Anaplan
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Scalable, flexible and easy to build
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan makes multi-dimensional modeling easy with its flexibility and scalability. Doing modeling is easy without extensive development skills. It is cloud-based, the app can be built in a mobile-friendly manner supporting planning on-the-go.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan cannot generate a timestamp on its own, which can be useful in a number of business requirements. But there are alternative solutions to it and it is on the roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving our organisations territory account alignments, and we use it to generate audit reports. We also calculate indexes on territory performance. Also we assign reps to territories and give them different roles. We have metrics on on wich the sales rep derives the quota, so we track the entire sales cycle on Anaplan
Very flexible and powerful platform
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to model almost any business planning process at scale
What do you dislike about the product?
Proper configuration requires a very good implementer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End to end S&OP in an industry that doesn't fit into the classical S&OP mold.
Anaplan - Connecting Planning and Beyond
What do you like best about the product?
I like the most about Anaplan is the customization capability and ease of development and usage. You can build anything and everything using your imagination and modeling skill sets. Anaplan has transformed the way connected planning solutions are thought through and developed.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
Anaplan always keeps up with new features and requirements needed to keep the tool most up to date... new functionalities like Polaris engine, Workflow, DMS are a testimony to that fact.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it feels an overkill that certain functionalities are unavailable in Anaplan, and everything has to be developed through a custom code. Things like Delta functionality, more robust auditing capabilities, drill-through capabilities, and model locking are some of the things which come to mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
From a developer perspective, Anaplan provides endless possibilities to offer solutions to the client per outlined requirements. It's the next-gen EPM solution to cater to all the different use cases and Business areas in the organization.
Connected planning allows for enhanced insights previously difficult to decipher
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use & agile methods of making changes on the fly
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations on User Experience & latency at scale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing for connected planning across multiple LOB within the business
Fast and agile Development without the typical overhead of 1st party solutions.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has allowed our team to quickly build drivers, upload templates, P&Ls and consolidated reporting in an incredible agile environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have the ability to have branching code (think excel model with a point-in-time copy), so if I create 10 models that are 90% similar metadata structures, but have 10% differences I would have accumulated a fair amount of technical debt in that I need to make changes in 10 different places.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance planning and trying to move planning to the cloud as opposed to offline spreadsheets
Great for connecting people, data, and plan
What do you like best about the product?
In general, Anaplan is an excellent tool for planning and analytics. It is flexible enough to model different business requirements and functionalities. It could be owned by business and thus reduce dependency of IT when business logics change frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, the product still has areas to improve on. For example, workflow has been discussed and requested by a lot customers for many years, but it is "on the roadmap."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan across Finance, HR, Sales, etc. and across multiple regions. Our legacy systems were mostly in silos and/or offline which makes it very challenging to have a consistent view at one place for planning. Anaplan provides a platform as one-place to go for planning and analytics, improving planning efficiency.
Anaplan provides scalable models whilst also being flexible
What do you like best about the product?
It can calculate many millions of cells, way beyond what Excel can do. It is built in a very intuitive way, with no need to understand code or database structure. The only thing that takes some time to learn before you can build really impactful models is dimensionality, which many new modellers won't have, coming from an excel background.
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
Anaplan has the flexibility to adapt to the changes in how the business needs the model to operate in a way that other systems wouldn't be able to do
So you have the scalability of a system but the flexibility of Excel
What do you dislike about the product?
If you arent careful with how you combine dimensions, you can run out of workspace. Sometimes you need to create concatenated hierrachies which only contain valid combinations of hierarchy items to save workspace
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
The reporting could be better, its not up to BI tool level of appearance, however it has improved a long way in the 7 years that I've been using it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Model complex scenarios in investment funds, where the timings and amounts of investments and exits can quickly be flexed, showing the sensitivity of the fund
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Controlling user inputs, so that once they are signed off by an approver, they cannot be changed, keeping the plan stable and under control during review and analysis
Excellent platform for FP&A
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple use cases; easy for new starters to learn the platform, doesn't require any coding experience; can create colourful and engaging dashboards very quickly; excellent support and community pages
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a couple of bugs in the new App
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are multiple use cases: FP&A, Supply Chain, and Financial Consolidation. I have worked with property and construction, education, insurance, banking, and retail clients.
Anaplan For Finance , Sales & Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1)Anaplan provides the flexibility to model any business use case.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
2)Platform has a very intuitive UX which allows great end user adoption.
3)Configured model can very easily modified to accommodate changed business scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
1)Anaplan modelling has size restrictions which sometimes makes it very difficult to create reports by intersecting multiple dimensionality.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
2)Anaplan should provide better starter models for some of the most common use cases so that the implementation does not require creating everything from scratch.
3)Anaplan should provide some built in algorithms to make the platform more relevant for Supply Chain Planning use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has a very intuitive UX which allows significant end user adoption as the functionalities are very straightforward to use. The Platform provides the flexibility to model any business use case and all the functionalities can be implemented in a very agile manner. The Platform can be used to build applications related to FP&A , Sales Planning and Supply Chain planning use cases. On top of the business modelling capabilities , the tool also provides embedded AI/ML capabilities that can be leveraged for a wide variety of use cases. The Tool can be seamlessly integrated with other third-party systems with various integration options available.
Anaplan for FPA solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is Cloud Based In-Memory Calculation engine
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
Concurrency
Transparency of the Data
Auto calculations of any dependent calculations
What do you dislike about the product?
Some commonly used Excel formulas are not available
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
Scope for Improvements in user experience
Performance issues with large data sets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have implemented financial planning and budgeting. It helped us improve the efficiency of the planning by enhancing transparency.
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