Anaplan is a transformative way to see, plan, and run your business. Using its proprietary Hyperblock™ technology, Anaplan lets you contextualize real-time performance, and forecast future outcomes for faster, confident decisions. Anaplan enables connected strategy and planning across your enterprise to move your business forward. Based in San Francisco, Anaplan has over 200 partners and more than 2,000 customers worldwide.
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IBM Planning Analytics
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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…
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 …
Director, Sales Operations Business Systems and COE
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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 …
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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Manager
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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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Consultant
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …