Item: Anaplan
Rating: 10
Author: Rachit Sehgal

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a partner, I implement best-in-class Anaplan solutions for our customers and their planning needs. Using Anaplan, comprehensive planning solutions that facilitate quick decision-making can be built for all critical functions - Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, HR and Workforce, Marketing etc. Some of the specific use cases I have worked on are Merchandise Assortment Planning, Merchandise Financial Planning, Price Optimization, FP&A, Sales Forecasting, Demand Planning.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Connected Planning
Real-time calculations and insights
Easy-to-use interface
Product capabilities, enhancements and roadmap
Pre-configured industry standard apps

Cons

Auditability of line items can be improved by adding extra features like saved views references, filter references etc.
Native support for allowing input/breakback and calculation logic in the same line item can be added to further boost platform adoption in Retail Planning use cases.
Model locking/freezing during concurrent action runs.
Anaplan Data Orchestrator and Merchandising apps can benefit from improved product stability and performance to boost adoption and implementation scope for partners.
Detailed error logging and scheduler accuracy can be improved in Cloudworks.

Return on Investment

Multiple successful implementations for customers resulting in modernization, efficiency and agility in planning processes
Connected Planning ecosystem for customers
Connects People, Plans and Data with smart analytics to facilitate rapid decision making
Once the Anaplan ecosystem gets initially set up, it is able to penetrate additional businesses/use cases, thanks to it's value proposition and versatility.

Usability

Anaplan provides a simple and easy-to-use interface. With it being hosted on the Web and Cloud, user collaboration and data interactions are real-time. The platform provides a variety of UX configuration options for different dashboarding needs. Features like pivot, sort, copy across, copy down, show/hide, comments, exports etc. are natively available to end users, which enriches the usability and versatility of the application.

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is well suited for planning and analytics use cases and helps bring Connected Planning to life. With it's in-memory real-time calculation engine, low code configuration, collaboration features and reporting capabilities, the platform is able to provide a modern and robust solution for planners to make informed decisions with agility. Anaplan is not suited for complex and granular allocations. It is also not a data storage solution and hence, runs into sizing challenges when dealing with extremely high volumes of data.

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