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Anaplan Developer Experience
What do you like best about the product?
The platform provides the ability to control the development without having to depend on IT.
The hyper block engine calculates all the values in real-time is a significant advantage.
The hyper block engine calculates all the values in real-time is a significant advantage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is not the most vital area for Anaplan as there are other platforms, and users would like both planning and reporting to be within one tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real-time Planning data consolidation across all geographies, which helps develop management reports by connecting all the functional areas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are beginning a new Anaplan implementation, do get an experienced Anapalan consultant, which will save you a lot of time.
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I think it is a powerful software
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that it has the ability to connect different data source and see how everything affect each other. I can see how this will be useful for a company.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think some parts of the software can be clunky and not intuitive in design. The learning curve can be high until getting used to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The benefit that I have realized is the ability to forecast and play with data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes
One-stop for all your business plans
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an amazing tool where your business can be planned on a single platform with a data hub-or with an option to pull in data from various other CRM platforms. What makes Anaplan a better option to plan business is the ability to bring in various domains together along with specific roles and access. Learning tools give an insightful view about this software that includes specific UX to build dashboards for the end-user. Anaplan follows Agile methodology and lets you prepare user stories on a pre-defined template to help with the sprints. The Anaplan community ensures that everyone using the tool are comfortable and frequently brings in new features as requested.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are absent on the tool making the model building consume a lot more space than required. Some of the details have to be repeatedly pulled into modules, increasing the space required thereby increasing cost of the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has solved many of the problems that users with traditional platforms like Excel have. The hassle of switching tabs is now replaced with a hierarchical structure with presentable dashboards flowing down to modules and then lists. Given the capability to integrate with a lot of CRM platforms, it is versatile and most businesses can make the switch instantly. The potential of executing high-level Machine Learning models with some integration makes Anaplan a much powerful tool and advances it's capabilities.
Scalable, customizable, and intelligent platform for all your business planning needs
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is not an out of the box solution that forces companies to fit their business process into a predefined mold, it allows businesses to build up models and planning processes that fit their needs and can continue to evolve as their business grows and changes. It is difficult to imagine a modeling scenario you can't build in Anaplan. The tool allows for a lot of flexibility in the type of planning a customer wants to do, and can truly be owned/managed by end users instead of by IT. This allows for much quicker turnaround on adjustments to a model.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since Anaplan is not a pre-built solution, it does require more up-front investment in time and resources to get set up. It requires participation from multiple groups across the organization to put together a well-thought out model and more importantly to maintain and update the model on a regular cadence to keep up with a growing company. This can allow for things that shouldn't exist in Anaplan to be put into Anaplan (such as data storage).
I also think ANaplan's front end and reporting capabilities could vastly improve the appeal of the platform, this could help reduce a customer's need for separate reporting/dashboarding in another tool like Tableau and further streamline processes by having robust reporting directly in Anaplan.
I also think ANaplan's front end and reporting capabilities could vastly improve the appeal of the platform, this could help reduce a customer's need for separate reporting/dashboarding in another tool like Tableau and further streamline processes by having robust reporting directly in Anaplan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan very quickly solves a lot of issues around internal communication and transfer of information because it is cloud based. Instead of having multiple versions of documents, a "living" version of business plans sits in Anaplan where anyone from the organization can access to review and make changes. This in itself reduces a lot of the time spent on planning. Through implementing Anaplan solutions at multiple clients, across several industries and use cases, I have consistently found that having a dedicated model admin that knows how to build and adjust the model on the client side is most effective, it allows the client to view and approach using Anaplan as an App that requires regular updates and releases of updates to end users, rather than a one-time set up.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a clear plan for the future state process you would like to have in Anaplan before starting on building Anaplan; this will make the build easier, faster and ultimately result in a better model output. If you try to design a process during the build, it can quickly get messy as things are built/rebuilt or the direction is changed halfway through the build.
Anaplan review - powerful product with a great roadmap
What do you like best about the product?
Multi dimensionality, plenty of flexibility but without compromising on controls
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike once you've managed to get past the learning curve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased controls, drilldown ability, removed significant pain points associated with Excel models. Able to reduce planning cycle significantly through real time calculations and automatically compare plans to prior years/submissions, all in the same place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get involved as much as possible in the scoping as well as building of your models. You'll love it once you get over the learning curve! Take your time with the first implementation, after that you can scale up your builds rapidly.
Get in touch with Anaplan about your use case, they will be more than happy to put you in touch with current clients who will be able to give you some really good objective insights.
Get in touch with Anaplan about your use case, they will be more than happy to put you in touch with current clients who will be able to give you some really good objective insights.
Take back control of your planning tools with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity and speed of modeling to meet a wide variety of use cases. Users quickly become autonomous on the platform. New features are released every month. The community paltform can help you find answers when you are stuck on a design point. A learning center with a lot of e-learning courses to help you gain skills on the plateform easily. The user interface has been completely revised for a much better experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Volumetric issues that may arise when you have to cross several dimensions with a lot fo items if you have a small workspace. Reporting features are still too limited even if you can use native connectors to plug into BI Solutions (Tableau, Power BI ...)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance (FP&A, Cash flow, Capex/Opex planning, Payroll ...)
Sales (Quota, Incentives, Territory planning ...)
Supply Chain (S&OP, Demand Planning ...)
Sales (Quota, Incentives, Territory planning ...)
Supply Chain (S&OP, Demand Planning ...)
Implementing Anaplan: A Consultants Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an incredibly easy solution to scale throughout a business and can be tailored to fit almost any business case.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's strategy for introducing new features, Wish it was shorter
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have built solutions for Gross to Net, Financial Planning, Zero-based Budgeting, Price Modeling, etc. The benefits are almost instant from the time reduction of planning to data aggregation across the business.
Anaplan has been the main focus of my career for almost 7 years - as both a customer and partner.
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility of truly connected planning for all businesses.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally, support can take longer than it should or not be helpful at all - I often know more about the issue than the support person does, which causes troubleshooting to take longer than it should.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've solved many problems, but the most common are - easily consolidating data from many source systems, connecting multiple departments that don't usually "pass" data over the cloud, building near "real-time" P&Ls and other financial statements based on decentralized operational inputs. The benefits that I've realized have been reduction in hours used for "number crunching" and data consolidation and creating time for powerful analysis and decision making.
A powerful & flexible tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's freeform platform platform allows users to build and scale the model to meet business needs. Because it's not an out of the box solution with specific use case constraints, we've been able to utilize Anaplan's platform for a multitude of cases. Combining this with data integrations, process actions, and being a collaborate cloud tool, it has been the backbone of our FP&A organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan has been great from a model builder and finance perspective, the reporting capabilities are lacking. Anaplan has made great strides with the new UX and Reporting for higher level management reporting, but there's still room for improvement for more data table heavy and variance/scenario reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a single source of truth, data integrity, removing process redundancies, and manually consolidating data.
I've found Anaplan to be an incredibly valuable and intuitive tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like Anaplan's easy-to-use interface, fast-paced product improvements, and interactive community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with other platforms could be expanded/more effective (i.e. excel/powerpoint add-ins)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I typically use Anaplan to solve for Sales Performance Management challenges - territory & quota planning, compensation modeling, account segmentation/scoring, etc.
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