Quotes & Testimonies

Here at Anavate Partners we believe that the only way to serve our customers best is to constantly pursue excellence, which has no summit. This means we acknowledge our imperfections, embrace failures and welcome criticisms because they give us a chance to improve, and continuous improvement is the only path we know to remaining highly valuable to our customers year after year.

Sometimes, though, we are honored and humbled to pause and celebrate positive testimonies from our customers and partners that recognize the fruits of this hard work. We have posted some of those below.

"We have been stunned with how professional your team has been, its been so clear in how well and quickly you have regurgitated the requirements back to us that you truly do understand the process, it is very rare, and it has been extremely impressive. We have thrown a lot at you and you've gotten all of it." 

• Principal, Head of Business Operations, Large Gaming & Entertainment Enterprise

“I have been with this company for 32 years. The demo to our Global CFO was in the best 10 meetings of my career.”

• Senior Director, IT, $50bn Global CPG Conglomerate

"I want to personally thank Anaplan and Anavate for their work and helping us through a difficult pivot a few months ago. I'm excited about next steps."  

• Chief Marketing Officer, Fortune 100 Technology Manufacturer

“You did a great job, wonderful work, really proud of the outcome and how you took the feedback and transitioned it. It was really awesome, I was really proud. Especially when my boss and I had done a little mockup on the side and you did not even know about it, the fact that you had it all there was excellent. You showed your true colors, excellent way to end the week!”

• Sr. Director of Finance, $90bn Value Public REIT, Directed at Anavate Model Builder

"Marino, thanks for leading us through this. You are awesome!"

• Directed at Anavate Solution Architect, Operations Senior Manager, BU of $2 trillion market cap Enterprise

“I am currently rolling out compensation plans that wouldn’t be possible without Anaplan. The success of what you all are building is crucial—I’m already banking on it. The value you’re bringing to us is massive, and it continues to grow.”

• President, Global F500 VAR

“This whole past year has been Anaplan Anaplan Anaplan! We have worked with countless consultants, and no one has ever been as good or even close to Anavate. I sure hope you guys are getting paid well, you deserve it.” 

• Director of Sales, F500 Technology Distributor

“I want to start off by saying thank you for being a great partner and teammate to my team. Your day to day support played a tremendous role in allowing more teammates to become comfortable with the transition of the corporate forecast model process in Anaplan. You will be greatly missed as you roll off, but I am excited for your future growth as I know that you will be a key player in helping other companies transition into Anaplan. The team will miss the daily interactions with you but please remember that even though you are rolling off, you are still part of the family."

• Senior Manager Corp. Finance, F500 Healthcare Provider

“I can't believe the way you understand the process so fast with things we are not even sure about. Thank you so much for the patience of your team, this plus the designs have been really useful for us to understand."

• Deputy CFO at one of the largest State Departments in the Southwest United States

“In order to calculate executive comp last year I spent 2 weeks staying up until 11pm to balance all the right numbers and be able to defend it. This year I just clicked a button in Anaplan.”

• Director of Finance, Multi-National Global Technology Manufacturer

“Eric, I appreciate you keeping us on track throughout this process – I think you did a stellar job across the board, and I’m looking forward to working with your team to get this project underway in the new year.”

• SVP Operations & Finance, speaking to his Account Executive at Anavate

“Just a few months ago, I had no idea I would find myself in such a supportive and fun team of professionals, every day at work feels like meeting friends and tackling interesting tasks, rather than just sitting aimlessly in an office waiting for the day to end. I am amazed at how successful the Anavate team is in the business you do - you all really should be proud of yourselves! Thank you for including me in such an amazing company, I'm looking forward to contributing more to our success!”

• Recently Joined Anavate Employee

"Thanks to the Anavate crew for always being enjoyable to work with, and for bringing skilled, and enthusiastic people to these projects."

• Professional Services Senior Manager, Anaplan Collaboration

"For this year’s quote setting, I'm just gonna type it in the Anaplan and hit the button and then I'm gonna recall the prior 23 years of setting quota and giggle." 

