Anaplan
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Anaplan: flexible tool for a connected planning enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
- Flexibility
- Power of calculation
- Ease of use
- Ease of implementation
- Customer support
- Power of calculation
- Ease of use
- Ease of implementation
- Customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
-Connectability to external systems
-Price structure
-Price structure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Offering collaboration for planning, under a tailored and customized process, with data quality control.
It's a very flexible, light-weight and powerful planning platform.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, Flexible, Real-time calcualtion.
What do you dislike about the product?
A little expensive, customer support can be better (eg. can have a more experienced support team)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because i am a consultant, hence I help clients to implement Anaplan to solve multiple problems, but the top threes are Financial planning (with workforce), Supply planning and Sales planning. Due to the fact that Anaplan is a very flexible platform, it can handle most of the planning use cases, with in-depth what-if analysis and senario planning.
Powerful planning tool for FP&A use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Incredibly flexible tool that can be customized to the specific business needs of an organization
What do you dislike about the product?
Room for improvement on management reporting capabilities
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan provides a more accurate and collaborative way of forecasting revenue, planning project staffing, and considering several what-if scenarios, among lots of other great uses
Mastering Integrated Business Planning with Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
True Integrated Business Planning (IBP) can be achieved through a end-to-end connected planning solution that joins supply chain, finance and sales together in a unified system. The Anaplan platofrm excels in this space.
The advanced modelling capaiblity enable the tool to be able to handle complex and simple problems business face. The speed to implement changes in the model, ensures business can react quickly to challenging, changing business needs.
The advanced modelling capaiblity enable the tool to be able to handle complex and simple problems business face. The speed to implement changes in the model, ensures business can react quickly to challenging, changing business needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Due to it's incredible flexibility, Anaplan can become overly complicated if best practice to process and solution architecure are not followed. Anaplan's strength stems from it's flexiblitiy but it can be a weakness if these best practices are not followed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan solves complex supply chain problems very well across a wide range of different industries. Due to its flexibility it can accomodate companies with differing maturity levels.
I'm a Master Anaplanner, worked 2y as an internal consultant and 1y as an external consultant
What do you like best about the product?
- Simple to use and understand
- Easy data integration
- Very flexible tool (can be used for finance, supply, demand, inventory planning...)
- Easy data integration
- Very flexible tool (can be used for finance, supply, demand, inventory planning...)
What do you dislike about the product?
- Data volume limitations
- UX capabilities (huge improvements over the last 1-2y but still)
- UX capabilities (huge improvements over the last 1-2y but still)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Automatic data updates from the ERP
- High level of collaborations (multiple people working at the same time on the same model + ease of communication between the models/teams)
- Data security (with the roles, selective access, different workspaces...)
- Big volume of data (compared to Excel)
- High level of collaborations (multiple people working at the same time on the same model + ease of communication between the models/teams)
- Data security (with the roles, selective access, different workspaces...)
- Big volume of data (compared to Excel)
Versatile Platform with Strong Community Support
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a highly flexible and user-friendly platform that requires no coding, making it accessible to a broad range of users. The tool’s intuitive design allows for a wide variety of applications, with instant calculations that streamline analysis. I also appreciate the robust online learning resources and the supportive Anaplan community, which provides valuable insights and networking opportunities.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform has size limitations unless you are on a Hypermodel. Additionally, it may slow down when too many users are accessing it concurrently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan provides a flexible platform that enables us to transition multiple Excel-based models into a centralised system, streamlining our processes and consolidating final forecasts with greater efficiency and accuracy
Efficient and Versatile Planning Tool - Anaplan
What do you like best about the product?
The best aspect of Anaplan is its flexibility and scalability, allowing us to customize models to fit our specific business needs seamlessly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan is a powerful tool, its initial setup and learning curve can be quite steep, requiring significant time and resources to fully leverage its capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has unified our planning processes across departments, ensuring data consistency and accuracy. Its real-time data integration enables faster, more informed decision-making. The platform's robust modeling capabilities enhance our ability to perform complex scenario planning and forecasting. Anaplan's collaborative features improve team communication and productivity. Additionally, it automates data entry, reducing errors and freeing up time for strategic activitie
Flexible Platform that Provides Enough Standardization
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan provides business teams with a flexible platform in which they are able to easily model new use cases and add enhancements to existing models. The platform adds the additional benefit of standardization across the models which ensures ease of maintenance and cuts down on admin work for teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Modeling needs to be thoughtful from the start of implementation of new models as workspace can become an issue if model builders don't think through design and sparsity before they execute.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows our users to take advantage of standardization across different models which greatly reduces the time they spend managing updates to spreadsheets and refocus on actual planning and analysis.
Anaplan: Scalable and flexible - best for non-standard use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility is the best thing about it. This is particularly helpful in use cases that are not stnadard and can't be catered to via your typical out of the box technology solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has a high cost to it, particularly around licensing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping us centralize a historically disjointed planning process. This has allowed us to gain process efficiencies and pull in the reigns on a process that has long been difficult to manage. Not only has this brought detailed refinement, but it also has saved countless hours within our process.
Anaplan: A Flexible and Robust Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan’s flexibility and ability to handle complex, multi-dimensional models are among its best features. It leverages multi-dimensionality and advanced formula referencing for real time calculations and outputs. It has an active community and extensive learning academy with courses going over various topics and best practices, which happen to help with the building process that can be challenging.
What do you dislike about the product?
The major drawback for me is the lack of native integration with external systems, which has required us to do additional work to connect external data sources through API. Anaplan announced however the upcoming release of the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) which I hope will address this limitation by improving data integration and orchestration native capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has helped clients solve numerous challenges by providing a robust, scalable, and flexible platform that transforms how businesses plan and operate. It delivered significant value to clients by streamlining their planning processes, enhancing decision-making capabilities, and enabling more agile, data-driven operations. Some of the key problems Anaplan has addressed for clients include: Eliminating Siloed Planning, Automating Manual Processes, Enabling Real-Time Scenario Planning, Enhancing Forecasting Accuracy, Scaling to Meet Business Growth and Improving Collaboration.
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