Anaplan
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Highly Adaptable Platform That Grows with Your Business
What do you like best about the product?
The platform's modularity accommodates even the most specialized business processes, enabling us to have the platform adapt to our business needs rather than forcing our business to adapt to the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform lacks extensibility, which has forced us to create several workarounds to better integrate it with our process automation. Features released at each initial GA stage often feel incomplete or fall short of what was promised on the roadmap. That said, these features do tend to improve over time and eventually align with the original vision. We've also experienced moderate to significant cost increases during each contract negotiation, particularly when there are changes to platform features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform offers strong data governance, providing a single source of truth for forecasting approaches. Its forecasting models are straightforward and easy to understand, and the data integration processes are also simple to follow.
Unmatched Scalability and Flexibility for Any Business Process
What do you like best about the product?
The scalability and flexibility. Any business process for a multitude of use cases (FPA, SPM, WFM, Call Center Planning, etc.) that can be dreamed up can be implemented in Anaplan
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a large push to out of the box applications so increase time to value. I understand why this makes sense as not every company has the funds and capacity to implement a tool from scratch, but Anaplan has been very successful help companies implement the business process that fits them best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At my company, we rely on it to monitor our staffing across projects, track project margins, forecast deliverables, and handle many other tasks. It serves as a central hub where everyone can see how we are progressing toward our goals and where any issues can be flagged. This setup has made my job much easier, as project managers can update their own items without needing my constant involvement, ensuring I always have access to the most current reports I need.
A fantastic multi-purpose EPM platform for true Cross Planning & Analytics (XPA)
What do you like best about the product?
Highly flexible, highly configurable, ever-improving UX and ever-growing list of functionalities such AI, ADO or Excel add in.
What do you dislike about the product?
The sales strategy felt overly aggressive, and there’s room for improvement in the account executives’ product expertise to provide a smoother purchasing and renewal process. An experiences and trusted advisor is needed to know when to choose pre-built Apps over Customised models, Standard Calculation Engine vs Polaris or other options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlined, controlled and auditable FP&A across business areas and regions. Best in-class Demand Plan connected to Supply.
Feature-Rich and Responsive, But UX Needs Modernization
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has added a ton of features over the last year and seems like they really are listening to feedback. Workflow has improved immensely. The new calculation engine addresses major concerns of the past version. And now with combined grids, that solves for one of the largest headaches in development.
What do you dislike about the product?
A key dislike of the platform - at times the UX pages can look clunky and old fashioned. Especially when compared to some competitors solutions from best in class reporting tools like Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan can solve for tons of problems - lately I've used for budget forecasting, FP&A, SaaS revenue and Capacity Planning
Break down planning siloes with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan brings different departments together on a single, cloud-based platform. Instead of working in separate spreadsheets or systems, both teams share one source of truth — linking headcount, compensation, and workforce plans directly to financial forecasts and budgets, for example.
The advance and easy to implement security allows you have multiple profiles on the same page and any update can be automatically reflected on the end-user reports. Anaplan has recently released new functionalities that make it easier to apply AI forecasting and the Polaris engine allows you to analyse very sparse datasets and slice and dice the data in new and creative ways.
By breaking down silos, Anaplan helps organizations align operations and talent strategy with financial goals — ensuring plans stay agile, transparent, and tightly integrated across both functions.
The advance and easy to implement security allows you have multiple profiles on the same page and any update can be automatically reflected on the end-user reports. Anaplan has recently released new functionalities that make it easier to apply AI forecasting and the Polaris engine allows you to analyse very sparse datasets and slice and dice the data in new and creative ways.
By breaking down silos, Anaplan helps organizations align operations and talent strategy with financial goals — ensuring plans stay agile, transparent, and tightly integrated across both functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides of Anaplan revolve around the time needed to certify users around the platform, lack of automated connectors with other EPM tools and lack of customization for the reports 9even though this area has shown great improvement in recent years with many interesting items on the pipeline).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has allowed us to integrate different data sources into the same engine, thereby implementing a real connected planning, shortening planning times by 50% and centralizing the template.
Flexible Scenario Planning and Multi-Dimensional Analysis—All Features Impress
What do you like best about the product?
The scenario-based planning and multi-dimensionality features stand out to me. They provide a flexible approach to planning, allowing for a more comprehensive analysis of different possibilities and outcomes.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I haven't found anything to dislike, as I enjoy all of its features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scenario planning is a useful approach for anticipating possible future developments and preparing strategies accordingly. It helps me think through different outcomes and make more informed decisions. I find it valuable for both personal and professional planning, as it encourages flexibility and readiness for change.
Powerful Calculations, But Definite Learning Curve for Excel Users
What do you like best about the product?
Immediate calculations across multiple dimensions and modules
What do you dislike about the product?
This software is not as user-friendly for those familiar with Excel as the advertising suggests. It requires a significant amount of training to use effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The software offers the ability to calculate projections for multiple sales scenarios across numerous royalty contracts with complex terms, all at the same time and within a secure environment. Its scalability is also a significant advantage.
Flexible, User-Friendly with Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
I love Anaplan's flexibility and ease of use, especially its cloud-based, low-code platform that allows for intuitive navigation. The customer support is fantastic and responsive. The advanced features and continuous updates keep up with market demands, ensuring seamless user experiences. Anaplan's ability to solve problems by providing real-time data integration and advanced security is exceptional. The scenario-based modeling for forecasting, budgeting, and planning is highly useful for clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see a place where I can test all the formulas before deploying them. This would make things more efficient for model builders. Additionally, I feel that the UX and other pages of Anaplan could be more intuitive. Another area for improvement is being able to model without worrying about model size and workspace size. Addressing these issues could enhance the overall user experience and make it easier to manage models.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find Anaplan resolves data disconnect by bringing teams together on a single platform, reducing errors and enhancing collaboration. It's intuitive and easy to use, facilitating real-time data integration and advanced forecasting, which our clients find particularly beneficial.
Platform is reliable and fast, but with limited capacity and high license fees
What do you like best about the product?
Platform is flexible, easy to understand and build. Reliable after the build, if built right.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability, capacity which are big constraints. High license fees and predatory sales tactics which are hidden and never disclosed upfront.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scenario planning, multiple user using at the same time, Pricing strategy, Forecast accuracy
Anaplan as a flexible planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a tool that is easy to use, not only for end users but also for developers building planning applications. The structure, building blocks, and user-friendly ("Excel-like") modeling interface make this tool suitable for a wide range of use cases, from financial forecasting and sales performance to supply chain. One tool enables the chaining of different areas, creating a unified environment with real-time collaboration that allows end users to view the latest updates made within the team or by other teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool lacks some essential features that could help developers and users build and utilize the tool more effectively and fully leverage its potential. Lack of versioning, partial promotions, multifilter, or long rollback times are some of the most missing features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps eliminate the offline files created by different teams during the financial planning process. The result is that users have one source of truth with the real-time view, so there are not multiple versions of different files flowing from one team/user to another. Another benefit is that the process is unified based on the previously defined and agreed logic, and everybody follows the same steps and calculations. This helps to build more precise and suitable plans based on the same sources in a predefined timeline.
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