Anaplan
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Anaplan is a great business friendly tool that can save you from Excel
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud based tool that can be access from any web browser and even mobile devices. It can store billions of data points and has native security and user access management capabilities. It is extremely flexible and customizable where it can be implemented for use cases across sales, finance, it, marketing, and many more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can relatively be implemented incorrectly making the tool slow and unusable. This leads to the need of an Anaplan expert to help develop the initial application to ensure that the overall architecture is built sustainaby.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most Anaplan implementations help teams get out of the pains of Excel. I have used Anaplan for FP&A, Project Planning, Inventory Planning, and Territory and Quota Planning.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Highly Customizable Business Application Development Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Customizability and the performance of the calculation engine
What do you dislike about the product?
High learning curve. Not very user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Anaplan to create models for sales planning. It enables consolidation of planning data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure to go through all the training materials
Best for Planning and Customized Finance Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Fast processing and suited for collaboration. Easily customizable to a company's finance processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit expensive due to its per-GB/ workspace charging, but you are paying for a quality product that processes quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've solved a lot of finance processes involving product costing, transfer pricing and coming up with a rolling forecast. I was able to customize Anaplan to suit the exact business case.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your long term plans because Anaplan can help with a road map of digitization of many processes.
Software that enhances your business's productivity and growth potential
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great at automating many of the manual less productive tasks within a company's planning process. Business users can now spend more time analyzing the business insights rather than simply trying to organize and gather the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any software tool like this, it can be challenging to implement if the existing data integrity and infrastructure is not already cleansed and ready for system use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping the business resolve underlying process issues and given the SMEs the time and thought to rethink existing processes and how they can be transformed.
Love working with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great because it is highly customizable and not out of the box, making it ideal for enterprise-level companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can be time-consuming from the customer side to implement, especially for gathering requirements and testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving for end to end sales operation planning. Benefits include global standardization, reduction in planning time, and quick responses to changes.
A very flexible and powerful tool
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that Anaplan can be tailored to almost any type of business problem is fantastic. This makes it a great tool for almost any use case. The tool is also very powerful and I have built calculations that would have taken hours to run in legacy systems which are more or less 'instantly' (make a change, takes about 1 second to flow through) processed. I'm talking HUGE corporate processes and things like that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customized reporting at a very low level with lots of members and dimensions can lead to size considerations. Reporting needs should be thought out prior to starting reporting sprints. Reporting that assists in the planning process is always worthwhile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems I have solved with Anaplan run the gamete of corporate use cases, from Biopharma to Oil and Gas. It really can do anything. The biggest benefit in my humble opinion is the time savings realized by using Anaplan. Employees can focus on other more important tasks versus constantly trying to compile data for forecasts as Anaplan removes a lot of this legwork.
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.
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.
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