Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Anaplan or Namely instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Accounting and finance ⇄ Human resources
Anaplan to Namely integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Anaplan and Namely 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 Namely
Keep the employee, department, and cost records that Anaplan and Namely share consistent in real time, so the finance system and the people system stop drifting apart.
Anaplan runs the money side of the company: who gets paid, what it costs, and which part of the business the cost belongs to. Namely runs the people side: who works here, which team they sit in, and how their employment changes over time. The two overlap on the same people and the same org structure, because every employee is also a payee and every department is also a cost center. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a new hire, a transfer, or a termination has to be keyed twice, and the two systems start to disagree about who is active and where the cost lands.
Stacksync syncs Line Items, Lists, List Items, Versions in Anaplan with Profile Fields, Events, Profiles, Job Titles in Namely bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, updated, or deactivated on either side appears on the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly batch jobs.
That matters most when money follows a people event. A hire that finance can pay, a leaver whose access ends, a transfer that redirects cost to the right team, all happen from one change instead of two, so headcount and spend reconcile from the same set of records.
Common use cases
- 01 Keep dimension lists (products, cost centers, territories) aligned with master data systems of record.
- 02 Export forecast versions to a warehouse for variance reporting against actuals.
- 03 Provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP or directory when a Profile's user_status or start_date changes, and write the resulting user ID and email back onto the Profile.
- 04 Map Job Titles and Job Tiers into a warehouse dimension table so leveling and seniority stay consistent across HR, finance, and BI reporting.
Common sync patterns
People-driven costs land in finance
Compensation, reimbursements, or other costs tied to a person on the Namely side flow into Anaplan for posting, so the books reflect what people actually cost without manual re-entry.
New person becomes a known record in finance
When someone is added in Namely, a matching employee or payee record appears in Anaplan, ready for payroll, expenses, or cost allocation without anyone rekeying the details.
One employee identity
A person's name, ID, or contact details corrected in either system update the other, so finance and HR reference the same person instead of maintaining two versions.
What you can sync between Anaplan and Namely
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 | Namely objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Line Items The measures within a module, mapped to columns or metrics in syncs. | Groups Departments and locations that organize Profiles; synced to keep org structure aligned with a warehouse or IdP. | Line Items is specific to Anaplan and Groups to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Lists Dimension members (accounts, products, cost centers) synced from master data systems. | Teams Teams and team categories a Profile belongs to; read and written for org-chart and provisioning workflows. | Lists is specific to Anaplan and Teams to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| List Items Individual dimension members created or updated from external systems of record. | Reports Saved Namely reports returned as JSON snapshots that update instantly; read-only feeds for headcount and roster analytics. | List Items is specific to Anaplan and Reports to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Versions Scenario dimensions (actual, budget, forecast) that scope which slice a sync reads or writes. | Profile Fields Metadata describing standard and company-defined custom field sections; read to discover schema and generate mappings. | Versions is specific to Anaplan and Profile Fields to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Import and Export Actions Predefined data-movement definitions the Bulk API executes. | Events Home-feed items such as announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, and new arrivals; typically read-only into comms tools. | Import and Export Actions is specific to Anaplan and Events to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Processes Ordered bundles of actions run as a unit during scheduled syncs. | Profiles The core employee record (personal, job, contact, and compensation fields); synced two-way via GET/POST/PUT with updated_at driving incremental polling. | Processes is specific to Anaplan and Profiles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Anaplan and Namely
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 Namely 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 Namely through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Namely Anaplan Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.
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.
- Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Anaplan ⇄ Namely
Connect Anaplan and Namely for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Anaplan–Namely connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Anaplan or Namely 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 Namely record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Anaplan ⇄ Namely 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 Namely.
How the Anaplan and Namely 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
Namely
- Integration surface
- REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
- Change detection
- No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
How it works
How to connect Anaplan to Namely — 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 Namely 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
Namely
connected
OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Anaplan and Namely 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 ⇄ NamelyCustomers 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 NamelyCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Anaplan and Namely integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Anaplan and Namely: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Anaplan's Line Items and Lists), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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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. Namely: Namely exposes no webhooks; change detection relies on polling and comparing the updated_at timestamp on Profiles and related resources. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Anaplan and Namely 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 Namely 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 Anaplan and Namely connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Anaplan–Namely integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Anaplan and Namely. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Anaplan: Polling and scheduled export actions; the platform does not expose change events. On Namely: No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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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.
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