Anaplan is a good tool for basic calculations and data modeling with limited integrations.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great for data aggregation, performing simple calculations, and modeling data. Its use cases extend to forecasting and planning, sales projections, resource planning, etc. Anaplan also offers reporting capabilities through its dashboards feature. Learning to model build in Anaplan is also straightforward and the Anaplan community provides support/trainings which streamlines the upskilling process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not integrate seamlessly with third party platforms given its limited API. Therefore, it is difficult to sync data between Anaplan and our Snowflake data warehouse in real-time. However, we are able to schedule data syncs between the two platforms on a predefined cadence.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has allowed us to centralize financial metrics and perform seamless projections in one data entry and reporting tool. We have found its use cases to span across business functions and it has also been used as a data hub for certain use cases.