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Anaplan: Scalable and flexible - best for non-standard use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility is the best thing about it. This is particularly helpful in use cases that are not stnadard and can't be catered to via your typical out of the box technology solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has a high cost to it, particularly around licensing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping us centralize a historically disjointed planning process. This has allowed us to gain process efficiencies and pull in the reigns on a process that has long been difficult to manage. Not only has this brought detailed refinement, but it also has saved countless hours within our process.
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Anaplan: A Flexible and Robust Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan’s flexibility and ability to handle complex, multi-dimensional models are among its best features. It leverages multi-dimensionality and advanced formula referencing for real time calculations and outputs. It has an active community and extensive learning academy with courses going over various topics and best practices, which happen to help with the building process that can be challenging.
What do you dislike about the product?
The major drawback for me is the lack of native integration with external systems, which has required us to do additional work to connect external data sources through API. Anaplan announced however the upcoming release of the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) which I hope will address this limitation by improving data integration and orchestration native capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has helped clients solve numerous challenges by providing a robust, scalable, and flexible platform that transforms how businesses plan and operate. It delivered significant value to clients by streamlining their planning processes, enhancing decision-making capabilities, and enabling more agile, data-driven operations. Some of the key problems Anaplan has addressed for clients include: Eliminating Siloed Planning, Automating Manual Processes, Enabling Real-Time Scenario Planning, Enhancing Forecasting Accuracy, Scaling to Meet Business Growth and Improving Collaboration.
Robust connected planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
Seamless planning and on the fly results for scenario based planning. It can be easily integrated with various other platforms. Does enable you to utilize AI/ ML for planning.
It's easy to implement and support is very active.
It's easy to implement and support is very active.
What do you dislike about the product?
Require technical expertise to implement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlining business processes, consolidation reporting, driver based planning, scenario planning, ease of implementing change of business scenarios
Vendor's high engagement boosts customer success
What do you like best about the product?
1) Anaplan customer success is highly engaged with their customers in order to drive successful implementation and utilisation of the product
2) It is highly flexible and able to cater to a majority of supply chain planning requirements
3) It is always improving!
2) It is highly flexible and able to cater to a majority of supply chain planning requirements
3) It is always improving!
What do you dislike about the product?
1) Speed of system may be impacted the greater the complexity and granularity of calculations
2) UX while improved still has room to grow especially when comparing with tools such as Power BI
2) UX while improved still has room to grow especially when comparing with tools such as Power BI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We help to implement supply chain planning solutions for our customers on Anaplan. As different companies / industries have different physical supply chains, the flexibility of Anaplan allows us to meet a majority of our customer needs, enabling them to collaborate and plan at the right granularity, and with the right processes.
Anaplan - Connected Planning Software Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan does a great job allowing a customer to customize and connect every aspect of planning across their organization. The user experience is a lot smoother and cleaner than other competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
New features sometimes feel rushed or oversold to clients. Leaving the devlopment team struggling to meet client expectations. Workflow capabilities greatly lacking compared to competitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps our customers take control of their Budgeting and Forecasting processes. This often involves replacing a largely disconnected and manual process within excel with dynamic and connected dashboards that show real time insights across the organization.
Connected Planning Solution on Steroids
What do you like best about the product?
diffferent functions can work together in same platform on same plan. Its not hardcoded for specific department, but solutions can be built like lego on top. Easy to learn and use for daily or monthly planning processes. Product support is responsive and solves most issues in2-3 days.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need new features to stay upto dat with market- AI components and integration capabilities with ESG, other environments. Quick to implement, but as modular design a lot of things can go wrong if not implemented correctly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We implement Anaplan for various Use cases across clients. Our team of 200 developers across 3 regions help us with quick delivery and deployment
Anaplan: From the Perspective of a Certified Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility allows for custom modeling solutions. Finance teams can plan in models tailed specifically to their needs. Source ERP to Anaplan integration can be automated using Anaplan Connect or other third party integration platforms. Numerous users can plan in a model simultaneously.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility is both a blessing and a curse. Models need to be developed and maintained by model building experts that fully understand the business requirements. Models built without sufficient skill on the part of the model builders, or without sufficient input and oversight from the business, can result in implementation failure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has streamlined business planning consolidation and workbook version control. The headaches associated with combining / error handling dozens of excel based budget models have been alleviated. Models are refreshed daily via SAP BW integration with Actuals results, and finance teams can determine when to export plan data back to SAP BW.
scalable & customizable Integrated business planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
connected planning, scalability and flexibility - it's ability to solve variety of business planning use cases across sales, finance & operations in the same platform and connect them for better decision making and reduce manual efforts has proven valuable for our organization
What do you dislike about the product?
1. No out-of-the-box features, everything has to be custom built
2. Can't handle large volume of data or large number of users very well
3. No native integration options with ERPs, CRMs and other systems.
2. Can't handle large volume of data or large number of users very well
3. No native integration options with ERPs, CRMs and other systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use anaplan for variety of use cases - Territory & Quota Planning, Incentive Compensation planning, Headcount and workforce planning, project planning etc. Anaplan has helped greatly in reduing manual efforts in our planning process, improve cross colaboration with different business orgs for faster plan execution and decision making
All around Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. extremly flexible for unique business needs
2. recent enhanced capablitiles for consolidation, Excel modelling and external reporting via Flunce (an Anaplan Company)
2. recent enhanced capablitiles for consolidation, Excel modelling and external reporting via Flunce (an Anaplan Company)
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is quite expense and a lot of functionality needed additional cost e.g. workflow, Fluence etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
budgeting and forecasting
Innovating tools where continuous learning thrives
What do you like best about the product?
They have a clear vision, and product innovation is constant, with new features introduced regularly. This tool is easy to integrate and doesn't require an IT background.
What do you dislike about the product?
With six years of experience using Anaplan, I can confidently say there is nothing to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan's connected planning is highly valued by clients worldwide. As a model builder, I have successfully implemented connected planning to integrate Supply and Demand, enhancing Inventory Management within Anaplan. In Finance, I have utilized connected planning for Cash Flow Management, Capex Control, EPS Calculations, and Consolidations within a single model. Anaplan truly excels in delivering impressive connected planning solutions.
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