Anaplan vs Vena Solutions

• Anaplan is great for headcount reporting. We have reports by dept, office location, and subsidiary that is great for planning and also for full company reporting.
• Although they can be complicated to set up, Anaplan is also great for setting up complex P&L views. For example, setting up a P&L with a combination of subs/depts., that still needs to consolidate to the total P&L.
• Systems-wise, I like that it's impossible to #REF the model! Anaplan shows you where everything is referenced, so it's very difficult to break anything.
• I also like that formulas copy across, so there is no chance of pointing to the wrong cell, like in Excel

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• Vena Solutions is able to connect directly to our ERP giving us nearly unlimited potential for customized reports. It has given us a level of functionality we didn't know was possible. We have the ability to manipulate data and reports like we never have before!
• Prior to using Vena Solutions we spent an entire day each month converting spreadsheets to PDFs and emailing them out to each of our 40 managers. With Vena Solutions this process is completely eliminated. The specific department that each manager needs to view is available for them to view when they log into their Vena Solutions account. No more converting PDFs and sending emails! Additionally, the drill down feature is amazing. Our managers can look at their reports and drill down on a number on their P&L. This will automatically pull a report of what items were allocated to that particular account. If managers had questions prior to Vena Solutions I would have to look up the information manually in our ERP and get back with them. Now the managers can do it themselves!
• Our annual budgeting process has improved drastically. We are able to provide input templates to our managers for them to enter expense and sales projection data. The information is then sent to the CFO for review and then on to our profit budget.

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• I believe user set up within Anaplan is one of the areas that could be improved greatly.
• Workflow is another area that I believe could be improved. Currently, I do not believe, there is a way to create an action against workflow. This would be a great benefit rather than moving the item to complete or in progress if you could write an action for it.

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• We have only been working with Vena Solutions for a few months but we are very impressed with their customer service and have no complaints or suggestions at this time!

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• Workforce Planning efficiency - so much easier than excel to maintain sensitive information planning
• Long range plan lead time - the old excel model took weeks to update. The Anaplan model takes hours

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• Faster financial reporting - Previously, consolidated reporting took place only annually or quarterly, with a significant time requirement. Now we perform a monthly consolidation within a few weeks of each month end.
• Cost efficient cost reports - We do a biweekly cost report on each production which previously took someone a full day to perform and is now largely done automatically, freeing up time for our staff to do other work.

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