Anaplan
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Anaplan: The Flexible & Powerful Planning Tool that could use some UX improvements
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 in a multidimensional modeling plat
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface is not very intuitive for front end users. Modelers will be fine interacting with the pages because they understand the way the tool works, but users who solely log in to make inputs, view dashboards, or
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. We have multiple methods of forecast entry that are useful for different departments in our business
Anaplan a flexible planning tool with many use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a multi-dimensional planning tool that allows you to bring together multiple sources of data to act as the one source of truth for planning. With versions and flexible time scales, you can plan for any eventuality as far out as you need to.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of workflow was an issue, butAnaplan has implemented this recently and looks to provide what we need. It good to know they listen to their customer base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan acting as the one source of truth for your data allows greater faith in the numbers throughout the business. it also speeds up the whole reporting process allowing more agile planning throughout the business.
Anaplan is a true leader of Integrated Business Planning
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility and the fact that Anaplan drives the collaboration. When implemented for multiple use cases can really play a pivoting role in the way your business is organized and how you approach planning and forecasting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downsize of Anaplan is that it require quite some knowledge in order to get the true value out of it. The flexibility is so signifficant it can sometimes lead to unperformant solutions, unless done wisely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves the issue of multiple separate excel files and disconnected planning processes. It can transform your chaotic business processes into an integrated planning platform. It changes the chaos into collaboration.
With Anaplan since 2016
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is low/no code system oriented on selfservice by business users. Anaplan really helps to save time and spent it on thinking and solving business issues rather then technical problems. Anaplan less sensitive ot changes, the change requirments/logic is usually less paintfull ther majority of others solutions. Also Anaplan has great eco sytem with learning center, comunity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite there is a relatively low technical barriers to start building it is easy to make bad product with low performance. Always need to pay attention to architecture and be accurate in solving tasks that are not proper for OLAP like huge transacional lists, long time scales. Also need pay attention to sizes of model since you are limited in available workspace.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps to consolidate financial reporing in a matter of time , source of truth, transparent process of collecting, commenting, approving data. Anaplan helps to reduce time in preparing consolidated statemnets with a higher quality. Anaplan helps to prepare more versions of forecasts and budgets before it was previosly before Anaplan.
Solution Architect
What do you like best about the product?
- The most flexible and agile planning platform
- User friendly
- Fast and scalable implementation
- Really like the initiatives around Machine Learning
- Unparalled customer support from Anaplan team as well as the partner ecosystem
- Easy to integration to and from various third party systems
- User friendly
- Fast and scalable implementation
- Really like the initiatives around Machine Learning
- Unparalled customer support from Anaplan team as well as the partner ecosystem
- Easy to integration to and from various third party systems
What do you dislike about the product?
- Minor limitations of the UX that can be handled by workaorunds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps the businesses address the disconnets between teams while allowing them to be efficient and transparent with each other. Having all team members talk and work with the same language in one unified platform fosters the trust and collaboration amongs teams while increasing the accuracy of the otucome.
Agile, Scalable and on-the-go planning
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-dimensionality and scalability results in error free planning.
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Recently the cost of the tool has increased, but it is still preferable because of the value proposition it brings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error-free and a streamlined way of assigning accounts to territories. Manage territories dynamically.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
FP&A Director /Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
What I love most about Anaplan is how versatile it is. Anaplan is used by a varietey of different industries for multiple use cases because of this. The ability to connect different functions and departments into Anaplan to develop a consolidated forecast that is unique to each funcitons needs is a game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the interconnectivity is great, you need to be careful when making system changes that it is not having unintentional effects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interconnect forecasting
User friendly, business owned cross functional planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn and implement to exact business requirements, UX is clean looking and offers multiple ways to visualize; easy to integrate with ERPs and other data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to be intentional with what you want to implement as it is fully custom; need to dedicate time to learning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of allowing multiple users to enter forecasts in to one central location, of which aggregations happen naturally and calculations immediately work.
How to increase data security by eliminating spreadsheets while breaking down silos
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's security via self services, single sign on and central identify management allows planning teams to stop sending risky emails with attachments and to plan and review via dashboards. By leveraging Anaplan, a centralized planning tool, the forecasting teams standardize processes, democratizes data via transparent data values and as a result breaks down silos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is currently not an out of the box solution, so implenting it requires dedication from the business. The Anaplan way, and working with partners helps organizations positvely transform their planning process, but in the end the buisness has to commit and invest in change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is providing transparency from start to finish in the planning process. During C-Suite reviews, if anyone asks: "where does that value come from" the presentor can drill down into the value. When previously preparing for C-Suite reviews, different parts of the organization may have calculated the same metrics with different logic or inputs, Anaplan forces the organization to provide transparency, alignment, and standardization where applicable to that planning process.
Anaplan is so impressive that I decided to make designing and working in it the focus of my career.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is incredible at facilitating and coordinating any type of planning cycle. What I like most about it is that it's constantly being updated and improved upon.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of Anaplan is to truly get the most out of it you do still need to work with an experienced consultant. You can go at it on your own, but an experienced solution architect will enable your organization to reap the most value out of it as quickly as possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has allowed me to help many companies better coordinate and expedite their monthly, quarterly and annual financial planning cycles. I've often seen these processes done almost exclusively in Excel, which can be incredibly cumbersome, inefficient, prone to human error, and difficult to audit. Anaplan helps solve for this by providing an easy-to-use interface, connected planning modules, and security and tracking around the input and approval process.
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