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Anaplan: Standardization and Optimization
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to standardize business units that were unorganized in the past
Scalability
Integrations
Scalability
Integrations
What do you dislike about the product?
Processing times can often take a while, depending on the amount of data that was put into the tool. It's essential that customers understand that this is a calculation engine and not a reporting tool or data storage tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manually intensive work for backfilling actuals as well as operational tasks that were previously managed in Excel. Users previously worked ~900 hours over the span of the year to get data in Excel, but Anaplan has helped them SIGNIFICANTLY decrease that time.
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Anaplan Reivew 2021
What do you like best about the product?
Connected planning. The UX and reporting functionality. Ability to streamline planning and forecasting
What do you dislike about the product?
Size limitations, had projects where client wanted so many dimensions but anaplan couldn't support so had to do workarounds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data integrations, having one source of the truth has been very helpful
Recommendations to others considering the product:
To ensure you complete your training and follow best practices
Anaplan is a powerful Excel replacement with endless possible uses.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of building in Anaplan compared to the Excel documents I used to work with. The syntax is straightforward, and the drill-down feature makes it very easy to troubleshoot any issues while building out a User Story. Anaplan takes out all the validation issues that come along with end-users "fat fingering" a key and erasing data. Also, the history feature where you can view any change to a specific cell has been incredibly useful. When troubleshooting issues with end-users since I can see the exact action they ran and what order they performed the steps.
What do you dislike about the product?
My major issue with Anaplan is the concurrency issues when running processes or editing cells. The first complaint I hear from any client is that there is a blue box on their screen preventing them from entering data. I have minimized the time the actions run by following the best practices, but when there are multiple users in the system, it will inevitably happen. I know that I could remove actions from the end-users, but the clients ask for a way to input then submit. So therefore, I have to have a submission action.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem I run across with all clients is the need to move from Excel because the file is too large and will not load/perform properly. Anaplan is the perfect tool for these cases because it can replicate excel almost precisely, giving the clients comfort, while also being a much more powerful tool that can handle large amounts of data without performance issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan is a sleek and powerful tool that can help you escape the large, slow, clunky Excel files you're dealing with today.
Great in-the-cloud planning engine
What do you like best about the product?
In memory, calculation is fast and multi-dimensional. It is also API supported platform. Moreover, many use cases are starting with FP&A to revenue recognition.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's synchronous system instead of an Async system. This makes developer life harder since the developer needs to factor this when doing multiple import and export jobs carefully.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving multi-dimensional calculations. The most significant benefit is everything is in memory. So when the formula changes, everything gets recalculated within a second.
Finance for Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is easy to use and implement. The software is truly business owned.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not easy to sell internally. Most businesses use SAP & SAC.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial planning
Invest Planning
HR Planning
Supply Planning
Invest Planning
HR Planning
Supply Planning
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan as a planning software is much easier to use as a front-end user than SAC. It is also much faster to implement on the backend than SAC.
Anaplan for Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
In memory calculation engine, which provides real-time outputs for any inputs entered.
What do you dislike about the product?
Below are some of the items.
1. Workflow can be improved
2. NUX can still be improved
3. Some Excel equivalent formula are not available
1. Workflow can be improved
2. NUX can still be improved
3. Some Excel equivalent formula are not available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial Planning and Consolidation is the use case we have implemented. Anaplan model helps in reducing the planning cycle from Months to days.
Overall an awesome experience
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an excellent financial planning tool with many functionalities to solve a lot of business problems. As it is very user-friendly, users adapt to it very fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of reporting and dashboarding capabilities makes it difficult to design the reports as per the requirements, but Anaplan is improving it day by day and soon, it will be the best tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving all our Financial Analytics problems which include Business Planning, Quota Management, Territory Management, Account Planning, segment Planning, and Headcount PLanning
Anaplan - Why should we use this new age Planning Tool ?
What do you like best about the product?
I am a certified Anaplanner and have obtained two certifications on same; What I like about Anaplan is the way all the modules are presented in it and how we can easily create projects and workflows from a planning perspective; we used Anaplan for a Client Project, and it was integrated with the CLient Sales system as a planning and forecasting tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan still has the potential to improve its UI; become more easily integrable with other software; reduce costs for the commercial version to gain market acceptance, and finally can be easier to understand or comprehend to make it more understandable to a layman working in Sales roles; Consulting and related occupations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benefits: We were solving problems related to Sales Forecasting for an MNC which was using Analplan for sale planning and forecasting - Being a certified Anaplanner, I built workflows in Anaplan and leveraged various tables and lists to implement my workflow on the Dashboards
Great way to automate and streamline business processes!
What do you like best about the product?
System flexibility. Anaplan can be used for many different use cases, from simple data aggregation to complex forecasting and calculations. Powerful calculation engines that are behind the scenes can be simplified with user-friendly front-end dashboards, enabling standardized processes and the ability to onboard users at every level.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is extremely forward-thinking. Sometimes they focus on marketing the "future state" a little bit too much (i.e. AI) while they still have some enhancements to the existing core functionality that would also benefit their cutomers. I would prefer their teams focus on some of those items before moving on to the "future".
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are utilizing Anaplan for many different use cases that I have listed below, all resulting in streamlined standardization of processes across the firm.
-Data aggregation for various forms of reporting
-Tracking of activity &related transformation (from investor to investment level)
-Complex waterfall calculations
-Forecasting of investment activity
-Centralization of data storage (market & in-house)
-Portfolio tracking and corresponding general ledger accounting
-Data aggregation for various forms of reporting
-Tracking of activity &related transformation (from investor to investment level)
-Complex waterfall calculations
-Forecasting of investment activity
-Centralization of data storage (market & in-house)
-Portfolio tracking and corresponding general ledger accounting
Anaplan is the real deal
What do you like best about the product?
It's customisability, robustness and flexibility with data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's Management Reporting feature needs a snap to grid function
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving client planning and modelling challenges, Anaplan consistently delivers significant efficiencies and transforms business processes
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