What do you like best about the product?

Anaplan is a lightweight solution which does not need labor intensive effort for implementation. It can remove excel-silos in the company and help collaboration among different department in the organization which can effectively shorten planning cycle and improve user experience in planning.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is no ETL tools embedded (excpet for paying a higher price for an OEM informatica). For every projects we have implemented, we require IT Department to help on ETL tasks which would always receive resistance and hesitation from the customers.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps our customers to solve the lack of multi-dimensional management in excel. Excel is an excellent tools for mathematical computation but it lacks the management of dimensions and hierarchy. Anaplan can effectively manage dimensions and hierarchy to help users shortening time for changing formulas in excel when there is any change in dimensions everytime, which is very frequent in business world nowadays. Strong computing power from Anaplan can also help users to plan at a more granular level when needed, the real-time calculation has outraced the performance in excel which could takes forever to update a formula if the source data volume is high.