Reviews from AWS customer
0 AWS reviews
-
5 star0
-
4 star0
-
3 star0
-
2 star0
-
1 star0
External reviews
408 reviews
from
and
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Best Modeling and Planning Tool on the market
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's standout feature is its powerful flexibility in connected planning, enabling seamless collaboration across departments. Its intuitive cloud-based interface simplifies complex modeling, while real-time data integration ensures accurate, dynamic decision-making. The scalability accommodates diverse business needs, and the ability to create custom workflows empowers organizations to adapt swiftly in changing environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's primary drawback is its steep learning curve, especially for new users unfamiliar with its modeling language or advanced functionalities. Complex formulas can be hard to debug, and the platform occasionally lacks intuitive visualizations for certain tasks. Additionally, performance may slow with extremely large datasets, and licensing costs can be prohibitive for smaller organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows user to plan their territory with live calculations, live comparisons, and be able to make quick adjustments to tweak their assignments.
Anaplan is my preferred platform for modeling FP&A processes and producing connected forecasts.
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful aspect of Anaplan is that it gives business users the ability to build models, i.e. planning, budgeting, and forecasting models, that are customized to their business needs. Models can also be built to incorporate data from almost any source, into the hundreds of millions of data points (rows/columns/cells), without compromising on performance or detail.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's customizability can also be a double-edged sword. Although there are more and more out-of-the-box solutions being built and provided by Anaplan and 3rd parties, an organization will most likely have to expend significant resources to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping me to build PBF models that connect all levels of the FP&A organization (from analysts to leadership) and beyond to other organizations throughout companies. With Anaplan you can provide large datasets and detailed models to produce detailed forecasts at the lowest levels, and easily consolidate and aggregate those forecasts to produce high-level reporting. Leadership can use these reports to analyze KPI's, simulate scenarios, strategize moves, make decisions, develop goals, and set targets.
As a model builder, I think Anaplan is a very good tool to build a sophisticated model.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan displays a very straightforward and clear way of code implementation, and it provides a very good training courses that support learner to get sufficient technical knowledge.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limitation of workspace. Sometimes end users require to see reports in very detailed granular level, but due to the limitation of workspace, we couldn't build that level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem is disconnection among different teams that are working in the same budgeting and forecasting processes, Anaplan provides a single source of truth that every users from different functional teams use Anaplan as the single platform to submit their budget & forecast, review & analyze their financial reports.
Anaplan For Financial Planning and Forecasting
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is robust and powerful modeling tool that promotes collaboration across various teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Space constraint. UX formatting can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating the monthly forecasting process and providing leadership with faster insights
Anaplan: Connected Planning For The Enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great connected planning tool that can break down silos between different teams, enable version control for planning, and reduce the amount of time it takes to plan through automation of datasets & calculations, predictive AI & through multi-dimensional planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has some challenges when it comes to concurrency for loading datasets, as well as with size when handling large quantities of data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan enables teams to plan in real time, it allows for complex business rules to be applied within the platform, and it enables version control while being on a cloud based solution. Anaplan also has AI capabilities to enable planning using predictive AI with PlanIQ
Anaplan: Balancing Agility and Complexity
What do you like best about the product?
Modeling Flexibility: Anaplan allows handle complex models with ease and it's multidimensional modeling capabilities allow for scenario planning and forecasting which accommodates various business needs in the EPM ecosystem.
Real-Time Data Updates: The platform supports real-time data integration with it's need in house integration system called Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) which enables quick decision-making. This feature allows the system to be updated with latest data from your various legacy system within seconds, enhancing the planning experience and also collaboration across teams.
User-Friendly Interface: With the onset of New UX a few years ago, Anaplan's user experience allows easy navigation, even for users without extensive technical expertise. It allows for users to easily get accustomed to the system encouraging them to use the system.
Scalability: Building on the "Honeycomb" idea of Anaplan, the free design within Anaplan allows for clients to scale their small models to big implementations with ease, taking different use cases within a single Anaplan umbrella.
Collaboration Tools: Built-in collaboration features like comments notification, workflows etc. promote seamless communication within different teams working on the model. It fosters the idea of collaboration among different teams prompting better planning and forecasting exercises.
Real-Time Data Updates: The platform supports real-time data integration with it's need in house integration system called Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) which enables quick decision-making. This feature allows the system to be updated with latest data from your various legacy system within seconds, enhancing the planning experience and also collaboration across teams.
User-Friendly Interface: With the onset of New UX a few years ago, Anaplan's user experience allows easy navigation, even for users without extensive technical expertise. It allows for users to easily get accustomed to the system encouraging them to use the system.
