How to Convert Between Text and Date Formats in Anaplan
Last month, I wrote an article about Anaplan’s Idea Exchange and some of the ideas that have been proposed by the community. One of the ideas I wrote about was about how Anaplan should implement an easier way to convert date format to text format, and text format into date format. I showed in that article what converting between these data types currently looks like. Since it is a tedious process, I decided to make it into its own blog post for beginning Anaplan [...]
Anaplan’s Idea Exchange
The extreme flexibility and open-endedness of Anaplan are exactly what makes it so powerful. Users can use Anaplan for virtually infinite use cases, but not without a few annoying limitations or small possible enhancements. Anaplan is an ever-evolving platform that uses user feedback to improve its capabilities. I have composed a list of some of the exciting features that have been submitted by Anaplan users and are on the developer road map or are being considered for it. Improvement and additions [...]
Anaplan as a Company from a Financial Sustainability Standpoint
Companies often spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars on their Anaplan implementations and upkeep. Professional Anaplan implementors spend hundreds of hours on Anaplan’s training courses. Even though the average ROI is extremely high for Anaplan implementations, it would be a complete loss if Anaplan shut down services or went out of business. While many of us know what services Anaplan has to offer and how we can leverage them to maximize our business planning, we seldom think of the potential risks [...]
Why Shorting the Market is A Bad Idea
Why Shorting the Market is A Bad Idea By Lucas Sherbrook Shorting the stock market has been a very popular pastime of some retail investors, and from time to time huge returns are made from the lucky OTM put option. While it can be lucrative to short the market from time to time, and there are multiple ways to do it, it will always end up as a losing position in the long run. I will be going over each type of shorting [...]
A look into the Feasibility and Theoretical Historical Performance of Leveraged ETFs
I used 23,000 days of actual market data (dating back to the very end of 1927) in order to create my model. My goal was to explore the performance and profitability of Leveraged ETFs using the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 as benchmarks. I will both take an in-depth look into leveraged ETFs in this essay as well as explain my model. To start, let me explain what a leveraged ETF is and why I thought this model necessary. Leveraged ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) [...]
4 Anaplan Tips for Model Builders
Anaplan is a complex FP&A that has harnesses the power of the cloud and its multidimensional “hyper-block” to allow users to more effectively and efficiently do their business planning and reporting. Building Anaplan models can a challenging task, so here are four model building tips to make the process smoother and more straightforward. 1) A+ for Anaplan Chrome Extension A+ for Anaplan is a third-party chrome add-in that allows for some useful features that Anaplan does not already provide such as better colors, more [...]