A renowned high-tech portfolio company includes intelligent cloud services, data services, and storage infrastructure that helps organizations manage applications and data everywhere across hybrid multi-cloud environments. The company’s cloud services and the world’s largest public clouds have been fostering mutually beneficial relationships ever since, well, cloud became a thing
- ~$5B Revenues
- 10+ Countries
- 20+ Industries
- 10+ Product & Services
- ~11k+ Employees
- 10+ Languages
- The current NetApp Anaplan model did not have quotes data
- No integration between Sales Forecast, Bookings, Opportunity with Quotes and Drives quotes pipeline data in Anaplan with source system data
- Opportunity and Quotes data needed for analysis and decision making are not loaded into Anaplan. No visibility for big deals and average moving opportunities
- Manual application of Threshold rules / big deals criteria by Operational managers to make decisions
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Demand Forecasting
Forecasting to predict future trends and changes in KPIs, and budgeting to get a roadmap for allocating resources to achieve financial goals.
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Operational Planning
Internal reports used to run the organization, make business decisions, and monitor progress to make more accurate, data-driven decisions.
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Marketing Performance
Proactive planning for uncertainties, enhance resilience, and adapt swiftly to changing circumstances.
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Management Reporting
Internal reports used to run the organization, make business decisions, and monitor progress to make more accurate, data-driven decisions.
- A data hub model build in Anaplan by integrating Sales Forecast, Bookings, Opportunity with quotes, Drives quotes pipeline.
- Big deals data for opportunities and quotes required for analysis and decision making will be loaded into Anaplan.
- Build average moving of quotes and opportunities in sales phase and sales stage
- Data Integration with Enterprise system to load open quotes.
- Quote data loaded directly from quote system for cycle time calculation.
- Loading of Opportunity and Pipeline data into Anaplan
- What-if analysis to do scenario planning and see impact of large deals by utilizing current pipeline (current Quarter and Next Quarters) Sort/filter by largest Net Price & Estimated Bookings
- Ability to provide a forecast prediction band during the quarter and narrow the prediction range as we approach Quarter end.
- Automation of data load from source system to Anaplan reporting modules using Data integration tool (Informatica)