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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.
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Fulfilling career as an Anaplan Model Builder
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Anaplan is a massive upgrade relative to other tools (like Microsoft Excel) in terms of empowering users to drive connected forecasting and planning. There are so many features that make this empowerment possible, such as version control, real time calculation updates, and dynamic cell access.
What do you dislike about the product?
When an Anaplan Model Builder attempts to implement a formula that is invalid, sometimes, this results in the Anaplan model locking up (or "toasting") for a period of time that ranges from seconds to minutes (depending on the size and complexity of the model) while the model processes and reverts the change. During this "toaster" period, no one, including Model Builders and users, can navigate or make changes in the model - This is extremely disruptive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Through Anaplan's Application Lifecycle Management functionality, I can Model Build in an existing Anaplan model without disrupting users' working in the Production model. Thanks to Anaplan's Hyberblock technology, I can build models containing data and calculations that far exceed anything I can build in other tools in terms of size and calculation complexity. Due to the ability to build and manage Anaplan models without help from a typical Information Technology (IT) team, I'm empowered to develop solutions for our users with minimal overhead or reliance from non-business teams.
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.
Anaplan for Alternative Investments
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexible model building platform allows users to create very unique models to handle a myriad of use cases in the alternative investments space, including carry calculations, carry allocation, fund modeling and more. The platform is easy to implement given that the formulas mirror excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have a very robust workflow management functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan gets companies out of excel and into a model with auditability functions and application lifecycle management.
Highly Recommend for Finance, HR and Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a very powerful modeling engine. It can handle large loads of data crossing multiple dimensions and calculate them in real time. It's highly scalable and very robust
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest struggle with Anaplan has been their slow implementation of a fully functional new UX. I agree with their decision to replace the old interface, but it took several years for the new UX to get to a point where it seemed acceptable for an enterprise tool. There are still a few quirks here and there, but it is by and large a great UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to connect data across the organization allows for very powerful planning capabilities. What Anaplan calls "Connected Planning", allows for a holistic solution to all aspects of planning. This means you're not using disparate systems, spreadsheets, emails across departments. You have instant access to a 'source of truth' that everyone is sharing and working off of together.
Anaplan, the flexible calculation engine
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is able to calculate millions and millions of data points in seconds, while still providing a great amount of flexbility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is not at a point where it can be used as a reporting tool, and still sometimes requires the use of another software for specific reporting requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to set up models in a way that scenarios can easily be added in order to create multiple forecasts.
Agile, flexible and scalable planning system
What do you like best about the product?
cloud based and flexible, no infrastructure setup required, very excel like and can be business owned, easy to implement and highly customizable. can be implemented for one use case and scaled to others, intuitive UX and reporting options
What do you dislike about the product?
No out of the box solution offered, heavy reliance on implementation partner, breaks easily, maintenance required, often re-work or iteration required, limited native data integartion options, needs better version control and ALM
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
process standaradization, improve planning cycle time, reduce human errors, maintain data integrity, automate data flow and enable connected planning
Anaplan: Multi-dimensional Planning Excellence
What do you like best about the product?
Much like with many planning solutions the removal of spreadsheets, the structure of the calculations really comes forward
There's a great community of global users who are able to problem solve and provide solutions where required
Although there's a relatively steep learning curve it is very intuitive and once the basics have been achieved then it's very easy to scale
Front-end for end users is very clean and not at all spreadsheet-like
The sandbox nature of Anaplan means that any problem can be solved within the platform - if it can be done in spreadsheets then it can be done in Anaplan
There's a great community of global users who are able to problem solve and provide solutions where required
Although there's a relatively steep learning curve it is very intuitive and once the basics have been achieved then it's very easy to scale
Front-end for end users is very clean and not at all spreadsheet-like
The sandbox nature of Anaplan means that any problem can be solved within the platform - if it can be done in spreadsheets then it can be done in Anaplan
What do you dislike about the product?
On massive datasets can be quite data storage heavy albeit new functionality is out to help with that
No native connectivity to other systems - requires heavy usage of APIs, ETL tooling, etc to get data from source and then onto other systems
Can be sometimes complicated to debug issues with calculations - but this is often because of poor modelling
The sandbox nature of the platform means that anything is possible and bad models can easily be created which don't confirm to best practice
No native connectivity to other systems - requires heavy usage of APIs, ETL tooling, etc to get data from source and then onto other systems
Can be sometimes complicated to debug issues with calculations - but this is often because of poor modelling
The sandbox nature of the platform means that anything is possible and bad models can easily be created which don't confirm to best practice
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A variety of problems are being solved within our organisation: P&L planning across business units, cost management across the whole organisation, group-level consolidation and reporting of P&L
Having a consistent tooling for cross organisation processes means that everyone knows how to do their forecasting and how information needs to be inputted.
Having a consistent tooling for cross organisation processes means that everyone knows how to do their forecasting and how information needs to be inputted.
Anaplan Manager
What do you like best about the product?
What i like the most about Anaplan is that end user can modify their input and the change and impact could show immediately so that the what-if analysis and senario planning can be done efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Once the structure has been setup,there is limitations on changing the dimensions or hierarchy levels. Connection between anaplan and other system is another pain point we are facing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan benifit us starting from workforce management and leading to an connected planning with budgeting and forecasting, sales planning , and corporate performance.
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