• President, North America with 500+ Person Sales Field

"I just want to say Alejandro has done an excellent job learning my process. You're talking my talk and speaking my language, and in fact I was talking with my boss and we were joking he should just join our team!"

• Marketing Budget Director, $60bn Grocery Retail Chain

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"I want to give Anavate a shoutout. I did my plan review meeting this week and some of the updates I gave were on the comp plan changes, and to know that we could get to customer-level P&Ls was a wild victory." 

• President, North America with 500+ Person Sales Field

“I own the relationship with a lot of vendors, Anavate has by far been the best to work with this year.” 

• Sr. IT Manager, $50+ bn FinTech Enterprise

“With my last day quickly approaching I wanted to reach out and truly thank you for EVERYTHING each and every one of you has done to help improve the lives of everyone within our team.  I know we’ve put you guys through it with tight timelines, complexities of the business, ever changing priorities/leaders/business structures but you have all been absolutely amazing to work with and (at least outwardly) have seemed to take it all in stride.”

• Sr. Finance Director upon leaving $30bn Revenue Technology Enterprise

"I can't wait for these pages to Go Live, they are going to be awesome. These alerts especially will be a huge help."

• Sales Ops Manager, Enterprise Global Manufacturer

"This is better than halloween candy! The pivot capability is exactly what I need. I dont touch anything in Adaptive because it breaks."

• Finance End User during UAT, $10bn SaaS Enterprise

“Jessica is saintly for executing wonderfully on our project while planning a wedding. Her husband is a lucky man!”

• SVP Marketing and Finance, $200bn Fortune 100 Tech Hardware Company

"The work here is tremendous progress and great to see and will help get our teams out of offline Excel processes."

• VP FP&A after Sprint Demo, Large Media Enterprise

“This is something I”m very excited to see in Anaplan. This is typically a week’s worth of work for me, and sometimes my computer would crash.” 

• Senior Product Manager, Marketing Technology, $90bn Publicly Traded Media Conglomerate 

”Hey guys! Just wanted to throw this out there after your optimizations:

Old WFP: 110 GB with 7 versions

New WFP: 14  GB with 8 versions. This is a win!”

• Sr Engineering Director, $60bn Banking and Financial Services Enterprise

“How are you getting all this information so fast?!”

• Global CFO, $30bn Global Enterprise

"Good.  Brilliant.  The visuals are really good. These dashboards should be distributed to end users as soon as possible."

• CFO of $20bn Business Unit, Global CPG Brand

"I don't know if you know this, but you are amazing."

• Senior IT Director, $5bn SaaS High Tech Enterprise

“With Anaplan...we've been able to customize more closely to our current processes solution and the performance has been a lot better.” 

• Senior Manager of FP&A Systems & Reporting

"We just finished L2, and we look into the model and realize that Marino and Ryan must be building at a Level 5."

• Sr. Manager, F500 E-Commerce & Tech Conglomerate 

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“It was excruciating and tedious to manage Adaptive. We had to dedicate people who just manage data in the models. Those same roles are now more creative. Tackling business problems rather than chasing data.”  

• Senior Manager of FP&A Systems & Reporting

"This solution helps us with Finance morale and productivity, Seller morale and productivity - quota is right, territory is right - and Management morale and productivity.” 

•  BU President, Multi-National Distributor 

“We can optimize through what-ifs, it is a lot easier than before and it all comes back to ROI."       

• Finance Director, Multi-National Distributor

“Great, thanks for being on it (as always)!”

• Senior FP&A Manager

“We started our (COE) workshop with handshakes and ended it with hugs.”

• VP IT,  $15bn Cybersecurity Enterprise

“Where did you find these guys ? It would have taken hours for me to get that level of detail out of the client, that was the most I have learned about finance in my whole life.”

• Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Workato

“Everything was by far better than any previous forecast in Adaptive. I am alleviated from several hours of work with the new automation.”

• Sr. FP&A Analyst / End User

“Anavate are good people. They are like our SWAT team.”

