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1989
Ah the good old eighties. Yuppies, the FiloFax and it's when Harry met Sally. Oh, and people were using spreadsheets to run their businesses. Very progressive.
The Big Restructuring
I am starting to notice a pattern here. As we talk to the ever-growing group of salesforce.com users, I am often asked what kind of "reports and dashboards" can you produce? Perhaps they ask for these static views of their data because that is what they are used to. Or maybe they are hoping to take the data deluge and turn it into something that is manageable. Regardless, what they get carries inherent latency and may well be out of synch with the current situation.
How Anaplan became so fast and flexible - thank you Steve Jobs
Since our launch a few days ago I've been flooded with questions as to how we got to be so fast and flexible. Our primary goal building Anaplan was to be the fastest and easiest to use multi-dimensional modeling platform by Orders of Magnitude from existing 'old-world' solutions.
