Anaplan
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Anaplan can be great (with a little effort)
What do you like best about the product?
Our users love the models we built. User acceptance was pretty fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The standard security is very clunky. It is not designed for large numbers of users (especially with complex selective access) or segregation of duties (think SOX compliance type review). This can be overcome by building a model to manage the security and using integrations to transfer the updates, but does require significant additional work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do our annual budgeting and continuous (!!) forecasting in Anaplan. We have been able to bring in multiple sources of data from our other key systems using scheduling tools and the native AnaplanConnect API. We send data back to our core GL system and then on to our consolidations engine for complex corporate and regulatory reporting.
Anaplan for Sales Operations
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a leader in connected planning. It can be described as excel or access on steroids. The tool is flexible and scaleable to adapt to any business objective. The tool exposes silos and barriers in the business that are necessary to have during organizational transformation. The best part is the tool is business owned.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is currently undergoing a facelift. They are transitioning to a new UX, which provides improved visuals to display data. Currently, there is now way for the platform to realize the current date. This is on the product roadmap and should be resolved in the near future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently use Anaplan to solve for strategic revenue planning, account segmentation, and Incentive compensation management. My solved for our enterprise account selection by using Anaplan to objectively model and predict customer spend by our company’s products and services. From there, we were able to effectively and efficiently develop new business targets for our accounts, that are transparent with the sales reps compensation targets.
Anaplan is very powerful and flexible platform
What do you like best about the product?
I mostly like the performance and flexibility of the platform. Even if there's no pre-defined funtions, most-everything can be calculated in a custom way. Large amounts of data are calculated quickly in a cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently downside of Anaplan platform is its way of displaying the final data to multiple users. It often requires to actually store the version of data for each user even for simple summaries instead of calculating them ad-hoc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows our company to get rid of slowly performing Excel planning, yet supplies their platform cheaper than their competitors.
Nice powerfull platform. Be carefull of overusing the flexibility that it offers
What do you like best about the product?
Real time calculation and high performance with large data sets
What do you dislike about the product?
Workflow and additional insights in future roadmap
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial Planning
User-Friendly with Room for Integration Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Anaplan allows many users to contribute, review, and perform analysis planning and scenario analysis. It's also fun to use and compared to other tools for similar applications, it's easier to be trained on. You don't need to know coding at all because it's more formula-based with drag-and-drop and clicking.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe that integration is still a challenging area, even if there is now a new tool called ADO, which is supposed to help a lot. However, these and other tools come at an extra cost, so they are not available for all customers. More work is needed to enable seamless integration with many systems. Also, another relevant point is the ability to customize the outputs with more freedom, particularly the dashboarding for end users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Anaplan to collect data from all divisions, globally, enrich it, and project into the future. It allows many users to contribute, review, and perform analysis and scenario planning effectively.
Anaplan for Finance Planning Space
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is Easy to Implement with Less dependency on IT.
Solutions can be implemented as quickly as 1 week and can be done by existing Business user with Technical know-how.
Huge Time and Cost benefit to companies.
Cloud based technology, so does not require installing or maintaining software.
Upgrades come with zero cost and no IT involvement.
Excel Add-In has been improved and is an advantage to users who are not willing to move away from Excel.
Many Planning Formulas are included which are hard to create or not available in Excel.
Solutions can be implemented as quickly as 1 week and can be done by existing Business user with Technical know-how.
Huge Time and Cost benefit to companies.
Cloud based technology, so does not require installing or maintaining software.
Upgrades come with zero cost and no IT involvement.
Excel Add-In has been improved and is an advantage to users who are not willing to move away from Excel.
Many Planning Formulas are included which are hard to create or not available in Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting can be improved
Would like to see more frequent Product updates
Free API connectivity is limited and not end user friendly.
Model sizing is another limitation, any solution has to be developed with size in mind.
No single way to solve a problem, which leads to inconsistent model building.
Need to improve connectivity to many widely used platforms. ex. Power BI
Would like to see more frequent Product updates
Free API connectivity is limited and not end user friendly.
Model sizing is another limitation, any solution has to be developed with size in mind.
No single way to solve a problem, which leads to inconsistent model building.
Need to improve connectivity to many widely used platforms. ex. Power BI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finance Planning for the entire company.
Replacing many legacy systems which are either outdated or not user friendly.