Scalability: Building on the "Honeycomb" idea of Anaplan, the free design within Anaplan allows for clients to scale their small models to big implementations with ease, taking different use cases within a single Anaplan umbrella.
Collaboration Tools: Built-in collaboration features like comments notification, workflows etc. promote seamless communication within different teams working on the model. It fosters the idea of collaboration among different teams prompting better planning and forecasting exercises.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost: Despite it's amazing feature, Anaplan does come with a good price tag. The new bundle costing method might help out large scale enterprises to adopt Anaplan, it will remain out of each for a number of smaller organizations with limited budgets and resources.
Performance Issues: Even though Anaplan very much allows large scale scalability, it can have a few performance issues specially when working with large datasets. New calculation engine called "Polaris" is now available for clients to tackle some of these issues, but it does require good model building to ensure justification of using the Polaris engine.
Performance Issues: Even though Anaplan very much allows large scale scalability, it can have a few performance issues specially when working with large datasets. New calculation engine called "Polaris" is now available for clients to tackle some of these issues, but it does require good model building to ensure justification of using the Polaris engine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Agility in Decision-Making: With real time data integrations using ADO, fast calculations and real time reports allows organizations to be agile with their decision making and make room for swift adjustments to plan based on the market conditions and updated budgets. This ability comes in handy special in a world like today with multiple economic and political situations which pivot every few days.
Scenario Analysis and Forecasting: As Anaplan allows detailed scenario planning, planners have the ability to play out various scenarios, playing with wide range of planning assumptions - allowing organizations to be agile with their plans and make informed business decisions in line with their strategic objectives.
Collaboration Across Teams: Having seen Anaplan in action within my own organization, I can see how well Anaplan allows collaboration among various teams and business units which wouldn't easily collaborate on some of the key decisions. This allows break down silos and contributes to a shared vision.
Scenario Analysis and Forecasting: As Anaplan allows detailed scenario planning, planners have the ability to play out various scenarios, playing with wide range of planning assumptions - allowing organizations to be agile with their plans and make informed business decisions in line with their strategic objectives.
Collaboration Across Teams: Having seen Anaplan in action within my own organization, I can see how well Anaplan allows collaboration among various teams and business units which wouldn't easily collaborate on some of the key decisions. This allows break down silos and contributes to a shared vision.
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.
Good UI and super flexible platform
What do you like best about the product?
You can do almost anything with Anaplan. We used it to integrate call center capacity planning models with Finance, Recruiting, IT, and HR.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve to getting started that can feel daunting. Get vendor training & certified and it will help tremendously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating different functional departments that all have to use the same data source.
Anaplan: Great P&L Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to understand from the business perspective
- Simple to consolidate and roll up planning data
- Easy to plan at different levels of detail for each part of the process
- Simple to consolidate and roll up planning data
- Easy to plan at different levels of detail for each part of the process
What do you dislike about the product?
- Can be performance issues
- User access can be difficult to configure
- Difficult to plan at extremely low levels of detail which is required for some companies
- User access can be difficult to configure
- Difficult to plan at extremely low levels of detail which is required for some companies
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves many business problems which helps clients.
- Standardization across regions / teams
- Single source of truth for planning data
- Ease of consolidation of reporting
- Standardization across regions / teams
- Single source of truth for planning data
- Ease of consolidation of reporting
Connected planning and rapid calculations streamline financial forecasting
What is our primary use case?
Currently, I am working on financial planning using Anaplan. We use Anaplan for companies' planning and budgeting, which helps us build scenario-based cases and conduct forecasting. It acts as a consolidated engine.
What is most valuable?
Anaplan's connected planning feature is its most valuable aspect, allowing for seamless financial planning, HR planning, and updates. The in-memory engine ensures super quick calculations without delays for data refreshes. Recent developments in dashboarding and other functionalities enhance the product greatly, making it an outstanding tool for current needs.
What needs improvement?
There are minor improvements needed on the dashboarding side and with the formulas, but no significant issues. Advanced planning with AI, machine learning, and related plugins would be great to see in the future.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Anaplan for more than six or seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate scalability between six and seven. Anaplan had issues before, but the new Polaris engine solves them, although its implementation is more challenging compared to the Classic engine.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from Anaplan is amazing, with a dedicated team to assist in case of any issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
There are several competitors, but Anaplan differentiates itself with its unique in-memory calculation engine and other features that enhance its functionality.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very simple. You just need a workspace license, username, and password. There's no need for a separate setup.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is slightly on the premium side, but I do not have detailed knowledge about the exact licensing structure.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Anaplan eight out of ten in general. While the product is mainly for medium and enterprise-level companies, it may be too costly for smaller ones. Overall, I recommend Anaplan to other users. I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
showing 1 - 10