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What is Anaplan?
Anaplan is a transformative way to see, plan, and run your business. Using its proprietary Hyperblock™ technology, Anaplan lets you contextualize real-time performance, and forecast future outcomes for faster, confident decisions. Anaplan enables connected strategy and planning across your enterprise...
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- Forecasting (248)9.494%
- Personalized dashboards (247)9.191%
- Management reporting (249)8.181%
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- It can be used in different cases: finance, logistics, marketing. Sometimes it may not be very efficient, but if you have licenses, the extra cost is ...
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What is Anaplan?
Anaplan is a transformative way to see, plan, and run your business. Using its proprietary Hyperblock™ technology, Anaplan lets you contextualize real-time performance, and forecast future outcomes for faster, confident decisions. Anaplan enables connected strategy and planning across your enterprise to move your business forward. Based in San Francisco, Anaplan has over 200 partners and more than 2,000 customers worldwide.
Anaplan Features
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features
- Supported: Long-term financial planning
- Supported: Financial budgeting
- Supported: Forecasting
- Supported: Scenario modeling
- Supported: Management reporting
Consolidation and Close Features
- Supported: Financial data consolidation
- Supported: Journal entries and reports
- Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
- Supported: Detailed Audit Trails
Financial Reporting and Compliance Features
- Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
- Supported: Management Reporting
- Supported: Excel-based Reporting
Analytics and Reporting Features
- Supported: Personalized dashboards
- Supported: Color-coded scorecards
- Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
- Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
Integration Features
- Supported: Flat file integration
- Supported: Excel data integration
- Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Report Versioning
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
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The Anaplan platform supports detailed hyperscale models that can see a business from edge to edge, and plan with signals down to the transactional level.
Anaplan Competitors
- IBM Cognos Analytics
- Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management
- Prophix
- SAS Cost and Profitability Management
- Vena
- Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
- Axiom Software by Syntellis Performance Solutions
- Tidemark
- Kinaxis RapidResponse
- NICE Incentive Compensation Management
- Alvaria Workforce
- Workday Adaptive Planning
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
- Planful
- Host Analytics
- Steelwedge
- SAP IBP
- SAP APO
- IBM SPM (Varicent)
Anaplan Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | All countries |
Supported Languages | Multi-lingual support |
Anaplan Downloadables
- The Anaplan Platform Explained
- Anaplan for Sales: Predictive Sales Planning
- Anaplan for Finance: Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Anaplan for Supply Chain: Supply Planning
- Anaplan for HR and Workforce: Agile Workforce Planning
- Anaplan for HR and Workforce: Workforce Planning
- CHRO strategies: Delivering what the CEO wants
Frequently Asked Questions
IBM Cognos Analytics, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, and Prophix are common alternatives for Anaplan.
Reviewers rate Role-Based Security Model and Long-term financial planning and Financial budgeting highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of Anaplan are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Anaplan Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 10% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 90% |
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May 15, 2023
Anaplan, A Review
I currently implement Anaplan as a partner consultant. I have been a part of implementations around incentive compensation, sales/demand planning, and fund & JV administration use cases. In each instance the solution was able to be handed over for the business to wholly own and maintain, highlighting the idea of 'business lead' connected planning.
- Flexibility in how the models can be designed/work
- Ease of new development, allowing the business to make changes or further deploy more models as needed
- Allow for scalability as the solutions or business grows
- Provide insights tailored to the various levels of the organization/leadership
- Easier access to user activity metadata (tenant level reports)
- More concrete product roadmap
- More visibility / trainings into newly released features (outside of just the newsletter)
May 10, 2023
"Quick and dirty" - why we chose Anaplan
Initially, Anaplan was used in the company for FP&A - budget and monthly forecast. Gradually on the basis of Anaplan these processes were unified, the connection of versions became stronger and new reporting was added (especially after the appearance of UX).Anaplan is not a full-fledged BI product, but its capabilities are sufficient for primary analysis and tracking model results.
