Anaplan
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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.
Connect Departments' Plans and Operations in a single tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a blank canvas with a powerful calculation engine and a friendly visualisation layer. So you can model almost any business process in your own way and share it with your colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited options when it comes to native data integration, workflow and notifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows bringing together in the same platform data that used to be scattered across teams: Workforce planning (in terms of headcount and ftes, budgeting, compensation), FInancial modelling (what-if scenarios), Financial consolidation across entities and many others, without compromising on usability.
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.
Anaplan - Great planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Connected planning
One source of the truth
Real-time results
UX / Management Reporting Apps
Security Features
Simple to use
One source of the truth
Real-time results
UX / Management Reporting Apps
Security Features
Simple to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Licence cost and types (which is probably new to me not sure how other companies operate)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having one source of the truth, by having multiple data sources and points, Anaplan makes it easier to consolidate all markets and report results efficently
A powerful tool for Collaboration Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a very good tool that helps to design/build models with great flexibility to solve business problems. Its powerful integration helps to bring the data from multiple sources and interactive dashboards to attain real-time results.
Highly Customization Capability, Product features and ease of Implementation.
Highly Customization Capability, Product features and ease of Implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Automatic Workflow process
Today() Function are not available
Today() Function are not available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps the Sales Planning team eliminate the manual Excel files for actual/forecast data for multiple geographies. Also, we can see the real-time data in no-time. It helped to stream-line the process by reducing the planning cycle times. Anaplan definitely makes our Sales Ops user's life easier.
Agility and flexibility in modeling and connected planning
What do you like best about the product?
The speed with which a user can create complex models and calculations is unmatched. The ability to assign selective access and row-level security allows a model to confidently be shared to a wide user base without compromising security. Anaplan also has a robust user community that is full of support and is responsive to requests for help.
What do you dislike about the product?
There can be a steep learning curve to model building, as new modelers learn what it means to implement best practices and think through building a model in a way that takes advantage of Anaplan's multi-dimensionality and parallel processing abilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows our business to aggregate disparate data sources in a single environment, create new metrics, and present that to end users for feedback and input to drive better, more data-driven decision making. Having in-house Master Anaplanners also allows our business to have resources that are technically savvy AND can understand that nuances of our business, which creates an environment where we are able to continually iterate on our tools and solutions.
A flexible tool that can evolve with our business.
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to create models that speak to each other whenever necessary. The tool is flexible enough for us to design models that enhance the user experience over excel and provide ability to perform calculations in real-time across much larger data sets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's calculation engine and models are rhobust, but visuals are still lacking. Having multiple UX options creates inconsistency across the user base and inflexibility of visuals requires exports of data to excel for reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reduces errors that might be caused through the use of Excel, reduces amount of time spent on analysis and data maintenance. Significantly improves communication across the business.
Very powerful tool for Business Planning/Actual Reporting and Analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Multidimensional structure, real-time computation of data, easy and comprehendible Excel alike formulas, dashboards with a graphical representation of data, and many more
What do you dislike about the product?
Managing sparsity is a challenge with Anaplan, as in a real-life scenario there will be multiple heavy-weight dimensions, and with Anaplan acquiring space for the cells where there will be no data is a bit challenging from a business perspective.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps in enterprise-wide planning, bringing all the departments together to collaboratively plan the budget and play their specific roles. It has crunched the data preparation and budget preparation time allowing more time to review.
Boost your business growth with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
- Flexibility to use
-Easy to understand UI
- Comparatively easy to implement against most other on-premise EPM solutions as it doesn't require complex calculation scripts and formuale structures
-Easy to understand UI
- Comparatively easy to implement against most other on-premise EPM solutions as it doesn't require complex calculation scripts and formuale structures
What do you dislike about the product?
-Application lifecycle management in the NUX requires tedious maintenance
-Formatting options available in the NUX are minimum and could be increased
-Storage options for Image library could also be provided
-Formatting options available in the NUX are minimum and could be increased
-Storage options for Image library could also be provided
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-We can focus on value-added analysis to increase confidence in the output by leveraging anaplan's faster, more reliable plans, analyses and reports
-We could also see an improved forecast accuracy
-We could also see an improved forecast accuracy
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