Anaplan vs. Sisense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anaplan
Score 8.6 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
Sisense
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
Pricing
AnaplanSisense
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnaplanSisense
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
AnaplanSisense
Features
AnaplanSisense
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.5
216 Ratings
1% below category average
Sisense
9.7
47 Ratings
17% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.47 Ratings10.037 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.3216 Ratings10.047 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.96 Ratings9.033 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
8 Ratings
13% above category average
Sisense
8.8
47 Ratings
9% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.18 Ratings10.047 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.18 Ratings9.047 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.18 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
223 Ratings
5% above category average
Sisense
10.0
46 Ratings
19% above category average
Publish to Web8.67 Ratings10.036 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.3221 Ratings10.046 Ratings
Report Versioning9.2193 Ratings10.024 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.98 Ratings10.039 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.2
8 Ratings
8% above category average
Sisense
9.5
45 Ratings
18% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.17 Ratings10.045 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.07 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.43 Ratings9.029 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.3
226 Ratings
9% above category average
Sisense
10.0
45 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.18 Ratings10.045 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.7226 Ratings10.044 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.18 Ratings10.045 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.675 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.6
215 Ratings
2% below category average
Sisense
9.7
40 Ratings
21% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.3206 Ratings10.040 Ratings
Mobile Application7.5192 Ratings10.025 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.9200 Ratings10.034 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.0
324 Ratings
10% above category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
Long-term financial planning9.2299 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial budgeting9.4303 Ratings00 Ratings
Forecasting9.3312 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario modeling9.2314 Ratings00 Ratings
Management reporting7.9313 Ratings00 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.8
277 Ratings
0% below category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
Financial data consolidation8.3257 Ratings00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports7.7213 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting8.2246 Ratings00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails8.7258 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.0
295 Ratings
1% above category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting8.9273 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Reporting8.1286 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting7.8264 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting8.214 Ratings00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
315 Ratings
12% above category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
Personalized dashboards8.6309 Ratings00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards9.3293 Ratings00 Ratings
KPIs9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.3272 Ratings00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting9.4283 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data9.114 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
321 Ratings
4% above category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
Flat file integration9.3311 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel data integration8.2288 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.9271 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AnaplanSisense
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(338 ratings)
10.0
(58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(35 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(65 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(7 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(7 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
4.7
(27 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(6 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.8
(6 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(27 ratings)
7.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.3
(7 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.6
(4 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(4 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AnaplanSisense
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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Sisense Ltd
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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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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Sisense Ltd
  • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
  • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
  • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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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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Sisense Ltd
  • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
  • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
  • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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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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Sisense Ltd
I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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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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Sisense Ltd
New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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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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Sisense Ltd
There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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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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Sisense Ltd
SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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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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Sisense Ltd
SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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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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Sisense Ltd
Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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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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Sisense Ltd
Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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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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Sisense Ltd
Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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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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Sisense Ltd
1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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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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Sisense Ltd
Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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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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Sisense Ltd
  • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
  • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
  • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
  • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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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.