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Best in class connected planning tool to transform the way you analyse your business
What do you like best about the product?
A very valuable, scalable and powerful platform. It was is very to implement and can be implemented on very short time scales to deliver value quickly. Anaplan are constantly developing new features to improve the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is some capacity issues when working on extremely demanding usecases such as consolidation, where granularity is required, however this can be solved by making smarter design decisions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is the best in class tool to help organisations achieve connected planning, bringing together all the business fuctions to work towards having a single source of truth.
Sharing the same data and plans across the business leads to accurate decision making.
Sharing the same data and plans across the business leads to accurate decision making.
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Anaplan is Flexible and Powerful, But Does Not Require Technical Expertise or Coding
What do you like best about the product?
Excel is great when you are working by yourself, but as you start to collaborate with colleagues and add enterprise-level amounts of data the cracks start to show. Anaplan gives you the same flexibility to build whatever you need, but with enterprise-level information system guardrails for things like security, auditability, change control, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial price point is pretty high. It is hard for organizations to inexpensively do a Pilot or Proof of Concept. I would like to see them offer an inexpensive 90 or 180 day option for 2-4 users with Model Builder access to accelerate adoption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps our clients connect their Financial planning with Operational planning. We hear over and over again from our clients that they are able to forecast more frequently and more accurately because the Anaplan solutions we configure for them reduce the time to forecast and plan.
Fantastic Tool for Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Similar to Microsoft Excel, Anaplan is a blank sheet that allows you to build whatever you like. Anaplan handles massive amounts of data, in a connected fashion, which is extremely valuable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Users are typically coming from Excel, I wish Anaplan had more Excel-like features like in-cell formulas for users, expand/collapse, same filter style, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My customers see a massive time savings with Anaplan. There are no more consolidations of their excel models, which is also prone to formula errors etc. They can focus on what the numbers mean versus are my numbers rolling correctly.
Flexible Modeling Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I love how flexible it is and how many ways there are to solve a single problem. It really allows you to take an issue or pain point that you have having and create it in a an elegant, scalable, accurate solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
In recent years there has been a lot of information released about best practices, and sometimes the ways that we used to build are not best practice currently. It is imperative to build using best practices or you could face performance and concurrency issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan takes generally disparate systems and processes and brings them together in a single platform. It helps the Analyst spend more time Analyzing the data and less time curating and wrangling the data.
Flexible, scalable, approachable tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-dimensionality for data, ability to conduct scenario planning, collaborative and cloud-based platform
What do you dislike about the product?
Management style reporting is a new feature that still needs some work. The ability to execute iterative calculations similar to Excel is not present.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The scalability and security issues faced when using Excel for budgeting and forecasting. Users can ensure integrity in a forecast without cell-by-cell formula references.
Get into connected planning with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has a potent calculation engine, which allows a very fast processing of information and allows you to connect different parts of the organisation; every process is auditable and you can set up a very detailed and easy-to-use security system, so users can only access specific data, even when seeing the same page as others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan requires someone with some knowledge of the tool, which can be hard to find in some markets. Also, you need to pay for the space used, so it is not suitable as a database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows you to process millions of data points in mere seconds, allowing an integration of data across the entire organisation and giving real-time updates on the planning process.
Easy to setup and support for HR and workforce
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use \ configuration. Simple setup on a small VM to connect our data with Anaplan., Dedicated team that works with you through the adoption process to get started.
Competitive price
Competitive price
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial vendor calls had a bit of disconnect between their sales and technical teams. A lot of confusion over certificates that ended up being a non-issue in the long run.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our HR department make important planning data visualization and charts that would not be possible with something simpler like MS Excel and allows them to gather data to further compare with other departments for project planning, budgeting and financial consolidation.
Anaplan Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan shines when it comes to empowering the business. Having such a powerful platform can often be daunting, but Anaplan is built so that the tool can be wholly owned and operated by the business itself. It empowers the business through an easy-to-build structure without compromising on flexibility/capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Anaplan could better make some tenant-level reports (metadata around user activity) more readily available/accessible. While not a major pain point, it is always nice to have this detail at your fingertips in the early stages of the deployment of a new solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Given the versatility of Anaplan, it is not limited to any one use case. Being an implementation partner, I am seeing Anaplan deliver value/benefit through its' focus on connected planning. That is, bringing multiple use cases together in a single environment for real-time connected planning.
Anaplan works well for a quick reference for your numbers/metrics/data in the sales field.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that it was easy to access and easy to understand. The format is user-friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like that anaplan is not very accurate with its data until the very last minute. Meaning the data is a bit jumbled until the last day of a quarter. Then you get accurate data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Metric tracking to keep my reps on track with their monthly and quarterly KPIs.
Anaplan transforms business planning with the greatest flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
In Anaplan, anything is possible. A process that was manual and tedious can now be automated and centralized. This can eliminate time in the planning cycle and give users the ability to make more accurate forecasts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is limited in the capacity for the graphs. I'd like them to release more graphics for the interface that would be useful to planning process. This is especially important in high level reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves the pain point when different departments are using different datasets for the same goal. This causes inaccurate forecast and does not foster a culture of collaboration.
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