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Anaplan for Finance Planning Space
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is Easy to Implement with Less dependency on IT.
Solutions can be implemented as quickly as 1 week and can be done by existing Business user with Technical know-how.
Huge Time and Cost benefit to companies.
Cloud based technology, so does not require installing or maintaining software.
Upgrades come with zero cost and no IT involvement.
Excel Add-In has been improved and is an advantage to users who are not willing to move away from Excel.
Many Planning Formulas are included which are hard to create or not available in Excel.
Solutions can be implemented as quickly as 1 week and can be done by existing Business user with Technical know-how.
Huge Time and Cost benefit to companies.
Cloud based technology, so does not require installing or maintaining software.
Upgrades come with zero cost and no IT involvement.
Excel Add-In has been improved and is an advantage to users who are not willing to move away from Excel.
Many Planning Formulas are included which are hard to create or not available in Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting can be improved
Would like to see more frequent Product updates
Free API connectivity is limited and not end user friendly.
Model sizing is another limitation, any solution has to be developed with size in mind.
No single way to solve a problem, which leads to inconsistent model building.
Need to improve connectivity to many widely used platforms. ex. Power BI
Would like to see more frequent Product updates
Free API connectivity is limited and not end user friendly.
Model sizing is another limitation, any solution has to be developed with size in mind.
No single way to solve a problem, which leads to inconsistent model building.
Need to improve connectivity to many widely used platforms. ex. Power BI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance Planning for the entire company.
Replacing many legacy systems which are either outdated or not user friendly.
Bringing all Regions and Planning function into one single platform.
Improved Data accuracy by adopting the PLAN and DISCO methods.
Having a Hub has helped us achieve one single Source of Truth.
Replacing many legacy systems which are either outdated or not user friendly.
Bringing all Regions and Planning function into one single platform.
Improved Data accuracy by adopting the PLAN and DISCO methods.
Having a Hub has helped us achieve one single Source of Truth.
Anaplan Enables Business Led Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows us to have an agile approach to our financial planning. Moving out of excel allows us to be more collaborative (real time calculation through HyperBlock technology), drives consistency across calculation and modeling approaches and allows us to move faster. Analysts are able to easily learn the tool as it has similarities to Excel (but so much more powerful) so you are not reliant on third parties to build and maintain your models.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some feature enhancements I would like to see in the tool such as filtering/displaying list properties, native integration/scheduling functionality, additional history reporting features, and in app formula hints/guidance (similar to excel). I don't have any major complaints about the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Anaplan to facilitate all of our corporate financial planning and forecasting activities. Having this tool has allowed us to create a consistent approach and moved us away from using disparate tools. We have better data quality, improved usability, and are now able to have our entire organization reporting off of a consistent data set. We've eliminated hours of manual updates to create reports for business leaders.
Forecasting transparency with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibilty and the speed of implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
Out-of-the-box ETL possibilities are limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transparent company wide forecast in real time
The one tool to drive the sales forecast and modelling.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan have driven a great sales modelling in our business allowing us to achieve more time seizing modelling with effective management. The way it can be customized for a total needs of the customers and fits in accordance to the company requirements is seemingly amazing. We can patch up several tasks and integrates them all together to create a channel of sales in the best possible way. It allows the complete control over your designed protocols and even allows the changes onward. The way we can see through our inventory , sales forecast , reporting and complete control over sales model is seamlessly amazing. We can design custom lists adds different annotations which fits best to our business model. This is a real-time data modelling data designed to adapt to users requirements in efficient way.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for this tool is quite steep which made most of the users out there redundant from using this tool. One with deep knowledge and proper analysis can design the modelling and listing far superior than any other tool can. The only limitations apply here is the users knowledge and ability to synchronize things. The technical support also needs a huge shout out because they need to improve their services. Most of the staff and support team lacks advance knowledge and missed the working pattern form users perspective. They need to put in lots of efforts in order to make it practically viable and usable for new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan creates a stream velocity for the sales forecast and how one I can innovate the whole procedure based on learning and adapting to this tool. So far we have achieved perfection in our sales compensation , inventory management, and listings modifications and sales planning. All of these simplifies our working procedures and facilitates in our working. We wants to manage the changes in real-time adjusting our sales being adhering to seasonality or specific events. It let us easily manage our budgeting and forecasting with our sales streak which can be managed in a balance way providing us with extra capable working patterns.
