Manchester Java House Session - Anaplan

The Manchester Java House sessions are back!

In partnership with Gareth Pike and Morson Edge, we're hosting Anaplan at Morson Edge office, to learn about how they use Java.

Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights — so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan.

The evening will consist of three talks

Jarrod Martin – SVP, Engineering
An Intro to Anaplan’s Engineering organisation

Marcus Monaghan – Senior Director, Data & Orchestration
Talk title: ETL to Streaming Orchestration
Anaplan has always been committed to empowering confident decision-making through AI-driven scenario planning and analysis. To deliver on that promise, we built a robust ETL tool that ensures high-quality data flows into our platform; because reliable insights depend on reliable inputs. While this batch-processing approach served us well, it came with inherent limitations: slow data movement and difficulty pinpointing errors in bulk transfers.
Today, we're embracing the future of data integration through real-time streaming and orchestration. By shifting to a streaming architecture, we've unlocked capabilities that simply weren't possible before; row-level validation, granular decision-making, and real-time anomaly detection to catch issues the moment they occur. Join us to learn why we selected Apache Flink and Temporal as the foundation for this transformation and how this evolution is shaping the next generation of intelligent planning at Anaplan.

Joe Green – Senior Principal Engineer
Talk title: Dynamic Multi-Tenant Pipelines with Flink & Temporal: Architecture and Challenges
Anaplan's data platform needs to support many customers, many pipeline shapes, and be easy for our users to build, test and deploy.
Dive into how we built dynamic, config‑driven, isolated, multi-tenant transformation pipelines on Apache Flink, orchestrated by Temporal. See how we support a "fast lane" for debugging and demos while still being able to handle huge production load.