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.
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IBM Planning Analytics
Score8.5 out of 10
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IBM Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1®, is an integrated planning solution designed to promote collaboration across the organization and help keep pace with the speed of modern business. With its calculation engine, this enterprise performance management solution is designed to help users move beyond the limits of spreadsheets, automating the planning process to drive faster, more accurate results. Use it to unify data sources into one single repository, enabling users to build…
Associate Director in Professional Services at Lionpoint Group (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Anaplan
As a senior technical consultant implementing both IBM Planning Analytics (IBM PA) and Anaplan some years back, my preferred solution was Anaplan as IBM PA required a consultant's time for software upgrades, configuration and other software setup time which didn't add value to …
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Verified User
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan proved to be the more flexible solutions with resepct to use cases supported ranging from finance to supply chain management. It was easeir with Anaplan to have a central system which can handle all different planning requirements. Some of the other solutions had great …
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Verified User
Chose Anaplan
Very comparable products and recommendation depends on technology footprint within organization
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Verified User
Chose Anaplan
We like Anaplan for its flexibility, out-of-the-box starting apps, speed to deploy, and ability to maintain long-term.
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Director, Sales Operations Business Systems and COE in Information Technology at DocuSign (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Anaplan
DocuSign is one of the early Anaplan adopters, the tool was purchased way before I joined the company. So, I have little to say about the selection process. Based on my personal knowledge, Anaplan has: - better performance on large data volumes without the need to write …
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Principal Consultant in Professional Services at Columbus Consulting (Retail, 51-200 employees)
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is much more user-friendly to architect than Hyperion or TM1/Planning Analytics. By outsourcing cloud storage to Anaplan, much of the headache of maintaining internal servers is removed. The calculation speed and traceability of Anaplan's calculation modules are also …
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Verified User
Chose Anaplan
I feel that Anaplan really has no competition when it comes to implementing connected planning. The biggest reason being that with other solutions, you need consultants to develop. If you know how to develop in Excel and understand the concept of dimensions, then you can …
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Verified User
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan modeling tool is more user-oriented. It is more likely users are able to understand the Anaplan formula which in turn increases ownership of the model built. Anaplan is a pure cloud-based platform that supports future scalability and allows users to focus on modeling …
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IBM
Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
For strong technical teams and flexibility IBM Planning Analytics is the way to go. For quicker adoption and less technical teams Anaplan is the best option. If consolidation, financials, and moving from legacy tools are main focus than OneStream will be a really good choice. …
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Product Owner/Analyst-Developer Experience in Information Technology at HSBC (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
It includes Oracle Cloud EPM Planning, Anaplan, and Adaptive Insight before deciding to choose IBM Planning Analytics. We selected Planning Analytics because of its work with complicated and many area models, the capability to work with big amounts of data, and compatibility …
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Marketing and Digital Communication Specialist in Marketing at Grupo Planeta (Libraries, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Other options, namely Anaplan, Oracle ePm Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud, were also considered. Anaplan's interface lacked analytical depth. For product design metrics, flexibility was not as good in Oracle ePm Cloud. The final choice was moved by the fact that it was driven …
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Data Analyst and Risk Assessor in Finance and Accounting at Banco Bci (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Prior to making the decision to go with IBM Planning Analytics, we had considered such options as Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Despite the collaborative solutions offered by Anaplan and the good connection with other systems by SAP, the superb set of tool …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Anaplan does not handle sparsity; this is very problematic for large volume data sets (many 0's). There also are limitations to the number of dimensions that can be used in a module. If more dimensions are required, then separate modules need to be built and intertwined. IBM PA …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
We chose IBM PAW over Anaplan as well as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) because of the technical support that we got from IBM. They were extremely helpful and patient with us and helped us to realize better ROI from their platform. Apart from that, we were aware …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Anaplan license costs were higher than in IBM Planning Analytics.
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Ability to plan more products, locations, customers Less expensive Client already had IBM PA for FP&A
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Chief Strategy Officer in Corporate at QueBIT (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson will be up and running more quickly and be easier to maintain if modeling flexibility, scale, and the ability to plan at greater levels of detail are important requirements.
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Senior Consultant in Professional Services at Adastra Česká republika (Information Services, 501-1000 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
IBM allows to build flexible models from the scratch. IBM Planning Analytics with Watson does not include non-planning features in one package, so you don't pay for something you may not need.
