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Great Icloud planning solution
What do you like best about the product?
- Great for complex calculations
- Transparency in calculations/formulas
- Easy to use end user experience
- Data integration options
- Bolt on workflow option
- Transparency in calculations/formulas
- Easy to use end user experience
- Data integration options
- Bolt on workflow option
What do you dislike about the product?
- Have to pay for Polaris
- With the classic model not able to create sparse modules
- With the classic model not able to create sparse modules
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows for complex calculations and having the ability to slice in dice for end user reporting, with great data integration options available like cloudworks or Anaplan connect
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Anaplan Platform Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great tool for taking companies to the next level of planning capabilities. The ability to connect an enterprise in real time drives down the time and cost of running a planning cycle and pivoting based on new challenges and changing variables.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can take a while to get used to the model building approach and reshaping your brain to think in multidimensional terms, especially if coming from a traditional planners toolkit (Excel). I will say the training does a good job of being thorough and on demand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving a vast array of my customers' problems, across industries and use cases. I have implemented Anaplan for fast food chain restaurants, oil & gas, healthcare, SaaS companies. Anaplan's flexibility can tackle any industry and any challenge presented.
Anaplan: The Flexible & Powerful Planning Tool that could use some dashboarding updates
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an extremely powerful calculation engine and planning tool that gives model builders tons of flexibility to creatively solve almost any problem
What do you dislike about the product?
The front end "pages" are still not very flexible. Many views that are needed by end users are not possible without using the "Management Reporting" feature, however this is more for reporting and you lose almost all of the functionality from the traditional pages that gives end users the ability to interact with the model.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is our central hub for forecast owners across our business to see their actual spend within their departments and enter their budgets and forecasts,
Anaplan is a flexible tool that is great for complex organisations!
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a strong tool for finance as it can be built for a variety of business processes. Its flexibility allows us to customise the tool for each unique aspect of the business. While it is extremely flexible, it is important to have the right people in place to help manage the tool long term. Implementations for Anaplan are quick and you can easily deliver an MVP and then continue to add on additional features throughout the year in releases. Users enjoy working with the tool because of the UX - if dashboards are built with a strong user journey in mind. Anaplan continues to release updates to the UX to meet the ever changing needs of clients.
In addition, Anaplan has an extensive roadmap that I believe is focusing on the right areas: Data Integration and improvements there, creating out of the box solutions that folks can use or add customisations as needed, centralising security & consolidations to name a few.
In addition, Anaplan has an extensive roadmap that I believe is focusing on the right areas: Data Integration and improvements there, creating out of the box solutions that folks can use or add customisations as needed, centralising security & consolidations to name a few.
What do you dislike about the product?
The auditing feature is not very user friendly. The export of history must be exported. parsed and displayed on a separately built dashboard to be useful.
There continues to be issues with Data Management & Security Management; however, Anaplan focuses on the key areas where it recieves feedback and acts -- which is great!
Consolidations features are missing -- thus missing the full end to end journey of planning.
There continues to be issues with Data Management & Security Management; however, Anaplan focuses on the key areas where it recieves feedback and acts -- which is great!
Consolidations features are missing -- thus missing the full end to end journey of planning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is centralising the planning processes and helping with version control and collaboration. There is more visibility into the numbers behind calculations and stronger processes are being formed internally to help systemitise budgeting and forecasting processes.
Anaplan Architect with 100+ implementations and expertise in sales and commercial plannin
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility to change and grow with the business. With a proper COE and strong model builders, Anaplan can drive results in the present while planning for the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility can result in an over-engineered planning process that loses sight of the key business drivers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves consistency and visibility issues that are present within every organization. Leadership can feel confident in the planning process and outputs by centralizing planning and moving away from Excel.
Great flexible cloud based platform
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud based platform
Application Lifecycle Management
UX Dashboards
Flexible formula based logic
Application Lifecycle Management
UX Dashboards
Flexible formula based logic
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited new functionality releases
Anaplan support not as good as it used to be
Anaplan support not as good as it used to be
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The reduction of time to create reports / useful analytics to actually spend time on making decisions
The Anaplan practice evolving all over the years
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a easy-to-use service, but still very powerful and robust at the same time. There is a quite low level of entrance to the platform in order to be able to create complex models. If you are good in excel and VBA, you will be definitely good in model building. You can cover any business case by Anaplan, it's proved by my 7-years platform's experience. An UX is great, you don't have to get used to that. It is very native and user friendly. Anaplan doesn't stay in an one place. It releases new features very often.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, Anaplan doesn't support any scripts modelling. Therefore, sometimes you have to pass a very long building way in order to reach your goal. The greatest disadvantage of the platform is a price. It is quite high, your company need to have a really good profit to afford it. On the other hand, Anaplan brings a real value. That amount can be calculated. In many cases the savings cover an Anaplan's TCO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a consultancy company, we've managed a lot of Anaplan implementations in different domains and business cases. It's been FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Mining, and Tech industries. All of them found their benefits in the Anaplan's implementation. Some clients cut twice their time for budget campaign, others increased transparency and efficiency in C&B process for their Sales Reps. Many clients provide a great feedback about an ability to create and compare different scenarios in very rapid way. In my opinion, the greatest benefit in the Anaplan implementation is that clients, finally, get verified and enhanced buisness process, that have really clear definition. In addition to that, they can change the process, even by their internal champion. Nowadays, when the things are changed unpredictably fast, this is extremely important.
Next Generation Connected Planning Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan helps in doing concurrent planning that enables instantaneous updates and agile decisions across planning functions.
Anaplan helps the business to drive the strategy by synchronizing choices.
Anaplan is easy to use by different enterpise users and even easy to develop the solution and customize the for complex requirement.
Anaplan helps the business to drive the strategy by synchronizing choices.
Anaplan is easy to use by different enterpise users and even easy to develop the solution and customize the for complex requirement.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can be costly for some small industries and hence make them difficult to adopt.
Anaplan can be slow for large models and can take sometime to open the dashboards.
Anaplan can bring some of the more visualization featues on its dashboard that will help to build some of the poweful reporting solutions within the tool.
Anaplan can be slow for large models and can take sometime to open the dashboards.
Anaplan can bring some of the more visualization featues on its dashboard that will help to build some of the poweful reporting solutions within the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan offers a connected planning approach and facilitates fast decision-making for a broad enterprise. Decisions made with Anaplan are flexible and free from the time-consuming process of consildation. Anaplan can handle a wide range of user issues pertaining to high-level workforce planning, consolidation of Excel databases, and inventory management. It will give leadership access to a platform where they can quickly see the modifications made at the detail level by various finance users.
Anaplan a flexible planning tool with many use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a multi-dimensional planning tool that allows you to bring together multiple sources of data to act as the one source of truth for planning. With versions and flexible time scales, you can plan for any eventuality as far out as you need to.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of workflow was an issue, butAnaplan has implemented this recently and looks to provide what we need. It good to know they listen to their customer base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan acting as the one source of truth for your data allows greater faith in the numbers throughout the business. it also speeds up the whole reporting process allowing more agile planning throughout the business.
Scalable Spreadsheets
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very flexible and can be implemented to suport a wide variety of use cases: Financial Planning, Sales Comp. Management, Demand Planning, etc. Use cases can be connected together and foster alignment within the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the product limitations can significantly complicate development:
- Workspaces are limited to 130GB wihtout HyperModel option
- Poor handling of sparse data sets without Polaris option
- Workspaces are limited to 130GB wihtout HyperModel option
- Poor handling of sparse data sets without Polaris option
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps diminish the reliance on spreadsheets and becomes the single source of truth for planning purposes.
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