Anaplan vs Oracle Cloud EPM

What users are saying about

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 362 reviews and ratings

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 173 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Anaplan ranks higher in 7 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security, Mobile Capabilities, Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting, Analytics and Reporting, Integration
Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 3 feature sets: Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Consolidation and Close
Anaplan and Oracle Cloud EPM are tied in 1 feature set: Financial Reporting and Compliance

BI Standard Reporting

7.6

Anaplan

76%

5.7

Oracle Cloud EPM

57%

Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

6.4

64%

1 Rating

8.1

81%

2 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

8.7

87%

105 Ratings

4.4

44%

3 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

N/A

0 Ratings

4.5

45%

3 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

8.4

Anaplan

84%

8.8

Oracle Cloud EPM

88%

Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 3/3 features

Drill-down analysis

8.6

86%

2 Ratings

9.1

91%

23 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

8.2

82%

2 Ratings

8.8

88%

22 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

8.2

82%

2 Ratings

8.6

86%

20 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

8.5

Anaplan

85%

8.8

Oracle Cloud EPM

88%

Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 3/4 features

Publish to Web

9.1

91%

1 Rating

8.7

87%

17 Ratings

Publish to PDF

8.2

82%

107 Ratings

8.7

87%

20 Ratings

Report Versioning

8.5

85%

93 Ratings

8.9

89%

18 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.3

83%

3 Ratings

8.8

88%

16 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

8.0

Anaplan

80%

5.9

Oracle Cloud EPM

59%

Anaplan ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

8.6

86%

2 Ratings

6.0

60%

3 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

8.2

82%

2 Ratings

6.8

68%

3 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

7.3

73%

2 Ratings

5.1

51%

3 Ratings

Access Control and Security

9.2

Anaplan

92%

8.9

Oracle Cloud EPM

89%

Anaplan ranks higher in 3/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

9.1

91%

2 Ratings

8.7

87%

21 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

9.4

94%

108 Ratings

9.0

90%

24 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.1

91%

2 Ratings

8.8

88%

21 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

9.1

91%

2 Ratings

9.2

92%

22 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

7.7

Anaplan

77%

7.2

Oracle Cloud EPM

72%

Anaplan ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

8.6

86%

98 Ratings

6.2

62%

2 Ratings

Mobile Application

7.4

74%

81 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

7.6

76%

91 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

8.9

Anaplan

Anaplan

70%

8.9

Oracle Cloud EPM

89%

Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 7/7 features

Financial data consolidation

8.2

82%

150 Ratings

9.3

93%

18 Ratings

Journal entries and reports

7.2

72%

116 Ratings

9.3

93%

15 Ratings

Multi-currency management

6.2

62%

11 Ratings

8.7

87%

14 Ratings

Intercompany Eliminations

6.0

60%

8 Ratings

9.0

90%

14 Ratings

Minority Ownership

6.0

60%

7 Ratings

8.8

88%

12 Ratings

Local and consolidated reporting

8.1

81%

140 Ratings

9.2

92%

17 Ratings

Detailed Audit Trails

7.4

74%

148 Ratings

8.1

81%

17 Ratings

Financial Reporting and Compliance

8.3

Anaplan

83%

8.3

Oracle Cloud EPM

83%

Oracle Cloud EPM ranks higher in 3/5 features

Financial Statement Reporting

8.1

81%

162 Ratings

9.0

90%

29 Ratings

Management Reporting

8.2

82%

173 Ratings

7.9

79%

32 Ratings

Excel-based Reporting

7.9

79%

159 Ratings

8.2

82%

31 Ratings

Automated board and financial reporting

9.0

90%

13 Ratings

8.0

80%

28 Ratings

XBRL support for regulatory filing

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

20 Ratings

Analytics and Reporting

8.7

Anaplan

87%

7.8

Oracle Cloud EPM

78%

Anaplan ranks higher in 6/6 features

Personalized dashboards

8.9

89%

199 Ratings

8.2

82%

26 Ratings

Color-coded scorecards

8.6

86%

183 Ratings

7.7

77%

3 Ratings

KPIs

8.1

81%

19 Ratings

7.4

74%

4 Ratings

Cost and profitability analysis

8.6

86%

162 Ratings

6.7

67%

4 Ratings

Key Performance Indicator setting

9.0

90%

172 Ratings

8.3

83%

25 Ratings

Benchmarking with external data

8.7

87%

13 Ratings

8.3

83%

25 Ratings

Integration

8.8

Anaplan

88%

8.7

Oracle Cloud EPM

87%

Anaplan ranks higher in 2/3 features

Flat file integration

9.3

93%

198 Ratings

9.0

90%

34 Ratings

Excel data integration

8.7

87%

184 Ratings

9.1

91%

33 Ratings

Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

8.4

84%

163 Ratings

7.9

79%

29 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Anaplan is rated higher in 6 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Performance, Support Rating, Implementation Rating, Product Scalability
Oracle Cloud EPM is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Availability

Anaplan

30%

1 Rating

Oracle Cloud EPM

N/A

0 Ratings

Anaplan

91%

2 Ratings

Oracle Cloud EPM

N/A

0 Ratings

Anaplan

91%

25 Ratings

8.2

Oracle Cloud EPM

82%

32 Ratings

Anaplan

91%

2 Ratings

8.0

Oracle Cloud EPM

80%

1 Rating

Pros

Flexibility - the tool can be built the suite the company's needs. It allows for maximum customization for even the most complex business models.
Data Integrations - the tool has the ability to connect to many different data sources so that data can be passed seamlessly.
Connected Planning - the tool allows for teams across the organization to pass information and data back and forth between models, enhancing the ability to do connected planning

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Professional in Finance and Accounting

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Account Reconciliation CLoud Services provides tight integration with Oracle R12 and 11i . Provides drillback capability. It is flexible and provides rich functionality to users.
We have implemented ARCS on cloud and migrated planning and budgeting from On premise to PBCS and EPBCS. Functionality is onpar with onpremise. Provides regular updates monthly
We don't need to upgrades every year and saved a lot on Hardware.

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Raju Aenike

Record to Report IT Manager

Ingersoll RandMachinery, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Considering a collaborative platform, workflow features need to be more sophisticated to handle event-based triggers.
ALM governance is tedious in multiple developers set up, as it does not allow to migrate changes by each developer rather forces to migrate at a model level that includes all changes by all developers.
Reporting ability is still limited, many times dependency on other reporting tools is unavoidable.
Time referencing (e.g. default today's date) is not possible without engaging an integration interface.
NUX pages are rich in features but building pages for DEV/UAT and PROD are not straightforward.

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Bikash R Shil

Master Architect

Anheuser Busch In BevFood & Beverages, 10,001+ employees

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The limitation of constrained out of the box dimensions that requires ripping the initial implementation to add the new dimensions is a major drawback.
Smartview interface is cumbersome for many.
The only financial adapter is available for integration for other modules we have to go with file-based uploads which is cumbersome and not real-time.
It is very costly in terms of licensing unlike other Oracle products.

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Professional in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$250 per user/per month

Oracle Cloud EPM Editions & Modules

Edition

EPM Standard	$250¹
EPM Enterprise	$500¹

per user/per month

Additional Pricing Details

Pricing per user varies by component within the Oracle EPM Cloud solution. Please see pricing information for the EPM Cloud components on cloud.oracle.com or contact Oracle Sales at +1.800.633.0738.

Likelihood to Renew

Anaplan 8.8

Based on 6 answers

In any line of work, a tool that is flexible and would allow different departments of your company to easily interact and exchange valuable insights, is highly anticipated and needed. For me, what Anaplan provides to a business, be it a smaller one or an enterprise customer, is an easily scaling, agile planning and modeling platform that can meet almost any need and give a high-end solution to the problems any company faces on a daily basis.

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Alexander Denchev

Anaplan Solution Architect

B EYE LtdInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 9.0

Based on 3 answers

We have a pretty good userbase who are at the high level who gained value from this tool. Discontinuing this tool is prone to impact their day to day operations. Also the data in this tool cannot alter the source, which maintains the integrity of this tool. Smartview is a cool addition that gained lot of traction as well.

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Professional in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Anaplan 9.0

Based on 4 answers

There is a dependency in this rating - in that I find Anaplan extremely easy to use, but I've spent the necessary time developing a strong understanding of the platform. Once you understand how to use it, the platform is flexible, easy to use, and fun to use.

