Anaplan
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Anaplan is my preferred platform for modeling FP&A processes and producing connected forecasts.
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful aspect of Anaplan is that it gives business users the ability to build models, i.e. planning, budgeting, and forecasting models, that are customized to their business needs. Models can also be built to incorporate data from almost any source, into the hundreds of millions of data points (rows/columns/cells), without compromising on performance or detail.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's customizability can also be a double-edged sword. Although there are more and more out-of-the-box solutions being built and provided by Anaplan and 3rd parties, an organization will most likely have to expend significant resources to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping me to build PBF models that connect all levels of the FP&A organization (from analysts to leadership) and beyond to other organizations throughout companies. With Anaplan you can provide large datasets and detailed models to produce detailed forecasts at the lowest levels, and easily consolidate and aggregate those forecasts to produce high-level reporting. Leadership can use these reports to analyze KPI's, simulate scenarios, strategize moves, make decisions, develop goals, and set targets.
As a model builder, I think Anaplan is a very good tool to build a sophisticated model.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan displays a very straightforward and clear way of code implementation, and it provides a very good training courses that support learner to get sufficient technical knowledge.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limitation of workspace. Sometimes end users require to see reports in very detailed granular level, but due to the limitation of workspace, we couldn't build that level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem is disconnection among different teams that are working in the same budgeting and forecasting processes, Anaplan provides a single source of truth that every users from different functional teams use Anaplan as the single platform to submit their budget & forecast, review & analyze their financial reports.
Good UI and super flexible platform
What do you like best about the product?
You can do almost anything with Anaplan. We used it to integrate call center capacity planning models with Finance, Recruiting, IT, and HR.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve to getting started that can feel daunting. Get vendor training & certified and it will help tremendously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating different functional departments that all have to use the same data source.
Planning Platform that Keeps Evolving
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great planning platform which is easy to use and scalable.
Anaplan continues investing in its product roadmap. New products either organically developed like Anaplan Workflow and Data Orchestrator or externally acquired like Fluence provided Anaplan a range of capabilities required in the planning space.
Anaplan has excellent online learning centre. Courses for recently acquired products were developed using the same standard as the Anaplan core courses. This made learning experience easy.
Customer support is easily accessible with new Customer Care portal.
Anaplan continues investing in its product roadmap. New products either organically developed like Anaplan Workflow and Data Orchestrator or externally acquired like Fluence provided Anaplan a range of capabilities required in the planning space.
Anaplan has excellent online learning centre. Courses for recently acquired products were developed using the same standard as the Anaplan core courses. This made learning experience easy.
Customer support is easily accessible with new Customer Care portal.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan may need to consider drill down functionality. While this can be achieved through different workarounds on UX pages, standard drill down that people are familiar with by expanding and collapsing parent item is good to have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is used to replace Excel-based model for real estate budgeting starting from the asset acquisition, development, and operation. Users can perform scenario analysis easily and hence are able to make informed decisions whether to hold or dispose an asset. Anaplan is able to handle multi-year budgeting easily.
Anaplan Enhancing S&OP Performance and Efficiency in Athletic Apparel Company
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan strong focus on customer success makes achieving project goals easier. With its high-quality training resources and supportive community, customers get to learn not just how to use it but also to maximize the product’s potential. Also, Anaplan continuously delivers new features and functionalities, ensuring the product remains relevant and effective in achieving the objectives.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unplanned system downtime significantly affects a use case that requires frequent daily updates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a retail company, Anaplan helps us plan the timing, location, duration, and pricing of a product to achieve target revenue.
Anaplan for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an easy-to-use SaaS platform with global coverage. Over the last 10 years, they have adopted the best-in-class funcitonalities on their platform to rival other big players in the EPM space such as Oracle, SAP and TM1. It is used for enterprise wide planning and improving collaboration among various teams within an organisation from finance to sales, HR, marketing, tax, operations and treasury to name a few. The platform uses simple drag and drop functionality along with excel-like scripting to build models and front-end pages, resulting in quicker adoption times for both end-users and new model builders and making implementation a breeze. The Anaplan REST API can be leveraged to connect the system to other existing ERPs and master data source system to ensure integrity of data across an enterprise.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan has recently produced some exceptional functionalities like geo-mapping and workflow, and has a strong roadmap with GenAI coming into the picture soon, a lot of these capabilities (such as Workflow, or the new Polaris engine) come at an additional cost to customers. A lot of times customers are discouraged from using these features due to the additional price tag. This prevents consultants and partners like us from leveraging the full power of Anaplan to implement for the customer. However, the minimum/basic features that come with an enterprise licence are sufficient for a great start to the Anaplan journey.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves a wide array of problems including but not limited to: better data integrity, improved collaboration, scenario planning, faster forecasting cycles. Even though we are a partner/consultant, we also use Anaplan internally for sales perfomance management, financial budgeting/forecasting and workforce planning. Adopting Anaplan has made the before-mentioned processes significantly faster and more reliable. I have also implemented supply-chain use cases for customers, which have resulted in better communication with their suppliers, reduced cost through optimised inventory and better collaboration across the enterprise.
Anaplan: flexible tool for a connected planning enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
- Flexibility
- Power of calculation
- Ease of use
- Ease of implementation
- Customer support
- Power of calculation
- Ease of use
- Ease of implementation
- Customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
-Connectability to external systems
-Price structure
-Price structure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Offering collaboration for planning, under a tailored and customized process, with data quality control.
It's a very flexible, light-weight and powerful planning platform.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, Flexible, Real-time calcualtion.
What do you dislike about the product?
A little expensive, customer support can be better (eg. can have a more experienced support team)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because i am a consultant, hence I help clients to implement Anaplan to solve multiple problems, but the top threes are Financial planning (with workforce), Supply planning and Sales planning. Due to the fact that Anaplan is a very flexible platform, it can handle most of the planning use cases, with in-depth what-if analysis and senario planning.
Powerful planning tool for FP&A use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Incredibly flexible tool that can be customized to the specific business needs of an organization
What do you dislike about the product?
Room for improvement on management reporting capabilities
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan provides a more accurate and collaborative way of forecasting revenue, planning project staffing, and considering several what-if scenarios, among lots of other great uses
Mastering Integrated Business Planning with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
True Integrated Business Planning (IBP) can be achieved through a end-to-end connected planning solution that joins supply chain, finance and sales together in a unified system. The Anaplan platofrm excels in this space.
The advanced modelling capaiblity enable the tool to be able to handle complex and simple problems business face. The speed to implement changes in the model, ensures business can react quickly to challenging, changing business needs.
The advanced modelling capaiblity enable the tool to be able to handle complex and simple problems business face. The speed to implement changes in the model, ensures business can react quickly to challenging, changing business needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Due to it's incredible flexibility, Anaplan can become overly complicated if best practice to process and solution architecure are not followed. Anaplan's strength stems from it's flexiblitiy but it can be a weakness if these best practices are not followed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves complex supply chain problems very well across a wide range of different industries. Due to its flexibility it can accomodate companies with differing maturity levels.
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