Anaplan is a fantastic collaborative forecasting solution
Updated August 01, 2023
Anaplan is a fantastic collaborative forecasting solution
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Our organization uses Anaplan across Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and Finance. We use Anaplan to help forecast sales from gross dollars all the way down to the standard margin. Anaplan helps us operationalize these forecasts in Supply Chain, and then realize these forecasts with our finance team. It is an extremely helpful tool for collaborative planning.
- Forecasting
- Collaboration
- Automation
- Integration
- Easy to over-engineer.
- Marketing materials always promise more than can be delivered.
- CloudWorks limited to external sources.
- Compensation Modeling
- Territory & Quota Planning
- Flexibility in Planning
- Significant reduction in time spent transforming data.
- Significant decrease in time spent forecasting.
- Significant increase in collaboration across groups and use of the same data.
Anaplan can reduce modeling time from months to days. Our teams are able to now forecast multiple different scenarios quickly instead of having to tell our executive team that it will take us weeks to months to model out a specific scenario that they have questions on. We are very happy!
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
Anaplan Feature Ratings
Using Anaplan
250 - Sales Operations, Sales, Finance
1 - Excel gurus!
- Territory & Quota Planning
- Incentive Calculations
- Incentive Modeling
- Modeling out compensation
- financial forecasting
Evaluating Anaplan and Competitors
Yes - Excel
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
We would consider the implementation partner to use earlier in the process.
Anaplan Implementation
- Third-party professional services
PlanFlamingo--they were fantastic!
Yes - 1) Discovery
2) 3-4, 2 week sprints
3) Testing
4) Rollout
2) 3-4, 2 week sprints
3) Testing
4) Rollout
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled - Yes! We held multiple training sessions for our users and created user guides for users to refer back to.
- training the users
Anaplan Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Every time that we have had an issue, we have received quick help!
Using Anaplan
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- dashboards
- notifications
- actions
- backend modeling
Yes - very well! Connects great to the computer version too