Anaplan
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Great planning and budgeting tool
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility and ease of use for the team to update the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not too much, other than it's at a higher price point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated baseline forecasts to reduce cycle times.
Anaplan Practice Director
What do you like best about the product?
Here are the upsides of Anaplan:
- Flexibility
- Power of multidimensional architecture
- Ability to do things on the fly
- Ability to access Anaplan on mobile application
- Workflow Automation
- Management Reporting
- Co-pilot of Model Build
- Anaplan co-planner using generative AI capabilities enables faster insights into business performance
- Introduction of Anaplan data orchestrator enables seamless integration with various data sources, including SAP
- Statutory Consolidation and Disclosure Management
- Industry agnostic tool
- Flexibility
- Power of multidimensional architecture
- Ability to do things on the fly
- Ability to access Anaplan on mobile application
- Workflow Automation
- Management Reporting
- Co-pilot of Model Build
- Anaplan co-planner using generative AI capabilities enables faster insights into business performance
- Introduction of Anaplan data orchestrator enables seamless integration with various data sources, including SAP
- Statutory Consolidation and Disclosure Management
- Industry agnostic tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Here are the downsides of Anaplan:
- Workspace capacity constraints - this is mitigated to an extent with the introduction of new pricing tiering from Anaplan
- Limitation to combining the hierarchies to manage the sparsity, which results in the application not being user-friendly - Introduction of Polaris engine overcomes this limitation
- Pricing of Anaplan software
- Workspace capacity constraints - this is mitigated to an extent with the introduction of new pricing tiering from Anaplan
- Limitation to combining the hierarchies to manage the sparsity, which results in the application not being user-friendly - Introduction of Polaris engine overcomes this limitation
- Pricing of Anaplan software
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is solving complex business problems. It gives the capability to perform scenario planning/sensitivity analysis with the critical business drivers that could have a significant impact on the business in uncertain times. It gives management powerful insights for making the right decisions at the right time. This is one platform that orchestrates all the functions in the organization.
With the introduction of AI capabilities one can give prompts to quickly get insights into the business performance.
With the acquisition of Fluence, Anaplan has added advantage to perform Statutory consolidation and offer a complete suits for CFO office.
Anaplan platform gives an ability to connect data/people/processes across different functions in the organisation giving ability to analyze the business performance effectively & drive better outsomes.
Anaplan is being used in our organisation for budgeting purposes
With the introduction of AI capabilities one can give prompts to quickly get insights into the business performance.
With the acquisition of Fluence, Anaplan has added advantage to perform Statutory consolidation and offer a complete suits for CFO office.
Anaplan platform gives an ability to connect data/people/processes across different functions in the organisation giving ability to analyze the business performance effectively & drive better outsomes.
Anaplan is being used in our organisation for budgeting purposes
An excellent modeling tool with endless possibilities
What do you like best about the product?
Having the ability to quickly and easily mix data from many sources
Creating complex scenarios and what-if scenarios
The ability to develop and manage group plans
The ability to gauge and evaluate the progress of aims
The ability to recognize and quickly address planning errors
Creating complex scenarios and what-if scenarios
The ability to develop and manage group plans
The ability to gauge and evaluate the progress of aims
The ability to recognize and quickly address planning errors
What do you dislike about the product?
The classic dashboard looks like it's from the 80s, but the new UX has too many restrictions.
There is no function to auto-complete the formulas
There is no function to auto-complete the formulas
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem that Anaplan should solve is not to upcharge its customers.
Great EPM tool for Planning & Forecasting
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, Scalability and User friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing but a few technical limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seamless business planning and forecasting
Anaplan for Strategical Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
What do you like best about the product?
1)ADO(Anaplan Data Orchestrator) seamless integration with different systems with very minimal develpoers effort and replacing the data HUB model. 2)Workflow helps to manage the process with time to time notifications/alerts. 3)New user experience is the game changer with management reporting. 4) Community user helps to get clarifications regarding the platform. 5) Introduction of Hyper model architecture to plan with huge data volumes at the most granular level.
What do you dislike about the product?
1)Few commonly used formulas in excel are not available, but we can implement workarounds to get the results. 2) Performance issues when dealing with complex logic with huge data volumes. 3) Developer experience and NUX still have scope to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is a cloud-based multidimensional and in-memory calculation engine that will help in many business planning and budgeting. It is entirely customized and easy to maintain.
Anaplan is a great way to improve productivity and collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
Going from Excel or comparable models to Anaplan really improves the functionality and consistency of data, models, and reports. Having the data centralized so that all users see the same information and having a tool that is easy for end users to adapt to provides incredible value almost instantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Anaplan is flexible and can provide many upgrades over outdated methods like Excel based models or even comparable tools, it does require a bit of know-how for the end users to develop models themselves. On the other hand, it is something that can be learned easier than other tools or complex coding methods and over time can be entirely self-managed by end users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Even basic lift and shift scenarios of moving existing models into Anaplan solves issues such as single cell formula issues, having multiple files or sources of truth bouncing around the organization at any given time, and the improved security and auditing features help keep data secure.
Connect Departments' Plans and Operations in a single tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a blank canvas with a powerful calculation engine and a friendly visualisation layer. So you can model almost any business process in your own way and share it with your colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited options when it comes to native data integration, workflow and notifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows bringing together in the same platform data that used to be scattered across teams: Workforce planning (in terms of headcount and ftes, budgeting, compensation), FInancial modelling (what-if scenarios), Financial consolidation across entities and many others, without compromising on usability.
Anaplan - Great planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Connected planning
One source of the truth
Real-time results
UX / Management Reporting Apps
Security Features
Simple to use
One source of the truth
Real-time results
UX / Management Reporting Apps
Security Features
Simple to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Licence cost and types (which is probably new to me not sure how other companies operate)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having one source of the truth, by having multiple data sources and points, Anaplan makes it easier to consolidate all markets and report results efficently
A powerful tool for Collaboration Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a very good tool that helps to design/build models with great flexibility to solve business problems. Its powerful integration helps to bring the data from multiple sources and interactive dashboards to attain real-time results.
Highly Customization Capability, Product features and ease of Implementation.
Highly Customization Capability, Product features and ease of Implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Automatic Workflow process
Today() Function are not available
Today() Function are not available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps the Sales Planning team eliminate the manual Excel files for actual/forecast data for multiple geographies. Also, we can see the real-time data in no-time. It helped to stream-line the process by reducing the planning cycle times. Anaplan definitely makes our Sales Ops user's life easier.
Agility and flexibility in modeling and connected planning
What do you like best about the product?
The speed with which a user can create complex models and calculations is unmatched. The ability to assign selective access and row-level security allows a model to confidently be shared to a wide user base without compromising security. Anaplan also has a robust user community that is full of support and is responsive to requests for help.
What do you dislike about the product?
There can be a steep learning curve to model building, as new modelers learn what it means to implement best practices and think through building a model in a way that takes advantage of Anaplan's multi-dimensionality and parallel processing abilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows our business to aggregate disparate data sources in a single environment, create new metrics, and present that to end users for feedback and input to drive better, more data-driven decision making. Having in-house Master Anaplanners also allows our business to have resources that are technically savvy AND can understand that nuances of our business, which creates an environment where we are able to continually iterate on our tools and solutions.
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