What do you like best about the product?

Much like with many planning solutions the removal of spreadsheets, the structure of the calculations really comes forward
There's a great community of global users who are able to problem solve and provide solutions where required
Although there's a relatively steep learning curve it is very intuitive and once the basics have been achieved then it's very easy to scale
Front-end for end users is very clean and not at all spreadsheet-like
The sandbox nature of Anaplan means that any problem can be solved within the platform - if it can be done in spreadsheets then it can be done in Anaplan

What do you dislike about the product?

On massive datasets can be quite data storage heavy albeit new functionality is out to help with that
No native connectivity to other systems - requires heavy usage of APIs, ETL tooling, etc to get data from source and then onto other systems
Can be sometimes complicated to debug issues with calculations - but this is often because of poor modelling
The sandbox nature of the platform means that anything is possible and bad models can easily be created which don't confirm to best practice

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

A variety of problems are being solved within our organisation: P&L planning across business units, cost management across the whole organisation, group-level consolidation and reporting of P&L
Having a consistent tooling for cross organisation processes means that everyone knows how to do their forecasting and how information needs to be inputted.