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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/hM/GE/XR6UW80OQAQ8.PNGAnaplanGreat product for most, probably not for me though.2018-05-09T06:34:54.538ZWe use Anaplan to set up our annual budget and do monthly projections. The model is used by 12 users in the department.,Anaplan does automatically what we had to do manually using Excel in the past. This saves both time and energy for the users.,Unless you're a technically-minded person, Anaplan doesn't logically make sense. It takes a lot of training and notes to learn how to use the system and can be incredibly frustrating. I often miss Excel and want to dump Anaplan for the archaic process.,3,Anaplan for Finance,,The budget set-up process has, in the past, taken several weeks or months to set up and often left the users confused, frustrated, and irritable because it was so involved. The worst part was it was only done once a year, so at the beginning of the process each year, a good day or two would be spent just trying to remember how to even do it. With Anaplan, the system basically remembers for us and will expedite the process for all of the users. When we do our monthly projections, it's the same thing. Everything is automatically exported in for us and broken down to the levels we need, which saves us time and prevents potential errors.Verified UserExcel on steroids!2017-11-10T20:14:48.999ZAnaplan is used across the whole organization, at WW level. The key problem was to remove offline spreadsheets for sales quota planning, deployment, and ensure automatic, real-time coverage analysis for the sales teams.,Real - time - the cloud based technology allows all changes & its impact is visible in real time.,Performance - in the case of complex business cases, the size of Anaplan is increasing drastically, and even a simple click would take more than it should.
UI - The User interface needs to be improved: group/expand hierarchy, "Ctrl " + select option to allow multi selection, Content page clean up, easier "Drag & drop" when customizing or building exports.
Review & enhance the type of security user roles.,7,Time saving for business analysts - no need to spend time on collecting & crunching complex data, rather spending that time to provide meaningful business justifications,Anaplan for Sales,MS Excel,The time it takes for the sales letter to be prepared and given to the sales representatives reduced significantly, as a result, sales can truly focus on selling.The vision is to have a real cloud based quota and planning tool, with users as business managers & business planners, not operational users who are just importing & exporting to Anaplan.Anaplan as a strategic tool, that can provide meaningful analytics in real-time.Szilvia HavasretiAnaplan for Modeling of Sales Incentives2017-04-27T20:36:19.315ZI purchased Anaplan to perform complex modeling of potential changes to our sales incentive programs. In addition to our usage, our finance team is beginning to explore the use of the tool for sales forecasting. With a sales organization in excess of 5000 people, it is critical to be able to adjust multiple variables across lines of business and understand the impact on each of our operating areas. Anaplan allows us to model multiple "what if" approaches simultaneously, perform side-by-side scenario analysis, and convey to our executive team what the specific tradeoffs are between options. Our responsiveness has been accelerated by orders of magnitude, and our conclusions are rooted in data.,I think the greatest strength of Anaplan is that the entire model is interconnected. The ability to update a single variable and have that change propagated through the entire model is unparalleled.
Another strength is the ability to have multiple users working in a given model simultaneously. We have had the experience of actively modeling to meet a deadline and realizing that some of the underlying assumptions and/or layout needed to be changed to support a new approach. While our model-builder made the back-end adjustments in Florida, our analyst continued to work through a new set of variables. We ended up with a completely refreshed approach in less than a half hour. With only two hours before our deadline, we NEVER would have even entertained making the change in Excel.
The thing that Anaplan does -- that I haven't seen elsewhere -- is the ability to get to data-driven analysis of the future. BI tools are great for reporting what has already happened, but fall short of predictive analytics and sensitivity analysis. Anaplan handles those with ease.,The reporting/dashboarding capability is adequate but could be enhanced.
Anaplan is somewhat intuitive ... but it DOES require an investment of time and energy to become proficient in it. The ability to use it for more and more use cases is limited by the number of personnel who truly understand the tool. The corollary is that unless that knowledge is spread to multiple people on the team, there can be substantial risk were a key resource to leave the group.
Building a new model does require a fair amount of up-front planning and construction. So there are some things we would rather do in Anaplan than Excel ... but unless they have continuing utility, we find ourselves unlikely to perform quick analyses in Anaplan.,10,Anaplan for Finance
Anaplan for Sales,,Better decisions, faster.,9Steve RidgleyAnaplan Modeling on HR2017-05-16T21:30:41.889ZRight now, we are using Anaplan for workforce planning modeling. We use the historic attrition and internal movement data to forecast future hiring needs. It seems that other functions in my company are exploring Anaplan but as of now only HR has implemented two models using Anaplan.,Smart Import Features: When you have data in multiple dimensions, as long as you set up the corresponding fields correctly, it can be loaded into your Anaplan space fairly easily.
Interactive Dashboard: As long as you set up hierarchy correctly, you can publish your numbers on the dashboard and just navigate to the level that you are interested in.
Productivity: My favorite thing about Anaplan is that you can work on the formulas on a micro level (in my case, individual employee) and you only work on this once and it will apply to the whole and you can have the company view in no time. Doing the same thing in MS Excel could take much longer.,Graphical feature: Anaplan should explore more graphical features. In my case, I have to export my data to MS Visio to get an org chart. The conditional formatting options are still very limited right now.
Formula for List Properties: It's only allowed to key in the formulas for these list properties. I'm not sure about the design philosophy. But I wish it could be similar to the formulas in modules to avoid mistakes.
Training Documentation Version Control: Training documentations have some many mistakes. It seems no version control at all. Since using Anaplan requires to set up time properly, the training documentations need to be updated. Before you publish any document, can you let one of your employees (who are not authors of the documentation) to follow the documentation to see if he can complete tasks based on the directions on the documentation? All the modeler in my company had hard time to teach ourselves by using the documentation so none of us was able to complete the intermediate training.,6,Anaplan for HR,,We want to connect everything together in the enterprise so we can have an operational view of HR.,7Yang LiuComplex modeling with Anaplan2017-05-12T19:41:28.672ZWe currently use it for Demand Forecasting, Rebate Forecasting for Gross to Net, and building P&L for inline portfolio of products. We have expanded the use in Supply Chain and Accounting reconciliation. It is isolated into Finance and supply chain for the current usage, but I hope to expand it to other departments. We have developed weekly and daily tracking reports to be used by sales team as well.,Modeling capability - It has enough control to be a rigid system. Yet, it has enough flexibility to change with the needs of the business.
One version of truth - Same data source is being shared by many groups via dashboard, so there is no confusion on which version is the most recent.
Be able to create reports on the fly and provide access to the data set for those who need them.,Additional reporting capability, especially with formatting of the tables, charts, and graphs. I wish to be able to label axis, change colors of the graphs, define axis.
Dashboard - unable to place a "picture/logo" on a dashboard.
No auto e-mail capabilities. Once data is loaded into Anaplan, I would like to send an automatic e-mail that the load has been completed.
No mobile app is available. I wish there is a version (for dashboard) to see it on mobile device.,10,Anaplan for Finance
Anaplan for Supply Chain,BOARD, SAP ERP, Tidemark and Host Analytics Cloud EPM Suite,We are expanding into full FP&A implementation. As we expand the use, it will be the main platform for the financial system. I hope to achieve a solid platform to house FP&A and be able to report accurately from Anaplan. In addition, any reports that get generated will be shared to broader audience in the company.,6Verified User
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