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Chris Friederich

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Cherwell SoftwareComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.0

Based on 1 answer

EPM usability is good in some modules but needs some improvement in others

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Aissam Drai

Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 3 answers

In nearly 3 years, I have only had 1 issue of being unable to access my model for an unplanned maintenance. Even planned maintenance windows are handled during low traffic hours on the weekend.

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 10.0

Based on 2 answers

EPM has been so far available all the time

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Aissam Drai

Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 3 answers

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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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 9.0

Based on 2 answers

The product performance is so far very good

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Aissam Drai

Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 6 answers

I feel like the support team is a little lacking in product knowledge. Several times I have contacted them to get help, and ended up finding a solution to my own problem before the team could get back to me with anything useful. I have also submitted a few bugs, and never got updates to when they were fixed in later releases.

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 6.8

Based on 6 answers

Support from our implementation partner is a 10/10, but support from Oracle is awful. Case in point: recently over a 2-day period, there were a series of intermittent outages. Oracle actually asked US for the outage time-stamps. I would have thought that, since we were paying them, they should probably be able to tell us!

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Greg Grey

Senior Manager, Corporate Finance and Treasury Applications

Oshkosh CorporationAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

Anaplan 3.0

Based on 1 answer

The in-person training is simply not worth the cost. After a few weeks of playing in Anaplan, I went to the basic training and knew more than the person teaching it. a year down the road, I was the first person to complete the advance training, and again could have been teaching the class better than the person running the session. Spend some time on your own trying out different things and you will get all the understanding you need to be successful.

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Online Training

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Learning made easy . One of the best trainings i have attended. Training was very detailed training by the trainer, which helped me understand the basics of the model building. Level 1 training was easy and instructor was most helpful here. Level 2 training was challenging but was able to go thru due to understanding of the basics.

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Sai Bandaru

Anaplan Consultant

EnqueroComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Implementation Rating

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 25 answers

Agile methodology and breaking the work down into sprints was very helpful. Implementation required a deeper dive into our data than expected for the consultants to be able to construct the data model. But once it was in place, the focus on knowledge transfer enabled us to be able to use the product effectively after the team rolled off.

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Steve Ridgley

Head of Sales Compensation

Robert HalfStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.2

Based on 32 answers

I suggest doubling the time to implement from the initial quote you get from the Sales team. That's always been the case for me for multiple EPMs now. The out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is pretty robust so I appreciate that and it really helped us get the ball rolling quickly.

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Manager in Marketing

Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Anaplan works well where you have a requirement for complete flexibility, such as in business structure, or in calculation methodology that is bespoke. You can tailor the system to your exact requirements, whereas some products come with pre-built modules that you might struggle to do certain things with. All in all [it] depends on the business requirements as there is a different tool for a different job. Anaplan succeeds in being a very strong all [arounder].

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C-Level Executive in Professional Services

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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The cloud is the way technology is going, so we love migrating from on prem solutions to true cloud-based solutions such as Oracle Cloud EPM. It's very easy to use. We also felt comfortable choosing the solution when reading a previous review around the system being able to have one global plan and integration with other Oracle products for plans which reduces the manual effort of getting the data and activating information.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

Anaplan 9.1

Based on 2 answers

It's going to handle most of what you can throw at it. The problem lies in the sparsity of some datasets. When you have over 5ish dimensions of sparse data, the size of the model gets bloated for not much value. In several cases, I have had to adapt my model to account for sparsity in a way that minimized use of space, but also made interacting with the data more cumbersome.

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.0

Based on 1 answer

The product is scalable

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Aissam Drai

Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

The agile implementation methodology used to deploy the system has helped our clients to use and realize the benefits of the system right from the early stages of the implementation.
The system can be easily managed and maintained by the end users reducing dependency on IT teams and making business more self-sufficient.

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Pavan Kiran Bellamkonda

Senior Consultant

Deloitte India (Offices of the US)Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Significantly reduced the amount of money we spent for the maintenance of in-house hardware.
We now need less employees to manage the configurations of Oracle EPM Cloud.
There have been many time savings as a whole to apply to more productive causes.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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