Anaplan - the planning solution you need

The platform's overall usability is relatively high due to its flexibility, ease of understanding, quick user adoption and syntax comparable to Excel. The capabilities of the platform allow complex processes to be integrated and to simplify workloads and lower process complexity by streamlining and integrating every aspect of a corporate company's business process. Cross-platform collaboration is also easy to integrate.

The tool is amazing for implementations in the areas of Incentive compensation planning, S&OP planning and analysis, FP&A; We also had several very successful implementations of statistical forecasting for AOP creation. These are all areas that the platform [that] provides very flexible capabilities to react to the user stories that need to be resolved. There aren't many areas in which Anaplan cannot be useful, in my experience the only business case that was hard to implement via Anaplan was a Rebates calculation solution - it had its difficulties due to the need of the tool to hoard large amounts of data and historization. That way the client wasn't utilizing the calculation engine capabilities of the tool, but rather storing data, which is not the primary key benefit of Anaplan.

In any line of work, a tool that is flexible and would allow different departments of your company to easily interact and exchange valuable insights, is highly anticipated and needed. For me, what Anaplan provides to a business, be it a smaller one or an enterprise customer, is an easily scaling, agile planning and modeling platform that can meet almost any need and give a high-end solution to the problems any company faces on a daily basis.

The platform allows a flexible implementation mechanic to be put in place, since the possibilities and functionalities are vast and there are very few things the tool cannot do well. The solutions for the financial planning and the integrated business planning we put in place were easily adopted by the end users and their day-to-day work was made easier.

I've had a fair share of reaching out to the support personnel, and they are really helpful every time, reaching out in a timely manner, providing materials and information that might help me solve my issue; and if that does not suffice, they always refer me to the proper escalation personnel for the next steps in solving my problems. Sometimes they tend to be a bit slow in the response, but that is not often.