Anaplan is an amazing dimensional modeling tool
Updated February 10, 2023
Anaplan is an amazing dimensional modeling tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Company responds to calls for tender that can include a commercial proposal relating to the maintenance of equipment and systems delivered to its customers. In the case of a maintenance offer won, Company must initially design the associated equipment and maintenance plans, and then perform maintenance. Anaplan application aims at integrating all the functionalities supported by the existing Excel tools and all the functional requirements relating to process of costing, re-evaluation and control of maintenance solution, and thus streamline and optimized these processes.
- Guidance to implement Best practice.
- Provide expert solution to solve bottleneck issue.
- Communicate Product update on timely basis
- Currently freeze whole model when one user run any process. this can be improvise.
- provide more functionality to use concurrent user selection based filter and update data without impacting size.
- NUX bug should be fixed.
- Running process in cloudwork
- DCA applied to restrict user access at cell level
- Reporting in UX pages.
- User can collaborate easily to take decision
- Currently Anaplan have pull data but does push to another model which can be improvise
- Easy to implement business use case
its in-memory database and calculation engine called Polaris.
Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Anaplan's feature set?
Yes
Did Anaplan live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Anaplan again?
Yes
Anaplan Feature Ratings
Using Anaplan
200 - Workforce Planning
25 - Certified Model Builder
- Workforce Planning
- S&OP
- Tendering
- Providing Functionality to upload data by concurrent user
- Supply chain user case
Evaluating Anaplan and Competitors
Yes - Microsoft Excel , because Anaplan provide user to collaborate planning data to take effective decision.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Product usability is important factor and should provide more convenient user interface will help to adapt Anaplan.
Pricing should be flexible as per usage.
Anaplan Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - Requirement gathering , Sprint planning, Sprint wise development, SIT , UAT, Go live , Post Go live support.
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation - Easy to manage changes by Revision tag.
- Export action need to recreate any change require in export file
- Action need to remap if any changes in name of line item.
Anaplan Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Knowledgeable team Kept well informed Immediate help available Support cares about my success | Problems left unsolved Escalation required Need to explain problems multiple times Slow Initial Response |
Proactiveness
Yes - it resolved in timely basis.
Setup a call to understand the issue and replicate in their system to resolve as soon as possible and escalated to respective team.
Using Anaplan
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Feel confident using | Requires technical support Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- Navigate between page.
- export functaiolity
- Running process block other user to use Anaplan.
Yes, but I don't use it