Anaplan
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Implementation completed, moving to production
What do you like best about the product?
It allows creation of multiple hierarchies within the consolidation - important for creating multiple sets of financial statements for different users.
What do you dislike about the product?
New company set up is relatively straightforward once you know the steps but it seems like some of the steps could be automated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currency conversion is much simpler - formerly it was done manually for each entity and the risk of error was high. Now it's done automatically by simply entering the rates.
Good for targeted use cases but don't expect major flexibility.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's scalability is top-notch. Since everything is performed in memory, it's very easy to scale out a model as long as the workspace size is available. Anaplan's low-code platform is also good for a lot of the ultimate end users and administrators using Anaplan to manage, maintain, and enhance existing models while building new ones to meet the demands of their enterprises' planning needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Personally, I would like to have more flexibility in writing functions. Custom functions would be a game-changer in terms of how complex a model can be. Data integrations are also very tedious and can be a pain to make adjustments to depending on the tools being used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan seeks to solve problems common to planning in enterprises. Namely, siloed workstreams fed by disparate data sources, minimal collaboration in the planning cycle, lack of visibility, and difficulty in maintaining complex processes using tools that are not intended to scale to enterprise levels.
Really helps the consolidation process
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to use excel based reports to create what you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ETL process could be improved to speak directly to local ERP systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is reducing the time in the consolidation process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get all of your logistics prepared before implementation.
Anaplan leading in Business Planning initiatives
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan supports all varied use case such as financial planning, headcount planning, sales performance management, supply chain management etc. It provides the opportunity to have connected planning approach along with maintaining data integrity as well as being the golden source of truth.
What do you dislike about the product?
Certain features are raised and still in process of improvements such as ALM sync, model rollback etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan drastically brings down the manual intervention required for planning in large corporations hence contributing to its overall performance.
Great Product with Great Potential
What do you like best about the product?
1. Flexibility
2.Transperancy
3. End User Experience
Anaplan is suitable for any time of planning be it across Sales , Marketing, Finance or Supply Chain. This works just everywhere.
2.Transperancy
3. End User Experience
Anaplan is suitable for any time of planning be it across Sales , Marketing, Finance or Supply Chain. This works just everywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool sometimes struggles to handle volumes of data if not configured properly. Model builder has to be very carefull while developing if the volums of data is very high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its majorly solves the problem of collaborations which avoids the time dealys in processing the data and that time can inturn be used for productive decision making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
NA
Flexibility & Power in Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The powerful and flexible capabilities of the platform, but deliverable in such a way that allows the business to take ownership of its models, apps, and ecosystem (low/no-code).
What do you dislike about the product?
Given the current state of the platform feature improvements, there are a few parallel views of the platform concurrently available. For example, you can model using the old or new interface which can lead to confusion among newer users not familiar with the old style.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connected planning - Through better enabling the business to take ownership of their end-to-end processes while allowing the organization to more quickly take action on strategic objectives through connected planning.
Sales top-notch cloud computing tool!
What do you like best about the product?
This software contains multiple impeccable specifications and facilitates the users in many ways. You can run various functions with the best troubleshooting system. Additionally, this tool matches the organization’s needs and offers a broad range of functions. Anaplan gives the users high-end clarification of problems which works great for all.
What do you dislike about the product?
This software is easy to install but not easy to use for all. Yes, some well-trained professionals can use this tool. Thus, the users have to take Anaplan training first in some house and then, start working with it. So, it is not flexible for all and shows much hassle while executing functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is a broad range of benefits that this system offers. So, you can easily install this software and it is quite easy to implement than the excel installation. Furthermore, it offers the best and quick approach for forecasting and planning. It is quite an easy way to execute data entry functions than that excel.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In short, the Anaplan sales premium tool contains multiple beneficial features and thus, it is highly recommended for use. So, it is strong enough to compute large data in less time. This software shows thorough insights into analytics.
Easy to Implement and use.
What do you like best about the product?
The modeling is quite easy and the new user interface is very easy to interact with, both for the end-user and the modelers......................................
What do you dislike about the product?
In the new UX want to see more features as we have in other BI tools, that will include more interactive graphing options........................................
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is making the things we use. to do in excel easy, in excel or another tool the modeling is quite tiresome and the result takes some time, however the same is pretty easy in Caplan
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use, implement and navigate
Anaplan for SPM Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is incredibly flexible and easy to learn for both users and developers. It can be used for almost any function, including sales and finance. You can make changes in real-time and communicate to other users with the in-app commenting features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not currently allow for object level migration - all migrations are done at the model level. This is to ensure a developer does not mess anything up when migrating to production, which is good, but can make it difficult to time releases and bug fixes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan gives us a platform to have connected planning, so we don't need to deal with the downsides of sending google sheets back and forth. It allows for more integrated, real-time planning.
Solid calculation engine, limited metadata functionality and average presentation
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan update their platform frequently which aids debugging and small development improvements. The dynamic calculations provide realtime numbers all the time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support needs improving. Platform space is poor and very expensive. Licensing is painful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Standard FP&A for fund management 2. Fleet management 3. ROI and Cost analysis
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