Anaplan
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Powerful and flexible planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Great flexibility and powerful calculation engine that allows for quicker planning and modeling.
What do you dislike about the product?
User management is very flexible, but tedious and painful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Territory & Quota planning across all regions. We've achieved a faster planning cycle with fewer errors.
Anaplan's flexibility and constant updates make Anaplan a great solution
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility can cater to every need and the constant updates make the customers confident in its future
What do you dislike about the product?
The volumetry is always a consideration when deploying the solution
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan can answer the need in connected planning in financial planning , Sales planning and workforce planning
Michael Chunn G2 Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has a tremendous calculation engine and is a great tool to pivot quickly and review targeted data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The "toast" time when an enerted error takes place.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving forecasted Waterfall Payment and Fund modeling for private equity firms.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Today function would be a vast improvement and value add.
Anaplan - A great EPM platform
What do you like best about the product?
From a partner's perspective, it is so easy to learn the programming language. From a user perspective, I like how easy it is to update front-end pages when I want to have a specific view.
What do you dislike about the product?
The company is growing quickly, and sometimes they might not keep up with the client requirements. But they seem to always push for more which is fantastic. So far, there wasn't a problem for which they didn't have an immediate solution or a workaround. So that's great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm helping clients by making internal business processes faster and more efficient. You enable decision making avoiding the number-crunching that usually takes place when you use a more labor-intensive tool such as Excel.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a medium or large sized company that stil uses Excel for it's planning, budgeting and forecasting process, Anaplan is a great tool for unifying your processes, disrupting the department silos and enable collaboration for a faster and better business process within your company.
Great customization for your business processes
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan offers flexibility that enables companies to build their business processes according to specific needs.
These custom processes can then be connected inside Anaplan, which starts to multiply the benefits from the system.
Anaplan can deliver quick, tangible results. A proof-of-concept model can be created in a matter of hours.
These custom processes can then be connected inside Anaplan, which starts to multiply the benefits from the system.
Anaplan can deliver quick, tangible results. A proof-of-concept model can be created in a matter of hours.
What do you dislike about the product?
The new user experience promises long-term benefits like mobile use and cross-platform use, but it still needs to be improved in terms of functionality to allow for the same pros that the old interface had.
For example, the amount of data can fit into a new user experience page is considerably lower compared to oldinterface dashboards.
For example, the amount of data can fit into a new user experience page is considerably lower compared to oldinterface dashboards.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We build a company-wide approach to forecasting, planning, and intelligence gathering.
Processes now take less time, and the data quality is much improved compared to old excel-based methods.
Processes now take less time, and the data quality is much improved compared to old excel-based methods.
Manager
What do you like best about the product?
I like how flexible the tool is and how simple the coding language is; it makes learning easier for non-technical people.
What do you dislike about the product?
My least favorite part about the tool is the non-selective ALM process. It makes maintenance and enhancements of live models very difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping clients acheieve greater efficencies by automating a lot of the work they are doing in excel in anaplan.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is an excellent tool when implemented correctly. Take your time and do it right the first time. You will see a lot of value in the platform if you execute correctly.
Powerful, Scalable, Customizable Business Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is highly customizable and can solve varied business problems. As an implementation consultant, this allows me to not only solve for current business needs but also help end-users think about any future issues they can solve with the tool. It helps drive consistency between disparate business groups and easily scales alongside the business, and is easy to pick up for both users and system administrators.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it can handle enormous volumes of data, there is still room to improve calculation scaling. However, similar to Excel, since it is highly flexible, the problems typically stem from not following best practices rather than actual problems with the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping businesses solve many problems, including consolidating disparate business processes, eliminating inconsistent spreadsheets, and bringing together various planning groups. In addition, it supports use cases (FP&A, SPM, Supply Chain) across nearly all enterprise business functions. I've been a part of several successful implementations and see many more down the road, both with current and new users.
Anaplan is a great business friendly tool that can save you from Excel
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud based tool that can be access from any web browser and even mobile devices. It can store billions of data points and has native security and user access management capabilities. It is extremely flexible and customizable where it can be implemented for use cases across sales, finance, it, marketing, and many more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can relatively be implemented incorrectly making the tool slow and unusable. This leads to the need of an Anaplan expert to help develop the initial application to ensure that the overall architecture is built sustainaby.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most Anaplan implementations help teams get out of the pains of Excel. I have used Anaplan for FP&A, Project Planning, Inventory Planning, and Territory and Quota Planning.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Anaplan allows many users to interact with the same information and conduct their planning without running into version control issues.
Best for Planning and Customized Finance Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Fast processing and suited for collaboration. Easily customizable to a company's finance processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit expensive due to its per-GB/ workspace charging, but you are paying for a quality product that processes quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've solved a lot of finance processes involving product costing, transfer pricing and coming up with a rolling forecast. I was able to customize Anaplan to suit the exact business case.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your long term plans because Anaplan can help with a road map of digitization of many processes.
A very flexible and powerful tool
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that Anaplan can be tailored to almost any type of business problem is fantastic. This makes it a great tool for almost any use case. The tool is also very powerful and I have built calculations that would have taken hours to run in legacy systems which are more or less 'instantly' (make a change, takes about 1 second to flow through) processed. I'm talking HUGE corporate processes and things like that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customized reporting at a very low level with lots of members and dimensions can lead to size considerations. Reporting needs should be thought out prior to starting reporting sprints. Reporting that assists in the planning process is always worthwhile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems I have solved with Anaplan run the gamete of corporate use cases, from Biopharma to Oil and Gas. It really can do anything. The biggest benefit in my humble opinion is the time savings realized by using Anaplan. Employees can focus on other more important tasks versus constantly trying to compile data for forecasts as Anaplan removes a lot of this legwork.
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