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Anaplan
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Anaplan : A great connected planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a lightweight solution which does not need labor intensive effort for implementation. It can remove excel-silos in the company and help collaboration among different department in the organization which can effectively shorten planning cycle and improve user experience in planning.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no ETL tools embedded (excpet for paying a higher price for an OEM informatica). For every projects we have implemented, we require IT Department to help on ETL tasks which would always receive resistance and hesitation from the customers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our customers to solve the lack of multi-dimensional management in excel. Excel is an excellent tools for mathematical computation but it lacks the management of dimensions and hierarchy. Anaplan can effectively manage dimensions and hierarchy to help users shortening time for changing formulas in excel when there is any change in dimensions everytime, which is very frequent in business world nowadays. Strong computing power from Anaplan can also help users to plan at a more granular level when needed, the real-time calculation has outraced the performance in excel which could takes forever to update a formula if the source data volume is high.
Anaplan - Making Connected Planning Easier
What do you like best about the product?
Allows making connected planning across an organization's business areas more streamlined.
Allows to have one source of truth for planning accross the organization.
Allows to have one source of truth for planning accross the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Takes time to load data from source databases to allow refreshing the data in the platform.
Takes a lot of space if working with huge datasets - e.g. working with SKU/material level data.
Takes a lot of space if working with huge datasets - e.g. working with SKU/material level data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows to streamline planning accross an organization - connecting business areas and allowing better connected planning. Allows areas to have a single source of truth for all data allowing planners to make better decisions.
Amazingly flexible. Huge benefits for the organization if done correctly
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility. Can model any business process and function. No coding so development is fast and can be done within the function.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a Anaplan problem per se but in order to get the most out of the product, you need capable resources. Anaplan is not a plug & play system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost allocations, subsidiary FP&A, workforce planning, KPI administration, Sales Planning.
All of these are done in Anaplan. All of them are connected so having a single source of truth saves us a lot of time. The functionalities we have in these models couldn´t be done in any other (single) platform.
All of these are done in Anaplan. All of them are connected so having a single source of truth saves us a lot of time. The functionalities we have in these models couldn´t be done in any other (single) platform.
4yr+ Anaplan Developer Review
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of Anaplan is both the best. There is no out of the box Anaplan solution, meaning each implementation requires a dedicated team / external resource to create a solution and each solution can be customized/built for with a sustainable process in mind.
Used correctly, Anaplan can be an extremely powerful tool for breaking down siloed planning and drive meaningful cross-functional conversation across an enterprise.
While not perfect, Anaplan has grown in it's ability to move data in/out of the platform without relying on middleware. The Amazon S3 connector for example, has proven to be incredibly useful for our business.
Used correctly, Anaplan can be an extremely powerful tool for breaking down siloed planning and drive meaningful cross-functional conversation across an enterprise.
While not perfect, Anaplan has grown in it's ability to move data in/out of the platform without relying on middleware. The Amazon S3 connector for example, has proven to be incredibly useful for our business.
What do you dislike about the product?
The flexibilty, while being an unbelievable benefit, is a double edged sword. Solutions nede to be carefully designed to enable a sustainable solution.
Anaplan is also not the best tool for high intensity data transformation and highly spare data sets. When using data that has more than 3 or 4 large dimensions (customer id, product id, country, etc.) . Anaplan offers a high sparsity instance (called Polaris), but Polaris modelling is slightly different from the classic calculation engine, and our current Polaris build has required lots of communication with the Anaplan support team as we have run into a few kinks.
Anaplan is also not the best tool for high intensity data transformation and highly spare data sets. When using data that has more than 3 or 4 large dimensions (customer id, product id, country, etc.) . Anaplan offers a high sparsity instance (called Polaris), but Polaris modelling is slightly different from the classic calculation engine, and our current Polaris build has required lots of communication with the Anaplan support team as we have run into a few kinks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan for budgeting and forecasting, our financial statements, corporate consolidations, workforce management and headcount operating expense management.
Flexible, scalable, approachable tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-dimensionality for data, ability to conduct scenario planning, collaborative and cloud-based platform
What do you dislike about the product?
Management style reporting is a new feature that still needs some work. The ability to execute iterative calculations similar to Excel is not present.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The scalability and security issues faced when using Excel for budgeting and forecasting. Users can ensure integrity in a forecast without cell-by-cell formula references.
Easy to setup and support for HR and workforce
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use \ configuration. Simple setup on a small VM to connect our data with Anaplan., Dedicated team that works with you through the adoption process to get started.
Competitive price
Competitive price
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial vendor calls had a bit of disconnect between their sales and technical teams. A lot of confusion over certificates that ended up being a non-issue in the long run.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our HR department make important planning data visualization and charts that would not be possible with something simpler like MS Excel and allows them to gather data to further compare with other departments for project planning, budgeting and financial consolidation.
Anaplan Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan shines when it comes to empowering the business. Having such a powerful platform can often be daunting, but Anaplan is built so that the tool can be wholly owned and operated by the business itself. It empowers the business through an easy-to-build structure without compromising on flexibility/capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Anaplan could better make some tenant-level reports (metadata around user activity) more readily available/accessible. While not a major pain point, it is always nice to have this detail at your fingertips in the early stages of the deployment of a new solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Given the versatility of Anaplan, it is not limited to any one use case. Being an implementation partner, I am seeing Anaplan deliver value/benefit through its' focus on connected planning. That is, bringing multiple use cases together in a single environment for real-time connected planning.
Practical and easy-to-use solution
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform.
What needs improvement?
One area of improvement is conditional formatting. It's not very practical, and you need to specify additional formatting for each line item, which increases the size.
These are also areas that could be improved for the long-term sustainability of the platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
It's been about three months now.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
There are around 13 users in my company using the solution.
How was the initial setup?
It's quite easy to set up. It doesn't require much effort.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is an expensive solution.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend using the solution. It is a practical and easy-to-use solution. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Anaplan Win!
What do you like best about the product?
(1) Scalability, (2) UX, (3) Integration
What do you dislike about the product?
(1) Performance issues with certain formulas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to connect multiple business units to the obtain financial statement modelling for the company as a whole
Anaplan Implementation Review
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to scale models
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to understand the calculations and how a result was obtained
- Easy to implement workflows and secruity around them
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to understand the calculations and how a result was obtained
- Easy to implement workflows and secruity around them
What do you dislike about the product?
- Large sparse datasets are not optimized for Anaplan
- Reporting is not pixel-perfect
- Technical support is slow and inneficient
- Reporting is not pixel-perfect
- Technical support is slow and inneficient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to get answers quickly without the need to run lengthy processes and ability to know how the information was calculated and how data was transformed. The ability to have different interfaces for different users so that each can gain value-added from using the tool.
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