Bringing all Regions and Planning function into one single platform.
Improved Data accuracy by adopting the PLAN and DISCO methods.
Having a Hub has helped us achieve one single Source of Truth.
Replacing many legacy systems which are either outdated or not user friendly.
Bringing all Regions and Planning function into one single platform.
Improved Data accuracy by adopting the PLAN and DISCO methods.
Having a Hub has helped us achieve one single Source of Truth.
Anaplan Enables Business Led Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan allows us to have an agile approach to our financial planning. Moving out of excel allows us to be more collaborative (real time calculation through HyperBlock technology), drives consistency across calculation and modeling approaches and allows us to move faster. Analysts are able to easily learn the tool as it has similarities to Excel (but so much more powerful) so you are not reliant on third parties to build and maintain your models.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some feature enhancements I would like to see in the tool such as filtering/displaying list properties, native integration/scheduling functionality, additional history reporting features, and in app formula hints/guidance (similar to excel). I don't have any major complaints about the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Anaplan to facilitate all of our corporate financial planning and forecasting activities. Having this tool has allowed us to create a consistent approach and moved us away from using disparate tools. We have better data quality, improved usability, and are now able to have our entire organization reporting off of a consistent data set. We've eliminated hours of manual updates to create reports for business leaders.
Forecasting transparency with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibilty and the speed of implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
Out-of-the-box ETL possibilities are limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transparent company wide forecast in real time
The one tool to drive the sales forecast and modelling.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan have driven a great sales modelling in our business allowing us to achieve more time seizing modelling with effective management. The way it can be customized for a total needs of the customers and fits in accordance to the company requirements is seemingly amazing. We can patch up several tasks and integrates them all together to create a channel of sales in the best possible way. It allows the complete control over your designed protocols and even allows the changes onward. The way we can see through our inventory , sales forecast , reporting and complete control over sales model is seamlessly amazing. We can design custom lists adds different annotations which fits best to our business model. This is a real-time data modelling data designed to adapt to users requirements in efficient way.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for this tool is quite steep which made most of the users out there redundant from using this tool. One with deep knowledge and proper analysis can design the modelling and listing far superior than any other tool can. The only limitations apply here is the users knowledge and ability to synchronize things. The technical support also needs a huge shout out because they need to improve their services. Most of the staff and support team lacks advance knowledge and missed the working pattern form users perspective. They need to put in lots of efforts in order to make it practically viable and usable for new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan creates a stream velocity for the sales forecast and how one I can innovate the whole procedure based on learning and adapting to this tool. So far we have achieved perfection in our sales compensation , inventory management, and listings modifications and sales planning. All of these simplifies our working procedures and facilitates in our working. We wants to manage the changes in real-time adjusting our sales being adhering to seasonality or specific events. It let us easily manage our budgeting and forecasting with our sales streak which can be managed in a balance way providing us with extra capable working patterns.
Anaplan for Sales is a cloud based sales automation solution for marketing business.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan for Sales has produced an amazing results in the sales forecast because it is used for marketing and all of its tools are perfectly assembled. We can also get the benefit from the marketing communication which builds a reliable relation among team members and clients. It has the great ability to see prospects engaged far past the standard email tracking tool. Anaplan for Sales also easily allow us to open the different pages at in a single platform because it has a great electronic integration capability that all comes together to reduce speed bumps in the sales process. Anaplan for Sales has all packed features with the great integration and it also provides the great customer support for our business.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawback about this software is that the setup and customization process of Anaplan for Sales is not very simple because of its difficult functions. Anaplan for Sales features are very difficult to share via real-time mobile and email alerts every time proposals are viewed or forwarded. In addition, Anaplan for Sales software cannot create a content repository for swift access to relevant knowledge resources requisite to create sales proposals. The main drawback about this tool is that Anaplan for Sales does not come with any additional instructions on addition of any new features which puts forward a steep learning curve for the new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan for Sales is a cloud-based sales automation solution that enables sales professionals to pitch, propose and close deals. It can help create online presentations, design proposals, manage contracts and analyze contract performance. I am using it daily for marketing automation for different marketing campaigns for different team members and I found this platform very helpful and amazing. Anaplan for Sales is best for team management because I can easily manage my team and business also it has great reporting functionality to customize the deals in a very effective way.
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