Business Oriented Planning Platform
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used for workforce planning. It was rolled out to the Overheads team to perform planning inputs for initial phase. Anaplan reduces the time for the Overheads team to calculate and consolidate payroll costs from all cost centers. It also enables faster load of employee data from the HR system and secured access to the planning system.
Pros
- Real-time payroll costs calculation
- Role-based access to the system
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Cons
- Drill down functionality. Users were used to doing this by expanding or collapsing parent item while Anaplan workarounds this by synchronizing hierarchies or through custom filters
- Excel add-on functionality needs to catch up with some other competitors.
- Fast data load allows shorter processing time.
- Ability to connect results from one model to another model, allowing planning to be integrated.
- Flexibility allows shorter development cycle for new requirements.
- Actual data is available regularly and faster, providing the business with more accurate insights.
- Users have more time for other analysis activities with shorter planning cycle.
Anaplan modeling tool is more user-oriented. It is more likely users are able to understand the Anaplan formula which in turn increases ownership of the model built. Anaplan is a pure cloud-based platform that supports future scalability and allows users to focus on modeling the business.
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
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