Anaplan
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Feature-Rich and Responsive, But UX Needs Modernization
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has added a ton of features over the last year and seems like they really are listening to feedback. Workflow has improved immensely. The new calculation engine addresses major concerns of the past version. And now with combined grids, that solves for one of the largest headaches in development.
What do you dislike about the product?
A key dislike of the platform - at times the UX pages can look clunky and old fashioned. Especially when compared to some competitors solutions from best in class reporting tools like Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan can solve for tons of problems - lately I've used for budget forecasting, FP&A, SaaS revenue and Capacity Planning
Break down planning siloes with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan brings different departments together on a single, cloud-based platform. Instead of working in separate spreadsheets or systems, both teams share one source of truth — linking headcount, compensation, and workforce plans directly to financial forecasts and budgets, for example.
The advance and easy to implement security allows you have multiple profiles on the same page and any update can be automatically reflected on the end-user reports. Anaplan has recently released new functionalities that make it easier to apply AI forecasting and the Polaris engine allows you to analyse very sparse datasets and slice and dice the data in new and creative ways.
By breaking down silos, Anaplan helps organizations align operations and talent strategy with financial goals — ensuring plans stay agile, transparent, and tightly integrated across both functions.
The advance and easy to implement security allows you have multiple profiles on the same page and any update can be automatically reflected on the end-user reports. Anaplan has recently released new functionalities that make it easier to apply AI forecasting and the Polaris engine allows you to analyse very sparse datasets and slice and dice the data in new and creative ways.
By breaking down silos, Anaplan helps organizations align operations and talent strategy with financial goals — ensuring plans stay agile, transparent, and tightly integrated across both functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides of Anaplan revolve around the time needed to certify users around the platform, lack of automated connectors with other EPM tools and lack of customization for the reports 9even though this area has shown great improvement in recent years with many interesting items on the pipeline).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has allowed us to integrate different data sources into the same engine, thereby implementing a real connected planning, shortening planning times by 50% and centralizing the template.
Flexible Scenario Planning and Multi-Dimensional Analysis—All Features Impress
What do you like best about the product?
The scenario-based planning and multi-dimensionality features stand out to me. They provide a flexible approach to planning, allowing for a more comprehensive analysis of different possibilities and outcomes.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I haven't found anything to dislike, as I enjoy all of its features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scenario planning is a useful approach for anticipating possible future developments and preparing strategies accordingly. It helps me think through different outcomes and make more informed decisions. I find it valuable for both personal and professional planning, as it encourages flexibility and readiness for change.
Powerful Calculations, But Definite Learning Curve for Excel Users
What do you like best about the product?
Immediate calculations across multiple dimensions and modules
What do you dislike about the product?
This software is not as user-friendly for those familiar with Excel as the advertising suggests. It requires a significant amount of training to use effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The software offers the ability to calculate projections for multiple sales scenarios across numerous royalty contracts with complex terms, all at the same time and within a secure environment. Its scalability is also a significant advantage.
Flexible, User-Friendly with Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
I love Anaplan's flexibility and ease of use, especially its cloud-based, low-code platform that allows for intuitive navigation. The customer support is fantastic and responsive. The advanced features and continuous updates keep up with market demands, ensuring seamless user experiences. Anaplan's ability to solve problems by providing real-time data integration and advanced security is exceptional. The scenario-based modeling for forecasting, budgeting, and planning is highly useful for clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see a place where I can test all the formulas before deploying them. This would make things more efficient for model builders. Additionally, I feel that the UX and other pages of Anaplan could be more intuitive. Another area for improvement is being able to model without worrying about model size and workspace size. Addressing these issues could enhance the overall user experience and make it easier to manage models.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find Anaplan resolves data disconnect by bringing teams together on a single platform, reducing errors and enhancing collaboration. It's intuitive and easy to use, facilitating real-time data integration and advanced forecasting, which our clients find particularly beneficial.
Platform is reliable and fast, but with limited capacity and high license fees
What do you like best about the product?
