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Anaplan - Connected Global Organization Planning
What do you like best about the product?
-Rest API easily integrates data to multiple downstream/upstream systems
-Can handle Complex Real Time Calculations on large data sets including Optimization and Machine Learning Algorithms
-Multi Level Security Options to define the right access level needed
-Fully Customizable easy to understand End User interface
-Cloud Based
-Logic is Fully Customizable to handle any business use case (these can range from FP&A, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Personnel Planning, Sales Territory, etc.)
-Built in scheduling and automation features
-Allows to complex workflow process management
-Can handle 1000s of users inputs simultaneously
-Frequency of Use: monthly / daily / quarterly forecasting based on business requirements
-Excellent customer support
-Allows to follows true AGILE implementation methodology based on continuous user feedback during implementation
-Can handle Complex Real Time Calculations on large data sets including Optimization and Machine Learning Algorithms
-Multi Level Security Options to define the right access level needed
-Fully Customizable easy to understand End User interface
-Cloud Based
-Logic is Fully Customizable to handle any business use case (these can range from FP&A, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Personnel Planning, Sales Territory, etc.)
-Built in scheduling and automation features
-Allows to complex workflow process management
-Can handle 1000s of users inputs simultaneously
-Frequency of Use: monthly / daily / quarterly forecasting based on business requirements
-Excellent customer support
-Allows to follows true AGILE implementation methodology based on continuous user feedback during implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
-Cost of data volume can be expensive; using the POLARIS feature should considered when if dealing with large multi-dimensional (>10 dimensions with over 1000 members in each dimension) sparce data sets
-Due to the customization of the platform to your specific business use case and requirements, the initial implementation will require the definition and testing of those requirements by the business
-Reporting capability is good, but due to cost of data storage, has to be limited in some cases to only the timescale necessary for planning purposes
-Due to the customization of the platform to your specific business use case and requirements, the initial implementation will require the definition and testing of those requirements by the business
-Reporting capability is good, but due to cost of data storage, has to be limited in some cases to only the timescale necessary for planning purposes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is allowing our company to plan for multiple business use cases within the same platform and integrate the planning data between use cases. This means that business users interface with one planning tool regardless of if they are planning for supply chain, workforce, SG&A, CAPEX, Sales Volumes, Sales Territories, etc. The flexibility of Anaplan and the ability to maintain Master Data within the tool has also allowed us to create planning and reporting structures that tie in mulitple source ERP systems.
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A great value add tool to any business process where decisions rely on solid and accurate data.
What do you like best about the product?
It's flexibility as a tool and it's potential in many different areas of the business. It combines good data analytics with great user interface for planning. If built correctly it's fast, easy to use and reliable.
The flexibility also extends to implementation scope and speed. If the criteria of implementation changes mid way through the project Anaplan has the features and flexibility to deal with almost every change thrown at it.
They have a great learning platform that help speed up the understanding of Anaplan for both business users and future model builders, which greatly empowers the business users to keep the tool up to date.
Anaplan is a type of system which, if implemented successfully, sells itself inside the company, the more functions you get on the platform the larger the benefit of having such a platform can be achieved. It is very simple to integrate and synchronize different areas of Anaplan models between each other, like make your supply chain application deliver data automatically to jour finance application, doing away with long e-mail chains of finding the correct version of the plan to use. It also extends to 3rd party sources, Anaplan supports easy integration possibility with dedicated analytics tools or allows for a simple integration with source systems. It's fast and reliable and does not ask a lot of IT resources to set up.
Once implemented Anaplan becomes a daily source of truth for the functions using it.
The flexibility also extends to implementation scope and speed. If the criteria of implementation changes mid way through the project Anaplan has the features and flexibility to deal with almost every change thrown at it.
They have a great learning platform that help speed up the understanding of Anaplan for both business users and future model builders, which greatly empowers the business users to keep the tool up to date.
