Anaplan
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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.
Good solution for excel models that have to be robust, complex and correct
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a web-based combination between excel and a database. Easy for the user to navigate through data (pivoting is great) and web interface and reporting is good. An excel add-in is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to have an experienced model builder on staff to make changes or even more minor adjustments. Not seamless in integrating with other finance software. More expensive than excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan for P&L reporting, cost allocation, forecasting and budgeting. Customizable software great for when you have particular case/usage. Works with hierarchies well, so when there is a change (like with a reorg) it is flexible to get the model back online and working.
Versatile and powerful planning platform with focus on innovation, connected planning and community
What do you like best about the product?
I like Anaplan's planning and modeling features, intelligent engine, user experience, extensibility and scalability. Anaplan connects people, data and plans like no other with their unified cloud platform. New features and functionalities are incorporated into the platform on a frequent basis which enhance the product's value proposition and usability significantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Auditability of line items can be enhanced by adding extra features like saved views references, filter references, UX page references etc. Ability to natively view the size consumed by a line item (not just cell count) can greatly help with size impact analysis. Detailed error logging and scheduler accuracy can be improved in Cloudworks. Native support for allowing input/breakback and calculation logic in the same line item can be added to further boost platform adoption in Retail Planning use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan's versatility is one of its key differentiators. Using Anaplan, comprehensive planning solutions that facilitate quick decision-making can be built for all critical functions - Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, HR and Workforce, Marketing etc. As a partner, this enables me to implement best-in-class solutions for our customers and their planning needs.
Scalable and Flexible solution for organizations of larger size to help plan and forecast anything
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is breaking down the silo between different business units at companies by introducing integrated planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Standardization sometimes forces organizations to be less flexible than they originally wanted
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan addresses the challenge of fragmented and disconnected planning processes within organizations by providing a cloud-based platform that unifies data, people, and plans. It enables seamless collaboration, facilitates dynamic modeling for various planning activities, and offers real-time insights, thereby solving the problem of inefficiency and lack of coordination in business planning. Anaplan's flexibility, scalability, and integration capabilities empower businesses to make informed decisions and adapt to changing circumstances effectively.
Very Agile Comprehensive Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The versatility of Anaplan. It can be used for just about any use case. Fast and easy to make board level reports. Anaplan continues to make updates improving the overall experience from an end user and builder perspective.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you are going to do multiple use cases or complex use cases I would recommend having an anaplanner on staff after the build is complete.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows for planning to be taken out of excel sheets and put into one shared space that updates automatically and having a single source of truth.
The best native cloud enterprise planning platform!
What do you like best about the product?
Intuative low-code platform that allows end users to build any excel based model at scale
What do you dislike about the product?
Data integrations need some work. Lacks ability to do on-the-fly data transformation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves single source of truth issues that plague most organizations that are stuck in excel
Anaplan continues to be the best enterprise planning platform out there
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is the best tool I have come across for enterprise -level modeling and planning. It allows you to be as flexible as you need while also providing the structure needed to scale.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is and always has been Anaplan's biggest weakness. While you do have many options, it is by no means perfect and lacks a lot of flexibility. However, setting up your calculated data to be exported to other reporting systems is very easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am an implementation parter for Anaplan, so I get to see it solve many problems for many different use cases across all of the customers I work with. After each implementation, most customers save a large amount of time on model maintenance compared to their prior excel models. There is also a lot less room for human error in an Anaplan model due to its structure and cloud based real time engine.
Fast and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
Easy implementation
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great to have more chart types for a better user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Long term planning. (including production plan, P&L, scenario analysis)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Anaplan Budget Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. With Anaplan we are able to implement various use cases across departments. This shows that Anaplan allows for a great flexibility to meet diverse requirements.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Big models often struggle with performance issues. This leads to more resources being spent on trying to improve performance rather than working improving the model functionality and user experience.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having our budgeting process in Anaplan offers a standardized approach across the company and the countries it operates in.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
Connected Planning lead for a the 4 largest mining organisation
What do you like best about the product?
low code no code tool, easy of business users to utilise and adopt, Ease of data integration, Predictive forecasting capability on the same platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Resolution (pixel) of the output on the UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting the end-to-end business planning across the value chain. So that businesses have a bottom-up forecast from all areas of the business.
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