As a client developer and solutions architect, I use Anaplan for building modules and deploying logic end-to-end. I work closely with the business in an agile manner to ensure the model aligns with business needs.
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Real-time data integration enhances operational efficiency and flexibility
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Anaplan offers flexibility in building different options within the platform. The real-time data integration feature allows me to immediately see the impact of changes made in the model without waiting for a process to run. This has been instrumental in enhancing operational efficiency.
What needs improvement?
Anaplan could enhance its user interface by including a more user-friendly API. Improving the deployment process to make it less complex and easier to manage is another area for potential enhancement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Anaplan for ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Anaplan is absolutely stable, with a stability rating of nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Anaplan is a scalable product, especially when managed with cost considerations. There are options to make it more scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from Anaplan is responsive and helpful, with a customer service rating of nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Anaplan, I worked with SQL databases and VBA. I switched to Anaplan because of its power and potential as a platform, offering similar functionalities to Excel and VBA but with much more capability.
What about the implementation team?
I have a junior colleague working with me on maintenance tasks for Anaplan.
What was our ROI?
It is difficult to quantitatively assess the ROI since it involves evaluating time saved from transitioning processes to Anaplan. However, the platform allows for significant operational efficiencies.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the licensing cost for Anaplan as a seven to eight, making it affordable.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Anaplan due to the flexibility it provides for building modules and the various options available within the platform.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Anaplan is one of the best
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan provides greater flexibility in model building, as well as high computation speed.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is why companies tend not to increase the number of licenses
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The entire forecasting process was rebuilt with new logic in Analpan, this helped to increase the granularity of planning and automate most processes, which significantly increased the speed and accuracy of forecasting
Anaplan has allowed for us to move out of gsheets and into a systematized tool for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to add structure to repeatable processes and easily roll things forward rather than creating dozens of gsheets a year. The ability to integrate with other systems like Workday, SFDC, Data Warehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Access has it's downsides when new roles need to be created or trying to automate user access provisioning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Segmentation, Quota Planning, Quota Adjustments, and Target Planning are all done in one connected solution.
Anaplan Review: Unlocking the Power of Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility and Customization: Anaplan is highly flexible and can be customized to model various business processes, from finance and sales to supply chain and HR. This adaptability makes it suitable for businesses of all sizes and industries.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with Anaplan has been positive overall. I haven't encountered any significant issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Siloed Data and Processes, Static and Time-Consuming Planning,Limited Visibility and Insights
Anaplan for Incentive Compensation
What do you like best about the product?
Time to value, can translate very complex business requirements into a flexible and scalable model. Customer support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial implementation with an experienced partner is a must to ensure success and future scalability. Level of flexibility allowed in Anaplan can cause scalability issues if not designed well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is allowing us to level up our compensation workflow from a manual process to a more standardized process. We are able to establish our compensation policies into Anaplan and have those automatically apply and give our compensation execution team flexibility to make changes.
Best enterprise-grade EPM tool for complex requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Its calculation engine and overall robustness
What do you dislike about the product?
It's space limitations / sparsity issues can require workarounds and therefore take longer to develop
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative planning, decision-making, running scenarios
Anaplan's Customization & UX Consideratoins
What do you like best about the product?
Model Customization - It truly is an open box. This can be a double edge sword if not implemented right, or if requirements are not understood during development, but otherwise this allows for great flexibility in how things could be planned.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Two major sticking points for me, Cube size and lack of ALM in the UX.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consistnency in planning - creates a standard structure in how forecasting is done, minimizing disparate/disconnected processes.
Anaplan is an intuitive and comprehensive financial planning tool that simplifies planning.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an intuitive and comprehensive financial planning tool that simplifies budgeting, tracking expenses, and managing investments.It is designed with a user-friendly interface, making it easy for beginners to navigate. The setup process is straightforward, requiring users to do their BAU activities what they were doing in excel, in Anaplan pretty easily. The customer support is very involved and have 24/7 support for any technical queries.
What do you dislike about the product?
Issue: Complex dimensional queries can be resource-intensive and may slow down report generation.
Impact: Slow performance can frustrate users and limit the utility of real-time reporting.
Limited tool capabilities can restrict the types of analyses that can be performed.Slicing and dicing in Excel addin can be downplayer
Impact: Slow performance can frustrate users and limit the utility of real-time reporting.
Limited tool capabilities can restrict the types of analyses that can be performed.Slicing and dicing in Excel addin can be downplayer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps in support which focuses on achieving the best commercial results by offering valuable insights, expert advice, and critical evaluation. This is bolstered by strong price modeling to optimize commercial proposals and enhance market success potential. It also helps in Delivery support which emphasizes the use of specialized commercial tools to ensure that high-value, complex projects stay on track with approved targets. By implementing strong commercial cadence and governance, it provides insights and recommendations to drive project success and data-driven decisions.
Connected planning
What do you like best about the product?
The more uses cases you have in Anaplan the more valueable it´ll be. More departments, more markets etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan have taken some shortcuts when it´s comes to expected featuers in the back end that would help the experience. It would for example be very helpful to know if a module or filter is being used on a dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I´m a consultant implementing the solution me client needs. The best solutions have been in rolling forecast, workforce management have been a bit more tricky but frankly also because it rarely is an area where the client knows what they want
Scalable enterprise planning system
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability and flexibility to support multiple use cases, ability to link models and data to create integrated solutions. Tool is easy to use for finance professionals with a reasonable technical background.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cube structure does not handle scalability across a large number of concurrent dimensions without increasing cost substantially. Initial implementation requires skilled expertise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows companies to ingest actual data and create live projections and forecasts across multiple scenarios. Data is linked to create integrated business solutions.
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