Anaplan
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Fast and performance
What do you like best about the product?
Our project was really complex, we decided to integrated 6 models (Sales Budget, RFQ, Investment Budget, P&L and Balance Sheet Budget and PMT, medium long term plan). So the goal was not to realize 6 models, but to create the integration between them. GOAL OBTAINED
What do you dislike about the product?
The is linked with users and not with performance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What-if analyses ... that used to take a day are
done in seconds with Anaplan, with zero risk of mistakes
done in seconds with Anaplan, with zero risk of mistakes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Great tool to manage sales forecast - easy to use !
What do you like best about the product?
I used Anaplan as a budgeting and forecasting tool to track MRR and ARR for a team of relationship managers. The fact that all relevant information is at your fingerprints to manage your forecasts with confidence.
You could also change the growth rate/growth method based on real time information, rather than rely only on historical data.
Also, you could connect your sales opportunities/stage from Salesforce to Anaplan, which will immediately adjust your forecast. Tons of really great functionality at your fingertips!
You could also change the growth rate/growth method based on real time information, rather than rely only on historical data.
Also, you could connect your sales opportunities/stage from Salesforce to Anaplan, which will immediately adjust your forecast. Tons of really great functionality at your fingertips!
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple tabs often times caused the software to slow down.
When looking at data from tableau, software can be very slow, but not quite sure if it was an Anaplan issue or a server issue on our end.
When looking at data from tableau, software can be very slow, but not quite sure if it was an Anaplan issue or a server issue on our end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to resolve the disconnection between our budgeting/forecasting mechanisms and our sales opportunities from Salesforce. As managers, we wanted to make every sales person accountable for their MRR /ARR forecast, while being able to make changes in real time, review, make adjustments based on seasonality or specific events affecting our customers, etc.
Anaplan exceed all our expectations !
Anaplan exceed all our expectations !
Anaplan for modeling
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of Anaplan is fantastic. I like being able to have control of my model and make changes myself rather than having to work through our IT change process. Also the visibility into the components of our models is something we never had before moving to Anaplan. This helps us ensure our projections are more accurate and accepted by the Sales organization
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is it's own unique language. If you have no experience with it you have to plan on a learning curve and can't simply "Google it". You need to be willing to invest the time and effort into learning the material so it can be frustrating at times when you get stuck and there aren't a lot of quick, widely available, support options
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our industry experiences rapid change and we want to be able to plan and support that direction.
Solid program, strong analytical features
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to customize the tool to easily extract the data necessary to make decisions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Simple features that excel has are not present in Anaplan. For example, highlighting two cells with numerical values doesn't sum the cells.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan to create a collaborative sales forecast across multiple parties.
flexible
What do you like best about the product?
it's very flexible in what you want to report and model. currently we only use it for revenue and bookings reporting/modeling but definitely interested in other areas
What do you dislike about the product?
everything must be defined, but this is why it's so flexible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
what ifs in modeling, but having the flexibility to do it quickly.
Efficiency and Transparency Gains!
What do you like best about the product?
Dynamic work space, information is available the instant changes are made.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficulty in formatting reports, could be more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating and consolidating planning financial statements from Corporate to Business Unit and Department levels. Gained visibility into more the performance of the lower departments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have reports that you are attempting to create in Anaplan created in Excel, allows you to evaluate and plan the model before building.
Keeping you in the know!
What do you like best about the product?
Personalized dashboard on a per employee basis, providing an abundance of information pertaining to an array of policies, contracts, dashboards, etc. It's essentially a one-stop shop for most things finance/payroll related, being able to effectively view and report on my compensation plans, my targets, my performance, my payroll information, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does require an Administrator to configure things properly on the back-end to be able to effectively utilize the tool (which I'm lucky to have) but perhaps a little more friendly of a UI so a training session to use the system isn't necessarily a necessity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping every employee up to speed regarding their payment plans, where they are on that plan to date, payout information, etc. Especially working on a sales team like myself, knowing these compensation details is paramount.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A great centralized tool, allowing all information pertaining to payroll, contracts, compensations, etc. to be detailed on a per employee basis, and accessible right at one's fingertips.
Great product for planning
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to automate planning processes and take excel to the next level. Once you set up the anaplan model, it provides you with the ability to analyze your plans and data and make changes on the fly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup is a huge hurdle. You need a model builder dedicated to the on-going maintenance and evolution as business processes change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
commissions planning
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