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Solution Architect
What do you like best about the product?
- The most flexible and agile planning platform
- User friendly
- Fast and scalable implementation
- Really like the initiatives around Machine Learning
- Unparalled customer support from Anaplan team as well as the partner ecosystem
- Easy to integration to and from various third party systems
- User friendly
- Fast and scalable implementation
- Really like the initiatives around Machine Learning
- Unparalled customer support from Anaplan team as well as the partner ecosystem
- Easy to integration to and from various third party systems
What do you dislike about the product?
- Minor limitations of the UX that can be handled by workaorunds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps the businesses address the disconnets between teams while allowing them to be efficient and transparent with each other. Having all team members talk and work with the same language in one unified platform fosters the trust and collaboration amongs teams while increasing the accuracy of the otucome.
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A Highly Effective, Intuitive EPM System
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an excellent tool to standardize their planning processes and connect previously disparate systems. The speed at which an effective model can be built and integrated into an overall business process is one of the biggest advantages of the Anaplan platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the challenges with Anaplan is the upfront investement to successfully integrate data with Anaplan. One of Anaplan's key advantages is the ability for a line-of-business user to be the model builder. This advantage can only be fully achieved with some initial investment to get data flowing into Anaplan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps solve the following problems for our clients: planning and budgeting, enrollment and tuition forecasting, program economic analysis, capital plannning and budgeting, and long range planning to name a few
Powerful analysis and reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Excellent analytical capabilities
- Easy to learn
- Encourages single source of truth
- Easy to implement
- Easy to connect to other systems
- Easy to learn
- Encourages single source of truth
- Easy to implement
- Easy to connect to other systems
What do you dislike about the product?
- Support improving but could be better
- Certain "nice-to-have" features missing despite community support
- Certain "nice-to-have" features missing despite community support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monthly forecasting process, annual budgeting process.
- Allows multiple users to input data simultaneously
- Connects to accounting ledger and other systems for actuals
- Displays budget/forecast in ROY months
- Displays actuals in YTD months
- Allows multiple users to input data simultaneously
- Connects to accounting ledger and other systems for actuals
- Displays budget/forecast in ROY months
- Displays actuals in YTD months
Agile, Scalable and on-the-go planning
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-dimensionality and scalability results in error free planning.
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Recently the cost of the tool has increased, but it is still preferable because of the value proposition it brings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error-free and a streamlined way of assigning accounts to territories. Manage territories dynamically.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
FP&A Director /Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
What I love most about Anaplan is how versatile it is. Anaplan is used by a varietey of different industries for multiple use cases because of this. The ability to connect different functions and departments into Anaplan to develop a consolidated forecast that is unique to each funcitons needs is a game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the interconnectivity is great, you need to be careful when making system changes that it is not having unintentional effects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interconnect forecasting
Anaplan for advanced modeling and connected planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is an advanced modeling platform which connects people, data, and plans across the enterprise to a single source of truth. It allows for collaboration across various divisions and enables businesses to plan top to bottom and bottoms up across Finance, Sales , Supply chain, HR and other divisions. It has an intiutive User Interface which provides capabilities of latest Management Reporting functionalities as well. It is truly a revolutionary platform which definitely provides an edge to businesses using it. The plaform also has the ability to pull data from various sources through easily configurable in ETL's / File loads etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Although anaplan is a highly scaleable and flexible platform, it is important to ensure that the foundations of the model are built correctly during any implementation to allow for long term sustainability and scaleability of the model. Anaplan is easy to learn and implement but in order to achieve scaleable models, in depth solution architecture experience is required
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan allows to solve various business problems and supports unlimited use cases. Anaplan has enabled us to model FP&A budgets, Real Estate Valuations and Forecasting, Incentive Compensation Management , workforce planning and various other use cases. Across all use cases it has enabled users to easily model various scenarios and in real time view results of what if analysis on their plans.
Anaplan through Model builder Lense
What do you like best about the product?
Being worked on legacy products in the past, writing logics or formulas in Anaplan is much simpler & fast. Anyone with excel knowldege can easily build or atleast read calculations.
The drill down functionality allows to easily trace back the calculations on the spot, no need to open backend tables or doing dummy calculations in excel to verify results.
The flexibility it provides to build only what's needed & structure the model as you want. This allows business to customize their models/processes the way they want rather than fitting your process into pre-configured planning softwares.
The drill down functionality allows to easily trace back the calculations on the spot, no need to open backend tables or doing dummy calculations in excel to verify results.
The flexibility it provides to build only what's needed & structure the model as you want. This allows business to customize their models/processes the way they want rather than fitting your process into pre-configured planning softwares.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though the model latency is outcome of how the model is built, bigger models usually face data latency or "model busy" or concurrency issues, not good with huge chunck of data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In current project, we are streamilining the production & material planning for our client. Earlier each business unit had their own excel spreadsheets and used to work in silos, any business dicision/change used to happen over formal cimmunication channels and to reflect that decision took time. Now all these planning is being streamlined into Anaplan, stakeholders can have access to relevant data in real-time at one place & will speed up the decison making & planning. All the manual calculations, reporting will be automated & planners can focus more on planning rather than consolidating and prepariong reports for planning.
User friendly, business owned cross functional planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn and implement to exact business requirements, UX is clean looking and offers multiple ways to visualize; easy to integrate with ERPs and other data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to be intentional with what you want to implement as it is fully custom; need to dedicate time to learning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of allowing multiple users to enter forecasts in to one central location, of which aggregations happen naturally and calculations immediately work.
Fulfilling career as an Anaplan Model Builder
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Anaplan is a massive upgrade relative to other tools (like Microsoft Excel) in terms of empowering users to drive connected forecasting and planning. There are so many features that make this empowerment possible, such as version control, real time calculation updates, and dynamic cell access.
What do you dislike about the product?
When an Anaplan Model Builder attempts to implement a formula that is invalid, sometimes, this results in the Anaplan model locking up (or "toasting") for a period of time that ranges from seconds to minutes (depending on the size and complexity of the model) while the model processes and reverts the change. During this "toaster" period, no one, including Model Builders and users, can navigate or make changes in the model - This is extremely disruptive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Through Anaplan's Application Lifecycle Management functionality, I can Model Build in an existing Anaplan model without disrupting users' working in the Production model. Thanks to Anaplan's Hyberblock technology, I can build models containing data and calculations that far exceed anything I can build in other tools in terms of size and calculation complexity. Due to the ability to build and manage Anaplan models without help from a typical Information Technology (IT) team, I'm empowered to develop solutions for our users with minimal overhead or reliance from non-business teams.
How to increase data security by eliminating spreadsheets while breaking down silos
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's security via self services, single sign on and central identify management allows planning teams to stop sending risky emails with attachments and to plan and review via dashboards. By leveraging Anaplan, a centralized planning tool, the forecasting teams standardize processes, democratizes data via transparent data values and as a result breaks down silos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is currently not an out of the box solution, so implenting it requires dedication from the business. The Anaplan way, and working with partners helps organizations positvely transform their planning process, but in the end the buisness has to commit and invest in change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is providing transparency from start to finish in the planning process. During C-Suite reviews, if anyone asks: "where does that value come from" the presentor can drill down into the value. When previously preparing for C-Suite reviews, different parts of the organization may have calculated the same metrics with different logic or inputs, Anaplan forces the organization to provide transparency, alignment, and standardization where applicable to that planning process.
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