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Scalable, customizable, and intelligent platform for all your business planning needs
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is not an out of the box solution that forces companies to fit their business process into a predefined mold, it allows businesses to build up models and planning processes that fit their needs and can continue to evolve as their business grows and changes. It is difficult to imagine a modeling scenario you can't build in Anaplan. The tool allows for a lot of flexibility in the type of planning a customer wants to do, and can truly be owned/managed by end users instead of by IT. This allows for much quicker turnaround on adjustments to a model.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since Anaplan is not a pre-built solution, it does require more up-front investment in time and resources to get set up. It requires participation from multiple groups across the organization to put together a well-thought out model and more importantly to maintain and update the model on a regular cadence to keep up with a growing company. This can allow for things that shouldn't exist in Anaplan to be put into Anaplan (such as data storage).
I also think ANaplan's front end and reporting capabilities could vastly improve the appeal of the platform, this could help reduce a customer's need for separate reporting/dashboarding in another tool like Tableau and further streamline processes by having robust reporting directly in Anaplan.
I also think ANaplan's front end and reporting capabilities could vastly improve the appeal of the platform, this could help reduce a customer's need for separate reporting/dashboarding in another tool like Tableau and further streamline processes by having robust reporting directly in Anaplan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan very quickly solves a lot of issues around internal communication and transfer of information because it is cloud based. Instead of having multiple versions of documents, a "living" version of business plans sits in Anaplan where anyone from the organization can access to review and make changes. This in itself reduces a lot of the time spent on planning. Through implementing Anaplan solutions at multiple clients, across several industries and use cases, I have consistently found that having a dedicated model admin that knows how to build and adjust the model on the client side is most effective, it allows the client to view and approach using Anaplan as an App that requires regular updates and releases of updates to end users, rather than a one-time set up.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a clear plan for the future state process you would like to have in Anaplan before starting on building Anaplan; this will make the build easier, faster and ultimately result in a better model output. If you try to design a process during the build, it can quickly get messy as things are built/rebuilt or the direction is changed halfway through the build.
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Anaplan review - powerful product with a great roadmap
What do you like best about the product?
Multi dimensionality, plenty of flexibility but without compromising on controls
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike once you've managed to get past the learning curve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased controls, drilldown ability, removed significant pain points associated with Excel models. Able to reduce planning cycle significantly through real time calculations and automatically compare plans to prior years/submissions, all in the same place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get involved as much as possible in the scoping as well as building of your models. You'll love it once you get over the learning curve! Take your time with the first implementation, after that you can scale up your builds rapidly.
Get in touch with Anaplan about your use case, they will be more than happy to put you in touch with current clients who will be able to give you some really good objective insights.
Get in touch with Anaplan about your use case, they will be more than happy to put you in touch with current clients who will be able to give you some really good objective insights.
Take back control of your planning tools with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity and speed of modeling to meet a wide variety of use cases. Users quickly become autonomous on the platform. New features are released every month. The community paltform can help you find answers when you are stuck on a design point. A learning center with a lot of e-learning courses to help you gain skills on the plateform easily. The user interface has been completely revised for a much better experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Volumetric issues that may arise when you have to cross several dimensions with a lot fo items if you have a small workspace. Reporting features are still too limited even if you can use native connectors to plug into BI Solutions (Tableau, Power BI ...)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance (FP&A, Cash flow, Capex/Opex planning, Payroll ...)
Sales (Quota, Incentives, Territory planning ...)
Supply Chain (S&OP, Demand Planning ...)
Sales (Quota, Incentives, Territory planning ...)
Supply Chain (S&OP, Demand Planning ...)
Implementing Anaplan: A Consultants Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an incredibly easy solution to scale throughout a business and can be tailored to fit almost any business case.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's strategy for introducing new features, Wish it was shorter
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have built solutions for Gross to Net, Financial Planning, Zero-based Budgeting, Price Modeling, etc. The benefits are almost instant from the time reduction of planning to data aggregation across the business.
Anaplan has been the main focus of my career for almost 7 years - as both a customer and partner.
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility of truly connected planning for all businesses.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally, support can take longer than it should or not be helpful at all - I often know more about the issue than the support person does, which causes troubleshooting to take longer than it should.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've solved many problems, but the most common are - easily consolidating data from many source systems, connecting multiple departments that don't usually "pass" data over the cloud, building near "real-time" P&Ls and other financial statements based on decentralized operational inputs. The benefits that I've realized have been reduction in hours used for "number crunching" and data consolidation and creating time for powerful analysis and decision making.
A powerful & flexible tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's freeform platform platform allows users to build and scale the model to meet business needs. Because it's not an out of the box solution with specific use case constraints, we've been able to utilize Anaplan's platform for a multitude of cases. Combining this with data integrations, process actions, and being a collaborate cloud tool, it has been the backbone of our FP&A organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan has been great from a model builder and finance perspective, the reporting capabilities are lacking. Anaplan has made great strides with the new UX and Reporting for higher level management reporting, but there's still room for improvement for more data table heavy and variance/scenario reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a single source of truth, data integrity, removing process redundancies, and manually consolidating data.
I've found Anaplan to be an incredibly valuable and intuitive tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like Anaplan's easy-to-use interface, fast-paced product improvements, and interactive community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with other platforms could be expanded/more effective (i.e. excel/powerpoint add-ins)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I typically use Anaplan to solve for Sales Performance Management challenges - territory & quota planning, compensation modeling, account segmentation/scoring, etc.
Easy to implement with smooth end user adoption
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of model maintenance for admins. Model admins do not need to have extensive knowledge of coding language and can be adopted by any users that have a general background of financial modeling in previous roles.
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting visualizations in Anaplan are not as extensive as some other reporting tools, however, they still get the job done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving the problem of having end-users work in disparate excel spreadsheets that often require back and forth between operations and finance during the monthly reporting process, which causes costly inefficiencies in the business. Anaplan allows for uniform processes across the organization and creates efficiencies that allow operations to input forecasts while finance can review in real-time.
Anaplan Enabling Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is real time and dynamic. It also allows businesses to be flexible in their changes and customize to their needs. While traditional planning solutions used to take months in advance to enhance, Anaplan is relatively easy to adapt.
Additionally while other solutions focus on one use case, this allows us to enable the truly connected planning environment. Cross functions are able to collaborate in ways we have not seen in the past.
Additionally while other solutions focus on one use case, this allows us to enable the truly connected planning environment. Cross functions are able to collaborate in ways we have not seen in the past.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan is great and flexible, sometimes space limitations and design considerations have to be taken into account that can limit a users flexibility in intersections when working with detailed data.
Also while the new UX is helping address some of the cosmetic features of Anaplan, there still is much improvement for filtering and ad hoc reporting for it to truly be a one stop shop.
Also while the new UX is helping address some of the cosmetic features of Anaplan, there still is much improvement for filtering and ad hoc reporting for it to truly be a one stop shop.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving complex issues in making quick decisions on key metrics across supply chain and Finance. Additionally, we are harmonizing disparate business processes within a function, and using Anaplan as a catalyst to help streamline.
We have seen teams spending less time on data aggregation and harmonization, and focus on business decisions. Additionally teams are now able to work cross functionally to make a wholistic approaches and not siloed
We have seen teams spending less time on data aggregation and harmonization, and focus on business decisions. Additionally teams are now able to work cross functionally to make a wholistic approaches and not siloed
Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The ease if implementation and the flexibility of tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with other ETLs was an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
problem area was related to direct cash flow. We were able to decrease the manhours by 40% by using Anaplan.
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