• Anaplan Vice President

“It’s really exciting to work with Anavate on this discovery - I think we work well together.”

• Principal, Business Value & Strategy, Anaplan

“This will save me from loading 7 different spreadsheets every month and 3 different pivot tables.”

• FP&A Analyst / End User

“I was worried that both Rony and Mitch covering support would result in less productivity, but they have done excellent work making sure our needs are met.”

• Senior Director Global Ops, $4bn Global CPG Brand

“Thank you for the demo and the review today.  This sprint review exceeded expectations!  You have incorporated all of the input and feedback well and quickly.  Thank you for all the hard work, and keep it up!”

• Digital Experience and Marketing Effectiveness Director

“I had a call with some of the team involved and they all had amazing things to say about the work done by Anavate. They were so impressed with the follow-on discussions with the client.”

• VP, Anaplan

“Oh this is beautiful, this brings tears to my eyes”

• FP&A Manager, Global Media Brand

“I have seen so so many presentations on Anaplan, and I will say Anavate’s pitch to us was the best I have ever seen. They did a great job of sticking to a single thread and not jumping around.”

• Director Finance and Deputy CAO, Multinational Insurance and Financial Services Enterprise

“Man you really blew me away today. I really appreciated how closely you listened to everything explained to you about how we do things. I get pitched on new software about 5 times a month and never have I experienced a demo with so much detail and customization to us. I can tell you worked really hard on it and I just wanted to make sure you knew that.”

• VP FP&A, Series C Startup

“I was very impressed with Anavate's ability to understand our business requirements, and could tell their background in Finance is what made them the perfect partner for our needs.” 

• Director of FP&A, National Automobile Dealer Network

“I was honest and transparent about working with Anavate – which basically translated to 'they’re amazing, and I would highly recommend them' =)  I also shared a bit about what I particularly valued, which was our open communication and mutual feedback – and then seeing immediate impacts from that feedback (i.e. it’s clearly shared with the team and acted on).  Also the fact that you were able to be flexible on short notice, and bring in extra support when we needed it, which shows amazing client service (especially in a world that is perpetually short-staffed right now)."

• Director Finance and Deputy CAO, Multinational Insurance and Financial Services Enterprise

“Oh my gosh you guys, this is amazing. I cannot wait to use this. Every time that my boss asks how much he should order, I am going to send him this export and say ‘BOOM!’ every damn time.”

• Senior Director of Global Operations, Multi-National CPG Brand

“Ooooooh I love it!”

• Director of Corporate FP&A, Startup Technology Company

“Thank you very much, I hope you realize how much this helps to be able to have all these things automated. I know we had a lot of specific requests and I think you did an amazing job making it happen. This is great!”

• Director of Operations, Consumer Product Manufacturer

"I just wanted to let you know that I had a number of teammates recently give a lot of positive feedback with how your team has been supporting the Anaplan model these past couple of months. The most recent parallel process we did has gone pretty well so far and most people have flagged that the level of detail and how your team has a can-do attitude has been a nice change of pace with how we were managing the project before.

Lastly, I also wanted to recognize Marino as I have had a couple of my fellow teammates specifically tell me about how knowledgeable he is with Anaplan and his willingness to provide a lot of recommendations on how we should tackle new user stories / enhancements from various teammates."

• Sr. Manager, Corporate FP&A, $15bn Healthcare Enterprise

“These are the slickest Anaplan pages I’ve seen - they totally pop and make it look like a game. Marzhan is incredible and I wish she worked for us!”

• Marketing Director, $10bn Media Conglomerate

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“I also want to use this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hard/great work which Julian/Malika provided for the last a few weeks.

1. Both of them are dedicated/motivated professionals, especially during the first a couple weeks, with limited time for ramping up and tight deadline to deliver the first round of changes.

2. Both of them are independent thinkers,  they will keep coming back to challenge me with questions and ideas which make the better implementation at the end."

• Solution Architect, $10bn SaaS Enterprise