Anaplan for Sales is a cloud based sales automation solution for marketing business.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan for Sales has produced an amazing results in the sales forecast because it is used for marketing and all of its tools are perfectly assembled. We can also get the benefit from the marketing communication which builds a reliable relation among team members and clients. It has the great ability to see prospects engaged far past the standard email tracking tool. Anaplan for Sales also easily allow us to open the different pages at in a single platform because it has a great electronic integration capability that all comes together to reduce speed bumps in the sales process. Anaplan for Sales has all packed features with the great integration and it also provides the great customer support for our business.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawback about this software is that the setup and customization process of Anaplan for Sales is not very simple because of its difficult functions. Anaplan for Sales features are very difficult to share via real-time mobile and email alerts every time proposals are viewed or forwarded. In addition, Anaplan for Sales software cannot create a content repository for swift access to relevant knowledge resources requisite to create sales proposals. The main drawback about this tool is that Anaplan for Sales does not come with any additional instructions on addition of any new features which puts forward a steep learning curve for the new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan for Sales is a cloud-based sales automation solution that enables sales professionals to pitch, propose and close deals. It can help create online presentations, design proposals, manage contracts and analyze contract performance. I am using it daily for marketing automation for different marketing campaigns for different team members and I found this platform very helpful and amazing. Anaplan for Sales is best for team management because I can easily manage my team and business also it has great reporting functionality to customize the deals in a very effective way.
Fast and performance
What do you like best about the product?
Our project was really complex, we decided to integrated 6 models (Sales Budget, RFQ, Investment Budget, P&L and Balance Sheet Budget and PMT, medium long term plan). So the goal was not to realize 6 models, but to create the integration between them. GOAL OBTAINED
What do you dislike about the product?
The is linked with users and not with performance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What-if analyses ... that used to take a day are
done in seconds with Anaplan, with zero risk of mistakes
done in seconds with Anaplan, with zero risk of mistakes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Great tool to manage sales forecast - easy to use !
What do you like best about the product?
I used Anaplan as a budgeting and forecasting tool to track MRR and ARR for a team of relationship managers. The fact that all relevant information is at your fingerprints to manage your forecasts with confidence.
You could also change the growth rate/growth method based on real time information, rather than rely only on historical data.
Also, you could connect your sales opportunities/stage from Salesforce to Anaplan, which will immediately adjust your forecast. Tons of really great functionality at your fingertips!
You could also change the growth rate/growth method based on real time information, rather than rely only on historical data.
Also, you could connect your sales opportunities/stage from Salesforce to Anaplan, which will immediately adjust your forecast. Tons of really great functionality at your fingertips!
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple tabs often times caused the software to slow down.
When looking at data from tableau, software can be very slow, but not quite sure if it was an Anaplan issue or a server issue on our end.
When looking at data from tableau, software can be very slow, but not quite sure if it was an Anaplan issue or a server issue on our end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to resolve the disconnection between our budgeting/forecasting mechanisms and our sales opportunities from Salesforce. As managers, we wanted to make every sales person accountable for their MRR /ARR forecast, while being able to make changes in real time, review, make adjustments based on seasonality or specific events affecting our customers, etc.
Anaplan exceed all our expectations !
Anaplan exceed all our expectations !
Anaplan for modeling
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of Anaplan is fantastic. I like being able to have control of my model and make changes myself rather than having to work through our IT change process. Also the visibility into the components of our models is something we never had before moving to Anaplan. This helps us ensure our projections are more accurate and accepted by the Sales organization
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is it's own unique language. If you have no experience with it you have to plan on a learning curve and can't simply "Google it". You need to be willing to invest the time and effort into learning the material so it can be frustrating at times when you get stuck and there aren't a lot of quick, widely available, support options
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our industry experiences rapid change and we want to be able to plan and support that direction.
Solid program, strong analytical features
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to customize the tool to easily extract the data necessary to make decisions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Simple features that excel has are not present in Anaplan. For example, highlighting two cells with numerical values doesn't sum the cells.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan to create a collaborative sales forecast across multiple parties.
flexible
What do you like best about the product?
it's very flexible in what you want to report and model. currently we only use it for revenue and bookings reporting/modeling but definitely interested in other areas
What do you dislike about the product?
everything must be defined, but this is why it's so flexible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
what ifs in modeling, but having the flexibility to do it quickly.
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