordination at scale. Have your performance demands risen rapidly and become hard to manage? Use features such as distributed computing and storage (HDFS) alongside mass data ingestion to achieve data integration at scale efficiently, while allowing for uncompromising governance and validation.

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Anaplan also supports integration with the business intelligence tools Tableau and Microsoft PowerBI and provides a connector for both tools. This enables companies to benefit still more from their investment in Anaplan thanks to seamless integration into their existing business intelligence and analytics processes.

For this too, valantic will be pleased to offer assistance from advising on how to best combine Anaplan with your BI tool of choice to implementing the completed process.

Beyond helping you to conceptualize, design, and implement data integration solutions in the Anaplan ecosystem, valantic offers you more: we can further improve your data integration options, speed up implementation, and decrease lead time.

This happens in various ways, ranging from improved user experience to the conversion and management of your authentication certificates to enabling full business ownership, even for your integrations.

Benefit from valantic’s vast experience and involvement in projects of all types and sizes over the years. Don’t just take our word for it: listen to our satisfied customers.

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