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Great EPM tool for Planning & Forecasting
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, Scalability and User friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing but a few technical limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seamless business planning and forecasting
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Fast and agile Development without the typical overhead of 1st party solutions.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has allowed our team to quickly build drivers, upload templates, P&Ls and consolidated reporting in an incredible agile environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have the ability to have branching code (think excel model with a point-in-time copy), so if I create 10 models that are 90% similar metadata structures, but have 10% differences I would have accumulated a fair amount of technical debt in that I need to make changes in 10 different places.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance planning and trying to move planning to the cloud as opposed to offline spreadsheets
Great for connecting people, data, and plan
What do you like best about the product?
In general, Anaplan is an excellent tool for planning and analytics. It is flexible enough to model different business requirements and functionalities. It could be owned by business and thus reduce dependency of IT when business logics change frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, the product still has areas to improve on. For example, workflow has been discussed and requested by a lot customers for many years, but it is "on the roadmap."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan across Finance, HR, Sales, etc. and across multiple regions. Our legacy systems were mostly in silos and/or offline which makes it very challenging to have a consistent view at one place for planning. Anaplan provides a platform as one-place to go for planning and analytics, improving planning efficiency.
Anaplan for Strategical Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
What do you like best about the product?
1)New user experience is the game changer with management reporting. 2) Community user helps to get clarifications regarding the platform. 3) Introduction of Hyper model architecture to plan with huge data volumes at the most granular level.
What do you dislike about the product?
1)Few commonly used formulas in excel are not available, but we can implement workarounds to get the results. 2) Performance issues when dealing with complex logic with huge data volumes. 3) Developer experience and NUX still have scope to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is a cloud-based multidimensional and in-memory calculation engine that will help in many business planning and budgeting. It is entirely customized and easy to maintain.
Anaplan is a great way to improve productivity and collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
Going from Excel or comparable models to Anaplan really improves the functionality and consistency of data, models, and reports. Having the data centralized so that all users see the same information and having a tool that is easy for end users to adapt to provides incredible value almost instantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan is flexible and can provide many upgrades over outdated methods like Excel based models or even comparable tools, it does require a bit of know-how for the end users to develop models themselves. On the other hand, it is something that can be learned easier than other tools or complex coding methods and over time can be entirely self-managed by end users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Even basic lift and shift scenarios of moving existing models into Anaplan solves issues such as single cell formula issues, having multiple files or sources of truth bouncing around the organization at any given time, and the improved security and auditing features help keep data secure.
Anaplan provides scalable models whilst also being flexible
What do you like best about the product?
It can calculate many millions of cells, way beyond what Excel can do. It is built in a very intuitive way, with no need to understand code or database structure. The only thing that takes some time to learn before you can build really impactful models is dimensionality, which many new modellers won't have, coming from an excel background.
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
What do you dislike about the product?
If you arent careful with how you combine dimensions, you can run out of workspace. Sometimes you need to create concatenated hierrachies which only contain valid combinations of hierarchy items to save workspace
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Model complex scenarios in investment funds, where the timings and amounts of investments and exits can quickly be flexed, showing the sensitivity of the fund
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Excellent platform for FP&A
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple use cases; easy for new starters to learn the platform, doesn't require any coding experience; can create colourful and engaging dashboards very quickly; excellent support and community pages
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a couple of bugs in the new App
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are multiple use cases: FP&A, Supply Chain, and Financial Consolidation. I have worked with property and construction, education, insurance, banking, and retail clients.
Connect Departments' Plans and Operations in a single tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a blank canvas with a powerful calculation engine and a friendly visualisation layer. So you can model almost any business process in your own way and share it with your colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited options when it comes to native data integration, workflow and notifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows bringing together in the same platform data that used to be scattered across teams: Workforce planning (in terms of headcount and ftes, budgeting, compensation), FInancial modelling (what-if scenarios), Financial consolidation across entities and many others, without compromising on usability.
Anaplan For Finance , Sales & Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1)Anaplan provides the flexibility to model any business use case.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
1)Anaplan modelling has size restrictions which sometimes makes it very difficult to create reports by intersecting multiple dimensionality.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has a very intuitive UX which allows significant end user adoption as the functionalities are very straightforward to use. The Platform provides the flexibility to model any business use case and all the functionalities can be implemented in a very agile manner. The Platform can be used to build applications related to FP&A , Sales Planning and Supply Chain planning use cases. On top of the business modelling capabilities , the tool also provides embedded AI/ML capabilities that can be leveraged for a wide variety of use cases. The Tool can be seamlessly integrated with other third-party systems with various integration options available.
Anaplan for FPA solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is Cloud Based In-Memory Calculation engine
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
What do you dislike about the product?
Some commonly used Excel formulas are not available
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have implemented financial planning and budgeting. It helped us improve the efficiency of the planning by enhancing transparency.
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