Anaplan vs Oracle Cloud Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Sales performance management, various finance scenarios - Anaplan is good for automating calculations. It is less appropriate for very complex business cases.

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Szilvia Havasreti

PPS EMEA CEP Sales Coverage Program Manager

HPInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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We had been slowly implementing Oracle products to replace several existing systems and so we needed a platform that would work to integrate across all of these solutions. Our company is fairly large and we work with a variety of clients and vendors as well. We needed an easier way for everyone to access information and discuss what data and future integration were most appropriate.

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Joseph R. Sweeney

Senior Investigations Analyst

The TJX Companies, Inc.Information Services, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Anaplan

7.2

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Customizable dashboards

7.2

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Anaplan

8.0

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Publish to PDF

8.3

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Report Versioning

8.3

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Report Delivery Scheduling

7.3

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Anaplan

6.9

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Responsive Design for Web Access

6.9

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Anaplan

8.5

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Long-term financial planning

7.9

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Financial budgeting

8.8

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Forecasting

9.0

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Scenario modeling

8.5

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Management reporting

8.4

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Anaplan

7.3

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Financial data consolidation

8.7

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Journal entries and reports

7.6

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Multi-currency management

6.2

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Intercompany Eliminations

6.0

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Minority Ownership

6.0

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Local and consolidated reporting

8.3

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Detailed Audit Trails

8.1

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Anaplan

8.0

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Financial Statement Reporting

9.3

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Management Reporting

8.9

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Excel-based Reporting

5.2

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Automated board and financial reporting

8.7

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Anaplan

7.0

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Personalized dashboards

6.9

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Color-coded scorecards

7.2

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KPIs

7.0

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Cost and profitability analysis

7.0

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Key Performance Indicator setting

6.9

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Benchmarking with external data

7.1

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Anaplan

8.3

Oracle Cloud Platform

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Flat file integration

8.9

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Excel data integration

7.4

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Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

8.7

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Anaplan

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Oracle Cloud Platform

7.5

Ease of building user interfaces

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7.0

Scalability

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7.2

Platform management overhead

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6.4

Workflow engine capability

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7.4

Platform access control

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7.5

Services-enabled integration

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8.2

Development environment creation

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7.7

Development environment replication

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7.9

Issue monitoring and notification

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6.9

Issue recovery

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7.3

Upgrades and platform fixes

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8.6

Pros

Simultaneous data editing by several departments.
Large data calculation.
Agile access anywhere if you have Internet access.

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Максим Шилиманов

Planning Excellence Senior Specialist

UnileverConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Elimination of IOPS price
Only public cloud to support rac
High performing baremetal instances
Fewer operational costs

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Krishna Chaitanya Peri

Sr Cloud consultant

Apps AssociatesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

The number of options for charts and graphs is substantially smaller than in Excel.
Pricing is space based so adding more to the model can come at a price.

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Michael McIntosh

Sr. FP&A Analyst

AdRollOnline Media, 501-1000 employees

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Takes some time to fully integrate across a larger company, but this is more a reflection on how well a company's IT department handles this.

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Joseph R. Sweeney

Senior Investigations Analyst

The TJX Companies, Inc.Information Services, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Anaplan 8.2

Based on 3 answers

I don't think we could function without the collaboration capabilities built into Anaplan that replaced disparate Excel files in the workforce planning model

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Anaplan 8.2

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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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Reliability and Availability

Anaplan 10.0

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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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Performance

Anaplan 9.0

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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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Support

Anaplan 8.1

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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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In-Person Training

Anaplan 3.0

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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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Online Training

Anaplan 5.0

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I'm giving this a 5 simply for the anapedia outline of calculations. The online videos and trainings leave a lot to be desired, but having anapedia around to help you understand calculations has been helpful. The drawback to anapedia is the depth they go into for calculations, it is lackluster at times. Because of that, I have been working through a much more in-depth look at each calculation on my website for users to reference: http://www.anaplanguru.com/formulas/

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation

Anaplan 6.7

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I won't rate this low due to the 3rd party consultant, because overall the implementation with Anaplan went great. We had working models in our first month of having Anaplan, and have been able to branch out into multiple facets of the business in the 3 years since our first implementation.

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Anaplan user case was easy to pull together on our own without consultants. The other tools were more complex to understand and set up.Cost-wise it stacked up nicely against other tools as well

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Andrew Paston

Financial Planning & Analysis Mgr

2degrees MobileTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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The Oracle Cloud Platform is a bit more pricey but maybe not when you take into account the less admin this environment needs over that of AWS. So far, we are pleased with the solution.

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Dan Hotka

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McGraw-HillComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

Anaplan 7.0

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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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Return on Investment

Workforce Planning efficiency - so much easier than excel to maintain sensitive information planning
Long range plan lead time - the old excel model took weeks to update. The Anaplan model takes hours

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Joe Bradbury

Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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So far, this rollout has been quite successful.
We have not had to add any additional computing resources yet...but...the performance level is easy to monitor.
So far, no upgrades have been needed either...
So far...an excellent ROI

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Dan Hotka

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McGraw-HillComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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