As the product and its value were understood, the implementation of S&OP planning, marketing block and Cash-Flow started. In the end, Anaplan allowed some of the functions to be tied together, although there was still some manual input and planning outside of the system.
The main problems that Anaplan solved were:
As the product and its value were understood, the implementation of S&OP planning, marketing block and Cash-Flow started. In the end, Anaplan allowed some of the functions to be tied together, although there was still some manual input and planning outside of the system.
The main problems that Anaplan solved were:
- Role model and data protection.
- No need to bring different Excel versions together and update parts of them (consolidation)
- A single approach and version of truth (some Excel is heavily tied to specific users)
- Flexibility of the model (compared to other systems) - easy to make changes.
- Primary & fast reporting.
- Process work-flow - process and data status.
- Speed of performance. The data from ERP is loaded into the system quickly enough and the model is recalculated instantly. A simulation environment was implemented for the CFO, where he could change macro parameters and analyze the data.
- Flexibility and speed of setup. We don't have a large IT department to allocate and maintain servers. We didn't have several months to work out the methodology. We needed to implement several models using Agile and quick feedback. Anaplan allows us to maintain the highest speed of implementation and deployment of the solution.
- It can be used in different cases: finance, logistics, marketing. Sometimes it may not be very efficient, but if you have licenses, the extra cost is sometimes negligible.
- Multi-user reporting. You can make individual filters, but if you need different people to compare different versions, then you have to complicate the architecture and waste cloud space (not always efficient). This limits your analysis capabilities.
- There is a lack of some visualizations. The addition of the bubble chart was very timely, but even years later Donat differs from Pie only in the presence of a "hole". It is impossible to make two Donat in each other for comparison. Sometimes there is not enough flexibility in text formats.
- The basic integration tool Anaplan Connect has no visual interface and it is difficult to get adequate load logs with it. Its configuration is chosen from the general logic of the ease of working with Anaplan. You will probably need help from IT to set up the integration, access certificate, and so on.
May 08, 2023
Anaplan Rocks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is used across all of finance at our organization to change how we budget, forecast, and consolidate our numbers. It addresses business problems of lack of auditability, lengthened planning cycles, siloed planning, and long review cycles. Being cloud based and decentralized, it helps us as a multinational organization to collaborate effectively across the globe and enables quick reviews and changes to our plan.
- Anaplan continues to innovate and does a good job of incorporating Anaplan customer and partner feedback into their roadmap.
- Anaplan offers a flexible and agile product that allows plans to be agile and adapt quickly to changing business needs.
- Anaplan continues to champion their community and hosts great events to promote knowledge transfers that benefit the entire Anaplan ecosystem.
- Anaplan account executives champion their accounts and want to help them succeed.
- Anaplan has a host of middleware connectors.
- Management reporting in Anaplan has come a long way, but there is still room to grow here. Already leaps and bounds above where it was even the last year, but still not as flexible reporting as other tool built specifically for reporting.
- Anaplan support is not always the most responsive.
- Anaplan is inefficient with extremely granular data.
April 05, 2023
Anaplan: Streamlining Business Operations with a Powerful Planning and Performance Management Platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan helps the client to do the budgeting and forecasting more efficiently. It helps in collaborating the users from a different department in one platform and also make it more real-time in nature. This helps our client to save more time. Also, Anaplan helps in simulations like creating more scenarios, doing what-if analysis, variance analysis, etc.
- Scalable and user friendly (flexibile)
- Real -time & Collaborative
- Data Integartion
- Advanced Analytics
- Modelling & Simulation
- Email auto trigger - Notifications
- Reporting & Dashboard
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We support our customers to implement Anaplan in different use-cases: FP&A, HR, Marketing, supply chain, etc. Anaplan is cloud based platform that supports users have one place for any EPM requirement that a company could have. The platform is very scalable, helping the users to have the same performance on simple Finance use-cases that generally require less amount of data to much more complex and high-volume data that a supply chain use case could require.
