Anaplan
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Powerful, Scalable, Customizable Business Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is highly customizable and can solve varied business problems. As an implementation consultant, this allows me to not only solve for current business needs but also help end-users think about any future issues they can solve with the tool. It helps drive consistency between disparate business groups and easily scales alongside the business, and is easy to pick up for both users and system administrators.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it can handle enormous volumes of data, there is still room to improve calculation scaling. However, similar to Excel, since it is highly flexible, the problems typically stem from not following best practices rather than actual problems with the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping businesses solve many problems, including consolidating disparate business processes, eliminating inconsistent spreadsheets, and bringing together various planning groups. In addition, it supports use cases (FP&A, SPM, Supply Chain) across nearly all enterprise business functions. I've been a part of several successful implementations and see many more down the road, both with current and new users.
Anaplan is a great business friendly tool that can save you from Excel
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud based tool that can be access from any web browser and even mobile devices. It can store billions of data points and has native security and user access management capabilities. It is extremely flexible and customizable where it can be implemented for use cases across sales, finance, it, marketing, and many more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can relatively be implemented incorrectly making the tool slow and unusable. This leads to the need of an Anaplan expert to help develop the initial application to ensure that the overall architecture is built sustainaby.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most Anaplan implementations help teams get out of the pains of Excel. I have used Anaplan for FP&A, Project Planning, Inventory Planning, and Territory and Quota Planning.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Best for Planning and Customized Finance Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Fast processing and suited for collaboration. Easily customizable to a company's finance processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit expensive due to its per-GB/ workspace charging, but you are paying for a quality product that processes quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've solved a lot of finance processes involving product costing, transfer pricing and coming up with a rolling forecast. I was able to customize Anaplan to suit the exact business case.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your long term plans because Anaplan can help with a road map of digitization of many processes.
A very flexible and powerful tool
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that Anaplan can be tailored to almost any type of business problem is fantastic. This makes it a great tool for almost any use case. The tool is also very powerful and I have built calculations that would have taken hours to run in legacy systems which are more or less 'instantly' (make a change, takes about 1 second to flow through) processed. I'm talking HUGE corporate processes and things like that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customized reporting at a very low level with lots of members and dimensions can lead to size considerations. Reporting needs should be thought out prior to starting reporting sprints. Reporting that assists in the planning process is always worthwhile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems I have solved with Anaplan run the gamete of corporate use cases, from Biopharma to Oil and Gas. It really can do anything. The biggest benefit in my humble opinion is the time savings realized by using Anaplan. Employees can focus on other more important tasks versus constantly trying to compile data for forecasts as Anaplan removes a lot of this legwork.
Anaplan: Standardization and Optimization
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to standardize business units that were unorganized in the past
Scalability
Integrations
Scalability
Integrations
What do you dislike about the product?
Processing times can often take a while, depending on the amount of data that was put into the tool. It's essential that customers understand that this is a calculation engine and not a reporting tool or data storage tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manually intensive work for backfilling actuals as well as operational tasks that were previously managed in Excel. Users previously worked ~900 hours over the span of the year to get data in Excel, but Anaplan has helped them SIGNIFICANTLY decrease that time.
Anaplan is a powerful Excel replacement with endless possible uses.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of building in Anaplan compared to the Excel documents I used to work with. The syntax is straightforward, and the drill-down feature makes it very easy to troubleshoot any issues while building out a User Story. Anaplan takes out all the validation issues that come along with end-users "fat fingering" a key and erasing data. Also, the history feature where you can view any change to a specific cell has been incredibly useful. When troubleshooting issues with end-users since I can see the exact action they ran and what order they performed the steps.
What do you dislike about the product?
My major issue with Anaplan is the concurrency issues when running processes or editing cells. The first complaint I hear from any client is that there is a blue box on their screen preventing them from entering data. I have minimized the time the actions run by following the best practices, but when there are multiple users in the system, it will inevitably happen. I know that I could remove actions from the end-users, but the clients ask for a way to input then submit. So therefore, I have to have a submission action.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem I run across with all clients is the need to move from Excel because the file is too large and will not load/perform properly. Anaplan is the perfect tool for these cases because it can replicate excel almost precisely, giving the clients comfort, while also being a much more powerful tool that can handle large amounts of data without performance issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan is a sleek and powerful tool that can help you escape the large, slow, clunky Excel files you're dealing with today.
Anaplan - Why should we use this new age Planning Tool ?
What do you like best about the product?
I am a certified Anaplanner and have obtained two certifications on same; What I like about Anaplan is the way all the modules are presented in it and how we can easily create projects and workflows from a planning perspective; we used Anaplan for a Client Project, and it was integrated with the CLient Sales system as a planning and forecasting tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan still has the potential to improve its UI; become more easily integrable with other software; reduce costs for the commercial version to gain market acceptance, and finally can be easier to understand or comprehend to make it more understandable to a layman working in Sales roles; Consulting and related occupations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benefits: We were solving problems related to Sales Forecasting for an MNC which was using Analplan for sale planning and forecasting - Being a certified Anaplanner, I built workflows in Anaplan and leveraged various tables and lists to implement my workflow on the Dashboards
Anaplan is the real deal
What do you like best about the product?
It's customisability, robustness and flexibility with data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's Management Reporting feature needs a snap to grid function
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving client planning and modelling challenges, Anaplan consistently delivers significant efficiencies and transforms business processes
Amazing platform that is flexible and scalable to business needs
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud-based platform - able to link multiple models together
Flexible to business needs
Enables the end-user to make changes to the platform
Flexible to business needs
Enables the end-user to make changes to the platform
What do you dislike about the product?
The native versions used in Anaplan are not a great solution when running numerous scenarios. Instead, you have to use a list alternative, which you lose some of the great functionality of using native versions.
Expensive licensing costs
Expensive licensing costs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workforce planning
Financial Planning
Asset Management
Fund Management
Financial Planning
Asset Management
Fund Management
You can be a model builder.
What do you like best about the product?
The upsides of Anaplan is the accessibility, all you need is an account, browser and internet connection and your ready to plan.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say that I dislike this, probably room for improvement is integration and system limitation. Every platform has its limitations anyway, but these are some of the things we can look for when looking for ideas for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We encountered problems trying to build a model with workflow, at first it was hard but eventually we pulled it off. I think the agile methodology benefited our project. We can quickly test and make quick adjustments according to the user requirements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want a cloud based platform that is cloud based and easy to implement then this is the one for you.
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