Anaplan is a type of system which, if implemented successfully, sells itself inside the company, the more functions you get on the platform the larger the benefit of having such a platform can be achieved. It is very simple to integrate and synchronize different areas of Anaplan models between each other, like make your supply chain application deliver data automatically to jour finance application, doing away with long e-mail chains of finding the correct version of the plan to use. It also extends to 3rd party sources, Anaplan supports easy integration possibility with dedicated analytics tools or allows for a simple integration with source systems. It's fast and reliable and does not ask a lot of IT resources to set up.
Once implemented Anaplan becomes a daily source of truth for the functions using it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their user management, specifically when it comes to licensing, can sometimes be a bit difficult to follow and properly track in the system. Although there have been good improvements lately with enhancements to global User Management views it still lacks an easy overview of contracted licenses vs used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan standartizes the planning process, it makes data (especially results) transparent for the management team. Due to primarily replacing Excel-based planning processes it unlocks the possibility to work with more data and larger granularity of data faster. And not only that it allows that within a cross functional model where you might have multiple departments and business functions working in a seamless live model.
With it's ML Timeseries forecasting capabilities and Linear Optimizer Anaplan can solve very complex business problems quickly across multiple functions although these two primarily have a direct impact on Demand Planning and Supply Chain, that then is passed down to finance or other parts of the business using the system.
You can also see buggs and user errors in the planning cycle dramatically decrease after implementing Anaplan. It's flexible enough so that the platform can be built around your business process, but the user interface can be made strict enough to ensure correct entries and reduction of user errors.
With it's ML Timeseries forecasting capabilities and Linear Optimizer Anaplan can solve very complex business problems quickly across multiple functions although these two primarily have a direct impact on Demand Planning and Supply Chain, that then is passed down to finance or other parts of the business using the system.
You can also see buggs and user errors in the planning cycle dramatically decrease after implementing Anaplan. It's flexible enough so that the platform can be built around your business process, but the user interface can be made strict enough to ensure correct entries and reduction of user errors.
Anaplan, the ultimate tool for success!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease and efficiency of use, it allows people to spend less time planning and more time with their friends and family.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the model locks down it can lock for long periods of time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's allows my customers to have a multi-dimensional platform with the ability to make an input once and leverage these inputs/calculations many different times. As my clients have expanded thei footprint within Anaplan they are know able to not only pull each other's data/results and work extremely more efficently.
Anaplan for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Business-owned and low code solution. Highly extensible and requires limited reliance on IT organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability of solutions for large user bases (15,000+)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Various Sales Planning use cases
Best Connected Planning Platforms in the Market
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud-based planning and performance management platform that enables businesses to plan, budget, forecast, and analyze data in a collaborative and connected environment. Anaplan is a very Flexibile and Scalable platform due to hyperblocks/hyper models, very strong in Collaboration and Ease to Use which includes Ease of Implementation becasue of we can build models using Agile methodology. As Anaplan supports various planning areas in an organization we can build an enatire build Connected Planning environment and can easily build Scenario Planning capabilities because of its multi dimensionality capabilities. Supports various types of Data Integrations and last but not least the product is continuously being innovated. Anaplan has great customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
Inspite of a lot of advatanges, managing new development and production bug fixes is still a painful proicess. Need more innovation in UX pages versioning as the cganes in NewUX are mostly manual.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At Qualys, becasue of Anaplan the time for forecasting and Budgeting has been reduced drastically and the platform provides an amazing collabrative experience unlike excel. Pur CFO now can look at the budget and Forecast vs Budget vs actuals variance all in single place and is all live data unlike with excel where there were teams pulling multiple files and trying to aggregrate every week/month.
Kickstart your planning transformation with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to handle disconnected datasets and source information from systems that speak different "languages". And to use this functionality to improve the data quality of forward-looking views and the decision quality of leaders using that information.
Flexibility to tailor dashboards and data views based on user personas and roles. The security model is infinitly flexible here and yet not difficult to configure.
