Anaplan
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Highly Customizable Business Application Development Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Customizability and the performance of the calculation engine
What do you dislike about the product?
High learning curve. Not very user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Anaplan to create models for sales planning. It enables consolidation of planning data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure to go through all the training materials
Software that enhances your business's productivity and growth potential
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great at automating many of the manual less productive tasks within a company's planning process. Business users can now spend more time analyzing the business insights rather than simply trying to organize and gather the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any software tool like this, it can be challenging to implement if the existing data integrity and infrastructure is not already cleansed and ready for system use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping the business resolve underlying process issues and given the SMEs the time and thought to rethink existing processes and how they can be transformed.
Love working with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great because it is highly customizable and not out of the box, making it ideal for enterprise-level companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan can be time-consuming from the customer side to implement, especially for gathering requirements and testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving for end to end sales operation planning. Benefits include global standardization, reduction in planning time, and quick responses to changes.
Anaplan Reivew 2021
What do you like best about the product?
Connected planning. The UX and reporting functionality. Ability to streamline planning and forecasting
What do you dislike about the product?
Size limitations, had projects where client wanted so many dimensions but anaplan couldn't support so had to do workarounds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data integrations, having one source of the truth has been very helpful
Recommendations to others considering the product:
To ensure you complete your training and follow best practices
Great in-the-cloud planning engine
What do you like best about the product?
In memory, calculation is fast and multi-dimensional. It is also API supported platform. Moreover, many use cases are starting with FP&A to revenue recognition.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's synchronous system instead of an Async system. This makes developer life harder since the developer needs to factor this when doing multiple import and export jobs carefully.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving multi-dimensional calculations. The most significant benefit is everything is in memory. So when the formula changes, everything gets recalculated within a second.
Finance for Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is easy to use and implement. The software is truly business owned.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not easy to sell internally. Most businesses use SAP & SAC.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial planning
Invest Planning
HR Planning
Supply Planning
Invest Planning
HR Planning
Supply Planning
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anaplan as a planning software is much easier to use as a front-end user than SAC. It is also much faster to implement on the backend than SAC.
Anaplan for Connected Planning to Achieve Transparency
What do you like best about the product?
In memory calculation engine, which provides real-time outputs for any inputs entered.
What do you dislike about the product?
Below are some of the items.
1. Workflow can be improved
2. NUX can still be improved
3. Some Excel equivalent formula are not available
1. Workflow can be improved
2. NUX can still be improved
3. Some Excel equivalent formula are not available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial Planning and Consolidation is the use case we have implemented. Anaplan model helps in reducing the planning cycle from Months to days.
Overall an awesome experience
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an excellent financial planning tool with many functionalities to solve a lot of business problems. As it is very user-friendly, users adapt to it very fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of reporting and dashboarding capabilities makes it difficult to design the reports as per the requirements, but Anaplan is improving it day by day and soon, it will be the best tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving all our Financial Analytics problems which include Business Planning, Quota Management, Territory Management, Account Planning, segment Planning, and Headcount PLanning
Great way to automate and streamline business processes!
What do you like best about the product?
System flexibility. Anaplan can be used for many different use cases, from simple data aggregation to complex forecasting and calculations. Powerful calculation engines that are behind the scenes can be simplified with user-friendly front-end dashboards, enabling standardized processes and the ability to onboard users at every level.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is extremely forward-thinking. Sometimes they focus on marketing the "future state" a little bit too much (i.e. AI) while they still have some enhancements to the existing core functionality that would also benefit their cutomers. I would prefer their teams focus on some of those items before moving on to the "future".
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are utilizing Anaplan for many different use cases that I have listed below, all resulting in streamlined standardization of processes across the firm.
-Data aggregation for various forms of reporting
-Tracking of activity &related transformation (from investor to investment level)
-Complex waterfall calculations
-Forecasting of investment activity
-Centralization of data storage (market & in-house)
-Portfolio tracking and corresponding general ledger accounting
-Data aggregation for various forms of reporting
-Tracking of activity &related transformation (from investor to investment level)
-Complex waterfall calculations
-Forecasting of investment activity
-Centralization of data storage (market & in-house)
-Portfolio tracking and corresponding general ledger accounting
A fantastic system with Many Applications
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of the Anaplan system makes for an intuitive planning system that can be tailored to many applications for instance, Resource planning, Fund management, Budgeting, and forecasting longer term
What do you dislike about the product?
There are very few things I dislike about the platform and Anaplan are very good at responding to criticisms for instance the old dashboard system we clunky how every they have in the last year and a bit launched the new dashboards which are a leap forward and continue to added to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been working on various challenges with Anaplan. Asset planning, Fund reporting, Engineering Project forecasting through to FP&A budget and forecasting models.
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