Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Anaplan instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ Accounting and finance
Active Directory to Anaplan integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Anaplan in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Active Directory and Anaplan
Keep the people who can act on financial records in Anaplan matched to their identities in Active Directory, so access is provisioned, updated, and revoked in real time.
Anaplan runs the money — the ledgers, invoices, budgets, and payments — and every one of those actions is taken by a person with a login. Active Directory is where those people and their access actually live: who is employed, what team they belong to, and what they are allowed to do. The two systems rarely share customers or transactions, but they share the one thing that governs both — the user. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a departed employee keeps finance access for weeks and a new hire waits on a ticket to get any.
Stacksync keeps Line Items, Lists, List Items, Versions in Anaplan aligned with Groups, Group memberships, Devices, Directory roles in Active Directory, field by field and in real time. A person added, moved, or deactivated on the identity side updates their matching user in the finance system within seconds, with the role or permission set mapped from the group they belong to. Direction is yours to set: lead provisioning from the directory, or let an HR-owned finance record drive the downstream accounts.
For a finance team, that alignment is an audit control rather than a convenience. When the user list in the books matches the identity source of truth, segregation-of-duties and access reviews start from data that is already correct instead of an export that was current last quarter.
Common use cases
- 01 Load actuals from an ERP or warehouse into Anaplan modules so forecasts start from current financials.
- 02 Sync CRM pipeline data into Anaplan for sales capacity and quota planning.
- 03 Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.
- 04 Read Devices and service principals into a database for identity, asset, and license inventory across the tenant.
Common sync patterns
Where Active Directory is the identity source: offboarding reaches the books
When a person is deactivated in Active Directory, their matching user in Anaplan is disabled in the same motion, so departed employees keep no standing access to financial records.
One user roster across both systems
People, their status, and their contact details stay matched between Anaplan and Active Directory, so the finance system's login list reflects who actually works here instead of drifting out of date.
Group and role membership drives finance permissions
A person's group or role in Active Directory maps to their permission set in Anaplan, so who can approve, post, or view is governed from one place instead of maintained twice.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Anaplan
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Active Directory objects | Anaplan objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Models The planning workspaces that contain all data; syncs target a specific model. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Models to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Modules Multidimensional grids of line items where plan data lives; the main read/write surface. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Modules to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Line Items The measures within a module, mapped to columns or metrics in syncs. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Line Items to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Lists Dimension members (accounts, products, cost centers) synced from master data systems. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Lists to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. | List Items Individual dimension members created or updated from external systems of record. | Users is specific to Active Directory and List Items to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. | Versions Scenario dimensions (actual, budget, forecast) that scope which slice a sync reads or writes. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and Versions to Anaplan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Anaplan
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory Anaplan Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Anaplan through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Anaplan Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Anaplan for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling and scheduled export actions.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
- Anaplan: Subject to the platform's API rate limits; large data movements are designed to run through bulk actions.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Anaplan
Connect Active Directory and Anaplan for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Anaplan connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Anaplan data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory or Anaplan record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Anaplan sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Anaplan.
How the Active Directory and Anaplan connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
Anaplan
- Integration surface
- REST APIs: a Bulk API that runs predefined import/export actions and a transactional API for model metadata and cell data
- Authentication
- Token-based sessions obtained via basic authentication, CA certificates, or OAuth 2.0 through Anaplan's authentication service
- Change detection
- Polling and scheduled export actions; the platform does not expose change events
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Subject to the platform's API rate limits; large data movements are designed to run through bulk actions
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Anaplan — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and Anaplan with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
connected
Anaplan
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Anaplan objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ AnaplanCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory AnaplanCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Anaplan integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Anaplan: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Directory roles and Service principals & applications), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS. Anaplan: REST APIs: a Bulk API that runs predefined import/export actions and a transactional API for model metadata and cell data. Authentication: Token-based sessions obtained via basic authentication, CA certificates, or OAuth 2.0 through Anaplan's authentication service. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Anaplan: Anaplan's in-memory engine recalculates dependent line items on write, so loads propagate through model formulas immediately. Active Directory: DirectoryRole, servicePrincipal, and device objects are effectively read-only for sync; Users, Groups, and memberships are the writable surface. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Active Directory and Anaplan without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Active Directory and Anaplan records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and Anaplan connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–Anaplan integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and Anaplan. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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Alerts
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