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Anaplan as TPM
What do you like best about the product?
We implemented a TPM solution with Anaplan and found it very flexible in developing customized solutions. Integration with SAP was also seamless.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboard features could be a little better but new user interface is on the right track
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
TPM related customer specific processes
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Generally very good experiences with Anaplan, constant advancements are encouraging
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to build complex models creatively. Options are endless if you know what you're doing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementation was difficult, hard to train model builders. Visualizations have been lacking, have seen improvement there on the new UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating budgets and monthly forecasts across 70+ properties with 100+ people involved in the process. Replaced excel based processes that required lots of manual labor to consolidate. Easy to report anything up to executive committee and external investors in seconds.
Anaplan can be great (with a little effort)
What do you like best about the product?
Our users love the models we built. User acceptance was pretty fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The standard security is very clunky. It is not designed for large numbers of users (especially with complex selective access) or segregation of duties (think SOX compliance type review). This can be overcome by building a model to manage the security and using integrations to transfer the updates, but does require significant additional work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do our annual budgeting and continuous (!!) forecasting in Anaplan. We have been able to bring in multiple sources of data from our other key systems using scheduling tools and the native AnaplanConnect API. We send data back to our core GL system and then on to our consolidations engine for complex corporate and regulatory reporting.
Extremely Flexible Product for the End User! Technical integration capabilities to be desired
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the product for the end users is amazing! The ability to pivot, filter, extract the huge datasets with a click of a button is so powerful for end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficulty in managing integrations into and out of the model. It is sold as a end user maintainable product, however unless you want the system to be completely standalone from your system landscape, you'll have to have someone with data management skills available to help you keep the models refreshed with the correct data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Agility to consolidate large sets of data immediately and perform calculations across relatively large datasets that aren't physically possible within excel
Anaplan for Sales Operations
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a leader in connected planning. It can be described as excel or access on steroids. The tool is flexible and scaleable to adapt to any business objective. The tool exposes silos and barriers in the business that are necessary to have during organizational transformation. The best part is the tool is business owned.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is currently undergoing a facelift. They are transitioning to a new UX, which provides improved visuals to display data. Currently, there is now way for the platform to realize the current date. This is on the product roadmap and should be resolved in the near future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently use Anaplan to solve for strategic revenue planning, account segmentation, and Incentive compensation management. My solved for our enterprise account selection by using Anaplan to objectively model and predict customer spend by our company’s products and services. From there, we were able to effectively and efficiently develop new business targets for our accounts, that are transparent with the sales reps compensation targets.
Anaplan is very powerful and flexible platform
What do you like best about the product?
I mostly like the performance and flexibility of the platform. Even if there's no pre-defined funtions, most-everything can be calculated in a custom way. Large amounts of data are calculated quickly in a cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently downside of Anaplan platform is its way of displaying the final data to multiple users. It often requires to actually store the version of data for each user even for simple summaries instead of calculating them ad-hoc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows our company to get rid of slowly performing Excel planning, yet supplies their platform cheaper than their competitors.
Nice powerfull platform. Be carefull of overusing the flexibility that it offers
What do you like best about the product?
Real time calculation and high performance with large data sets
What do you dislike about the product?
Workflow and additional insights in future roadmap
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial Planning
NextGen Planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
Self service for FP&A analysts
Self service for LOBs users
Rapid implementation time
Flexibility to make changes
Quick backup and recovery
Self service for LOBs users
Rapid implementation time
Flexibility to make changes
Quick backup and recovery
What do you dislike about the product?
130 GB model size limit
Missing public APIs (There is only one API related to data import/export)
Missing public APIs (There is only one API related to data import/export)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FP&A planning, forecasting & budgeting (Contribution Margin, Opex, Capex, Headcount, Personnel spend, Department Spend, Program Spend etc)
Connected planning
Treasury planning
Collections forecasting
T&Q
Sales Planning
Connected planning
Treasury planning
Collections forecasting
T&Q
Sales Planning
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Always go with master anaplanners as lead for all implementations. Other model builders can work under the guidance of master anaplanners.
Anaplan the future of enterprise performance management - better than excel!
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a platform like no other.
It can be described as and related to a version of excel - an excel on steroids without the side effects and complete governance.
Anaplan is a smart multi dimensional calculation engine which leverages relationships in your data to plan smarter.
Why is the governance aspect so important - because with great power comes great responsibility and the Anaplan platform handles this well.
Anaplan is extremely flexible, it uses your business logic, it is not a black box of hard codes.
Anaplan creates your vision and makes it a reality because it is a fully customized product.
Anaplan listens to its community of users and uses their feedback to influence the design of enhancements.
Learning Anaplan is free (license is required to build but all materials are free).
Anaplan has community where you can discuss designs and share your ideas with peers.
Anaplan is the only tool I know of that truly achieves connected planning - connecting your business models together to better understand the performance of your business.
You can build planning applications very quickly in Anaplan - weeks and months not years!
It can be described as and related to a version of excel - an excel on steroids without the side effects and complete governance.
Anaplan is a smart multi dimensional calculation engine which leverages relationships in your data to plan smarter.
Why is the governance aspect so important - because with great power comes great responsibility and the Anaplan platform handles this well.
Anaplan is extremely flexible, it uses your business logic, it is not a black box of hard codes.
Anaplan creates your vision and makes it a reality because it is a fully customized product.
Anaplan listens to its community of users and uses their feedback to influence the design of enhancements.
Learning Anaplan is free (license is required to build but all materials are free).
Anaplan has community where you can discuss designs and share your ideas with peers.
Anaplan is the only tool I know of that truly achieves connected planning - connecting your business models together to better understand the performance of your business.
You can build planning applications very quickly in Anaplan - weeks and months not years!
What do you dislike about the product?
Like with every tool there are limitations however it must be said that Anaplan is constantly working on a roadmap of new improvements to remove the limitations.
Anaplan is not the best reporting tool, it's primary purpose is as a calculation engine but it does connect directly to tableau to allow you to produce better reports.
Anaplan is not the best reporting tool, it's primary purpose is as a calculation engine but it does connect directly to tableau to allow you to produce better reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building driver based forecasts and at the lowest level on a global scale - bottom up and top down!
Creating the ability to run scenarios across the whole business and understand the impact very quickly.
Automating repetitive reporting process.
Building a new standard to report against and saving time while doing it.
Creating the ability to run scenarios across the whole business and understand the impact very quickly.
Automating repetitive reporting process.
Building a new standard to report against and saving time while doing it.
Anaplan experience/review
What do you like best about the product?
Opportunities, flexibility, connected planning are the two top words for me and where the technology excels when compared to others.
Deploying and connecting different use cases provides the biggest benefits.
Deploying and connecting different use cases provides the biggest benefits.
What do you dislike about the product?
Creating good models and visualizations isn't as easy.
Managing sparsity properly is an art and can add technical complexities.
Managing sparsity properly is an art and can add technical complexities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Anaplan on different use cases from FP&A to Real Estate and Commercial Planning including connected business plans and global rollouts.
When compared to other solutions the speed of implementation, out of the box functionalities and flexibility of the tool are impressive. This means the Business is enabled to react quickly and effectively to internal and external changes - to me this is the biggest benefit.
When compared to other solutions the speed of implementation, out of the box functionalities and flexibility of the tool are impressive. This means the Business is enabled to react quickly and effectively to internal and external changes - to me this is the biggest benefit.
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