Anaplan Platform

Anaplan is a powerful connect planning platform with scalable modeling and integrations across business functions. The UX has significantly improved though performance can vary with large model and pricing could be a consideration. Its ability to unify planning across functions with instant recalculations improves decision making speed

My overall experience with Anaplan was very positive. The platform is modern, highly flexible, and intuitive to use. It supports strong scenario planning, real time updates, and seamless collaboration across functions, which are essential in a dynamic demand planning environment. The modelling capabilities are robust yet user friendly, allowing teams to adapt and scale processes without heavy technical support. Although we did not ultimately select Anaplan, I found it to be a well-designed and forward-looking solution that delivers a strong planning experience.

Overall, Anaplan as a product and organization has a lot of potential. It's good, but I think it could be better. One of the hurdles of using Anaplan is either the additional cost to pay a consultancy to lead the build/implementation of Anaplan or to develop internal Anaplan SMEs who can build within Anaplan at a high level. There is lots of flexibility in the tool, which is great, but can also lead to building models/processes in an inefficient way. The team has been working on some exciting new releases (for example their Polaris platform), but my organization has struggled to get meaningful support for said new releases, and the broader support model leaves some opportunities for improvement.

Anaplan is a very flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use tool. Companies can use it to develop their processes in-house, which can help reduce costs, customize the solution, lower reaction times, and maintain control over the processes and logic. So, overall, the Anaplan tool can help improve varios areas. However, it still lacks some essential functionalities that could enhance the experience on both the end-user's and developer's sides.

Overall, our experience with Anaplan has been good. It took some time to get comfortable with the platform and really understand how to design and model properly, but once we got past the learning curve, it became a core part of how we run planning. It has improved visibility across teams and made it easier to run scenarios and respond to changing business conditions. The implementation required more effort than we initially expected, but the long term value has justified it.