Anaplan
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Anaplan has allowed for us to move out of gsheets and into a systematized tool for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to add structure to repeatable processes and easily roll things forward rather than creating dozens of gsheets a year. The ability to integrate with other systems like Workday, SFDC, Data Warehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Access has it's downsides when new roles need to be created or trying to automate user access provisioning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Segmentation, Quota Planning, Quota Adjustments, and Target Planning are all done in one connected solution.
Anaplan Review: Unlocking the Power of Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility and Customization: Anaplan is highly flexible and can be customized to model various business processes, from finance and sales to supply chain and HR. This adaptability makes it suitable for businesses of all sizes and industries.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with Anaplan has been positive overall. I haven't encountered any significant issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Siloed Data and Processes, Static and Time-Consuming Planning,Limited Visibility and Insights
Anaplan for Incentive Compensation
What do you like best about the product?
Time to value, can translate very complex business requirements into a flexible and scalable model. Customer support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial implementation with an experienced partner is a must to ensure success and future scalability. Level of flexibility allowed in Anaplan can cause scalability issues if not designed well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is allowing us to level up our compensation workflow from a manual process to a more standardized process. We are able to establish our compensation policies into Anaplan and have those automatically apply and give our compensation execution team flexibility to make changes.
Best enterprise-grade EPM tool for complex requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Its calculation engine and overall robustness
What do you dislike about the product?
It's space limitations / sparsity issues can require workarounds and therefore take longer to develop
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative planning, decision-making, running scenarios
Anaplan's Customization & UX Consideratoins
What do you like best about the product?
Model Customization - It truly is an open box. This can be a double edge sword if not implemented right, or if requirements are not understood during development, but otherwise this allows for great flexibility in how things could be planned.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Two major sticking points for me, Cube size and lack of ALM in the UX.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consistnency in planning - creates a standard structure in how forecasting is done, minimizing disparate/disconnected processes.
Anaplan is an intuitive and comprehensive financial planning tool that simplifies planning.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an intuitive and comprehensive financial planning tool that simplifies budgeting, tracking expenses, and managing investments.It is designed with a user-friendly interface, making it easy for beginners to navigate. The setup process is straightforward, requiring users to do their BAU activities what they were doing in excel, in Anaplan pretty easily. The customer support is very involved and have 24/7 support for any technical queries.
What do you dislike about the product?
Issue: Complex dimensional queries can be resource-intensive and may slow down report generation.
Impact: Slow performance can frustrate users and limit the utility of real-time reporting.
Limited tool capabilities can restrict the types of analyses that can be performed.Slicing and dicing in Excel addin can be downplayer
Impact: Slow performance can frustrate users and limit the utility of real-time reporting.
Limited tool capabilities can restrict the types of analyses that can be performed.Slicing and dicing in Excel addin can be downplayer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps in support which focuses on achieving the best commercial results by offering valuable insights, expert advice, and critical evaluation. This is bolstered by strong price modeling to optimize commercial proposals and enhance market success potential. It also helps in Delivery support which emphasizes the use of specialized commercial tools to ensure that high-value, complex projects stay on track with approved targets. By implementing strong commercial cadence and governance, it provides insights and recommendations to drive project success and data-driven decisions.
Connected planning
What do you like best about the product?
The more uses cases you have in Anaplan the more valueable it´ll be. More departments, more markets etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan have taken some shortcuts when it´s comes to expected featuers in the back end that would help the experience. It would for example be very helpful to know if a module or filter is being used on a dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I´m a consultant implementing the solution me client needs. The best solutions have been in rolling forecast, workforce management have been a bit more tricky but frankly also because it rarely is an area where the client knows what they want
Scalable enterprise planning system
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability and flexibility to support multiple use cases, ability to link models and data to create integrated solutions. Tool is easy to use for finance professionals with a reasonable technical background.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cube structure does not handle scalability across a large number of concurrent dimensions without increasing cost substantially. Initial implementation requires skilled expertise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows companies to ingest actual data and create live projections and forecasts across multiple scenarios. Data is linked to create integrated business solutions.
Anaplan- New way to Plan
What do you like best about the product?
What sets it parat is the ease of implementation. The platform offers extensive customization options for models to meet specific needs of the organization, and integrating business logic is simple and efficient. This not only improves the user experience but also makes model maintenance easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
The New UX has certainly enhanced dashboarding experience compared to classic dashboards, but it still lags behind some of the more advanced platforms available today. Another thing that i dislike about Anaplan is when many users are running processes simultaneously, model may slow down.A naplan executes one action at a time and places next in a queue, which can create delays, especially if scheduled imports are happening at the same time. During imports the model becomes inaccessible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is addressing key operational challenges by significantly reducing the time spent on account tiering and assigning account ownership. This streamlined process enables faster decision-making and greater efficiency. Additionally, Anaplan has optimized the way we assign quotas to sales reps, ensuring a more accurate andefficient distribution of teh targets. These improvements not only save time but also enhance overall productivity, allowing the team to focus more on strategic initiatives rather than manual tasks
Real time calculation and collaboration for a detailed, transparent and responsive supply chain plan
What do you like best about the product?
Customisation (create planning models that adapt to the nature of your business and add real value)
Community and Learning platofrm: all you need to enable your Anaplan resources in house
Continuous Improvement: new functionalities on a regular basis, from Data Intefgration (ADO) to collaboration (Workflow) and many more
True real time calculations and concurrent planning
scalasble and modular, deploy what you really need. Use it, learn and improve your solution at your own pace.
Community and Learning platofrm: all you need to enable your Anaplan resources in house
Continuous Improvement: new functionalities on a regular basis, from Data Intefgration (ADO) to collaboration (Workflow) and many more
True real time calculations and concurrent planning
scalasble and modular, deploy what you really need. Use it, learn and improve your solution at your own pace.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited documentation and enablement for the new Applications
Impossibility to choose between Polaris vs Classic engine ahead of the implementation (as a result of an analysis of the data)
Impossibility to choose between Polaris vs Classic engine ahead of the implementation (as a result of an analysis of the data)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can solve really detailed and complex solutions (eg: production scheduling thanks to its optimiser) or multi-variable statistical forecast (thanks to ML) and also, can connect the whole process, from Actual Data ingestion and analytics, to demand forecast (statistical, sales-driven, consensus...) to Inventory Planning and Optimisation, Production and MRP throguh multivel BOM. So, in short: can be detailed and go in depth at each step of the process, and can also connect all the steps creating a integrated and seamless solution with all kind of reports, alerts and data visualisation.
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