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson does quite well in comparison to industry giants although it does have room for improvement. Many of our clients are also well accustomed to Oracle for instance. So it's user-friendliness that helps some tools get ahead of others. The more you …
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Strategic Planning Manager in Professional Services at Home Assist Health (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics has the scenario management and analysis feature, with broad parameters that increase the chances of business growth and constant prosperity. Also, IBM Planning Analytics includes the budgeting features in its development, and this makes us project the …
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Information Technology Adviser in Information Technology at AZEREX LLC. (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
The IBM Planning Analytics has great technical and business data features, full customer information, and sales Forecast for design best strategy. Analyzes, processes, and provides valuable information and charts about sales, profits, human resources, value growth, and …
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Senior Account Manager in Finance and Accounting at Revelwood (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Other tools include Essbase, Outlooksoft, and BPC. When comparing the length of the implementation and the speed of the engine, IBM is the fastest on the market. I have not yet found a calculation or planning approach that cannot be done with IBM PA. In one situation, an …
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Principal Consultant in Information Technology at LPA Software Solutions, LLC (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics provides significant flexibility and a platform to build future needs on. It has many years of use and is a known quantity, as well as IBM backing for support. It continues to grow. It has Excel integration and Planning Analytics Workspace provides the …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
While every product has its sweet spot; our clients prefer IBM Planning Analytics for:
Scalability: not requiring multiple models to deliver a solution
Nimbleness: fast calculations and added advantages like Sparsity
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With its versions and native time features Anaplan is well suited for all activities around planning in time and scenarios. Tasks involving calculating across multiple dimensions make Anaplan shine - the easiness to build complex calculation and present results on customizable pages. With its access restrictions it's well suited also for working with sensitive data (employee and customers personal data).
Ideal for large organization with complex multi-dimensional data, large budgets and dedicated administrator support. The performance of the TM1 data base is unmatched. The PAW and PAX options providing planners to work in both Excel and workspace environment. Higher Implementation efforts due to the greenfield implementations. Visualization features are not up to the mark.
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Anaplan removes the time consuming process of integrating the results of individual spreadsheets.
Anaplan facilitates the standardization of assumptions across all sub-processes
Anaplan provides full transparency of the calculations and source inputs
Anaplan allows us to automate certain planning processes that would have been impossible when relying on the computational capabilities of an individual computer.
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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
Since IBM Cognos Express is suitable only for medium data warehouse environment, we are not sure if this tool solves the long term need as the business keeps growing rapidly. So its a 50/50 ratio to renew Express license. But having said that, the components of IBM Cognos Express are also available in other Cognos BI suites like Cognos 10.x version. So we will probably upgrade our environment to IBM Cognos 10.x which comes with more new features.
Anaplan's usability is dependent on who is implementing the project and how clear business processes are at the beginning of the implementation. Complex business processes with many inputs and reviews will still be complicated in Anaplan; however, the UX is very flexible in how to help people through the process and there are also other items such as Workflow that can help people move through the system.
IBM Planning Analytics is generally good in terms of functionalities. It can be used reduce time for budget planning, resource planning, demand forecasting, etc. The performance of IBM Planning Analytics is acceptable, but user interface can be improved. It would be good to see new features that allow users to customise the dashboard.
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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
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 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.
IBM support has been very quick to respond and handle the very few issues we've had. We've had a third-party who partners with IBM to be our consulting team which has helped greatly reduce the need for us to contact IBM directly. I highly recommend researching and selecting a well-respected partner to help with an implementation as well as ongoing support as needed.
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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.
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
One key insight from implementing Anaplan is that success comes from focusing on designing the process, not just building the model. Anaplan is extremely flexible—there are very few planning scenarios it cannot support—but that flexibility means the project needs strong governance, clear ownership of requirements, and a well-defined data model. When those foundations are in place, implementations are fast, iterations are easy, and users can quickly see value. In our projects, both Financial Planning and Integrated Business Planning models were adopted smoothly because we involved business users early, kept the model design intuitive, and leveraged Anaplan’s Excel-like syntax and user-friendly dashboards. The result was more efficient day-to-day work, reduced manual tasks, and increased collaboration across teams. In short: when you combine Anaplan’s flexibility with a structured implementation approach, adoption and value realization happen quickly.
Anaplan is more powerful than Pigment considering that it is an Enterprise class system and is able to manage bigger data sets. Anaplan allows for advanced scenario modeling and formula capabilities along with custom reporting functionalities. Anaplan has proven its capabilities and stability across various use cases and across bigger enterprises when compared to Pigment which is still in earlier phases of its development
For strong technical teams and flexibility IBM Planning Analytics is the way to go. For quicker adoption and less technical teams Anaplan is the best option. If consolidation, financials, and moving from legacy tools are main focus than OneStream will be a really good choice. If deeply invested into SAP already than the SAP BPC will be the best fit to maintain the investment.
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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
Anaplan's implementation led to a significant reduction in planning cycle errors and bugs, streamlining processes and improving overall accuracy in data inputs
Standardizing the planning process and enabling cross-functional collaboration through Anaplan enhanced our ability to adapt swiftly to changing business needs, resulting in improved agility in decision-making
The platform's capabilities, especially in Demand Planning and Supply Chain, positively impacted our ROI by optimizing resource allocation and solving complex business problems efficiently across multiple functions
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