Anaplan
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Amazing platform that is flexible and scalable to business needs
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud-based platform - able to link multiple models together
Flexible to business needs
Enables the end-user to make changes to the platform
Flexible to business needs
Enables the end-user to make changes to the platform
What do you dislike about the product?
The native versions used in Anaplan are not a great solution when running numerous scenarios. Instead, you have to use a list alternative, which you lose some of the great functionality of using native versions.
Expensive licensing costs
Expensive licensing costs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workforce planning
Financial Planning
Asset Management
Fund Management
Financial Planning
Asset Management
Fund Management
You can be a model builder.
What do you like best about the product?
The upsides of Anaplan is the accessibility, all you need is an account, browser and internet connection and your ready to plan.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
Another advantage is the ease of implementation, especially with it's ALM features. Deploying updates is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say that I dislike this, probably room for improvement is integration and system limitation. Every platform has its limitations anyway, but these are some of the things we can look for when looking for ideas for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We encountered problems trying to build a model with workflow, at first it was hard but eventually we pulled it off. I think the agile methodology benefited our project. We can quickly test and make quick adjustments according to the user requirements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want a cloud based platform that is cloud based and easy to implement then this is the one for you.
Anaplan has enabled many organisations I've worked with to optimise several business processes.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is flexible, powerful and user-friendly. Model-building techniques can be acquired by the business in order to solve their pain points.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan lacks some advanced statistical tools and formulas that would enable more complex modeling of decision-making simulations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Anaplan, we've solved complex, time-consuming processes such as multi-dimensional forecasting of investment values and cashflows.
Platform with strong capabilities on which i have worked a lot the last few years
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of Anaplan in a wide range of use-cases. I have seen that it can support difficult use-cases without much trouble.
It has huge workflow and process time advantages and challenges business users to be critical about how they run their processes
It has huge workflow and process time advantages and challenges business users to be critical about how they run their processes
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the speed of development on the platform could be higher. Working with it for 5 years the changes are becoming ever more incremental which I think hurts their future ability to compete in the marketplace if they continue like this for 5 to 10 years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Budget, planning, forecasting
Helping to reduce or streamline planning efforts and making a more iterative planning experience possible. Meaning multiple scenarios running simultaneously or sequential.
Helping to reduce or streamline planning efforts and making a more iterative planning experience possible. Meaning multiple scenarios running simultaneously or sequential.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
think about the business case as faster & better planning has great benefits. It is important to make this tangible before implementing.
Excellent technical solution, difficult company to work with.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the platform, unlimited use cases, short implementation time. Significantly increased development speed (NUX, new features). Anaplan Community program.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan as a company. Difficult pricing structure that doesn't match their vision, complex terms & conditions. Much focus on short-term revenue increase with lack of long-term vision. Terrible tools to support partners. Customers get information about / access to new features earlier than partners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Significant time savings for all our customers (Mostly; 70-90% reduction like from 7 days of planning to less than 1). Short Time-To-Value (less than 3 months implementation time)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent platform that should become your daily planning tool across the organisation. Enables smarter decisions, faster.
Collaborative Planning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows automatic aggregation of data across various levels set in the hierarchy.
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
Oncloud solution no requirement of maintaining any physical servers
Business Rules can be easily defined Simple logic-based setup
Flexible and Agile to implement
Role based security can be setup to ensure data security and integrity
Functional tool minimal IT support required for upkeep and maintenance
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of proper 'Workflow' setup
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
Reporting capabilities lacking behind in comparison to peer tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has been implemented in various business to streamline there planning and forecasting process. Helping in Improving the efficiency and providing to better insights
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Helps streamline business processes.
Quick to implement.
Quick to implement.
Working previously as a business and financial analyst, I really see the benefit & need for Anaplan.
What do you like best about the product?
Data hub used to aggregate multiple sources of data. In addition, the connected planning of "linked excel pivots".
What do you dislike about the product?
Data Integration could be cleaner and easier to use. Dashboarding could use some additional formatting features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No longer need to have multiple versions of a file. Don't need to update formulas for the new month by dragging everything across in Excel. Big time saver.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk with a Anaplan partner vs Anaplan sales rep to better understand needs and size requirements.
Game Changer
What do you like best about the product?
For me, the most helpful aspect of Anaplan is its ability to summarize plan updates real-time. The modeling capabilities are easily transferable from your base excel knowledge.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboarding in the classic view was cumbersome. Our implementation was done prior to Anaplan's new UX and transitioning from classic dashboards to the New UX is not the quickest thing to do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem we solved with Anaplan was standardizing our annual budgeting process. We went from thousands of Excel files to one platform where all our budgeting was done. This helped prevent different finance teams from building their own methodologies for the budget and aligned all of finance.
Anaplan for Capital Markets
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an exceptional modeling tool. Once the data is set up, it provides the flexability to rapidly develop models, easily pivot data vies without changing the underliyinf data and integrate with other systems. Additionally, it provides connected planning, which is an easy, efficient way to bring together people, processes and data. All while being secure and cloud based.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more formula development, such as adding new formulas or updating existing formulas to work in new ways.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have solved various use cases with Anaplan, everything ranging from FP&A and supply chain to complex financial metrics like IRR, MOIC, and custom waterfall calculations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan is an exceptional modeling tool and excels at that. Think about how it fits into the rest of your ecosystem.
Anaplan is a great solution for complex data modeling
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan can handle large data sets with ease, allowing end users to build a mirade of reports and calculations.
What do you dislike about the product?
The apps aren't perfect. It is difficult to build an app that looks good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping speed up our clients financial planning process in multiple ways. First, clearing out data and reimporting take next to no time to complete. Second, we are able to model out different scenarios and adjust using inputs to see the impacts in real time.
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