Anaplan - an all-rounder planning tool to bring together siloed teams in a VUCA world
September 20, 2022
Anaplan - an all-rounder planning tool to bring together siloed teams in a VUCA world
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used across different use cases, from financial statements planning and consolidation to down-to-the-SKU demand forecasting, supply planning, or workforce planning.
For instance, its powerful calculation engine can run statistical forecasting for all your SKUs and regions. Its dynamic and transparent way of allowing user collaboration in real-time helps to share information and reach consensus in a single platform. Its flexibility of modeling and version control allows you to run several scenarios, financialise the results and plug that forecasted demand as the top line revenue of your P&L.
For instance, its powerful calculation engine can run statistical forecasting for all your SKUs and regions. Its dynamic and transparent way of allowing user collaboration in real-time helps to share information and reach consensus in a single platform. Its flexibility of modeling and version control allows you to run several scenarios, financialise the results and plug that forecasted demand as the top line revenue of your P&L.
- Real time Scenario Modeling
- Real time user collaboration
- Auditing changes and data sources
- Presenting data in a user-friendly way
- Built-in data integration and automation
- Front end customisation
- A more robust model map for self-generated model schema
- Workflow and user email notifications
- Flexibility for modeling use cases. Anaplan adapts to my company and not the other way around.
- Auditability and security. Control over what a user reads and writes down to the cell level.
- Enablement and ease of use. Users do not depend on IT or third parties to use and configure Anaplan after some weeks of training and use.
- Transparency. Easy to drill down to the calculations and data behind the reported figures, so everybody trusts the data presented in the tool.
- ROI is always tricky to measure, but some clear benefits are less time spent reviewing excel files' formulas and data, clear version control, collaboration and communication, and faster reaction to market changes. It usually translates into better decision-making.
Anaplan combines the best of both worlds, the flexibility, ease of use, and freedom of modeling of a spreadsheet and the control, calculation power, and reliability of the best planning, budgeting, and consolidation software vendors.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Anaplan again?
Yes