Anaplan Reviews & Product Details

Anaplan is low/no code system oriented on selfservice by business users. Anaplan really helps to save time and spent it on thinking and solving business issues rather then technical problems. Anaplan less sensitive ot changes, the change requirments/logic is usually less paintfull ther majority of others solutions. Also Anaplan has great eco sytem with learning center, comunity.

Despite there is a relatively low technical barriers to start building it is easy to make bad product with low performance. Always need to pay attention to architecture and be accurate in solving tasks that are not proper for OLAP like huge transacional lists, long time scales. Also need pay attention to sizes of model since you are limited in available workspace.

Anaplan helps to consolidate financial reporing in a matter of time , source of truth, transparent process of collecting, commenting, approving data. Anaplan helps to reduce time in preparing consolidated statemnets with a higher quality. Anaplan helps to prepare more versions of forecasts and budgets before it was previosly before Anaplan.

- 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

- Minor limitations of the UX that can be handled by workaorunds

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.

I like that the user experience is really flexible and meets the main needs of most enterprises. The Connected Planning experience a good implementation can give to its customers is a high-end solution that works really well. The platform constantly expands and is market competitive, the multiple integration options allow the system to communicate and seamlessly fit in any existing environment.

Having been exposed to the gritty back-end work and not only the shiny front-end, there are things that can be enhanced in the way the dimensions work and the way the engine performs - being a live system means any blocking action cripples user experience for everyone involved.

Enterprises shifting their planning processes to a tool that can meet all their needs - processes can be clear and concise, and seamlessly interact with the overall business cases. Complex processes that span over multiple regions and business units are usually difficult to optimize or consolidate; however using Anaplan makes this step far easier to accomplish and maintain.

In memory calculation engine, which provides real-time outputs for any inputs entered.

Below are some of the items. 1. Workflow can be improved 2. NUX can still be improved 3. Some Excel equivalent formula are not available

Financial Planning and Consolidation is the use case we have implemented. Anaplan model helps in reducing the planning cycle from Months to days.

I like Anaplan's planning and modeling features, intelligent engine, user experience, extensibility and scalability. Anaplan connects people, data and plans like no other with their unified cloud platform. New features and functionalities are incorporated into the platform on a monthly basis which enhance the product's value proposition and usability significantly.

Auditability of line items can be improved by adding extra features like saved views references, filter references, UX page references etc. Native support for allowing input/breakback and calculation logic in the same line item can be added to further boost platform adoption in Retail Planning use cases.

Anaplan's versatility is one of its key differentiators. Using Anaplan, comprehensive planning solutions that facilitate quick decision-making can be built for all critical functions - Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, HR and Workforce, Marketing etc. As a partner, this enables me to implement best-in-class solutions for our customers and their planning needs.

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

Recently the cost of the tool has increased, but it is still preferable because of the value proposition it brings.

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.

Anaplan provides a stable environment that copes with big data sets well. I also love how easily models can connect and share data, elminating spreadsheets from our planning process. Anaplan is always adding new features and enhancements to the platform.

A desire for employees to want to learn Anaplan modeling skills is key to a successful implementation unless there is a central function for model maintenance or dedicated Centre of Excellence.

Anaplan is a great alternative to Excel. It has allowed us to streamline processes and reduce modelling error risks. Coinnected planning, where data can easily be shared between models, has eliminated the need for Excel files when consolidating business unit results into the Group Budget.

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.

While the interconnectivity is great, you need to be careful when making system changes that it is not having unintentional effects.

Interconnect forecasting

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

Have to be intentional with what you want to implement as it is fully custom; need to dedicate time to learning

Ease of allowing multiple users to enter forecasts in to one central location, of which aggregations happen naturally and calculations immediately work.

1)New user experience is the game changer with management reporting. 2) Community user helps to get clarifications regarding the platform. 3) Introduction of Hyper model architecture to plan with huge data volumes at the most granular level.

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.

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.