Anaplan
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A Practical Solution
What do you like best about the product?
The goal of Anaplan is connected planning, which it achieves through a realistic user experience. When you think about how business units work together, it is through structuring universal data for the different audiences. This problem is where Anaplan thrives because the goal is to consolidate data in one HUB but then translate that data to the audiences, saving everyone the burden of bridging their numbers, ultimately allowing teams to use that time moving forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
The current interface of Anaplan is improving as the company continues to invest in improving its product. The most significant challenge is keeping up with these enhancements. They may streamline a process I've already solved, but making those changes often requires improving my knowledge and making a change quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work on the gambit of solutions with Anaplan, partnering with clients in S&OP for supply chain, T&Q for SPM, or P&L in Finance. The clients are small businesses and publically traded companies, which showcases the versatility of the product. The most significant pain point I hear clients express is recouping their time because current solutions are less efficient than Anaplan. Cloud-based technology is the future, especially as we move into a hybrid work environment. Anaplan solves this need.
Collaborative and flexible planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
- Business owned - after successful implementation with business partner, the business can maintain and enhance the solution without Consultants or IT Teams
- Extensibility - native connectors with different softwares
- Collaboration - all departments of your company on one platform
- Almost no downtime, no technical maintenance and upgrades needed, cloud-based solution
- Constant improvements to the platform - new features are being released every month
- Easy to learn, advanced Excel users can learn Anaplan very quickly, especially given the free online learning platform
- Scalability - it can support huge organizations in very complex processes
- Extensibility - native connectors with different softwares
- Collaboration - all departments of your company on one platform
- Almost no downtime, no technical maintenance and upgrades needed, cloud-based solution
- Constant improvements to the platform - new features are being released every month
- Easy to learn, advanced Excel users can learn Anaplan very quickly, especially given the free online learning platform
- Scalability - it can support huge organizations in very complex processes
What do you dislike about the product?
- Pricing, Anaplan is quite an expensive solution. Nevertheless, we think it is worth it.
- UX could still be improved. However, the Product Team is always trying to respond to the Users needs
- UX could still be improved. However, the Product Team is always trying to respond to the Users needs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Time savings
- Efficiency gains
- Single source of truth across the organization
- Collaboration between the departments
- Possibility to connect data between different use cases
- Efficiency gains
- Single source of truth across the organization
- Collaboration between the departments
- Possibility to connect data between different use cases
Why Anaplan ?
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud-based application that can connect multiple cells and workspaces across different business use-cases and give a concise view of the KPIs.
Real-time security is enabled with instant changing of roles, and access is possible in Anaplan. Excel cannot restrict individual cell access. Anaplan has the flexibility to plan across many dimensions, which excel does not have.
Real-time security is enabled with instant changing of roles, and access is possible in Anaplan. Excel cannot restrict individual cell access. Anaplan has the flexibility to plan across many dimensions, which excel does not have.
What do you dislike about the product?
The PowerPoint add-in feature is a little obsolete and unnecessary with the launch of the new UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps with different types of planning. I have been involved in Financial Planning and Analysis for four years now. I am assisting clients in moving from Excel sheets to Anaplan planning UX. Anaplan can have scheduled data integrations from external data sources such as Informatica Cloud, SnapLogic, Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, Docusign, Workiva, and Tableau. It has dynamic time scale implementation.
Master Data structure – works on having one data hub with a single source of truth, build once and push multiple times approach.Pushing hierarchical changes across multiple worksheets is tough and error-prone
Easy for business users to adapt and easy to maintain. Anaplan has checks and balances in place to flag errors and correct inputs.
Master Data structure – works on having one data hub with a single source of truth, build once and push multiple times approach.Pushing hierarchical changes across multiple worksheets is tough and error-prone
Easy for business users to adapt and easy to maintain. Anaplan has checks and balances in place to flag errors and correct inputs.
Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Collaborative Planning tool with powerful In-memory engine
User-friendly Interface
Custom Integration
Intelligent and Predictive Planning Platform
User-friendly Interface
Custom Integration
Intelligent and Predictive Planning Platform
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of native Scheduling capabilities, depend on Third party system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing better decision support to our clients for Finance related decisions.
Business impacts will be visualized immediately to make better decisions
Quick decision on the go - with a unified visually impactful UX
Business impacts will be visualized immediately to make better decisions
Quick decision on the go - with a unified visually impactful UX
Anaplan is wonderful
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility. As a partner I would say there are very few things I would tell a customer you can't do. The question is always "do we have the time to accomplish everything you want?" The answer is probably not so let's focus on the mission critical items that get the most bang for your buck.
