Anaplan is a great tool for any FPA organization
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
I use Anaplan to build models for business users, i.e. planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) models, that are customized to their business needs. With Anaplan we're able to connect all levels of an FP&A organization (from analysts to leadership) and beyond to other organizations throughout companies, such as Sales, Marketing, and HR. The models we implement typically incorporate detailed hierarchies with large datasets, transform that data and perform calculations to produce detailed forecasts at the lowest levels, and easily consolidate and aggregate those forecasts to produce high-level reporting. Leadership can then use these reports to analyze KPI's, simulate scenarios, strategize moves, make decisions, develop goals, and set targets across multiple internal organizations.
Pros
- Integrates datasets from multiple sources
- Empowers business users to build models
- Connects people and organizations within a company
Cons
- Workflow
- Management Reporting
- Chart Customization
- Reduce hours needed to produce forecasts
- Increase hours spent on analysis and strategy
- Empowers leadership to be agile in a high-paced environment
Creating financial forecasts in Anaplan was a big improvement over doing the same activity in Microsoft Excel. The main difference is that Anaplan makes it easier to build models based on large amounts of data and to forecast concurrently with many users across your organization. It does this at a high level of performance and you don't have to deal with your model crashing.
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


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