Scalability. You can (and should) use Anaplan to improve a small, less risky business process but then branch out and broaden the scope to other areas that are not feasible with existing systems. This really allows you to practice an agile approach to the improvement journey.
Flexibility to tailor dashboards and data views based on user personas and roles. The security model is infinitly flexible here and yet not difficult to configure.
Scalability. You can (and should) use Anaplan to improve a small, less risky business process but then branch out and broaden the scope to other areas that are not feasible with existing systems. This really allows you to practice an agile approach to the improvement journey.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the front-end dashboard functionalities could be improved. Specfically, the lack of a multi-tab view of dashboards that you've viewed (or list of recently viewed) means you bounce around a bit. The original (aka "classic") dashboard in Anaplan allowed this tabular view and users really liked that. It would also help if you could do a "wrap text" like Excel and have the grid views auto-size the row heights.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've used the product across about 20 use cases spanning each of our major businesses globally. So, while each use case has its own business case and story, some general themes apply to all:
How it benefits...
- Anaplan has helped us integrate and streamline planning processes...particularly processes that span departments and teams spread globally but rely heavily on disconnected data sources like excel files and manual reconciliations of these sources with enterprise systems.
- Anaplan has enabled a true "single source of truth" in a real-time environment catering to various user personas. So, now we avoid the confusion over what "the number" is during peak planning periods with many iterations.
- Anaplan has helped us to overcome poor data quality from source systems by leveraging the flexible (and auditable) functionalities to normalize data and make the best use of it with stakeholders....vs. waiting until we "clean up" all of our source data challenges.
How it benefits...
- Anaplan has helped us integrate and streamline planning processes...particularly processes that span departments and teams spread globally but rely heavily on disconnected data sources like excel files and manual reconciliations of these sources with enterprise systems.
- Anaplan has enabled a true "single source of truth" in a real-time environment catering to various user personas. So, now we avoid the confusion over what "the number" is during peak planning periods with many iterations.
- Anaplan has helped us to overcome poor data quality from source systems by leveraging the flexible (and auditable) functionalities to normalize data and make the best use of it with stakeholders....vs. waiting until we "clean up" all of our source data challenges.
Anaplan Leader for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, very customizable and supports any business process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Code deployment is single threaded - cannot handle simultaneous development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting Territory and Quota Planning out of Excel
Great Icloud planning solution
What do you like best about the product?
- Great for complex calculations
- Transparency in calculations/formulas
- Easy to use end user experience
- Data integration options
- Bolt on workflow option
- Transparency in calculations/formulas
- Easy to use end user experience
- Data integration options
- Bolt on workflow option
What do you dislike about the product?
- Have to pay for Polaris
- With the classic model not able to create sparse modules
- With the classic model not able to create sparse modules
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows for complex calculations and having the ability to slice in dice for end user reporting, with great data integration options available like cloudworks or Anaplan connect
Anaplan Platform Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great tool for taking companies to the next level of planning capabilities. The ability to connect an enterprise in real time drives down the time and cost of running a planning cycle and pivoting based on new challenges and changing variables.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can take a while to get used to the model building approach and reshaping your brain to think in multidimensional terms, especially if coming from a traditional planners toolkit (Excel). I will say the training does a good job of being thorough and on demand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving a vast array of my customers' problems, across industries and use cases. I have implemented Anaplan for fast food chain restaurants, oil & gas, healthcare, SaaS companies. Anaplan's flexibility can tackle any industry and any challenge presented.
Anaplan: The Flexible & Powerful Planning Tool that could use some dashboarding updates
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an extremely powerful calculation engine and planning tool that gives model builders tons of flexibility to creatively solve almost any problem
What do you dislike about the product?
The front end "pages" are still not very flexible. Many views that are needed by end users are not possible without using the "Management Reporting" feature, however this is more for reporting and you lose almost all of the functionality from the traditional pages that gives end users the ability to interact with the model.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is our central hub for forecast owners across our business to see their actual spend within their departments and enter their budgets and forecasts,
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