What do you dislike about the product?
The new UX looks better, but doesn't function as well as the old UX. The fact that the cards are locked to a size makes it difficult to scale the same dashboard for people who see only a few items versus people who see thousands of items.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving Sales Performance Management (SPM) use cases. The greatest benefit is connected planning. Instead of companies using 100s of Excel spreadsheets that get passed around and altered, the logic is set and everyone can see what they are supposed to see and only edit what they are supposed to edit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give yourself time to do a proper implemenation and think of Anaplan as a living software. You shouldn't try to do everything you want when you first get it. Get the most important pieces correct and then iterate on the design.
Reliable Cloud-Based Planning Platform
What do you like best about the product?
As a cloud-based planning platform, Anaplan has strong release management that, from my experience, there is no major problem encountered after scheduled platform updates. It underlines the benefits of having a cloud-based solution.
Training materials are great as they are built around different use cases to emphasize the Connected Planning message.
Anaplan Community is strong where one can post questions/ideas and expect responses from peers.
Training materials are great as they are built around different use cases to emphasize the Connected Planning message.
Anaplan Community is strong where one can post questions/ideas and expect responses from peers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Business logic transformation during data load is not available that it needs to be done at the source system.
Multi-dimensional sparsity management is something that needs to be delivered.
Multi-dimensional sparsity management is something that needs to be delivered.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building drivers-based operational planning which provides real-time insights. One source of truth shared among multiple uses cases.
Anaplan Customer Review
What do you like best about the product?
One of the best Anaplan features is the flexibility and agility to meet changing business needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Management reporting has come a long way, but may is not as flexible and versatile as reporting / data visualization specific softwares (i.e. Tableau).
Anaplan is not good for data transformation.
Anaplan is not good for data transformation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Decreasing the length of time for budget/forecast cycles, significantly reduced consolidations time.
Great Planning and Modeling Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud based technology that is used for planning and modeling . It is versatile and different planning needs can be fulfilled by using this .You can do you Supply Chain Planning ,Financial Planning ,Merchandise Planning ,Territory Quota Planning and what not !
It's quite easy to learn and implement as well and learning material is simply awesome .
It's quite easy to learn and implement as well and learning material is simply awesome .
What do you dislike about the product?
Since its a cloud based technology lot of Model builders can work on this at a same time .But the problem is if anyone does some error while implementation the system freezes for all .Sometime the error time even exceeds to 15 minutes .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am currently working in Supply Chain Planning and using the power of this tool we have implemented the requirement quite significantly and it has helped the clients to save quite alot revenue
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its very easy and adaptive tool.Can solve your different scenarios here
Anaplan in Supply Planning at Weston Foods
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very flexible and easy to change to suit the business requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
The revision tag sync process is difficult for multiple developments at the same time. Because partial changes can be synced along with an urgent fix.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan was implemented to allow for a single supply planning process. This standardization makes it easier for planners to cover each other.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start small and build up. Don't try to tackle every single business requirement in the first implementation.
Review for ERP Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
1. Stability (cloud-based) and robustness in nature from a financial view.
2. Integrates with multiple technologies and is better with decision-making.
3. Inbuilt UI/UX and dashboarding options with APIs (external visualization tools like Tableau not needed)
4. Various functional features helpful for carrying out financial reports.
5. Handles a huge amount of data with a handful of customizations.
2. Integrates with multiple technologies and is better with decision-making.
3. Inbuilt UI/UX and dashboarding options with APIs (external visualization tools like Tableau not needed)
4. Various functional features helpful for carrying out financial reports.
5. Handles a huge amount of data with a handful of customizations.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Limited storage could create a problem for handling multiple models.
2. Expensive, it could be more cost-effective.
3. Does include a few glitches with the interface.
4. An error in calculation could take up to 6-7 minutes worth of time to restore back to the original state.
2. Expensive, it could be more cost-effective.
3. Does include a few glitches with the interface.
4. An error in calculation could take up to 6-7 minutes worth of time to restore back to the original state.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Supply chain models with an end-to-end analytical framework.
2. Solution development and analytical reasoning.
3. UI/UX design for visualization.
4. Report and built financial use cases.
2. Solution development and analytical reasoning.
3. UI/UX design for visualization.
4. Report and built financial use cases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy collaboration, quick deployment is the need for ERP solutions, all provided by anaplan.
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