Anaplan vs Planful (formerly Host Analytics)

• Allows the business to link different planning streams into one place
• Gives users a single source to view data, no more comparing offline templates in excel
• Intuitive new UX that allows us to be more customizable when tailoring to needs of end-users

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• I often hear from my users, "the best thing about Host Analytics is the export to Excel feature so we can do our work there."
• I'm struggling to come up with things it does "particularly well," so I think it would be a disservice to readers to make up something

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• Enablement -- Anaplan should invest more in both its training capability and training content. Anaplan is not the most difficult tool to learn, but having more foundation in this area would make the ramp-up process significantly easier
• Storage -- Anaplan is not a data warehouse. This is understandable given data warehousing is not their primary value proposition, but many times we run close to the storage limits of Anaplan, and it would be great if Anaplan had different storage size options for its workspaces.
• User Interface -- Anaplan's user interface could be streamlined and improved to become more intuitive and accommodate more shortcut keys.

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• Minor application quirks in the use functionality.
• Updates are pushed to your application during specified maintenance windows, allowing for immediate use of the new functionality whether you were prepared or understood the changes or not. Any significant changes are clearly communicated ahead of time.

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• Anaplan has been good to plan future fiscal years, by doing the planning in here and seeing the financial impact certain variables can produce it is easier to make decisions within the company such as hiring, eliminating certain costs etc., to achieve the financial results as set in the company goals.
• Dashboards have been really helpful for the financial executives as very specific data can be analysed and presented in the dashboards focused to specific financial teams, so it is easier to see the actual results and forecasts.
• On the negative side, since Anaplan is a complex tool to handle, it is better to have a dedicated resource or resources to the handling in Anplan. Regular business analysts could not handle their regular tasks and doing complex configurations in Anaplan without the help of well trained Anaplan resources, extra dedicated resources are needed to work with Anaplan.

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• Implementing the Consolidation supported our acquisitions on disparate ERP systems and allowed us to drill-down to the source data from their system we didn't have access to.
• We hadn't completed a budget cycle in 5 years due to the number of new acquisitions we brought on. Now we are in the midst of a fully realized consolidated budget plan.
• We utilized Dynamic Planning for our Sales Analytics and ended contracts with several other BI companies in other divisions. We now have visibility into all companies.

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