- data integration
- complex formulas
- very good scalability
- modular building: start simple, evolve to complex calculations
- Reporting: cannot accept more than 3 dimensions in Rows/Columns area
- Reporting: dynamic show/hide columns (for non-numeric line-items)
- Reporting: difficulty to create flexible dependent filtering criteria (Filter A to show only values for Filter B and vice-versa)
March 02, 2023
Digital Connected Planning for the modern age
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Within my current role, I am the Director of Delivery implementing Anaplan at organization primarily within the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industry. We also use Anaplan internally to manage several internal use cases related to running our business. Broadly speaking, we typically see our clients use Anaplan to optimize their planning processes by using cloud based platforms (such as Anaplan) to help connect business functions
- Flexible
- Data Processing
- Customization
- Integration
- Current Date Capability
- Native Workflow
- Additional Integration Connectors
February 17, 2023
Anaplan, a truly connected planning tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Anaplan mainly for financial planning and performance reporting. The use cases are:
Sales planning,
Operational costs planning,
Capital expenditure planning,
Monthly rolling forecasting,
Budgeting,
Long range financial planning and forecasting,
Production of financial statements,
Performance analysis and reporting.
Mainly for financial planning right now but aiming to extend to other areas of the business such as Sales operation planning, Workforce planning, Inventory planning etc
Sales planning,
Operational costs planning,
Capital expenditure planning,
Monthly rolling forecasting,
Budgeting,
Long range financial planning and forecasting,
Production of financial statements,
Performance analysis and reporting.
Mainly for financial planning right now but aiming to extend to other areas of the business such as Sales operation planning, Workforce planning, Inventory planning etc
- Multidimensionality
- Fast calculation engine
- Realtime data
- Flexibility
- Connectedness
- Agility
- Rollback
- Concurrency
- Inbuilt AI/ ML
February 10, 2023
Anaplan is an amazing dimensional modeling tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Company responds to calls for tender that can include a commercial proposal relating to the maintenance of equipment and systems delivered to its customers. In the case of a maintenance offer won, Company must initially design the associated equipment and maintenance plans, and then perform maintenance. Anaplan application aims at integrating all the functionalities supported by the existing Excel tools and all the functional requirements relating to process of costing, re-evaluation and control of maintenance solution, and thus streamline and optimized these processes.
- Guidance to implement Best practice.
- Provide expert solution to solve bottleneck issue.
- Communicate Product update on timely basis
- Currently freeze whole model when one user run any process. this can be improvise.
- provide more functionality to use concurrent user selection based filter and update data without impacting size.
- NUX bug should be fixed.
December 30, 2022
Powerful CPM Tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is used primarily in sales operations, and partially in sales finance. We use it for the following sales operations use cases: sales forecasts, pipeline generation forecasts, territory planning, book of business planning, capacity and quota planning, account classification, etc. Sales finance is using Anaplan to track and analyze bookings (in-quarter and history) in multiple currencies. We also use Anaplan for technical purposes in sales operations: master data alignment, cross-system data hygiene and reconciliation, sales teams maintenance.
- Phenomenal performance of multidimensional data structures
- Easy data modeling
- Beautiful data presentation and visualization
- Smooth user interaction on a single planning platform
- Clunky interfaces with source systems (although improved with Cloudworks)
- Slow data loads
- No drill down to source systems
- Online Training
- In-Person Training
- No Training
December 27, 2022
Anaplan Can Create Great Value For Your Company!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I help to design models that forecast revenue, cost, workforce and cash flow. These forecasts come from connecting various different groups throughout a company - i.e. Sales, COR, Marketing, Supply Chain, IT etc. The models usually allow the end users to create bottoms-up forecasts, tops-down targets and what-if scenario planning.
- Data Ingestion
- Connecting and consolidation of different group forecasts
- Allows business users to build models for themselves
- User Experience
- Handling of null values
- Allowing more models to be real-time in one space
December 24, 2022
Anaplan for Business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is a great tool for managing the fp&a planning process of our clients. It involves thorough manpower planning by position, employee, location, and by department/division. We also implemented sales planning with the use of salesforce data and other factors. It can be easily integrated into other database systems like Microsoft Excel, text files, and CSV files.
