Anaplan
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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.
Flexible, Reliable, But Requires Strong Builders
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Anaplan's flexibility in allowing me to model nearly any business logic, regardless of complexity or unique company requirements, while keeping it clean and scalable. Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan operates with surprising speed, enabling quick model updates, such as changes in compensation plans or new scenarios, without needing to rebuild everything from scratch. This rapid adaptability allows me to transform ideas into functional models in a matter of days, rather than waiting for longer development cycles. I love the transparency Anaplan offers, as it allows me to trace numbers back to their source, providing an opportunity to address and fix discrepancies directly, which shifts planning from detective work to genuine operational intelligence. This traceability ensures that every metric can be followed back to its origin, facilitating instant issue resolution. The combination of flexibility and transparency makes planning faster, more efficient, and significantly more reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find that Anaplan presents a steep learning curve for new builders. Understanding elements like sparsity, model architecture, and integrating lists, modules, and formulas can be overwhelming at first. Even for experienced users, navigating through Anaplan’s UX can be time-consuming due to quirks in the interface. Additionally, while data integrations have improved over time, they still fall short of the seamless and modern experience that many clients expect. Anaplan’s performance can decline if a model isn’t perfectly architected, leaving little room for error in design. Overall, while it’s a powerful tool, it requires skilled builders and thoughtfully planned governance to make the most of its capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Anaplan to replace chaotic spreadsheets with scalable models, providing real-time visibility and a single source of truth for planning processes. It enables flexible, transparent modeling, accelerating planning and reducing errors.
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 :)
Anaplan - Powerful & Flexible Business Planning Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a truly dynamic multi dimensional modeling platform which performs calculations in real time. This allows Anaplan to offer agility, flexibility and power to model any Business planning process or workflow across any function.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no major downsides of the platform. The platform is constantly evolving and I am excited for new UI and reporting enhancements which will offer advanced analytics to the end users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform is able to solve core problem of agility which any business process requires and ability to model across multiple dimensions which truly makes the platform industry and function agnostic in Enterprise Business Planning
Anaplan for Supply Chain
What do you like best about the product?
It is flexible and owned by the business
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited visualization items for end users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Flexible and easy to integrate with multiple areas of a business
I would recommend Anaplan because it is a better way to model.
What do you like best about the product?
Due to Anaplan's architecture, when building a model you can focus on the model and dont have to worry about the container, like you have to do in excel. Dragging rows and formulas for example.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of the architecture, some relatively simple tasks in excel are much harder to accomplish in Anaplan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have solved complex cash flow calculations with Anaplan, the benefits received are better, more timely data.
Great tool
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability, flexibility and ability to move from the standard solution to cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
reacting to proposed changes is rather weak- platform could be better hearing valuable opinions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cloud solution instead of standard local files
Recommendations to others considering the product:
try it and love it
Quick Implementation, Low Maintenance, Increased Accuracy!
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is relatively intuitive and easy to pick up on if users have a background with MS Excel, which makes it great for system admins and power users since they typically have strong Excel backgrounds and can pick up on the syntax/logic required to build in Anaplan. I also love how quick the implementations are and the ability to have multiple use cases all within the same system (and even same workspace). There's also a strong community with forums, blogs, template models, etc. to assist organizations in their Anaplan journey.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not too much to dislike, but would like to see improvements in aggregation methods for P&L purposes aggregates everything, but would like ability to have a more flexible option of flipping signs when needed).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connected Planning across Demand, Supply, and FP&A functions. Increased forecast accuracy in less time. Real time updates. Easily version or snapshot forecasts that isn't easily possible in other solutions.
Anaplan is a connected planning dream!
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan can be maintained and updated by the team using the model (i.e. does not require IT support).
What do you dislike about the product?
Some limitations for dashboarding exists.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan gets you out of big complex excel files for planning and gets you into a cloud-based tool where everyone can access everything at once.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have a good team in place with the time and eagerness to learn Anaplan.
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What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility and the power of the engine. The fact that Anaplan actually can solve pains that others can´t
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting part is still in need of enhancement! It is to difficult when you want to use LIS and varitations with both numbers and %
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FP&A, Supply chain and Connected planning. The main long-term benefit comes with multiple use cases. At the same time a simple use case can solve great issues for any business. You can start off with simple collect and aggregate data to complex planning across multiple disciplines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The more use cases implemented the more valuable the software is. Start simple and learn the power of the platform. Most companies do not know what the final product should be until they have tried, explored and tested. You learn and develop
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