ADP DataCloud vs. Anaplan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ADP DataCloud
Score 5.7 out of 10
N/A
ADP® DataCloud is the company's workforce analytics tool, presented as an intelligent set of data analysis tools designed to help HR professionals measure, compare, predict and apply insights uncovered in ADP workforce data.N/A
Anaplan
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Anaplan is a scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in complex business environments so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, the Anaplan platform surfaces key insights.N/A
Pricing
ADP DataCloudAnaplan
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ADP DataCloudAnaplan
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
ADP DataCloudAnaplan
Workforce Analytics
Comparison of Workforce Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
9.0
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Anaplan
-
Ratings
Automated data collection8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Data analysis9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive analytics9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Report designer8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built content9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Data management9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service insights9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
7.6
214 Ratings
1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.57 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.5214 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
9.1
8 Ratings
11% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
8.5
221 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.4219 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.2192 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
8.1
8 Ratings
7% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
9.3
224 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.6224 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.673 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
7.7
213 Ratings
2% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.4204 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.7190 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.0198 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
9.0
322 Ratings
8% above category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings9.3297 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings9.4301 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings9.3310 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings9.2312 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings7.9311 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
7.8
275 Ratings
2% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.3255 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.5211 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings7.312 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.39 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings8.3244 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.5256 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
8.1
293 Ratings
0% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.9271 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.2284 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings7.8262 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.214 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
9.1
313 Ratings
12% above category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.7307 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings9.3291 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings9.3270 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings9.4281 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings9.114 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Anaplan
8.5
319 Ratings
2% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings9.3309 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings8.2287 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.0269 Ratings
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User Ratings
ADP DataCloudAnaplan
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(3 ratings)
9.0
(336 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(35 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(63 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.4
(27 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(27 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
ADP DataCloudAnaplan
Likelihood to Recommend
ADP
It is highly suited in managing all programs that takes place using data that is integrated into our company. It offers insights that helps our team members to solve challenges that arise to our workforce teams. It easily monitors all activities that takes place within an organization and ensures that there is effective management of time.
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Anaplan
Anaplan is a great tool for complex modeling of the future. When you are planning your actions for the future, have multiple, disparate datasets to interact with, have dozens if not hundreds of stakeholders who must contribute and need to be guided via a streamlined workflow engine, require complex logic that can grow with your org, require real-time reporting, and you need it all in less than 6 months.
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Pros
ADP
  • Monitoring human resources available in our company.
  • Checking employee attendance and time of reporting to duty.
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Anaplan
  • Anaplan can scale as your business grows, for example adding new regions into to your geographical hierarchy.
  • Anaplan is flexible and can do anything you want it to, there are no tables pre-configured that you need to fix your business process into.
  • Reading formulas in Anaplan is straight forward with a quick learning curve.
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Cons
ADP
  • Better and easier implementation of the system
  • Initial set up can be cumbersome, afterwards easy to use
  • Configuring various features is a bit difficult
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Anaplan
  • Ability to decide if to apply the formula or a manual input on front end for each line item
  • Real Time Data Transfer across models. Currently Data is transferred using Processes across different models. Having a functionality to access data from any model in real time would be great
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Likelihood to Renew
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
Anaplan is a very strong multi-dimensional modeling tool that provides a calculation engine to empower a complex planning process. It is fairly easy to learn for those with experience in similar tools, or excel. It forces structure and auditability that spread sheets do not have, along with extensive security capabilities
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Usability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
Anaplan's usability is very good. Users can customize reports and make adjustments with very little training. They can quickly plan and collaborate very easily. Making large adjustments or creating complex functionality may require more experience or training but a lot of tasks can be completed by users with very little experience
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Reliability and Availability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
There are very few outages. Maintenance is scheduled on two or three Saturdays per month, so as not to affect businesses. When there is an outage, users are kept informed of progress to restore the platform and typically this takes no more than an hour. Anaplan customer support is very responsive if we ever have questions about platform issues
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Performance
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
Everything is calculated in memory in the cloud. It's nearly instantaneous updates when you make changes. The only time things get a little slow is when you have a massive model with very intricate calculations...but "slow" for Anaplan is not what I would call "slow" for something like Hyperion. We used to have Hyperion calcs that ran for 60 mins before you could use data. The equivalent would be 60 seconds in Anaplan.
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Support Rating
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
Support quality has dropped since Thoma Bravo has taken over. I think some serious re-focus needs to happen here -- part of the beauty of being in the Anaplan community was how involved you felt in it before. Before I didn't dread sending a support ticket, now I am starting to.
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In-Person Training
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
In my opinion, in-person training is always the best if you have the option to do so. This allows real-time interactions with the instructions, whereas the online training I took required me to write-down questions, email them, and wait for responses. This slows down the process, as you can imagine. That said, in-person training is an extra cost and it likely isn't needed for everyone. I would suggest selecting a small number of people to take in-person training and then having them act as mentors to the rest of your team. That way, as the rest of the team takes the online training, they have a resource to help them in real time.
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Online Training
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
Anaplan training materials are clear, simple, easy to understand and to follow. Visuals are excellent. The vendor is good at updating training materials in a timely manner and encouraging users and administrators to keep coming back to Academy site for refresher courses or new feature courses. I really like their interactive diagrams
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Implementation Rating
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
The platform allows a flexible implementation mechanic to be put in place, since the possibilities and functionalities are vast and there are very few things the tool cannot do well. The solutions for the financial planning and the integrated business planning we put in place were easily adopted by the end users and their day-to-day work was made easier.
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Alternatives Considered
ADP
ADP DataCloud has been more powerful as compared to other data management platform system that I have worked with. It has great and well developed dashboards that gives clear information on how the workflow processes are taking place. It is equipped with automated data services that gives us insights on time and controls any volume of data that enters into our company.
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Anaplan
Compared to OneStream and Venna Anaplan offers a more modern look and feel of the platform. It is better situated and maintained in regards of platform updates as it's a full SaaS software there are never any issues with the system version as it's always automatically up to date with no backward compatibility issues. Due to the flexible nature of the modelling engine, it is also better suited to perform larger multi-department use cases, like IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
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Scalability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Anaplan
We have managed to leverage Anaplan for financial planning and forecasting across the business. It is now used by almost every department, with more than 50 users (but I know of companies that have hundreds of users) and still the platform is quick and reliable. It is easy to make changes to divisions and departments or add users and apply different user settings - the core part of the model is not affected and end users can continue their work without any disruption
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Return on Investment
ADP
  • It has highly achieved most of our objectives contributing to faster ROI.
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Anaplan
  • We've typically seen an average of 40% removal of time from processes using Anaplan an enabler
  • Though difficult to quantify, we consistently find our processes less error prone than in the past. Essentially, we've removed a previously "hidden cost" of risk due to poor data quality that was buried in our processes.
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ScreenShots

Anaplan Screenshots

Screenshot of Platform: The Anaplan platform is a unified cloud-based solution that connects people, data and plans to enable complex scenario modeling.Screenshot of OpEx Planning. This is where users review revenue-target-setting goals by brand, season, and capacity all on a visual dashboard.Screenshot of Supply Planning. This visualization breaks down costs across assembly production to project profitability and align an organization's supply chain to market opportunities.Screenshot of Territory and Quota Planning. This dashboard is used to track of sales goals and quotas across territories and industries to optimize sales performance.Screenshot of Headcount Planning. Here, users can align workforce plans with strategic plans, and see where the best qualified talent resides to fit an organization’s staffing needs.Screenshot of Marketing. This interface drives efficiency across planning, and is used to budget against planned activity.