Anaplan
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Excellent technical solution, difficult company to work with.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the platform, unlimited use cases, short implementation time. Significantly increased development speed (NUX, new features). Anaplan Community program.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan as a company. Difficult pricing structure that doesn't match their vision, complex terms & conditions. Much focus on short-term revenue increase with lack of long-term vision. Terrible tools to support partners. Customers get information about / access to new features earlier than partners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Significant time savings for all our customers (Mostly; 70-90% reduction like from 7 days of planning to less than 1). Short Time-To-Value (less than 3 months implementation time)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent platform that should become your daily planning tool across the organisation. Enables smarter decisions, faster.
Collaborative Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows automatic aggregation of data across various levels set in the hierarchy.
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of proper 'Workflow' setup
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has been implemented in various business to streamline there planning and forecasting process. Helping in Improving the efficiency and providing to better insights
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Helps streamline business processes.
Quick to implement.
Quick to implement.
Working previously as a business and financial analyst, I really see the benefit & need for Anaplan.
What do you like best about the product?
Data hub used to aggregate multiple sources of data. In addition, the connected planning of "linked excel pivots".
What do you dislike about the product?
Data Integration could be cleaner and easier to use. Dashboarding could use some additional formatting features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No longer need to have multiple versions of a file. Don't need to update formulas for the new month by dragging everything across in Excel. Big time saver.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk with a Anaplan partner vs Anaplan sales rep to better understand needs and size requirements.
Game Changer
What do you like best about the product?
For me, the most helpful aspect of Anaplan is its ability to summarize plan updates real-time. The modeling capabilities are easily transferable from your base excel knowledge.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboarding in the classic view was cumbersome. Our implementation was done prior to Anaplan's new UX and transitioning from classic dashboards to the New UX is not the quickest thing to do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem we solved with Anaplan was standardizing our annual budgeting process. We went from thousands of Excel files to one platform where all our budgeting was done. This helped prevent different finance teams from building their own methodologies for the budget and aligned all of finance.
Anaplan for Capital Markets
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an exceptional modeling tool. Once the data is set up, it provides the flexability to rapidly develop models, easily pivot data vies without changing the underliyinf data and integrate with other systems. Additionally, it provides connected planning, which is an easy, efficient way to bring together people, processes and data. All while being secure and cloud based.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more formula development, such as adding new formulas or updating existing formulas to work in new ways.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have solved various use cases with Anaplan, everything ranging from FP&A and supply chain to complex financial metrics like IRR, MOIC, and custom waterfall calculations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan is an exceptional modeling tool and excels at that. Think about how it fits into the rest of your ecosystem.
Anaplan is a great solution for complex data modeling
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan can handle large data sets with ease, allowing end users to build a mirade of reports and calculations.
What do you dislike about the product?
The apps aren't perfect. It is difficult to build an app that looks good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping speed up our clients financial planning process in multiple ways. First, clearing out data and reimporting take next to no time to complete. Second, we are able to model out different scenarios and adjust using inputs to see the impacts in real time.
Robust modeling and insightful analytics with growing collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan does a phenomenal job of modeling data. If you can provide Anaplan the data relationships, it can show you deep insights and allow you to perform extensive scenario analysis. In short, it is the answer to making big data useful. No one sifts through thousands or millions of transactions to see patterns and trends. Anaplan gives you the tool set do it. Additionally, Anaplan is build-to-suit; the answer to 'Can Anaplan do it?' is almost always 'yes'; it can consume and enhance your current data structures as well as provide the foundation for bona fide process transformation.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the nature of the tool promotes collaboration in the planning process through its role functionality, the day-to-day collaboration is not mature yet. There is room to grow in workflow and collaboration-specific functionality (e.g. comments in-platform).
The platform's pricing is based on allocated space, which means that it can change over time and is subject to the data you load and the capabilities that you utilize in the platform.
The platform's pricing is based on allocated space, which means that it can change over time and is subject to the data you load and the capabilities that you utilize in the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an implementation partner, I help companies solve a variety of problems with Anaplan. I primarily focus on sales performance management (SPM), so I will comment from that perspective. The most pervasive business problems that are solved by Anaplan are developing and managing territories and setting and adjusting quotas for the sales force. Most organizations lack any type of enterprise-level solution that does this, and the most frequent 'system' that is replaced is Excel. Anaplan provides a single source of truth for territories and targets; it allows for collaboration around that single data set and holistic data analytics that provide insights from an individual sales rep to mid-level managers to executives who oversee regions, business units, and entire organizations. The most potent advantage that is realized is the ability to view high-level KPIs, but to then drill into the details at a low level to understand what is driving them.
Anaplan for Financial Modelling
What do you like best about the product?
The customisability of the tool means that most things are possible!
What do you dislike about the product?
All functionality from classic dashboards has not been replicated in the UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently looking at real estate financial modelling using the tool to underwrite new deals and analyse different scenarios.
Meet you best friend on cloud - Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
It helps to make smarter decisions across the whole business and also quickly adapts to changes. You’re able to consider all of the possible options before responding in real-time, giving both you and the entire organization access to everything you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can further work upon the usability, support, limited layer of information to provide a delightful end-user experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've been using Anaplan for 6 years now across multiple use cases and it is always a pleasure to hear from our clients how useful it has been for them in terms of widespread planning across the organization which means that they have comprehensive information to continuously adapt plans as they sense changes in the market.
Powerful planning and modelling engine
What do you like best about the product?
* Anaplan is reliable, fast and guarantees consistent calculations are applied across very large datasets.
* A cloud base collaborative platform means there is no need to email files to colleagues and everyone is viewing real time data
* Easy to learn and intuitive platform with natural language syntax and a customisable user interface. With no particular IT background, I found it easy to learn as an experienced Excel user
* All the data in Anaplan's hyperblock is like a giant pivot table meaning reports and tables can be repivoted with different dimensions in a few seconds
* A cloud base collaborative platform means there is no need to email files to colleagues and everyone is viewing real time data
* Easy to learn and intuitive platform with natural language syntax and a customisable user interface. With no particular IT background, I found it easy to learn as an experienced Excel user
* All the data in Anaplan's hyperblock is like a giant pivot table meaning reports and tables can be repivoted with different dimensions in a few seconds
What do you dislike about the product?
* Anaplan has a limited (but fast improving) range of formatting options
* Anaplan is a sophisticated platform and it can be tricky for end users to drill-down through some calculations
* Model building requires skilled and experienced resources which can be hard to find, although the Anaplan community is growing fast.
* Anaplan is a sophisticated platform and it can be tricky for end users to drill-down through some calculations
* Model building requires skilled and experienced resources which can be hard to find, although the Anaplan community is growing fast.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in finance and have implemented Anaplan for FP&A, overheads cost allocations, and long-term contract accounting. It is an extremely flexible tool with a large number of potential use cases beyond finance. The key benefits realized are shorter model turn-around times, primarily made possible through less manual intervention and less manual error. With much greater confidence in the results, this frees up time to interpret results and have better conversations with the business.
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