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Great flexible cloud based platform
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud based platform
Application Lifecycle Management
UX Dashboards
Flexible formula based logic
Application Lifecycle Management
UX Dashboards
Flexible formula based logic
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited new functionality releases
Anaplan support not as good as it used to be
Anaplan support not as good as it used to be
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The reduction of time to create reports / useful analytics to actually spend time on making decisions
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The Anaplan practice evolving all over the years
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a easy-to-use service, but still very powerful and robust at the same time. There is a quite low level of entrance to the platform in order to be able to create complex models. If you are good in excel and VBA, you will be definitely good in model building. You can cover any business case by Anaplan, it's proved by my 7-years platform's experience. An UX is great, you don't have to get used to that. It is very native and user friendly. Anaplan doesn't stay in an one place. It releases new features very often.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, Anaplan doesn't support any scripts modelling. Therefore, sometimes you have to pass a very long building way in order to reach your goal. The greatest disadvantage of the platform is a price. It is quite high, your company need to have a really good profit to afford it. On the other hand, Anaplan brings a real value. That amount can be calculated. In many cases the savings cover an Anaplan's TCO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a consultancy company, we've managed a lot of Anaplan implementations in different domains and business cases. It's been FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Mining, and Tech industries. All of them found their benefits in the Anaplan's implementation. Some clients cut twice their time for budget campaign, others increased transparency and efficiency in C&B process for their Sales Reps. Many clients provide a great feedback about an ability to create and compare different scenarios in very rapid way. In my opinion, the greatest benefit in the Anaplan implementation is that clients, finally, get verified and enhanced buisness process, that have really clear definition. In addition to that, they can change the process, even by their internal champion. Nowadays, when the things are changed unpredictably fast, this is extremely important.
Anaplan a flexible planning tool with many use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a multi-dimensional planning tool that allows you to bring together multiple sources of data to act as the one source of truth for planning. With versions and flexible time scales, you can plan for any eventuality as far out as you need to.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of workflow was an issue, butAnaplan has implemented this recently and looks to provide what we need. It good to know they listen to their customer base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan acting as the one source of truth for your data allows greater faith in the numbers throughout the business. it also speeds up the whole reporting process allowing more agile planning throughout the business.
Scalable Spreadsheets
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very flexible and can be implemented to suport a wide variety of use cases: Financial Planning, Sales Comp. Management, Demand Planning, etc. Use cases can be connected together and foster alignment within the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the product limitations can significantly complicate development:
- Workspaces are limited to 130GB wihtout HyperModel option
- Poor handling of sparse data sets without Polaris option
- Workspaces are limited to 130GB wihtout HyperModel option
- Poor handling of sparse data sets without Polaris option
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps diminish the reliance on spreadsheets and becomes the single source of truth for planning purposes.
Anaplan is a true leader of Integrated Business Planning
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility and the fact that Anaplan drives the collaboration. When implemented for multiple use cases can really play a pivoting role in the way your business is organized and how you approach planning and forecasting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downsize of Anaplan is that it require quite some knowledge in order to get the true value out of it. The flexibility is so signifficant it can sometimes lead to unperformant solutions, unless done wisely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves the issue of multiple separate excel files and disconnected planning processes. It can transform your chaotic business processes into an integrated planning platform. It changes the chaos into collaboration.
A great "connected" planning tool that can scale with your business
What do you like best about the product?
* Encourages collaboration across business units to break down silos
* Can easily add more granularity to existing planning models
* Relatively fast implementation timeframe
* Numerous integration options including Anaplan APIs, Anaplan Connect, HyperConnect and iPaas connectors
* Drilldown feature which enables a user to trace calculations back to source inputs/data
* Dynamic reporting through the use of dynamic text where values (e.g. Sales or Net Profit) dynamically change as the user selects different reporting periods
* Workflow feature although this currently costs a small license fee
* Customer focussed support
* Can easily add more granularity to existing planning models
* Relatively fast implementation timeframe
* Numerous integration options including Anaplan APIs, Anaplan Connect, HyperConnect and iPaas connectors
* Drilldown feature which enables a user to trace calculations back to source inputs/data
* Dynamic reporting through the use of dynamic text where values (e.g. Sales or Net Profit) dynamically change as the user selects different reporting periods
* Workflow feature although this currently costs a small license fee
* Customer focussed support
What do you dislike about the product?
