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Anaplan has allowed for us to move out of gsheets and into a systematized tool for Sales Planning
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to add structure to repeatable processes and easily roll things forward rather than creating dozens of gsheets a year. The ability to integrate with other systems like Workday, SFDC, Data Warehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Access has it's downsides when new roles need to be created or trying to automate user access provisioning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Segmentation, Quota Planning, Quota Adjustments, and Target Planning are all done in one connected solution.
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Anaplan Review: Unlocking the Power of Connected Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility and Customization: Anaplan is highly flexible and can be customized to model various business processes, from finance and sales to supply chain and HR. This adaptability makes it suitable for businesses of all sizes and industries.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
Connected Planning: Anaplan excels at connecting different parts of the business, enabling better collaboration and alignment. Changes made in one area automatically update across the platform, ensuring everyone works with the same data.
Ease of Use: Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan is designed with a user-friendly interface that is relatively easy to learn and navigate. This allows users to quickly build and modify models without extensive technical expertise.
Scalability: Anaplan can handle large and complex datasets, making it suitable for growing businesses with increasing data needs.
Strong Community and Support: Anaplan has an active user community and provides comprehensive support resources, including training materials, documentation, and forums.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with Anaplan has been positive overall. I haven't encountered any significant issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Siloed Data and Processes, Static and Time-Consuming Planning,Limited Visibility and Insights
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.
Anaplan for Incentive Compensation
What do you like best about the product?
Time to value, can translate very complex business requirements into a flexible and scalable model. Customer support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial implementation with an experienced partner is a must to ensure success and future scalability. Level of flexibility allowed in Anaplan can cause scalability issues if not designed well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is allowing us to level up our compensation workflow from a manual process to a more standardized process. We are able to establish our compensation policies into Anaplan and have those automatically apply and give our compensation execution team flexibility to make changes.
Best enterprise-grade EPM tool for complex requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Its calculation engine and overall robustness
What do you dislike about the product?
It's space limitations / sparsity issues can require workarounds and therefore take longer to develop
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative planning, decision-making, running scenarios
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
Incredibly Powerful & Scalable Modern Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is great for an enterprise solution. It is incredibly flexible and can handle any use cases, from FP&A and Supply Chain to Sales Performance Management. The new UX allows end users to work together across modules with ease. Navigating Anaplan is inutitive and pages are feature-packed. Pages are designed to be used ad-hoc by end users, allowing users to run self-service reports. There is a large customer support network that is very active.
What do you dislike about the product?
Models can quickly grow to become unmanageable, especially as business requirements change over time. The tool itself has a learning curve that can take end users longer to learn than expected. The depth of possible inputs or datapoints can lead to uncertainty if data hygiene is not maintained. Implementations may take months and require input from multiple teams across the organization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to quickly credit transactions to a sales representative. The process of adding new reps, loading transactions as data, performing the crediting logic, and calculating a payout amount as the result is dramatically streamlined. In addition, accuracy is improved and Sales Operations can spend their time on value-add opportunities.
Anaplan's Customization & UX Consideratoins
What do you like best about the product?
Model Customization - It truly is an open box. This can be a double edge sword if not implemented right, or if requirements are not understood during development, but otherwise this allows for great flexibility in how things could be planned.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Two major sticking points for me, Cube size and lack of ALM in the UX.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.
No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consistnency in planning - creates a standard structure in how forecasting is done, minimizing disparate/disconnected processes.
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.
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