Anaplan
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Product Specification
What do you like best about the product?
As it is a multidimensional tool so it has ease the process of reporting for Budgeting and Forecasting scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
User concurrency can be seen many a times on New UX page, which takes a lot of time to load a page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping in day to day activity of Supply chain planning, as a result of this all the users can access their report at one place due it's cloud functionality.
Standardized Modeling at its finest
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great platform to facilitate a standardized process is repeated over time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is not a platform to use for one-off, one-time calculations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving the problem of having siloed models that work with others to solve a standardized process.
Good solution for excel models that have to be robust, complex and correct
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a web-based combination between excel and a database. Easy for the user to navigate through data (pivoting is great) and web interface and reporting is good. An excel add-in is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to have an experienced model builder on staff to make changes or even more minor adjustments. Not seamless in integrating with other finance software. More expensive than excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan for P&L reporting, cost allocation, forecasting and budgeting. Customizable software great for when you have particular case/usage. Works with hierarchies well, so when there is a change (like with a reorg) it is flexible to get the model back online and working.
Fast and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
Easy implementation
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great to have more chart types for a better user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Long term planning. (including production plan, P&L, scenario analysis)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Anaplan Budget Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. With Anaplan we are able to implement various use cases across departments. This shows that Anaplan allows for a great flexibility to meet diverse requirements.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Big models often struggle with performance issues. This leads to more resources being spent on trying to improve performance rather than working improving the model functionality and user experience.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having our budgeting process in Anaplan offers a standardized approach across the company and the countries it operates in.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
Powerful, Flexible & Scalable Platform which requires Reporting Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is extremely flexible in solutioning, provides a great stream-lined connection between calculations and reporting, and is highly auditable.
Anaplan is also very scalable within a business, and the extremely powerful calculation engine provides ability to connect and aggregate data from various sources within one dynamic model.
Anaplan is also very scalable within a business, and the extremely powerful calculation engine provides ability to connect and aggregate data from various sources within one dynamic model.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's Reporting Suite has vastly improved over the last year, however when compared to reporting centric systems such as Tableau, still leaves much to be desired. Specifically, the Management Reporting suite needs work to become an operable alternative to standard reporting methods.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is a great tool for consolidating complex, offline processes (namely excel) and putting together under one roof, which has been a primary benefit. Anaplan's user logs also provide detailed audit trails.
Scalable, flexible and easy to build
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan makes multi-dimensional modeling easy with its flexibility and scalability. Doing modeling is easy without extensive development skills. It is cloud-based, the app can be built in a mobile-friendly manner supporting planning on-the-go.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan cannot generate a timestamp on its own, which can be useful in a number of business requirements. But there are alternative solutions to it and it is on the roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving our organisations territory account alignments, and we use it to generate audit reports. We also calculate indexes on territory performance. Also we assign reps to territories and give them different roles. We have metrics on on wich the sales rep derives the quota, so we track the entire sales cycle on Anaplan
Very flexible and powerful platform
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to model almost any business planning process at scale
What do you dislike about the product?
Proper configuration requires a very good implementer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End to end S&OP in an industry that doesn't fit into the classical S&OP mold.
Anaplan - Connecting Planning and Beyond
What do you like best about the product?
I like the most about Anaplan is the customization capability and ease of development and usage. You can build anything and everything using your imagination and modeling skill sets. Anaplan has transformed the way connected planning solutions are thought through and developed.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it feels an overkill that certain functionalities are unavailable in Anaplan, and everything has to be developed through a custom code. Things like Delta functionality, more robust auditing capabilities, drill-through capabilities, and model locking are some of the things which come to mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
From a developer perspective, Anaplan provides endless possibilities to offer solutions to the client per outlined requirements. It's the next-gen EPM solution to cater to all the different use cases and Business areas in the organization.
Connected planning allows for enhanced insights previously difficult to decipher
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use & agile methods of making changes on the fly
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations on User Experience & latency at scale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing for connected planning across multiple LOB within the business
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