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Anaplan
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
If any client is seriously looking for a BI tool on Hadoop and doesn’t want to compromise with any technology barriers with Hadoop such as security, compressions, formats etc., I recommend platfora for them. If clients are not dealing with big data then I don't recommend this tool.It’s a great tool to do quantitative, time series analysis and data science.
AML Data factory lead
Management Science Associates, Inc.Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
Anaplan
7.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Customizable dashboards
Anaplan
7.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Report Output and Scheduling
Anaplan
8.4
Workday Prism Analytics
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Publish to PDF
Anaplan
8.8
Workday Prism Analytics
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Report Versioning
Anaplan
8.5
Workday Prism Analytics
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Report Delivery Scheduling
Anaplan
7.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Access Control and Security
Anaplan
9.1
Workday Prism Analytics
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Role-Based Security Model
Anaplan
9.1
Workday Prism Analytics
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Mobile Capabilities
Anaplan
7.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Responsive Design for Web Access
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Dedicated iOS Application
Anaplan
6.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Dedicated Android Application
Anaplan
7.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Anaplan
6.8
Workday Prism Analytics
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Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Anaplan
8.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Long-term financial planning
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Financial budgeting
Anaplan
8.9
Workday Prism Analytics
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Forecasting
Anaplan
8.8
Workday Prism Analytics
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Scenario modeling
Anaplan
9.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Management reporting
Anaplan
8.6
Workday Prism Analytics
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Consolidation and Close
Anaplan
7.2
Workday Prism Analytics
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Financial data consolidation
Anaplan
8.4
Workday Prism Analytics
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Journal entries and reports
Anaplan
7.9
Workday Prism Analytics
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Multi-currency management
Anaplan
6.2
Workday Prism Analytics
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Intercompany Eliminations
Anaplan
6.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Minority Ownership
Anaplan
6.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Local and consolidated reporting
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Detailed Audit Trails
Anaplan
7.6
Workday Prism Analytics
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Financial Reporting and Compliance
Anaplan
8.5
Workday Prism Analytics
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Financial Statement Reporting
Anaplan
9.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Management Reporting
Anaplan
8.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Excel-based Reporting
Anaplan
7.4
Workday Prism Analytics
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Automated board and financial reporting
Anaplan
9.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Analytics
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Personalized dashboards
Anaplan
9.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Color-coded scorecards
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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KPIs
Anaplan
8.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Cost and profitability analysis
Anaplan
8.6
Workday Prism Analytics
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Key Performance Indicator setting
Anaplan
8.7
Workday Prism Analytics
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Benchmarking with external data
Anaplan
7.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Integration
Anaplan
8.3
Workday Prism Analytics
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Flat file integration
Anaplan
8.5
Workday Prism Analytics
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Excel data integration
Anaplan
8.0
Workday Prism Analytics
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Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Anaplan
8.5
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
- It's web based. No need to install any desktop clients on your machine to use platfora.
- It's best suited for a big data Hadoop environment. I can rate it as the #1 BI tool for a big data hadoop environment.
- Platfora follows kind of the same architecture as Hadoop architecture like Master and Slave architecture. It scales with the data volumes.
- Querying data is very good and very fast. (Platfora Lens)
- Client presentation wise it's good. You can get different kinds of graphs.
- Platfora almost supports everything on Big Data technologies including file formats, compression etc.
- Security is not compromised and it can deal in parallel with any Hadoop distributor security implementations. Just take an example of Knox on Hortonworks, so it will deal with that and cloudera , MapR
- Its very easily understandable and for the new people who wants to try platfora, learning curve is low
- You can create your own datasets in platfora. You can store your results as a dataset in platfora and can share across
AML Data factory lead
Management Science Associates, Inc.Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
Cons
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
Workday Prism Analytics
- Data Movement - Data needs to be moved from Hadoop to Platfora to create Platfora Lens and to do analytics.
- To support Data movement, infrastructure cost is high.
- To support data movement, network bandwidth consumption is high.
- No trial versions for companies to evaluate.
AML Data factory lead
Management Science Associates, Inc.Financial Services, 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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
No score
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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
Workday Prism Analytics
AML Data factory lead
Management Science Associates, Inc.Financial Services, 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
Workday Prism Analytics
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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 employeesWorkday Prism Analytics
- It's very positive for us to use platfora in terms of ROI
AML Data factory lead
Management Science Associates, Inc.Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
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Pricing Details
Anaplan
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Workday Prism Analytics
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No