Anaplan Interview Questions ?

Anaplan interview question & answer :-

A) It depends on the job roles and differs company to company, but generally, Anaplan consultants involved in identifying business requirements, requirements management, functional design, prototyping, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, training, defining support procedures and supporting implementations

A) Anaplan is a cloud-based planning and performance management platform with documented use cases in finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, IT and HR

A) Anaplan Platform features:

Anaplan was built from day one as a cloud platform—combining cutting-edge security, in-memory data management, and massive scalability

RealTimeModeling – By tracking dependencies at the level of the line item, our Hyperblock™ technology enables updates or changes to models of any size, from one to one trillion cells, in real time.

Anaplan in-memory engine enables detailed planning models that utilizes all your data down to the transactional level (Product SKU, Stores, Employees, etc.) for better business decisions.

To get you started quickly, a growing collection of apps for common use cases are available in the Anaplan App Hub. Use them as is, modify them to suit your special needs, or start from scratch and create your own.

Anaplan offers an API, import/export capabilities, and pre-built connectors for common platforms like Anaplan HyperConnect, Informatica, Dell Boomi, Mule soft, and Snap Logic.

Build models to any level of granularity with any number of dimensions—layer in time (daily/weekly/monthly), hierarchies, relationships, and more

Versatility is the ability to model a vast array of processes within your business. The 150+ apps in our App Hub can be applied to vastly different sets of processes, including sales performance optimization, financial budgeting and forecasting, and call center operations. All created by users with clicks, not code

A) Modeling features of Anaplan:

Using our Living Blueprint technology, all your complex business rules (in natural syntax) are stored and managed in one easy-to-understand worksheet.

Anaplan enables users to create new model versions on-the-fly. Quickly replicate models, load with data, and easily track actuals in the same model as plans.

With break back, users can set a target for a formula, and the variables that make up that formula are changed according to the rules specified.

Anaplan delivers a strategic advantage with fast, easy creation of dynamic scenarios with time, version, and list dimensions.

A) Anaplan enables flexible role-based security levels for user types. Audit trail, model restore, and selective user access make it possible for analysts to safely and simultaneously collaborate on common models.

A) Monitor status and approvals with a collaborative workflow that streamlines top-down target allocation and consolidation of roll-ups from the field. A robust audit trail ensures that changes are easy to track.

A) An Anaplan robust audit trail ensures that changes are easy to track and revert. See a history of users and changes and roll back to earlier versions.

A) Anaplan delivers a central repository to reconcile various sources of data for clean, reliable hierarchy. Additionally, master data (products, employees, cost centers, etc.) is accessible to analysts around the enterprise.

A) Anaplan dynamically synchronizes data across connected plans—automatically aggregating and identifying discrepancies for real-time consistency.

A) Business users can use familiar business syntax, drag-and-drop hierarchies, and built-in logic for time, versions, and scenarios. With Anaplan, there are no technical barriers between you and business insights. No reliance on IT for business rules adjustments, model creation, or changes. No more scripting or broken cell references.

Anaplan Analyst Interview Questions:-

A) Yes, Anaplan is accessible from any mobile device via a browser so you never have to be disconnected from your data

A) Anaplan has a variety of publishing features, including dashboards, charts, PDF generation, and a tightly integrated Excel® plug-in. Share insights with the field, enable management to do their own scenario analysis, and create stunning executive packs

A) Anaplan invested heavily to provide the highest levels of availability, reliability, and security. Redundant data centers and rigorous processes for back-up, failover, and disaster recovery comply with or exceed all major industry standards. Anaplan delivers constant uptime so that your business-critical data and plans are safe and accessible at all times.

A) In addition to secure data centers, Anaplan provides complete application-layer security, including data encryption on-the-wire, secure authentication protocols, and robust access control and authorization for managing user rights. We also use leading security firms to conduct regular penetration testing

A) Anaplan supports the following modules:

Finance
Sales
Supply chain
Workforce
Marketing
IT

A) By connecting financial and operational planning, you can drive valuable business performance more effectively. With Anaplan cloud-based platform, corporate objectives align with operating plans that can be adjusted in response to market events—empowering finance to help the business make better decisions by anticipating the future

Strategic Planning – Optimizing business models, product lines, and operational capabilities with ease and confidence.

Budgeting and forecasting – Increase speed and agility by automating the manual process and adopting best practices.

Operational planning – Take cross-functional decisions to unprecedented levels of operational planning in one platform.

Financial consolidation and corporate reporting – Experience a faster, more efficient period-end close and report with confidence—without compromising compliance.

17.What are the features available in Sales module in Anaplan?

A) With Anaplan Sales module, deliver on-time sales plans while increasing compensation, quota, and forecast accuracy.

Sales Capacity
Account Segmentation and Scoring
Territory Planning
Quota Planning
Deal Desk
Sales Forecasting
Incentive Compensation

A) Anaplan enables users to connect global supply chain network for maximum visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

Product portfolio management
Demand planning
Supply planning
Sales and operations planning
Strategic policy management

A) Align people plans to operational goals to support business results with the help of Anaplan for workforce.

Workforce
Headcount and Cost Planning
Workforce Capacity Planning
Succession Planning
Compensation and Equity Planning
Workforce Optimization, including Call Center
Onboarding Planning

A) Anaplan for Marketing helps in increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your marketing plan, performance, and spend.

Account Segmentation and Scoring
Marketing Resource Management
Marketing Performance Management
Trade Promotion Planning
Market Share and Growth Forecasting

A) Anaplan FOR IT drive agile IT planning and project execution across your business.

Agile Implementation
ABC Shared Services Allocations
Agile Planning
Project Plan Capacity Analysis
Business Case Management
Project Planning
IT Financial Management and Cost Transparency
Business Management Scorecard
Facilities Management

A) Yes I know, many major companies using Anaplan, few of them are

VMWare
Tableau
Intel
HP
BOX
Motorola
Tata Steel

A) Anaplan is the only technology in the world that enables business users to easily build sophisticated planning apps with zero coding. Anaplan enables users to turn the complexity of business operations into powerful, easy-to-use applications for forecasting, planning, modeling, and performance management

A) The Anaplan App Hub enables customers and partners to build, share, and deploy cutting-edge apps. The Anaplan community brings together experts from a wide range of business domains, industries, and organizations. You can quickly discover the applications you need, deploy them in one click, and customize them to solve your company’s complex challenges. You can also easily build your own applications on the platform and share them with others

A) The flexibility and scalability of the Anaplan platform means it can serve as a basis for financial, commercial as well as operational planning models. Furthermore, these models can easily be linked and work in seamless integration with one another.