A very flexible and powerful planning tool that can be used for almost any use case
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used as a solution to a myriad of pain points that exist within a firm's corporate planning cycles. The tool is extremely flexible and allows organizations to obtain forecasts and outlooks for almost anything in a much more timely, accurate, and detailed manner than old processes such as handing off excel spreadsheets around and organization to be updated. Anaplan is also much less error-prone since the manual manipulation of data is drastically reduced when implemented properly. Multiple-use cases have been addressed during my time from Biopharma, Technology, Manufacturing, Demand Planning, Workforce Planning, Revenue planning, all across the use case spectrum. These cases have been addressed effectively as well leading to major reductions in the effort it takes for an Anaplan customer to come up with a forecast.
Pros
- Connectivity with other systems
- Acting as a single source of truth for data
- Powerful, Anaplan's calculation is very fast compared to a lot of legacy systems
- Integrated Business Planning among entire organizations
Cons
- Anaplan has improved drastically on the reporting front. Some more updates that would be ideal would be to allow some of the flexibility within the excel add in/fluence into the App pages themselves
- UX Changes such as on a worksheet the page selector at the top has to be driven by the primary grid which might be at a lower level and you are forced to use this.
- Everything is custom so it can be quite tedious to build if you're not experienced.
- A good looking and slick in my opinion UX
- Ease of use
- Ability to do pretty much anything
- Anaplan has been positive. On every project I've worked on, a lot of people on the customer side have been promoted who have worked on projects with me
- Every project has reduced the time it takes for a customer to compile what they need by a significant amount
- More free time for end-users to focus on more important tasks because Anaplan takes out the leg work in calculating a lot of the information they require for forecasting purposes
Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
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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