Anaplan
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Anaplan: A rapid, User-Centric Powerhouse Revolutionizing Planning Efficiency
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan brings the end users and their specific needs to the center of design. This means the platforms adheres to the processes of the end users rather than the end users having to adapt to an out of the box process. Even though model builders may need to conduct the on demand trainings to get up to speed. Once completed or with the help of implementation partners Anaplan can be rolled out in a speedy manner. Next to the time savings during the implementation, users will notice an improvement as well as a reduction of their planning cycles. Anaplan can be utilized to connect planning processes of multiple departments enabling a harmonized enterprise wide plan. Due to its maturity on the market, Anaplan has grown a very strong community with many knowledge assets and members that are happy to give a helping hand wherever needed. Platform related questions can easily raised with the business partner team or via email/ticket to the support team.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are two limitations when it comes to planning in Anaplan. One is for sure the missing multi language support. Anaplan would only operate in English which may be difficult for end users who are not too confident using a tool that is not supported in their native language. On top the high degree of flexibility can be blessing and burden at the same time when inefficient processes are transferred onto the Anaplan platform without being challenged during the design phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My team and I have enabled mutliple business end users to maintain and enhance their planning solutions within the Anaplan platform without being dependent on the IT department. Many of them shared the same status quo before switching to Anaplan. There are multiple different data sources that need to be gathered and manipulated. By the time they are ready to be used during the planning cycle they are already outdated. Multiple spreadsheets were provided to the various teams in different locations making it almost impossible to provide updates to master data (structural or transactional). With the help of Anaplan those team could trust in the single source of the truth with real-time updates across all business lines and locations.
Anaplan Review
What do you like best about the product?
Great forecasting tool that is logical to use as a builder and maintain as an end user. It allows clients to forecast on a dynamic basis. The tool can link with various integration tools with built in functionality from Cloudworks
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting features could be improved upon but is getting better over time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time to build forecasts are quicker whilst improving detail
Anaplan - great tool for almost any use case
What do you like best about the product?
Plenty of integration options with other platforms; flexible security settings; quick development times
What do you dislike about the product?
Management reporting can be further improved, to introduce more flexibility for the customer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Within Anaplan, it si possible to solve any problem, as logn as you have an experienced model builder and a dedicated person from a buiseness side to give clear requirements
Connecting Dots in Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great planning and analytical tool to conver a wide range of general and industry-specific use cases through an amazingly flexible modeling engine and nice user inteface. Recent addition of powerful workflow functionality looks great as well
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve for users to learn navigation and advanced features, such as pivot, drill down, etc. Integrations could be improved as well. Importing large data sets could be faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales Forecasting, Territory and Quota, various data management and analytical edge cases
Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
Its flexibility and scalability make it suitable for various use cases across different industries. Easy to use, Ease to implement, Reliable customer support, Easy to integrate
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited offline flexibility, integartion is complex
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan addresses a variety of business challenges and provides solutions that are particularly valuable for organizations involved in planning, budgeting, and performance management.Some of the common problems that Anaplan helps customers solve include:
Spreadsheets Limitations
Disconnected Planning Processes
Inefficient Manual Processes
Difficulty in Scenario Analysis
Spreadsheets Limitations
Disconnected Planning Processes
Inefficient Manual Processes
Difficulty in Scenario Analysis
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.
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.
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