“We have the best damn care team in the business—that’s not even up for debate,” said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile, when he announced on February 1, 2017 that T-Mobile was ranked number one in customer service satisfaction by market research analyst Nielsen Mobile Insights. Legere also promised that the wireless provider would… read more →
Anaplan is proud of its flourishing global community of best-in-class consulting partners. As experts on the Anaplan platform, our partners help customers implement the platform, build and implement apps, and ultimately drive planning transformation at leading organizations globally.That’s particularly true in the fast-growing APAC area, where more than a dozen regional partners help bring connected… read more →
Sticking too long with commonly held assumptions and accepted ways of doing things can put even the biggest businesses at risk. For instance, during the 1980s, IBM stayed focused on mainframes while servers and PCs took over. More recently, Blockbuster clung to its retail outlets while new technologies were changing the ways people could access… read more →
At Anaplan, we embrace every opportunity to listen to the voice of our customers. One channel that helps us hear you is TrustRadius, the most trusted review site for business technology. More than 170 customers—roughly a quarter of our total customer base—have rated Anaplan using TrustRadius, and nearly 100 have written detailed reviews. On TrustRadius,… read more →
This article first appeared on LinkedIn Pulse.Planning today is treated too much like a rote task; it’s required and important, but not fundamentally dynamic or strategic. The premise of this article is to look at how an organization can transform planning into a strategic driver of innovation within the enterprise, while evolving out of bad… read more →
NASDAQ-listed Groupon helps shoppers find the best a city has to offer by putting millions of subscribers in contact with local merchants offering daily deals on activities, travel, goods, and services. Groupon’s first deal was a half-price offer on pizza at a restaurant on the first floor of its headquarters in Chicago. That was back… read more →
From his small-town roots in rural Wisconsin, to working in London in his 20s, to a career in technology sales in the American South today, Anaplan Strategic Account Executive Drew Brieman has cultivated a curious mind and broad interests that help him connect with customers in the Atlanta, Georgia, region. “I’m an introvert by nature,… read more →
Henri Wajsblat, Anaplan’s Head of Financial Services Solutions, interviews Deloitte insurance expert, Marco Van Ackooij, to learn why finance professionals in insurance need to shift from a traditional backward-looking to a more forward-looking performance management approach.We have heard a lot about Solvency II in Insurance during the last 10 years. What lessons do you think… read more →
This blog post will give a cursory overview of the joys and misadventures of micro-benchmarking, and will be the first in an ongoing treatment of the topic as the author deepens her knowledge over the coming months. It is part of the Anaplan Engineering technical blog series, written by engineers for the enjoyment of engineers.Anaplan… read more →
This story was originally posted on the Intangent blog as Three levels of maturity for sales compensation plan cost modeling.Incentive compensation plan changes are a reality that organizations face every year. Sometimes plan changes are structurally significant and made in response to exciting new business initiatives. In other cases, these changes are mere tweaks to… read more →
