Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Anaplan or Azure Active Directory instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Accounting and finance ⇄ Security and identity
Anaplan to Azure Active Directory integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Anaplan and Azure Active Directory 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 Anaplan and Azure Active Directory
Keep the people who can act on financial records in Anaplan matched to their identities in Azure 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. Azure 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 Processes, Cell Data, Models, Modules in Anaplan aligned with Service principals, Directory roles, Devices, Users in Azure 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 Sync CRM pipeline data into Anaplan for sales capacity and quota planning.
- 02 Push approved plan and target numbers from Anaplan back to the CRM or compensation systems.
- 03 Provision and deprovision Entra ID Users and Group memberships from an HR system of record so account enablement follows employment status.
- 04 Sync manager, department, and jobTitle from an HRIS back onto Entra ID User attributes to keep dynamic groups and Conditional Access accurate.
Common sync patterns
Access reviews backed by live data
Because the user list in Anaplan matches the identity source in Azure Active Directory in real time, access certifications and SOX-style reviews start from current membership rather than a stale spreadsheet.
People attributes for allocation and approvals
Department, manager, and employee identifiers carried in Azure Active Directory flow to Anaplan, so expense routing, cost-center allocation, and approval chains use the same org data as the directory.
Where Azure Active Directory is the identity source: offboarding reaches the books
When a person is deactivated in Azure Active Directory, their matching user in Anaplan is disabled in the same motion, so departed employees keep no standing access to financial records.
What you can sync between Anaplan and Azure Active Directory
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.
| Anaplan objects | Azure Active Directory objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Import and Export Actions Predefined data-movement definitions the Bulk API executes. | Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. | Import and Export Actions is specific to Anaplan and Service principals to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Processes Ordered bundles of actions run as a unit during scheduled syncs. | Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. | Processes is specific to Anaplan and Directory roles to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Cell Data Individual intersections readable and writable through the transactional API. | Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. | Cell Data is specific to Anaplan and Devices to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Models The planning workspaces that contain all data; syncs target a specific model. | Users /users in Microsoft Graph; synced two-way — profile attributes, accountEnabled, and assignedLicenses are read out while provisioning writes (create, update, disable, delete) are pushed back. | Models is specific to Anaplan and Users to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Modules Multidimensional grids of line items where plan data lives; the main read/write surface. | Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. | Modules is specific to Anaplan and Groups to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Line Items The measures within a module, mapped to columns or metrics in syncs. | Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. | Line Items is specific to Anaplan and Group memberships to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Anaplan and Azure Active Directory
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.
Anaplan Azure 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 Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Azure Active Directory Anaplan Sub-second propagation
DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Anaplan through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Anaplan: Subject to the platform's API rate limits; large data movements are designed to run through bulk actions.
- Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Anaplan ⇄ Azure Active Directory
Connect Anaplan and Azure Active Directory for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Anaplan–Azure Active Directory connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Anaplan or Azure Active Directory 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 Anaplan or Azure Active Directory record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Anaplan ⇄ Azure Active Directory sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Anaplan and Azure Active Directory.
How the Anaplan and Azure Active Directory connectors work
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
Azure Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header
How it works
How to connect Anaplan to Azure Active Directory — 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 Anaplan and Azure Active Directory with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Anaplan
connected
Azure Active Directory
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Anaplan and Azure Active Directory 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 · Anaplan ⇄ Azure Active DirectoryCustomers 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.
Anaplan Azure Active DirectoryCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Anaplan and Azure Active Directory integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Anaplan and Azure Active Directory: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Anaplan's Import and Export Actions and Processes), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Anaplan and Azure Active Directory: Access reviews backed by live data; People attributes for allocation and approvals; Where Azure Active Directory is the identity source: offboarding reaches the books. Because the user list in Anaplan matches the identity source in Azure Active Directory in real time, access certifications and SOX-style reviews start from current membership rather than a stale spreadsheet.
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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. Azure Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Anaplan: Plan data lives in multidimensional modules of line items dimensioned by lists and versions, not in flat tables, so syncs map intersections rather than rows. Azure Active Directory: Throttling is metered in resource units, not request counts: a tenant over 500 users allows about 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads, and writes are capped near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes per app; over-limit calls return 429 with a Retry-After header. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Anaplan and Azure Active Directory 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 Anaplan and Azure Active Directory records are not retained after a sync operation.
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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
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
Secure connection options
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