Anaplan
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Fast and agile Development without the typical overhead of 1st party solutions.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has allowed our team to quickly build drivers, upload templates, P&Ls and consolidated reporting in an incredible agile environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have the ability to have branching code (think excel model with a point-in-time copy), so if I create 10 models that are 90% similar metadata structures, but have 10% differences I would have accumulated a fair amount of technical debt in that I need to make changes in 10 different places.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance planning and trying to move planning to the cloud as opposed to offline spreadsheets
Great for connecting people, data, and plan
What do you like best about the product?
In general, Anaplan is an excellent tool for planning and analytics. It is flexible enough to model different business requirements and functionalities. It could be owned by business and thus reduce dependency of IT when business logics change frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, the product still has areas to improve on. For example, workflow has been discussed and requested by a lot customers for many years, but it is "on the roadmap."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan across Finance, HR, Sales, etc. and across multiple regions. Our legacy systems were mostly in silos and/or offline which makes it very challenging to have a consistent view at one place for planning. Anaplan provides a platform as one-place to go for planning and analytics, improving planning efficiency.
Anaplan provides scalable models whilst also being flexible
What do you like best about the product?
It can calculate many millions of cells, way beyond what Excel can do. It is built in a very intuitive way, with no need to understand code or database structure. The only thing that takes some time to learn before you can build really impactful models is dimensionality, which many new modellers won't have, coming from an excel background.
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
What do you dislike about the product?
If you arent careful with how you combine dimensions, you can run out of workspace. Sometimes you need to create concatenated hierrachies which only contain valid combinations of hierarchy items to save workspace
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Model complex scenarios in investment funds, where the timings and amounts of investments and exits can quickly be flexed, showing the sensitivity of the fund
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Excellent platform for FP&A
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple use cases; easy for new starters to learn the platform, doesn't require any coding experience; can create colourful and engaging dashboards very quickly; excellent support and community pages
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a couple of bugs in the new App
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are multiple use cases: FP&A, Supply Chain, and Financial Consolidation. I have worked with property and construction, education, insurance, banking, and retail clients.
Anaplan For Finance , Sales & Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1)Anaplan provides the flexibility to model any business use case.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
1)Anaplan modelling has size restrictions which sometimes makes it very difficult to create reports by intersecting multiple dimensionality.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has a very intuitive UX which allows significant end user adoption as the functionalities are very straightforward to use. The Platform provides the flexibility to model any business use case and all the functionalities can be implemented in a very agile manner. The Platform can be used to build applications related to FP&A , Sales Planning and Supply Chain planning use cases. On top of the business modelling capabilities , the tool also provides embedded AI/ML capabilities that can be leveraged for a wide variety of use cases. The Tool can be seamlessly integrated with other third-party systems with various integration options available.
Anaplan for FPA solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is Cloud Based In-Memory Calculation engine
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
What do you dislike about the product?
Some commonly used Excel formulas are not available
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have implemented financial planning and budgeting. It helped us improve the efficiency of the planning by enhancing transparency.
Boost your business growth with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
- Flexibility to use
-Easy to understand UI
- Comparatively easy to implement against most other on-premise EPM solutions as it doesn't require complex calculation scripts and formuale structures
-Easy to understand UI
- Comparatively easy to implement against most other on-premise EPM solutions as it doesn't require complex calculation scripts and formuale structures
What do you dislike about the product?
-Application lifecycle management in the NUX requires tedious maintenance
-Formatting options available in the NUX are minimum and could be increased
-Storage options for Image library could also be provided
-Formatting options available in the NUX are minimum and could be increased
-Storage options for Image library could also be provided
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-We can focus on value-added analysis to increase confidence in the output by leveraging anaplan's faster, more reliable plans, analyses and reports
-We could also see an improved forecast accuracy
-We could also see an improved forecast accuracy
Good for targeted use cases but don't expect major flexibility.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's scalability is top-notch. Since everything is performed in memory, it's very easy to scale out a model as long as the workspace size is available. Anaplan's low-code platform is also good for a lot of the ultimate end users and administrators using Anaplan to manage, maintain, and enhance existing models while building new ones to meet the demands of their enterprises' planning needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Personally, I would like to have more flexibility in writing functions. Custom functions would be a game-changer in terms of how complex a model can be. Data integrations are also very tedious and can be a pain to make adjustments to depending on the tools being used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan seeks to solve problems common to planning in enterprises. Namely, siloed workstreams fed by disparate data sources, minimal collaboration in the planning cycle, lack of visibility, and difficulty in maintaining complex processes using tools that are not intended to scale to enterprise levels.
Anaplan leading in Business Planning initiatives
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan supports all varied use case such as financial planning, headcount planning, sales performance management, supply chain management etc. It provides the opportunity to have connected planning approach along with maintaining data integrity as well as being the golden source of truth.
What do you dislike about the product?
Certain features are raised and still in process of improvements such as ALM sync, model rollback etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan drastically brings down the manual intervention required for planning in large corporations hence contributing to its overall performance.
Great Product with Great Potential
What do you like best about the product?
1. Flexibility
2.Transperancy
3. End User Experience
Anaplan is suitable for any time of planning be it across Sales , Marketing, Finance or Supply Chain. This works just everywhere.
2.Transperancy
3. End User Experience
Anaplan is suitable for any time of planning be it across Sales , Marketing, Finance or Supply Chain. This works just everywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool sometimes struggles to handle volumes of data if not configured properly. Model builder has to be very carefull while developing if the volums of data is very high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its majorly solves the problem of collaborations which avoids the time dealys in processing the data and that time can inturn be used for productive decision making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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