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Anaplan: From the Perspective of a Certified Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility allows for custom modeling solutions. Finance teams can plan in models tailed specifically to their needs. Source ERP to Anaplan integration can be automated using Anaplan Connect or other third party integration platforms. Numerous users can plan in a model simultaneously.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan's flexibility is both a blessing and a curse. Models need to be developed and maintained by model building experts that fully understand the business requirements. Models built without sufficient skill on the part of the model builders, or without sufficient input and oversight from the business, can result in implementation failure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has streamlined business planning consolidation and workbook version control. The headaches associated with combining / error handling dozens of excel based budget models have been alleviated. Models are refreshed daily via SAP BW integration with Actuals results, and finance teams can determine when to export plan data back to SAP BW.
All around Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
1. flexible for unique business needs
2. recent enhanced capabilities for consolidation, Excel modelling and external reporting
2. recent enhanced capabilities for consolidation, Excel modelling and external reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is quite expense and a lot of functionality needed additional cost e.g. workflow, Fluence etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
budgeting and forecasting
Innovating tools where continuous learning thrives
What do you like best about the product?
They have a clear vision, and product innovation is constant, with new features introduced regularly. This tool is easy to integrate and doesn't require an IT background.
What do you dislike about the product?
With six years of experience using Anaplan, I can confidently say there is nothing to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan's connected planning is highly valued by clients worldwide. As a model builder, I have successfully implemented connected planning to integrate Supply and Demand, enhancing Inventory Management within Anaplan. In Finance, I have utilized connected planning for Cash Flow Management, Capex Control, EPS Calculations, and Consolidations within a single model. Anaplan truly excels in delivering impressive connected planning solutions.
Anaplan: Transforming Planning Processes
What do you like best about the product?
1) Ease of use
2) Hierarchy security and features
3) Scenario planning
4) Ease of integration with CloudWorks
2) Hierarchy security and features
3) Scenario planning
4) Ease of integration with CloudWorks
What do you dislike about the product?
1) Changing hierarchies
2) Pricing
3) Missing the today function from Excel
2) Pricing
3) Missing the today function from Excel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial planning and analysis.
Direct cashflow modelling for treasury department
Workforce planning
Month end cost reviews
MI Dashboards
Direct cashflow modelling for treasury department
Workforce planning
Month end cost reviews
MI Dashboards
My Anaplan Experience firstly in consulting firm and then in Inhouse
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Implementation - I am more from business background and it requires nearly no technical background for the implementation.
Tracebility - drill down and history functionality help users to trace to the source of the figures to verify the source data and user inputs
Flexibility of planning hierarchy - ease of creating and maintaing the planning hierarchies
Ease of change - Planning requirements could have changes every year, and Anaplan is flexible to adopt changes
Performance - Anaplan is capable to support complex and huge volume of calculation in real-time, which is better than other planning systems.
Tracebility - drill down and history functionality help users to trace to the source of the figures to verify the source data and user inputs
Flexibility of planning hierarchy - ease of creating and maintaing the planning hierarchies
Ease of change - Planning requirements could have changes every year, and Anaplan is flexible to adopt changes
Performance - Anaplan is capable to support complex and huge volume of calculation in real-time, which is better than other planning systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Excel Add-in - Lots of business users like using it but the tool actually is not sophisticated enough; The workaround is try to lead business users to use Anaplan New UX instead of excel add-in
Data Integration - It would be great if Anaplan has the file systems on cloud, so that users may easily trace the source files that they use to upload.
Data Integration - It would be great if Anaplan has the file systems on cloud, so that users may easily trace the source files that they use to upload.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easier collaboration for all cost center owners and reviewers;
Tracebility on the user inputs on the most granular level (FTE level in workforce planning);
Version Compasison - allow efficient and flexible version comparison in Anaplan directly
Cost saving - We have a CoE team with business background only and are sufficient to deliver Anaplan models on our own
Tracebility on the user inputs on the most granular level (FTE level in workforce planning);
Version Compasison - allow efficient and flexible version comparison in Anaplan directly
Cost saving - We have a CoE team with business background only and are sufficient to deliver Anaplan models on our own
Anaplan: A rapid, User-Centric Powerhouse Revolutionizing Planning Efficiency
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan brings the end users and their specific needs to the center of design. This means the platforms adheres to the processes of the end users rather than the end users having to adapt to an out of the box process. Even though model builders may need to conduct the on demand trainings to get up to speed. Once completed or with the help of implementation partners Anaplan can be rolled out in a speedy manner. Next to the time savings during the implementation, users will notice an improvement as well as a reduction of their planning cycles. Anaplan can be utilized to connect planning processes of multiple departments enabling a harmonized enterprise wide plan. Due to its maturity on the market, Anaplan has grown a very strong community with many knowledge assets and members that are happy to give a helping hand wherever needed. Platform related questions can easily raised with the business partner team or via email/ticket to the support team.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are two limitations when it comes to planning in Anaplan. One is for sure the missing multi language support. Anaplan would only operate in English which may be difficult for end users who are not too confident using a tool that is not supported in their native language. On top the high degree of flexibility can be blessing and burden at the same time when inefficient processes are transferred onto the Anaplan platform without being challenged during the design phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My team and I have enabled mutliple business end users to maintain and enhance their planning solutions within the Anaplan platform without being dependent on the IT department. Many of them shared the same status quo before switching to Anaplan. There are multiple different data sources that need to be gathered and manipulated. By the time they are ready to be used during the planning cycle they are already outdated. Multiple spreadsheets were provided to the various teams in different locations making it almost impossible to provide updates to master data (structural or transactional). With the help of Anaplan those team could trust in the single source of the truth with real-time updates across all business lines and locations.
Anaplan Review
What do you like best about the product?
Great forecasting tool that is logical to use as a builder and maintain as an end user. It allows clients to forecast on a dynamic basis. The tool can link with various integration tools with built in functionality from Cloudworks
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting features could be improved upon but is getting better over time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time to build forecasts are quicker whilst improving detail
Anaplan - great tool for almost any use case
What do you like best about the product?
Plenty of integration options with other platforms; flexible security settings; quick development times
What do you dislike about the product?
Management reporting can be further improved, to introduce more flexibility for the customer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Within Anaplan, it si possible to solve any problem, as logn as you have an experienced model builder and a dedicated person from a buiseness side to give clear requirements
Connecting Dots in Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a great planning and analytical tool to conver a wide range of general and industry-specific use cases through an amazingly flexible modeling engine and nice user inteface. Recent addition of powerful workflow functionality looks great as well
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve for users to learn navigation and advanced features, such as pivot, drill down, etc. Integrations could be improved as well. Importing large data sets could be faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales Forecasting, Territory and Quota, various data management and analytical edge cases
Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
Its flexibility and scalability make it suitable for various use cases across different industries. Easy to use, Ease to implement, Reliable customer support, Easy to integrate
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited offline flexibility, integartion is complex
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan addresses a variety of business challenges and provides solutions that are particularly valuable for organizations involved in planning, budgeting, and performance management.Some of the common problems that Anaplan helps customers solve include:
Spreadsheets Limitations
Disconnected Planning Processes
Inefficient Manual Processes
Difficulty in Scenario Analysis
Spreadsheets Limitations
Disconnected Planning Processes
Inefficient Manual Processes
Difficulty in Scenario Analysis
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