What users are saying about
Anaplan
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring#question3' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>Customer Verified: Read more.</a>
Top Rated
234 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 8.8 out of 100
Based on 234 reviews and ratings
90 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 7.6 out of 100
Based on 90 reviews and ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Anaplan
Anaplan is great for collaborative planning and complex business models that require frequent updates and quick feedback. Ease of use, ease of development, deployment & maintenance accelerates business adoptionIt's not a great reporting or analytics tool. Limited model sizes limit the capability to capture large data sets and need for Data Warehouse for plan over plan & historic analysis and reporting
Sr. Staff Analyst
Seagate TechnologyComputer Hardware, 10,001+ employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics excels with projects that have at least 3 parts. The first part is the ability to address and compare different modeling types. Suppose you are an analyst interested in predicting home prices or whether an individual will reapply for unemployment insurance. There are lots of model types that could work for these two situations. SAS Advanced Analytics makes it easy (although not as easy as SAS Enterprise Miner) to compare the performance of different modeling types, such as comparing support vector machines with random forest models. A second scenario that SAS Advanced Analytics does a good job at is making the analysis reproducible. By showing the lineage of analyses, another analyst is able to follow the work of the previous analyst. This is a huge advantage for individuals working in corporations or governments. The third area SAS Advanced Analytics is useful is in text analytics. The field is huge now, and I haven't come across a software that makes text analytics as easy as SAS Advanced Analytics.
Owner, previous CEO
Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
Anaplan
7.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Customizable dashboards
Anaplan
7.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Report Output and Scheduling
Anaplan
8.4
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Publish to PDF
Anaplan
8.8
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Report Versioning
Anaplan
8.5
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Report Delivery Scheduling
Anaplan
7.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Access Control and Security
Anaplan
9.1
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Role-Based Security Model
Anaplan
9.1
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Mobile Capabilities
Anaplan
7.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Responsive Design for Web Access
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Dedicated iOS Application
Anaplan
6.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Dedicated Android Application
Anaplan
7.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Anaplan
6.8
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Anaplan
8.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Long-term financial planning
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Financial budgeting
Anaplan
8.9
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Forecasting
Anaplan
8.8
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Scenario modeling
Anaplan
9.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Management reporting
Anaplan
8.6
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Consolidation and Close
Anaplan
7.2
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Financial data consolidation
Anaplan
8.4
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Journal entries and reports
Anaplan
7.9
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Multi-currency management
Anaplan
6.2
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Intercompany Eliminations
Anaplan
6.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Minority Ownership
Anaplan
6.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Local and consolidated reporting
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Detailed Audit Trails
Anaplan
7.6
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Anaplan
8.5
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Financial Statement Reporting
Anaplan
9.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Management Reporting
Anaplan
8.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Excel-based Reporting
Anaplan
7.4
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Automated board and financial reporting
Anaplan
9.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Analytics
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Personalized dashboards
Anaplan
9.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Color-coded scorecards
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
KPIs
Anaplan
8.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Cost and profitability analysis
Anaplan
8.6
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Key Performance Indicator setting
Anaplan
8.7
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Benchmarking with external data
Anaplan
7.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Integration
Anaplan
8.3
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Flat file integration
Anaplan
8.5
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Excel data integration
Anaplan
8.0
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Anaplan
8.5
SAS Advanced Analytics
—
Pros
Anaplan
- Allows the business to link different planning streams into one place
- Gives users a single source to view data, no more comparing offline templates in excel
- Intuitive new UX that allows us to be more customizable when tailoring to needs of end-users
Principal Consultant
Impetus Consulting GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
- Complex Survey Analysis- SAS is a great resource if you need to analyze complex survey data. One can easily write code for this by inserting (survey) in front of the procedure with the weight, cluster, and strata variables. (ex: surveyfreq)
- Modeling/ Graphing- SAS creates clean and easy to understand graphs and models which take visual data to the next level.
- Support- There is a large SAS Advanced analytics online support in place. It is easy to find help on many procedures that you will use in this software.

Verified User
Employee in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Anaplan
- Enablement -- Anaplan should invest more in both its training capability and training content. Anaplan is not the most difficult tool to learn, but having more foundation in this area would make the ramp-up process significantly easier
- Storage -- Anaplan is not a data warehouse. This is understandable given data warehousing is not their primary value proposition, but many times we run close to the storage limits of Anaplan, and it would be great if Anaplan had different storage size options for its workspaces.
- User Interface -- Anaplan's user interface could be streamlined and improved to become more intuitive and accommodate more shortcut keys.
Senior Sales Planning Analyst
Tableau SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
- SAS Analytics does not have very good graphic capabilities. Their advanced graphics packages are expensive, and still not very appealing or intuitive to customize.
- SAS Analytics is not as up-to-date when it comes to advanced analytical techniques as R or other open-source analytics packages.
Consultant
DeloitteManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employees
Likelihood to Renew
Anaplan
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
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 4.5
Based on 5 answers
Not only does SAS become easier to use as the user gets more familiar with its capabilities, but the customer service is excellent. Any issues with SAS and their technical team is either contacting the user via email, chat, text, WebEx, or phone. They have power users that have years of experience with SAS there to help with any issue.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Usability
Anaplan
Anaplan 8.2
Based on 2 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.
Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Cherwell SoftwareComputer Software, 201-500 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 6.1
Based on 2 answers
If SAS Enterprise Guide is utilized any beginning user will be able to shorten the learning curve. This is allow the user a plethora of basic capabilities until they can utilize coding to expand their needs in manipulating and presenting data. SAS is also dedicated to expanding this environment so it is ever growing.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Reliability and Availability
Anaplan
Anaplan 10.0
Based on 2 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.
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 10.0
Based on 1 answer
SAS probably has the most market saturation out of all of the analytics software worldwide. They are in every industry and they are knowledgable about every industry. They are always available to take questions, solve issues, and discuss a company's needs. A company that buys SAS software has a dedicated representative that is there for all of their needs.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Performance
Anaplan
Anaplan 9.0
Based on 2 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.
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Although nothing is perfect, SAS is almost there. The software can handle billions of rows of data without a glitch and runs at a quick pace regardless of what the user wants to perform. SAS products are made to handle data so performance is of their utmost important. The software is created to run things as efficiently as SAS software can to maximize performance.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Support Rating
Anaplan
Anaplan 9.1
Based on 5 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.
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 9.6
Based on 4 answers
SAS is generally known for good support that's one of the main reasons to justify the cost of having SAS licenses within our organization is knowing that customer support is just a quick phone call away. I've usually had good experiences with the SAS customer support team it's one of the ways in which the company stands out in my view.
Lead Data Scientist
Atrius HealthHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
In-Person Training
Anaplan
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.
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 9.0
Based on 1 answer
SAS has regional and national conferences that are dedicated to expanding users' knowledge of the software and showing them what changes and additions they are making to the software. There are user groups in most of the major cities that also provide multi-day seminars that focus on specific topics for education. If online training isn't the best way for the user, there is ample in-person training available.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Online Training
Anaplan
Anaplan 5.0
Based on 1 answer
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/
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 8.0
Based on 1 answer
There are online videos, live classes, and resource material which makes training very easy to access. However, nothing is circumstantial so applying your training can get tricky if the user is performing complex tasks. When purchasing software, SAS will also allocate education credits so the user(s) can access classes and material online to help expand their knowledge.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Implementation Rating
Anaplan
Anaplan 6.7
Based on 24 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.
Head of Sales Compensation
Robert HalfStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Ask as many questions you can before the install to understand the process. Since a third party does the installation your company is sort of a passanger and it is easy to get lost in the process. It also helps to have all users and IT support involved in the install to help increase the knowledge as to how SAS runs and what it needs to perform correctly.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Anaplan
During the selection process at the end of 2012, we were thinking of Excel as the main tool, or an in-house software built by ourselves, however, this would have taken us ages, so we checked what is available on the market. Anaplan was a small start-up at that time, but it helped us to ensure we can customize the software to our needs.
PPS EMEA CEP Sales Coverage Program Manager
HPInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
We had major use of SAS in forecasting where it doesn't require high level of coding knowledge and which has highly efficient models built in which can give good results on forecasts without lot of manual intervention. This tool was designed specifically for forecasting and hence was always a better choice compared to other tools.
Forecasting Analyst
HiltonHospitality, 10,001+ employees
Scalability
Anaplan
Anaplan 7.0
Based on 1 answer
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.
Manager, Financial Systems
Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It all depends on the type of SAS product the user has. Scaleability differs from product to product, and if the user has SAS Office Analytics the scaleability is quite robust. This software will satisfy the majority of the company's analytic needs for years to come. In addition, if SAS is not meeting the users needs the company can easily find SAS solutions that will.
Analytics Specialist
Array Services GroupFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Anaplan
- Anaplan has been good to plan future fiscal years, by doing the planning in here and seeing the financial impact certain variables can produce it is easier to make decisions within the company such as hiring, eliminating certain costs etc., to achieve the financial results as set in the company goals.
- Dashboards have been really helpful for the financial executives as very specific data can be analysed and presented in the dashboards focused to specific financial teams, so it is easier to see the actual results and forecasts.
- On the negative side, since Anaplan is a complex tool to handle, it is better to have a dedicated resource or resources to the handling in Anplan. Regular business analysts could not handle their regular tasks and doing complex configurations in Anaplan without the help of well trained Anaplan resources, extra dedicated resources are needed to work with Anaplan.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Newspapers Company, 51-200 employeesSAS Advanced Analytics
- SAS Advanced Analytics is not the cheapest software on the market. The overall cost was weighed against free, open-source software tools. The overall return, I think, was quite positive because SAS Advanced Analytics saves enormous amounts of time compared to the open-source software tools.
- At first, adopting SAS Advanced Analytics was a negative return because it took time for individuals to change their analytics habits and adjust to superior tools available at their discretion.
- SAS Advanced Analytics has replaced the need to hire less expensive R or Python programmers. So, although the software requires an initial expensive upfront investment, the ease of use makes it so that other areas of expenditure save money.
Owner, previous CEO
Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees
Screenshots
Pricing Details
Anaplan
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
SAS Advanced Analytics
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No