Powerful Collaborative Planning Tool and Calculation Engine
December 30, 2021
Powerful Collaborative Planning Tool and Calculation Engine
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
As an implementation partner I have designed and implemented Anaplan models for clients issues around Integrated Financial Planning, Financial Planning & Consolidation, Operation Planning & Budgeting, Incentive Compensation Management, Territory Quota Planning, Account Planning, What-If Scenarios for Quota and Pricing, Workforce planning, Order-to-cash Planning, Demand Planning, Warehouse Management. These solutions have added benefits like Reduction in Planning time, Increase in Accuracy, Reduction in Audit time, Better Visibility into performance, Increase in Productivity of Staff/Managers, and Reduction in manual efforts
- Connected planning: All business processes and departments can plan on the same solution to enable a single source and version of the truth
- Easily auditable syntaxes make it easy for all users to review formulas and to drill down an output/value
- It is flexible enough to meet most use cases; Ease of use for end-users & model builders
- The minimum member in Time Dimension is Day. So Data in Anaplan can not be captured/stored at the Date timestamp level unless we use a custom dimension using the timestamp.
- Reporting is also not a strong suit for Anaplan. Creating reports often presents challenges unless users are admins
- Workflow: The current workflow setup is basic
- Dynamic Planning
- Intelligent Decision-Making
- Adapts Quickly
- Easy Implementation using Agile
- Consistent definitions of data unify siloed business lines and
- improve understanding
- Anaplan enables swift and effective process changes that result in
- companywide advantages
- Forecasting gains accuracy with a single source of data and better
- visibility
I have worked with Cognos planning and TM1 implementations in my previous roles, and Anaplan is by far the easiest and fastest to implement. Code Deployment is easy, which is not the case with more complicated and less-sophisticated platforms. Infrastructure setup is easy since Anaplan is a cloud-based tool with having Powerful Collaborative Planning feature and Calculation Engine
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