对于英国房地产开发人员的故事房屋，生产三年的现金流预测需要筛选来自数十个构建站点的数据不一致的数据。结果，数据通常是建立的，预测很难更新。通过将所有站点数据纳入Anaplan的中心，一致的格式，该公司具有准确的区域和国家销售预测，已将长期预测从一年延长到15年，并且具有更高的准确性，协作和生产率。
[Anaplan] helped to distil away the noise. We’re getting live updates at levels of detail that just weren’t possible before.
John Story，土地估值经理
挑战
Before Anaplan, producing a three-year cash flow forecast required finance leaders to sift painstakingly through non-standardized models across thirty different build sites. Story Homes couldn’t deliver data analytics to match the fast rate of business change, and existing servers couldn’t handle vast quantities of data. Although the resulting forecast produced the necessary information, it couldn’t be updated without significant effort. The finance team decided that a change was needed.
解决方案
Story Homes’ finance team needed an immediate way to put an end to overly diverse financial modeling processes by bringing the company’s data into one central place. The team also needed a way to improve upon Excel’s limited ability to handle scale, multiple versions, and basic collaboration. The goal was to free critical processes from being trapped in siloed spreadsheets. Within three months, Story Homes implemented the Anaplan platform and began building ready-to-go models.
结果
Using the Anaplan platform, Story Homes now has a single, real-time data source, leading to more accurate regional and national sales predictions. This has enabled the finance team to ask better questions and extended its ability to plan for the future. Long-range forecasts have been extended from one to fifteen years, and Anaplan’s cloud-based process has connected finance and operational teams, resulting in higher levels of accuracy, collaboration, and productivity.
Why Anaplan
Story Homes选择了Anaplan有效地处理大量数据的能力。在看到Anaplan立即运行了10 GB模型的报告后，该模型以前给了Story Homes以前的麻烦后，财务团队知道Anaplan是满足他们需求的正确解决方案。Anaplan还实现了团队减少数据重复并确保每个人都从同一参考点工作的目标。团队可以看到，在Anaplan中，这一切都是相关的。
Story Homes是位于英格兰北部的迅速发展的豪华房屋建筑商。为了适应这种增长，故事房需要一种灵活，可扩展并允许实时协作的解决方案。在此视频中，在Story Homes的土地评估经理中听到John Story，解释Anaplan如何使Story Homes能够获得对数据的清晰度和信心。
My name is John Story, Land Valuation Manager for Story Homes.
Story Homes is a luxury house builder, based in the north of England. We started as a small company a few years ago but are quite quickly growing. We have seen over 60% growth each year for the past three years and anticipate that to continue.
在进行Anaplan之前，我们的计划过程是一个非常熟悉的故事，我认为，非常基于Excel，许多电子表格，没有什么相互融合，所有内容都在筒仓中。And there was a lot of disparity, a lot of things didn’t agree with each other, people had different ideas of what the truth was, when a site would start, how many units were on a site, and what the revenues were going to be for that site.
为人们设定具体目标非常困难。我们总是会去年底，然后去“哦，您错过了这个目标是可以的，因为这实际上并没有以我们认为会出现的方式出现。”因此，我们无法很好地使用财务目标和奖金系统。
We were specifically looking for something that was reliable where we could have everything all together in one place, that we could do rather than-this is quite specific to the industry, rather than it being all site-based-that we could go right down to the specific plots, the specific housing plots, and have information from them and then build it up from that base level so that we would have really reliable information that would flow to a full company business plan.
The product is quite widely used within the housing industry. We had a new financial director come from another housing company and he had had experience of using it, and it came very highly recommended from him. We ran through a proof-of-concept and we were very impressed with the product.
The first part of our implementation was quite a small team from the finance team, building business plans and rolling out, whereas now we are getting requests from other parts of the company because they want the information, so we rolled out to maybe 20 or 30 users within the company. We find that we don’t even need any external training; it’s a sit down, in 10 minutes you introduce them to the system. It’s very familiar, it’s very intuitive. They can pick it up; they play with it.
Anaplan在公司内部已使用了大约18个月。最初，它是管理我们当前网站和当前销售的模型。我们所有的特定住房地块都纳入模型，我们首先管理和跟踪了所有销售，建设时间以及我们需要的所有信息，这有助于建立我们的业务计划。我们开发的最新应用程序是一个土地估值模块，它也推动了我们的长期预测。
阿纳普兰（Anaplan）如何改变我们的团队和土地团队：他们有很多以前从未有过的信息，因此他们确实有权去挑战公司内部的其他人，他们也有权与土地所有者和真正的人交谈了解我们的成本是多少。
Anaplanhas really enabled us to grow as we have because it’s so scalable. As we have grown and added thousands more plots and hundreds more sites, Anaplan dealt with this because it’s such a huge database that we can build in; we can add sites and plots and we can start off doing 150 plots and that’s quite a small scale but it deals with it just as quickly if it does 10,000 plots, and it has no issues with it, which I can’t say for any other system that we have used.
拥有Excel电子表格的旧系统永远不会跟上我们的工作，也不会为银行提供贷款要求所需的信息。
Because we now know so much more about our sites and our costs, we can bid much more aggressively for land when we are trying to buy it. We have a new app within our system that is a land valuation app using a lot of our live information. It was built a couple of months ago and around a month ago we won our first land bid using this tool. So if you were to quantify the profit of just getting hold of one bit of land, it more than pays for itself.
Anaplan使Story Homes能够了解我们从未知道的有关我们公司的知识。