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A powerful platform with some minor gaps to Address
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an excellent EPM tool for business process planning. Its computing power allows you to produce real-time simulations of several scenarios based on complex sets of hypotheses defined for and by the business.
Data processing is comprehensive, covering a wide range of business needs through a large number of native functions and formulas.
A large number of use cases can be modelled.
The user experience is simple to set up, pleasant to use and allows a large number of graphical displays.
Data processing is comprehensive, covering a wide range of business needs through a large number of native functions and formulas.
A large number of use cases can be modelled.
The user experience is simple to set up, pleasant to use and allows a large number of graphical displays.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite its many strengths, Anaplan could benefit from better rendering tools for modelbuilders to manage complex models. The lack of a ‘saved views’ parameter-setting page, similar to the ‘lineItem’ page, can lead to a loss of time when analysing complex models.
There is also not easy to find indication of the publication of modules, and this information could be needed for a detailed analysis, particularly in the case of models with a very large number of pages in their app.
These few elements could improve the modelling experience.
There is also not easy to find indication of the publication of modules, and this information could be needed for a detailed analysis, particularly in the case of models with a very large number of pages in their app.
These few elements could improve the modelling experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using this EPM tool, the exchange file formats differed depending on who was involved. The business process was neither clear nor fluid.
Implementing a management system with Anaplan means more accurate decision-making, thanks to real-time scenario simulation, more reliable results, a single, well-defined process for everyone involved in the business, and a single, reliable data source.
Implementing a management system with Anaplan means more accurate decision-making, thanks to real-time scenario simulation, more reliable results, a single, well-defined process for everyone involved in the business, and a single, reliable data source.
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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.
Driving Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The biggest Strength of Anaplan is its ability to connect disparate planning processes and enhance planning rigor, transparency, and tracability.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest weakness of Anaplan is the lack of data integration and data wrangling options without purchasing an add-on license for their data orchecstrator tool or acquiring a third party ETL tool with connectors to Anaplan. This limitation results in increased time-to-value and decreased overall value as a result of the additional monetary and time investment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is our primary planning tool for all budgeting and forecasting cycles and the source of truth for all planning data. Anaplan centralizes our revenue planning, HR planning, and OpEx plans for budget and in year forecasting and facilitates our pro-forma balance sheet and cash flow statements.
Anaplan is one of the best
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan provides greater flexibility in model building, as well as high computation speed.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is why companies tend not to increase the number of licenses
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The entire forecasting process was rebuilt with new logic in Analpan, this helped to increase the granularity of planning and automate most processes, which significantly increased the speed and accuracy of forecasting
Anaplan has allowed for us to move out of gsheets and into a systematized tool for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to add structure to repeatable processes and easily roll things forward rather than creating dozens of gsheets a year. The ability to integrate with other systems like Workday, SFDC, Data Warehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Access has it's downsides when new roles need to be created or trying to automate user access provisioning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Segmentation, Quota Planning, Quota Adjustments, and Target Planning are all done in one connected solution.
Anaplan Review: Unlocking the Power of Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility and Customization: Anaplan is highly flexible and can be customized to model various business processes, from finance and sales to supply chain and HR. This adaptability makes it suitable for businesses of all sizes and industries.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with Anaplan has been positive overall. I haven't encountered any significant issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Siloed Data and Processes, Static and Time-Consuming Planning,Limited Visibility and Insights
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.
Anaplan for Incentive Compensation
What do you like best about the product?
Time to value, can translate very complex business requirements into a flexible and scalable model. Customer support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial implementation with an experienced partner is a must to ensure success and future scalability. Level of flexibility allowed in Anaplan can cause scalability issues if not designed well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is allowing us to level up our compensation workflow from a manual process to a more standardized process. We are able to establish our compensation policies into Anaplan and have those automatically apply and give our compensation execution team flexibility to make changes.
Best enterprise-grade EPM tool for complex requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Its calculation engine and overall robustness
What do you dislike about the product?
It's space limitations / sparsity issues can require workarounds and therefore take longer to develop
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative planning, decision-making, running scenarios
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