Anaplan vs Stitch, a Talend company | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 234 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Anaplan

Stitch, a Talend company

Customizable dashboards

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Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

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Role-Based Security Model

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Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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Long-term financial planning

Financial budgeting

Forecasting

Scenario modeling

Management reporting

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Financial data consolidation

Journal entries and reports

Multi-currency management

Intercompany Eliminations

Minority Ownership

Local and consolidated reporting

Detailed Audit Trails

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Stitch, a Talend company

Financial Statement Reporting

Management Reporting

Excel-based Reporting

Automated board and financial reporting

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Personalized dashboards

Color-coded scorecards

KPIs

Cost and profitability analysis

Key Performance Indicator setting

Benchmarking with external data

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Flat file integration

Excel data integration

Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

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Connect to traditional data sources

Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

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Simple transformations

Complex transformations

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Business rules and workflow

Testing and debugging

Pros

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

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Principal Consultant

Impetus Consulting GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Easy integration with many sources
Extensible
Not as expensive as fivetran

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

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.

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Senior Sales Planning Analyst

Tableau SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Stitch is not good at replicating document stores like MongoDB to relational databases. To be fair, this is a difficult task. Stitch flattens the objects, but the result is unwieldy.
Stitch cannot replicate the same source to multiple sinks, which is inconvenient if you want to replicate some of a datastore's tables to Redshift and others to Redshift Spectrum, for instance.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 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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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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.

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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

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.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

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.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Stitch, a Talend company 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I have had some troubles with one integration. It could be solved by doing a full re-sync which is not free. Every time I had to do it, I just sent them an email to tell them that I would do it and they did not charge for it.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 11-50 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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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Online Training

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/

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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.

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Head of Sales Compensation

Robert HalfStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Szilvia Havasreti

PPS EMEA CEP Sales Coverage Program Manager

HPInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Stitch is much cheaper and probably simpler than tools like Fivetran. Stitch is for simpler projects and used alongside traditional ETL and writing ones own code into APIs.Fivetran is more of a overarching tool but also more expensive

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Head of Data

The Plum GuideHospitality, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

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.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Newspapers Company, 51-200 employees

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Freed up data engineers to work on transformations
Bought us some time to migrate from our ETL tool

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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