Anaplan
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Say goodbye to Excel
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows for an enterprise approach to planning and forecasting, allowing for collaboration while maintaining consistency in approach, calculation, and reporting. Manual Excel process can be eliminated in favor of scaled Anaplan models that allow for controlled access and user role-driven experiences.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the UX has advanced greatly this is not a BI or data visualization tool, the power of Anaplan is in the calculation engine and the collaborative modeling capabilities. No native multi-select functionality and conditional formating can be a bit clunky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dispersion of sensitive information in a controlled manner (selective access), the connection of disparate teams on a single platform, reduction in forecast process timelines.
solid FP&A planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
so far so good, it's still running as planned
What do you dislike about the product?
Include AI projections functionality and matching POs to actuals
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
benefits: version control, able to create many views and breakdowns, clean look
downside: very manual, needs a dedicated person to maintain and setup, restrictive format for data input
downside: very manual, needs a dedicated person to maintain and setup, restrictive format for data input
Great Tool for Scenario Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Real time calculation and ease of model set up make Anaplan an ideal tool for scenario planning compared to other tools and allow end-users to move away from using excel
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan workspace doesn't have the capacity to store multiple years of data at a lower level of detail, so we need to use other reporting tools to support building trend report or deep-dive analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using the tool for different Finance use cases, such as What-if analysis, Planning and Budgeting, and Profitability modeling
The data hub provides a single source of truth for master data
The timestamp in Action setting supports data auditing
The data hub provides a single source of truth for master data
The timestamp in Action setting supports data auditing
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan is a great tool for real time data and forecasting scenarios. The user experience has been improving a lot over the year with the introduction of anaplan UX, which helps developers set up more visually appealing reports for end-users. However, without the capability of handling multiple years of transactional data due to space limitations, there is a need to integrate anaplan with other reporting tools more well-suited to represent the data
A complete solution for Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly
Flexibility
Fast
Capability to simulate all value chain
Flexibility
Fast
Capability to simulate all value chain
What do you dislike about the product?
need to build all from scratch
some features are missing, like workflow with notification
some features are missing, like workflow with notification
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Plan all Supply Chain from Demand Planning to Distribution, including procurement
Scalable & Flexible Collaborative Platform
What do you like best about the product?
- Scalability
- Ease of Deployment
- Multi-Dimensional modeling
- Real-time calculation
- Less down-time for deploying updates
- Reports with different data-types
- Ease of Deployment
- Multi-Dimensional modeling
- Real-time calculation
- Less down-time for deploying updates
- Reports with different data-types
What do you dislike about the product?
-Integrations API using JAVA scripts in ancient
- Cloudworks runtime is very slow
- Advanced workflow is not available
- Cloudworks runtime is very slow
- Advanced workflow is not available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Forecasting using Statistical Engines
Budgeting & Planning for Finance
Demand & Supply Planning for Supply Chain
Optimizing Inventory by Safety Stock Calculation
Budgeting & Planning for Finance
Demand & Supply Planning for Supply Chain
Optimizing Inventory by Safety Stock Calculation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As Anaplan is very easily scalable and flexible, always set a fixed goal for the phase of the project as it can easily get out of hand while implementation
Anaplan - Boosting Data Capacity with Anaplan's HyperModel Feature
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's regular model size is 130G, while its Hypermodel is capable to deal with large data size and can reach 720G. This great feature allow us to be able to integrate historical data, previous versions' data into the system, and deliver Year-over-Year, Version-over-Version comparison without any difficulty.
We are now able to increase the amount of more meaningful dimensions in the Hypermodel and can drill down to more details within the structure.
We are now able to increase the amount of more meaningful dimensions in the Hypermodel and can drill down to more details within the structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
We also had our initial demo for Anaplan's Machine Learning capabilities - Plan IQ. This is a very exciting demo. The built-in algorithms are awesome, but we wish that we could see a little bit more detailed algorithm behind the scene.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The increased model size allows us to integrate more and more data into Anaplan, and to use Anaplan as a single source of truth for a variety of reports across all departments.
Director
What do you like best about the product?
The customization options of the tool and speed of the calculation engine.
What do you dislike about the product?
Depending on who is implementing the tool, it can become very unnecessarily over complicated
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing visibility into how things are calculated and eliminating 1000s of spreadsheets to prevent errors. It also decreases the planning preparation period and increases the analysis period.
Anaplan is a very flexible and scalable tool that can fit most business needs for forecasting.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility of the tool. It allows for business users to build the model with logic the fits their needs
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe the licensing can be a bit expensive compared to other tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We a reducing time to make planning decisions dramatically by reducing cumbersome excel models and processes.
Anaplan - A much needed and extremely powerful product for complex modeling and planning purposes
What do you like best about the product?
Compelling and extremely efficient product for FP&A planning purposes
The NUX dashboards with time filters and user filters
Much better than its competitor products for planning purposes
The NUX dashboards with time filters and user filters
Much better than its competitor products for planning purposes
What do you dislike about the product?
Formula not inundated and unable to use extensions line A+ for easier readability in New Model experience. I am looking forward to a platform update to enable this feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At Okta, we use Anaplan for complex modeling and Financial Planning (Budgeting and forecasting). With the NUX feature, the users can use it comfortably. FP&A team can plan and forecast very effectively to actual data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan - A much needed and compelling product for complex modeling and planning purposes
Anaplan - Best in class Connected Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of usability and scalability with multiple dimensions, the powerful reporting feaatures with NUX and Management Reporting Tool, take Anaplan a notch higher than similar planning tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The focus at times is just on the end user's perspective - fundamental and essential things that would matter to a model builder are sometimes left out - examples are not being able to choose changes that should move from the dev to Prod environment as part pushing changes through ALM - has been long pending.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have had a major aquisition recently, and integrating all the FY planning and bringing in the workforce and financial data within Anaplan was realtively easier and smoother due to the flexibility the platform provides.
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