Platform is flexible, easy to understand and build. Reliable after the build, if built right.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability, capacity which are big constraints. High license fees and predatory sales tactics which are hidden and never disclosed upfront.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scenario planning, multiple user using at the same time, Pricing strategy, Forecast accuracy
Anaplan as a flexible planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a tool that is easy to use, not only for end users but also for developers building planning applications. The structure, building blocks, and user-friendly ("Excel-like") modeling interface make this tool suitable for a wide range of use cases, from financial forecasting and sales performance to supply chain. One tool enables the chaining of different areas, creating a unified environment with real-time collaboration that allows end users to view the latest updates made within the team or by other teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool lacks some essential features that could help developers and users build and utilize the tool more effectively and fully leverage its potential. Lack of versioning, partial promotions, multifilter, or long rollback times are some of the most missing features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps eliminate the offline files created by different teams during the financial planning process. The result is that users have one source of truth with the real-time view, so there are not multiple versions of different files flowing from one team/user to another. Another benefit is that the process is unified based on the previously defined and agreed logic, and everybody follows the same steps and calculations. This helps to build more precise and suitable plans based on the same sources in a predefined timeline.
Go to cloud tool for enterprise performance management
What do you like best about the product?
> As an long time implementation partner of Anaplan , can definitely vouch for its native cloud system where it is built for ease of implementing building of models as well as intuitive and collaborative UX features which make business users understand and use Anaplan efficiently
> Latest features like workflow and ADO have been incorporated which allows data management and loading in house leading to greater data quality loaded into models and also managing tasks like approvals and automation easily
> Vast customer support portal and community wherein there are new ideas as well as readily available solutions
> Integration to and from Anaplan for database and well as BI tools and also custom integrations possible using API.
> Excellent safety and security features to ensure role as well as granular access for users can be managed
> Latest features like workflow and ADO have been incorporated which allows data management and loading in house leading to greater data quality loaded into models and also managing tasks like approvals and automation easily
> Vast customer support portal and community wherein there are new ideas as well as readily available solutions
> Integration to and from Anaplan for database and well as BI tools and also custom integrations possible using API.
> Excellent safety and security features to ensure role as well as granular access for users can be managed
What do you dislike about the product?
> In initial phase can be a bit tricky to get around especially for users with new /limited experience
>Essentially a planning tool , not data and BI tool completely so for BI features , need to link to external tools for rich reports and charts although new UX provide great options
> Bulk adding of users in a workspace is not possible.
> Lesser use of AI features for now
>Essentially a planning tool , not data and BI tool completely so for BI features , need to link to external tools for rich reports and charts although new UX provide great options
> Bulk adding of users in a workspace is not possible.
> Lesser use of AI features for now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
> FP&A - inherently a EPM tool meant for financial planning and analysis , there are a variety of features to manage financial planning like versions for scenario management , time base functions to calculate forecast plan based on actuals
> Seamless integration to load organizational data and feature of having a hub so that across different use cases right type of data is pushed and data is managed at one place centrally
> User experience - With languid features of new UX , business users can easily use Anaplan in order of the way they can and also perform features like exporting the grids as pdfs and inputting data which immediately edits in the backend and recalculates all logic simultaneously leading to real time planning.
> Seamless integration to load organizational data and feature of having a hub so that across different use cases right type of data is pushed and data is managed at one place centrally
> User experience - With languid features of new UX , business users can easily use Anaplan in order of the way they can and also perform features like exporting the grids as pdfs and inputting data which immediately edits in the backend and recalculates all logic simultaneously leading to real time planning.
A very powerful platform with data integration and hierarchical capabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Low code knowledge is required to maintain the models. On-cloud platform which enables real-time data displayed as you plan your scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
Handling sparse data and model performance when solution gets too complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform helped in ensuring that there is a standardized way of planning across the organization. It also provides a streamlined approach in managing approval workflows.
Anaplan keeps getting better and better!
What do you like best about the product?
Building and making updates to Anaplan is really easy to learn for new users. Especially those already familiar with Excel, the formula syntax is easy to learn in Anaplan. Anaplan also has great customer support. They get back to you right away.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can be built overly complex and take up too much space if enough upfront work and thought isn't put into the design.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan saves our customers time and also gets them out of several different excel files. Streamlines their planning process. Everything is in one place, and everyone can access it, and it also updates all output reports live.
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