* Certain aspects of model building are more complicated that it needs to be... although has improved recently and continues to evolve
* Some new features (e.g. Workflow) require additional licence fees to be paid
* Uses a different platform to handle very large models
* Some new features (e.g. Workflow) require additional licence fees to be paid
* Uses a different platform to handle very large models
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our clients who have implemented Anaplan were primarily wanting to:
- remove/limit the use of MS Excel in managing and driving the performance of their business to eliminate inherent spreadsheet mistakes and provide transparency in assumptions/drivers used in planning models
- encourage collaboration among their business units
- significantly reduce the time it took to report their results and prepare updated forecasts
- introduce a faster way of creating scenario analyses to enable them to react to fast changing market conditions and plan for unforeseen challenges
- remove/limit the use of MS Excel in managing and driving the performance of their business to eliminate inherent spreadsheet mistakes and provide transparency in assumptions/drivers used in planning models
- encourage collaboration among their business units
- significantly reduce the time it took to report their results and prepare updated forecasts
- introduce a faster way of creating scenario analyses to enable them to react to fast changing market conditions and plan for unforeseen challenges
Anaplan platform
What do you like best about the product?
Highly configurable, ease of use for business
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboarding capabilities can be restricted, predictive analytics can be integrated further into scenario modelling.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Build forecasting models across various use cases
With Anaplan since 2016
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is low/no code system oriented on selfservice by business users. Anaplan really helps to save time and spent it on thinking and solving business issues rather then technical problems. Anaplan less sensitive ot changes, the change requirments/logic is usually less paintfull ther majority of others solutions. Also Anaplan has great eco sytem with learning center, comunity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite there is a relatively low technical barriers to start building it is easy to make bad product with low performance. Always need to pay attention to architecture and be accurate in solving tasks that are not proper for OLAP like huge transacional lists, long time scales. Also need pay attention to sizes of model since you are limited in available workspace.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps to consolidate financial reporing in a matter of time , source of truth, transparent process of collecting, commenting, approving data. Anaplan helps to reduce time in preparing consolidated statemnets with a higher quality. Anaplan helps to prepare more versions of forecasts and budgets before it was previosly before Anaplan.
Anaplan can be configured to hand the most unique business processes.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very user friendly and is owned by the business, not IT. The business owners are empowered to make changes/updates and can configure pages in such a way that meets the unique needs of each department/area within the business while still connecting all of the planning activities.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan does offer ML/AI functionality, it does not offere insights to the indicators for this functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows us to track the stage of sales opportunities and rate the probablility of closure, which then informs our sales forecast. This information is also used to then plan our resources that need to be assigned to each opportunity.
Anaplan replaced shared spreadsheets.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's security feature enable input data accountability. Its dashboards or reports update on the fly when data change.
Its flexible modelling features allow seamlessly model update. For example, when adding a new entity to entity list in a model, the same set of calculations will applied to the new entity straight away. No need to duplicate calculations for the new entity.
Its flexible modelling features allow seamlessly model update. For example, when adding a new entity to entity list in a model, the same set of calculations will applied to the new entity straight away. No need to duplicate calculations for the new entity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboard functionality is not as flexible as excel. For example, font size in dashboard is not adjustable. Cell highlighting by user is not possible. Line item alias is not there, we need to create a separate line item to accommodate the reporting requirement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Anaplan, we used spreadsheet for monthly workforce planning process which involves 20 cost centers and around 400 workforce resources. Some resources will be shared by multiple cost center, and it caused double counting in planning. To maintain the accuracy and integrity of data, a delegated staff responsible to meet with individual head of business functions and to input the workforce planning data for them. Also, it took the staff around 3-4 stressful days to produce a consolidation report. During these 3-4 days, any new-comer or resignation still need to be handled and updated to get an accurate report.
With Anaplan, individual head of business functions are able to input the workforce planning data themselves via the self-serve dashboard. With the control of cost center resources hierarchy, planning for shared workforce resources without double count become possible. Also, a cost center dashboard, which is impossible in spreadsheet model, allows the head of business functions to review their own workforce planning. Once the workforce planning data is completed by the head of business functions, the consolidation report is produced automatically. For any changes in resource, it reflects in the report immediately.
With Anaplan, individual head of business functions are able to input the workforce planning data themselves via the self-serve dashboard. With the control of cost center resources hierarchy, planning for shared workforce resources without double count become possible. Also, a cost center dashboard, which is impossible in spreadsheet model, allows the head of business functions to review their own workforce planning. Once the workforce planning data is completed by the head of business functions, the consolidation report is produced automatically. For any changes in resource, it reflects in the report immediately.
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