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What do you like best about the product?
The upsides of Anaplan is the accessibility, all you need is an account, browser and internet connection and your ready to plan.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say that I dislike this, probably room for improvement is integration and system limitation. Every platform has its limitations anyway, but these are some of the things we can look for when looking for ideas for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We encountered problems trying to build a model with workflow, at first it was hard but eventually we pulled it off. I think the agile methodology benefited our project. We can quickly test and make quick adjustments according to the user requirements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want a cloud based platform that is cloud based and easy to implement then this is the one for you.
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Anaplan has enabled many organisations I've worked with to optimise several business processes.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is flexible, powerful and user-friendly. Model-building techniques can be acquired by the business in order to solve their pain points.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan lacks some advanced statistical tools and formulas that would enable more complex modeling of decision-making simulations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Anaplan, we've solved complex, time-consuming processes such as multi-dimensional forecasting of investment values and cashflows.
Platform with strong capabilities on which i have worked a lot the last few years
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of Anaplan in a wide range of use-cases. I have seen that it can support difficult use-cases without much trouble.
It has huge workflow and process time advantages and challenges business users to be critical about how they run their processes
It has huge workflow and process time advantages and challenges business users to be critical about how they run their processes
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the speed of development on the platform could be higher. Working with it for 5 years the changes are becoming ever more incremental which I think hurts their future ability to compete in the marketplace if they continue like this for 5 to 10 years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Budget, planning, forecasting
Helping to reduce or streamline planning efforts and making a more iterative planning experience possible. Meaning multiple scenarios running simultaneously or sequential.
Helping to reduce or streamline planning efforts and making a more iterative planning experience possible. Meaning multiple scenarios running simultaneously or sequential.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
think about the business case as faster & better planning has great benefits. It is important to make this tangible before implementing.
A Platform of Capabilities - Planning for the Alternative Investment Industry
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan as a solution provides flexibility whilst creating a robust and secure environment to connect people, data and plans. It is the best placed tool I have come accross to replace the 'messy middle' and heavy dependence on modelling in excel. The platform allows you to build your processes, formulas and plans in line with the structure of your business and the ability to drill down provides transparency. It allows for end to end planning accross your business. In the Alternative Investment industry we have seen this clearly. In additon to standard FP&A and Workforce Planning use cases Anaplan can truly offer a breadth of capabilities. Real Estate firms use it plan the entire lifecycle of their assets from Acquistion Underwriting Models, through Developments, Asset Level Planning, Disposals and Fund Modelling. Private Equity firms have seen value in building out Fund Outcomes models, Valuations, Carry Waterfalls and more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Management Reporting has been a great new feature but it would be great to see this develop even further. Adding the TODAY function would also be useful and the ability to sub-total via a selection in reports
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time to value, with short implementation time-frames, Anaplans benefits rapidly realized. The platform enables collaboration, provides one source of truth, enables security, version control and transparency.
Anaplan is highly flexible & capable of quick turnaround in meeting business requirements
What do you like best about the product?
- Scalability
- No Code/Low Code Platform
- Personalized Dashboards
- Drill Down Feature
- No Code/Low Code Platform
- Personalized Dashboards
- Drill Down Feature
What do you dislike about the product?
- Workspace constraints
- Dependency on Model Builder
- Dependency on Model Builder
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Enabling faster & accurate decision making
- Collaboration across different functions in the organization
- Increase in Productivity
- Collaboration across different functions in the organization
- Increase in Productivity
Excellent technical solution, difficult company to work with.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the platform, unlimited use cases, short implementation time. Significantly increased development speed (NUX, new features). Anaplan Community program.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan as a company. Difficult pricing structure that doesn't match their vision, complex terms & conditions. Much focus on short-term revenue increase with lack of long-term vision. Terrible tools to support partners. Customers get information about / access to new features earlier than partners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Significant time savings for all our customers (Mostly; 70-90% reduction like from 7 days of planning to less than 1). Short Time-To-Value (less than 3 months implementation time)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent platform that should become your daily planning tool across the organisation. Enables smarter decisions, faster.
Collaborative Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows automatic aggregation of data across various levels set in the hierarchy.
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of proper 'Workflow' setup
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has been implemented in various business to streamline there planning and forecasting process. Helping in Improving the efficiency and providing to better insights
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Helps streamline business processes.
Quick to implement.
Quick to implement.
Flexible planning software that helps in agile business planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows you the flexibility to build everything from a small, departmental model that services a very tailored and specific use case to a large, standardized full company planning model. It's user interface is responsive, sleek, and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
With a lot of flexibility comes the need to make sure you are not overengineering a complex process. Like any true platform, you have to balance "I can do anything" with "what I should be doing" in the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping to
1) making forecasting and budget cycles faster and more efficient
2) allowing for modeling of multiple business scenarios (i.e. "what ifs")
3) connected planning across the organization so it's not purely a finance exercise
1) making forecasting and budget cycles faster and more efficient
2) allowing for modeling of multiple business scenarios (i.e. "what ifs")
3) connected planning across the organization so it's not purely a finance exercise
Anaplan Transforms Forecasting Processes
What do you like best about the product?
+ Real-time reports, cloud-based platform
+ One source of truth - eliminates versions of worksheet
+ Enables scenario forecasting
+ Product improvement - have been providing a continuous update on the functionalities
+ Great community - model builders collaboration of ideas
+ Data integration - either local (model to model) or third party Data source
+ One source of truth - eliminates versions of worksheet
+ Enables scenario forecasting
+ Product improvement - have been providing a continuous update on the functionalities
+ Great community - model builders collaboration of ideas
+ Data integration - either local (model to model) or third party Data source
What do you dislike about the product?
- Report Graphs
- History audit and tracking
- History audit and tracking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Turn-around time of manual reports - greatly improved because of its real-time feature
2) Many versions of reports - Never worry if you have sent the wrong version of the report to your boss, as Anaplan can provide a single source of data.
3) Takes time to deploy an update or a bug fix - in Anaplan's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), we now have a seamless deployment with no system down-time.
2) Many versions of reports - Never worry if you have sent the wrong version of the report to your boss, as Anaplan can provide a single source of data.
3) Takes time to deploy an update or a bug fix - in Anaplan's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), we now have a seamless deployment with no system down-time.
Anaplan is a Powerful and Scalable Business Owned Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan provides a powerful calculation engine coupled with solid data integration options and user access security. Anaplan also comes loaded with front-end dashboarding that is suitable for the majority of use cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
The critical weakness of Anaplan is it's dashboarding, and more generally, its lack of customization options for formatting reports. The Anaplan product team is continuously providing updates to the dashboarding UI giving page builders more and more customization choices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our organization, we are using Anaplan for our compensation forecasting and modeling. We also use Anaplan to report our AUM, key business metrics, and other ad hoc reports.
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