Anaplan
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Anaplan: Streamlining Business Process with a Powerful Planning and Performance Management Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Highly flexible & scalable, Real-time Collaboration, Data Integration, Modelling & Simulation. Anaplan helps our clients by boosting their planning more efficiently. It also helps report and analyze the critical KPIs to the top-level management. It helps our users to complete the Budget and forecasting process more quickly and colloborate people from different deparment at one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its a powerful planning tool and needs areas of developlments in Reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps our clients to fast-track their business process and complete their planning on time. Anaplan has saved a lot of time in the planning process starting from user inputs to workflow approval of the top-level management. It helps the users to do simulations, what-if analyses, variance analysis etc
Product Specification
What do you like best about the product?
As it is a multidimensional tool so it has ease the process of reporting for Budgeting and Forecasting scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
User concurrency can be seen many a times on New UX page, which takes a lot of time to load a page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping in day to day activity of Supply chain planning, as a result of this all the users can access their report at one place due it's cloud functionality.
Product description
What do you like best about the product?
Saves time in reporting the Supply chain analytics as well as in Financial planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Many a times error of Model busy pops up became of user concurrency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the complex supply chain management issue and makes reporting much more easier and reliable with option to integrate it with other tools.
Anaplan is the tool for
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility, scalability, ease of use, collaborative capabilities, and ability to handle complex data modelling and analysis.
Access to high-quality training material.
Access to high-quality training material.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's High pricing, occasional system glitches or slow performance, limited customisation options, and a steep learning curve for some of the more advanced features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan enables our Demand planning by providing visibility to all relevant stakeholders and allowing their input.
P&L forecast, budget and long-term planning, scenario reporting
P&L forecast, budget and long-term planning, scenario reporting
Anaplan - Easy to use, implement and maintain for various Use case.
What do you like best about the product?
Support different use case of business, Easy to Use and Configure, Customizable as per business requirement.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup require lot of time, Costly compare to spreadsheet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implemented Workforce Planning to analyze, forecasting, and assess gaps, and determine target talent management interventions to ensure that an organization has the right skills in the right places at the right time.
Digital Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud-based, connected planning platform that helps organizations modernize their planning processes. Anaplan strengths are in its flexibility, customization, and scalability. The ability to tailor the platform to meet business requirements ensures clients can define the right models/views/dashboards important to their business.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplans biggest strength can also be one of its weaknesses, requiring organization to be diligent in following best practices/build standards to ensure the model is optimized for performing at its best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps organizations to increase revenue, optimize control, and lower operational and technology costs by modernizing business processes; leading to more accurate and timely execution.
A truly connected planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Connectedness of the tool, multi-dimensionality, real-time data, flexibility and fast calculation engine
What do you dislike about the product?
Rollback and concurrency, not a lot really
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monthly rolling forecast of Sales, OpEx, Capex and production of main financial statements, and performance reporting
Forecasting software that tries to make it easy
What do you like best about the product?
The fact you can have big teams adding individual information about their own forecasting numbers, and the sofware tries to maintain the informarion organized. Anaplan provides charts and tables.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not intuituive. If you have plenty of products, when adding information on the table, you do not see the name of that row (because you went down, but the name of the row is not frozen). The user interface needs to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps to know how many units you will need in a specific period of time (it can be a month, quarter, or couple of years). It helps to evaluate how many units (or bill of materials) the company will need in a certain amount of time.
Extremely Versatile Connected Planning Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great connected planning platform and extremely versatile. The versatility allows Anaplan to be used for such a wide variety of use cases - it can even be used as the project planning software (sprint tracking, user story review, etc.) for implementation for other use cases! The upside of building a connected planning platform on Anaplan is hat you can have all of your data in one place, connected in the same platform "language" which makes analysis and insights much easier to execute across an organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan still has some downsides when it comes to dashboarding; however, it has come a LONG way. The downsides are when you are trying to pull multiple dimensions together on a report; these are some limitations that will hopefully be resolved in future releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You name it. Anaplan is so versatile that it can literally solve almost ANY business problem - and can be a platform your project planning or a quick game of connect four at that!
Due to its connected planning nature and centralized data hub concepts, Anaplan makes it very easy to solve all sorts of business problems and draw insights across all of them.
Due to its connected planning nature and centralized data hub concepts, Anaplan makes it very easy to solve all sorts of business problems and draw insights across all of them.
Standardized Modeling at its finest
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great platform to facilitate a standardized process is repeated over time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is not a platform to use for one-off, one-time calculations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving the problem of having siloed models that work with others to solve a standardized process.
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