Anaplan vs. Kepion Planning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Kepion Planning
Score 7.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Kepion is a cloud planning & analytics software company that connects all organizations' teams under a single view of their business performance. We enable more intelligent decisions to be made by companies about their financial and operational future. Kepion global offices and partners deliver rapid solutions for mid-size and enterprise customers. We make it possible for businesses to be empowered with real-time analytics, what-if scenario modeling, and the ability to model complex…
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Pricing
AnaplanKepion Planning
Editions & Modules
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On premise Install
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnaplanKepion Planning
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
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AnaplanKepion Planning
Considered Both Products
Anaplan

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Kepion Planning
Chose Kepion Planning
Kepion is in a unique position in that it has all of the enterprise-grade functionality and scalability of a tool like Cognos, but it is available at a lower price point, with much more engaged support.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
AnaplanKepion Planning
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.6
214 Ratings
1% below category average
Kepion Planning
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Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports6.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.5214 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
8 Ratings
11% above category average
Kepion Planning
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
221 Ratings
4% above category average
Kepion Planning
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.4219 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.2192 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.1
8 Ratings
7% above category average
Kepion Planning
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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.3
224 Ratings
6% above category average
Kepion Planning
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.6224 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.673 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.7
213 Ratings
2% below category average
Kepion Planning
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.4204 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.7190 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.0198 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.0
322 Ratings
8% above category average
Kepion Planning
7.9
2 Ratings
5% below category average
Long-term financial planning9.3297 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Financial budgeting9.4301 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Forecasting9.3310 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Scenario modeling9.2312 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Management reporting7.9311 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.8
275 Ratings
2% below category average
Kepion Planning
7.5
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Financial data consolidation8.3255 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Journal entries and reports7.5211 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.312 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.39 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.38 Ratings6.92 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting8.3244 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails8.5256 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.1
293 Ratings
0% above category average
Kepion Planning
7.0
2 Ratings
14% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting8.9271 Ratings6.82 Ratings
Management Reporting8.2284 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting7.8262 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting8.214 Ratings7.12 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing7.31 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
313 Ratings
12% above category average
Kepion Planning
6.6
2 Ratings
20% below category average
Personalized dashboards8.7307 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards9.3291 Ratings6.22 Ratings
KPIs9.120 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.3270 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting9.4281 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data9.114 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
319 Ratings
2% above category average
Kepion Planning
8.9
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Flat file integration9.3309 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Excel data integration8.2287 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.0269 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AnaplanKepion Planning
Small Businesses
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Centage
Centage
Score 9.5 out of 10
Centage
Centage
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Prophix
Prophix
Score 8.8 out of 10
Prophix
Prophix
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
AnaplanKepion Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(336 ratings)
8.3
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(35 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(63 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(27 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(27 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AnaplanKepion Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Kepion Inc.
The solution works extremely well for companies in complicated operations or with the ambition to forecast their operations on a driver based way or wanting to have the ability to create different scenarios based on external or internal drivers. It is a perfect piece of an existing analytical infrastructure (DWH/BI) lacking a planning solution on top.
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Pros
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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Kepion Inc.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting: Kepion provides all budgeting, forecasting and actuals information in one, collaborative environment.
  • Analysis: It is easy to traverse across your entire budgeting and forecasting spectrum in Kepion, unearthing insights that would be hidden from you in other tools.
  • Workflow: Kepion's workflow management is simple and clear.
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Cons
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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Kepion Inc.
  • Silverlight functionality is outdated which makes the front end solution a little bit old compared to latest UI. They will be tackling it in Q2 2018, but it leaves users wanting for more.
  • Reporting functionalities: Are not state of the art, we recommend users creating official reports within Kepion, but focusing on Tableau or PowerBI for reporting purposes as this is not and will never be Kepion strengths compared to the likes of Tableau.
  • Being customizable is great, however, the solution is not an out-of-the-box solution and does require a little integration to work. For smaller companies (under 5M USD) I would still recommend Excel.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Kepion Inc.
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Usability
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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Kepion Inc.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Kepion Inc.
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Performance
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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Kepion Inc.
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Support Rating
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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Kepion Inc.
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In-Person Training
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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Kepion Inc.
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Online Training
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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Kepion Inc.
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Implementation Rating
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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Kepion Inc.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Kepion Inc.
Kepion is in a unique position in that it has all of the enterprise-grade functionality and scalability of a tool like Cognos, but it is available at a lower price point, with much more engaged support.
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Scalability
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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Kepion Inc.
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Return on Investment
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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Kepion Inc.
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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.

Kepion Planning Screenshots

Screenshot of Data IntegrationScreenshot of ProcessScreenshot of ReportingScreenshot of Sales PlanningScreenshot of Scenario ModelingScreenshot of Workforce