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Anaplan Review
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan shines when it comes to empowering the business. Having such a powerful platform can often be daunting, but Anaplan is built so that the tool can be wholly owned and operated by the business itself. It empowers the business through an easy-to-build structure without compromising on flexibility/capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Anaplan could better make some tenant-level reports (metadata around user activity) more readily available/accessible. While not a major pain point, it is always nice to have this detail at your fingertips in the early stages of the deployment of a new solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Given the versatility of Anaplan, it is not limited to any one use case. Being an implementation partner, I am seeing Anaplan deliver value/benefit through its' focus on connected planning. That is, bringing multiple use cases together in a single environment for real-time connected planning.
Practical and easy-to-use solution
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform.
What needs improvement?
One area of improvement is conditional formatting. It's not very practical, and you need to specify additional formatting for each line item, which increases the size.
These are also areas that could be improved for the long-term sustainability of the platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
It's been about three months now.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
There are around 13 users in my company using the solution.
How was the initial setup?
It's quite easy to set up. It doesn't require much effort.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is an expensive solution.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend using the solution. It is a practical and easy-to-use solution. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Anaplan Win!
What do you like best about the product?
(1) Scalability, (2) UX, (3) Integration
What do you dislike about the product?
(1) Performance issues with certain formulas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to connect multiple business units to the obtain financial statement modelling for the company as a whole
Anaplan Implementation Review
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to scale models
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to understand the calculations and how a result was obtained
- Easy to implement workflows and secruity around them
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to understand the calculations and how a result was obtained
- Easy to implement workflows and secruity around them
What do you dislike about the product?
- Large sparse datasets are not optimized for Anaplan
- Reporting is not pixel-perfect
- Technical support is slow and inneficient
- Reporting is not pixel-perfect
- Technical support is slow and inneficient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to get answers quickly without the need to run lengthy processes and ability to know how the information was calculated and how data was transformed. The ability to have different interfaces for different users so that each can gain value-added from using the tool.
Product Specification
What do you like best about the product?
As it is a multidimensional tool so it has ease the process of reporting for Budgeting and Forecasting scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
User concurrency can be seen many a times on New UX page, which takes a lot of time to load a page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping in day to day activity of Supply chain planning, as a result of this all the users can access their report at one place due it's cloud functionality.
Standardized Modeling at its finest
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great platform to facilitate a standardized process is repeated over time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is not a platform to use for one-off, one-time calculations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving the problem of having siloed models that work with others to solve a standardized process.
Good solution for excel models that have to be robust, complex and correct
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a web-based combination between excel and a database. Easy for the user to navigate through data (pivoting is great) and web interface and reporting is good. An excel add-in is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to have an experienced model builder on staff to make changes or even more minor adjustments. Not seamless in integrating with other finance software. More expensive than excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Anaplan for P&L reporting, cost allocation, forecasting and budgeting. Customizable software great for when you have particular case/usage. Works with hierarchies well, so when there is a change (like with a reorg) it is flexible to get the model back online and working.
Fast and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
Easy implementation
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
User-friendly interface
Single source of truth
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great to have more chart types for a better user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Long term planning. (including production plan, P&L, scenario analysis)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Reporting tool for CashFlow, Green gases emission.
Budgeting (in progress)
Anaplan Budget Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. With Anaplan we are able to implement various use cases across departments. This shows that Anaplan allows for a great flexibility to meet diverse requirements.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
2. Growing your Anaplan environment brings substantial economies of scale, where every next project needs less time spent on data integrations, because it is likely that you already have the needed transactional data or hierarchies.
3. Anaplan improves data accuracy as it offers a single source of truth, compared to having excel files spread across countries and these excel files often having multiple versions of the "_finalv3" type.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Big models often struggle with performance issues. This leads to more resources being spent on trying to improve performance rather than working improving the model functionality and user experience.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
2. Sometimes the interface would have limitations that might look small, but can really make data readability more difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having our budgeting process in Anaplan offers a standardized approach across the company and the countries it operates in.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
This makes the important KPIs consistent and minimizes the risk of different interpretations from country to country.
Additionally, it is a more efficient process and less prone to mistakes associated with excel files versions etc.
Powerful Engine with Improved Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using Anaplan for over five years across various workstreams such as budgeting, headcount planning, open role management, regulatory, and more. I find Anaplan's ability to consolidate large quantities of data invaluable in creating single source of truth reports on an enterprise scale. It also allows me to run large scenario calculations quickly, which is essential for our operations. Anaplan's high-performance calculation engine stands out as a powerful tool that I rely on heavily. Additionally, over the last year, I have noticed significant improvements in the reporting capabilities, particularly the release of combined grids. This enhancement has been a major help as there is now a significant focus on improving the cosmetic capabilities within the tool for generating clean-formatted reports, which I truly appreciate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find Anaplan's reporting capabilities to still be an area of weakness compared to other tools, despite the tangible improvements. The limitation in the New UX, where there is a 'six card' maximum across a dashboard, is also restrictive. Additionally, the initial setup of Anaplan requires a significant amount of time, effort, and expertise, which can be challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Anaplan to consolidate large data, create enterprise-level single source reports, and run large scenario calculations quickly, benefiting from its powerful calculation engine and improved reporting capabilities.
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