Anaplan
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Good solution for excel models that have to be robust, complex and correct
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a web-based combination between excel and a database. Easy for the user to navigate through data (pivoting is great) and web interface and reporting is good. An excel add-in is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to have an experienced model builder on staff to make changes or even more minor adjustments. Not seamless in integrating with other finance software. More expensive than excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan for P&L reporting, cost allocation, forecasting and budgeting. Customizable software great for when you have particular case/usage. Works with hierarchies well, so when there is a change (like with a reorg) it is flexible to get the model back online and working.
Fast and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
Easy implementation
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great to have more chart types for a better user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Long term planning. (including production plan, P&L, scenario analysis)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Anaplan Budget Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. With Anaplan we are able to implement various use cases across departments. This shows that Anaplan allows for a great flexibility to meet diverse requirements.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Big models often struggle with performance issues. This leads to more resources being spent on trying to improve performance rather than working improving the model functionality and user experience.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having our budgeting process in Anaplan offers a standardized approach across the company and the countries it operates in.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
Powerful Engine with Improved Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using Anaplan for over five years across various workstreams such as budgeting, headcount planning, open role management, regulatory, and more. I find Anaplan's ability to consolidate large quantities of data invaluable in creating single source of truth reports on an enterprise scale. It also allows me to run large scenario calculations quickly, which is essential for our operations. Anaplan's high-performance calculation engine stands out as a powerful tool that I rely on heavily. Additionally, over the last year, I have noticed significant improvements in the reporting capabilities, particularly the release of combined grids. This enhancement has been a major help as there is now a significant focus on improving the cosmetic capabilities within the tool for generating clean-formatted reports, which I truly appreciate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find Anaplan's reporting capabilities to still be an area of weakness compared to other tools, despite the tangible improvements. The limitation in the New UX, where there is a 'six card' maximum across a dashboard, is also restrictive. Additionally, the initial setup of Anaplan requires a significant amount of time, effort, and expertise, which can be challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Anaplan to consolidate large data, create enterprise-level single source reports, and run large scenario calculations quickly, benefiting from its powerful calculation engine and improved reporting capabilities.
Scalable, flexible and easy to build
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan makes multi-dimensional modeling easy with its flexibility and scalability. Doing modeling is easy without extensive development skills. It is cloud-based, the app can be built in a mobile-friendly manner supporting planning on-the-go.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan cannot generate a timestamp on its own, which can be useful in a number of business requirements. But there are alternative solutions to it and it is on the roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving our organisations territory account alignments, and we use it to generate audit reports. We also calculate indexes on territory performance. Also we assign reps to territories and give them different roles. We have metrics on on wich the sales rep derives the quota, so we track the entire sales cycle on Anaplan
Very flexible and powerful platform
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to model almost any business planning process at scale
What do you dislike about the product?
Proper configuration requires a very good implementer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End to end S&OP in an industry that doesn't fit into the classical S&OP mold.
Anaplan - Connecting Planning and Beyond
What do you like best about the product?
I like the most about Anaplan is the customization capability and ease of development and usage. You can build anything and everything using your imagination and modeling skill sets. Anaplan has transformed the way connected planning solutions are thought through and developed.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it feels an overkill that certain functionalities are unavailable in Anaplan, and everything has to be developed through a custom code. Things like Delta functionality, more robust auditing capabilities, drill-through capabilities, and model locking are some of the things which come to mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
From a developer perspective, Anaplan provides endless possibilities to offer solutions to the client per outlined requirements. It's the next-gen EPM solution to cater to all the different use cases and Business areas in the organization.
Connected planning allows for enhanced insights previously difficult to decipher
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use & agile methods of making changes on the fly
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations on User Experience & latency at scale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing for connected planning across multiple LOB within the business
Fast and agile Development without the typical overhead of 1st party solutions.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has allowed our team to quickly build drivers, upload templates, P&Ls and consolidated reporting in an incredible agile environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have the ability to have branching code (think excel model with a point-in-time copy), so if I create 10 models that are 90% similar metadata structures, but have 10% differences I would have accumulated a fair amount of technical debt in that I need to make changes in 10 different places.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance planning and trying to move planning to the cloud as opposed to offline spreadsheets
Great for connecting people, data, and plan
What do you like best about the product?
In general, Anaplan is an excellent tool for planning and analytics. It is flexible enough to model different business requirements and functionalities. It could be owned by business and thus reduce dependency of IT when business logics change frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, the product still has areas to improve on. For example, workflow has been discussed and requested by a lot customers for many years, but it is "on the roadmap."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan across Finance, HR, Sales, etc. and across multiple regions. Our legacy systems were mostly in silos and/or offline which makes it very challenging to have a consistent view at one place for planning. Anaplan provides a platform as one-place to go for planning and analytics, improving planning efficiency.
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