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5 years Anaplan journey
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very flexible and easy to use platform, but secure and robust at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing can be more adaptive for low market segment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps to use single source of data for the whole organisation, reduce possibility of human mistakes and allows to see changes immediately
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A review of Anaplan from a consultant and customer relations perspective
What do you like best about the product?
Connected planning, best user experience, possibility to constantly enhance solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloud planning not having best reporting, NUX capabilities still have restrictions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprises shifting their planning processes to a tool that can meet all their needs - every process can be clear and concise, and can seamlessly interact with the overall business processes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If your enterprise is looking for the best way to integrate all its processes and collaborate on all levels of the business involvement, Anaplan is the tool to go to.
A highly customizable connected planning solution that is able to support multiple use cases
What do you like best about the product?
A single platform that brings data and people together onto one platform, that is continuously improving in functionality and user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
While being a flexible solution, it does not have some of the more complex capabilities of bespoke solutions that are specific to certain use cases and industries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has helped to improve the Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, Sales & Operations Planning Capabilities of many of our clients.
One of the greatest benefits that have been realized for many of our clients is bringing many people onto one platform, and greatly reducing the excels being used in their organizations, removing unmaintainable models, and large amounts of file sharing through emails.
One of the greatest benefits that have been realized for many of our clients is bringing many people onto one platform, and greatly reducing the excels being used in their organizations, removing unmaintainable models, and large amounts of file sharing through emails.
How Anaplan provides a success planning model
What do you like best about the product?
App hub is the part that I like best that can provide people a high possibility of viewing potential functions they will have and give users flexibility to download and reconfigure based on business requirements. Also, the dashboarding is a very good feature that Anaplan has, it provide the possibility that user can see the immediate impact derived from the driver or assumptions. There's no need to move across a bunch of sheets to visualise the result.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I would say dislike for Anaplan is the new user interface. It's a good feature that provides better user experience but not all functionalities are well developed so far, some functions of traditional dashboarding are not supported in the NUX. Therefore this is a part that Anaplan can keep developing and provide more possibilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We solved a bunch of problems that clients have. The key benefit that we can take from Anaplan is the well organised planning approach for each end user roles. It's not a tool developed for single admin or only for CEO, it takes care of all users and provide very good navigation and path for everyone in the company. Also, the dashboard collaborates necessary information in same place that users can easily navigate or move to the page that they'll need to use or review.
Connected Planning at its best
What do you like best about the product?
Powerful, fast data calculations combined with nice easy to use user interfaces
What do you dislike about the product?
i think the powerpoint addin could be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
supply Chain planning with data avaialble to other departments within the business via hubs and satalite models
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your due dilligance with other planning tools but keep in mind the excellent network of partners and Anaplan SA's / Model builder expertize which is second to none
Worked with Anaplan as a Partner for 3 years.
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it has been to connect multiple Anaplan models together so business data can be shared easy between groups. It has been seamless for users around the world to be in the system and collaborate.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not the best system for visualizations. Users often cannot view the data in formats that they would like, and there are sometimes functionalities that they see in excel that do not carry over into Anaplan that makes it difficult for them to view the data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am working with financial reporting and the problems we have been tackling are eliminating large excel files that need to be updated by global users. The benefits have been to consolidate large amounts of data, run calculations against them, and have users all over the world be able to quickly view and assess their financial reports.
Versatile platform that is easy to master and can be scaled up to meet complex modelling challenges
What do you like best about the product?
Very versatile platform, can be used in many ways
What do you dislike about the product?
Layout of settings could be improved, can take time to get feedback on issues
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real estate modelling, Insurance P&L, Supply Chain planning; more integrated planning, reducing errors, more control over inputs and assumptions
Anaplan is a Cloud-based Multi-Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility, ability to work at scale, and its extensibility make it an excellent tool that can be applied to large-scale business processes and more granular operational processes alike.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's licensing/pricing model. It's very confusing to both partners and customers, makes it harder to sell services than it should, and since those conversations occur towards the end of the sales cycle, it can create unnecessary tension between the partner and customer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I currently use and implement Anaplan to solve all kinds of problems for a variety of our clients. Most use cases have been within the FP&A, Supply Chain, or SPM areas of our clients' organizations but have also entailed some Call Center Planning, Contract modeling, and other interesting implementations. The primary benefits we've realized have been more efficient planning cycles that require less time and produce better plans, unleashing more creative potential in our clients' teams from increased collaboration in Anaplan, and enhanced analysis from greater transparency in the modeling and planning process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're a partner, make sure you understand the licensing model so that you can help the client understand it and avoid potential issues coming from the Anaplan AE.
Otherwise, if you're considering Anaplan as a user just make sure to go through the Level 1-2 trainings, at a minimum. It will give a solid foundation to understanding the platform and the underlying technology.
Otherwise, if you're considering Anaplan as a user just make sure to go through the Level 1-2 trainings, at a minimum. It will give a solid foundation to understanding the platform and the underlying technology.
Anaplan is a fantastic planning solution for business focused teams
What do you like best about the product?
It is simple to build (point and click instead of writing code). It is fully customizable. It can be architected to build any train of logic. Therefore it forces the business to truly understand itself when building models. So not only does Anaplan helps teams plan more effectively because it puts structure around their process, but it also allows businesses to think thru, collaborate on, and develop the logic of their business in more details terms.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has a tendency to talk the talk about a year before they can walk the walk. This causes many customers to become frustrated when they hear that new functionality is available, but the model builders tell them it is not actually in a useable format yet. However this is not all downside, because it prepares customers for the exciting new changes that are coming to Anaplan.
Also, since any logic can be built in Anaplan, if builders are not careful, it is easy to build an overly complex solution that ends up failing in the end because it cannot adapt to the changing nature of the business. However if builders are thoughtful, it is a great tool to build solutions with the right amount of complexity and pair them with sound business processes.
Also, since any logic can be built in Anaplan, if builders are not careful, it is easy to build an overly complex solution that ends up failing in the end because it cannot adapt to the changing nature of the business. However if builders are thoughtful, it is a great tool to build solutions with the right amount of complexity and pair them with sound business processes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales forecasting, P&L forecasting, new item development, and marketing budget planning. Teams collaborate more efficiently, use one source of truth instead of many competing versions of the data, and understand their business more deeply.
AN Review by K. Mihaylova - Senior Anaplan Consultant
What do you like best about the product?
The connected planning, single source of truth, reliable & up-to-data calculations, what-if scenarios
What do you dislike about the product?
The User interface could be enhanced; There's no automated email notification directly from Anaplan
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are transferring really big processes into one place which means substituting a number of excel spreadsheets with one cloud based tool :)
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