- Financial Reports
- User Management
- Real time calculations
- model size constraints
- workflow capability needs to be updated
- support
December 21, 2022
Powerful Solution for Collaborative Planning at an Enterprise Level
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Anaplan in financial planning, workforce planning, and supply planning. Few of the implementations have been transformational in nature, wherein we could successfully eliminate multiple tools/technology and bring the complete planning process into Anaplan integrated with SAP (for actuals) and Power BI (for reporting). The highest number of users in one model had been approx. 900 users who were performing planning processes, reviewing KPIs, and extracting reports from all across the world. We also developed Data HUBs for Finance and Supply which helped to implement strong governance in master data management and standardization of master data across business functions and zones. We also extensively used Anaplan Connect API for our integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
- Multi dimensionality, easy integration with other systems help to establish connected planning at [an] enterprise level
- Complex business logic including many variables can be modeled and results can be reviewed almost in real-time
- Easily auditable syntaxes make it easy for all users to review formulas to drill down an output/value to track underlying business rules
- Highly flexible and Scalable to expand or roll out models to different geographies or to add new features
- Fast evolving and ambitious product development that includes more and more features
- Very strong in developing a model in driver based scenario/what-if analysis
- Considering a collaborative platform, workflow features need to be more sophisticated to handle event-based triggers.
- ALM governance is tedious in multiple developers set up, as it does not allow to migrate changes by each developer rather forces to migrate at a model level that includes all changes by all developers.
- Reporting ability is still limited, many times dependency on other reporting tools is unavoidable.
- Time referencing (e.g. default today's date) is not possible without engaging an integration interface.
- NUX pages are rich in features but building pages for DEV/UAT and PROD are not straightforward.
December 20, 2022
Anaplan is the best financial planning tool out there
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am a solution architect of Anaplan implementations for their customers. I work with clients to set a foundation and plan for the model builds, and then complete the implementation from start to finish, and provide support and enhancements moving forward. I Most use cases that I work with are FP&A or portfolio monitoring.
- Scalability. Anaplan is designed in a way that allows for seamless growth as the dimensions within a model grow.
- Flexibility. Anaplan allows you to model for almost anything you could need to.
- Community. Anaplan does an amazing job of bringing all partners and customers together in order to push the product forward.
- Reporting is Anaplan's biggest weakness, however they have improved in some aspects over recent years. Additionally, it is not meant to be a pure reporting tool and it does integrate nicely with other platforms better suited for it.
- Formula editing. This has improved from 0 formatting previously to some now. Large models completely break and need to reset if a formula is incorrectly entered - this seems like something that could be avoided by not allowing the formula to be put through first
- Workflow. New workflow functionality launching soon should hopefully solve for this. As of now, there is not much you can do.
December 20, 2022
Anaplan is a flexible tool that allows for creativity
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We implement Anaplan for a variety of use cases within finance and alternative investments for our clients. FP&A, real estate, waterfall modeling.
- Extremely useful for taking in multiple sources of data and manipulating it for your business needs
- Useful for solving complex problems
- Connected Planning
- NUX is not yet up to par with the old UX in terms of some basic functionality or ease of user experience
- The new modeling experience, while an improvement in many ways, still has small things that be kept be improved to ensure continuity and conversion over from the old modeling experience
- It would be really useful to have some sort of Today function
December 20, 2022
Standardized Modeling at its finest
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Anaplan in my organization as a platform to support digital transformation for our clients. We help our clients implement solutions across all industries and use cases, frequently in financial transformation, optimization and reporting. Anaplan is the cornerstone of the systems we use to digitize organizations.
- Standardization
- Collaboration
- Complexity Mitigation
- Time-to-insights
- Visibility
- Integration Options
- Technical Learning Curve
- Pixel Perfect Graphics
December 15, 2022
Anaplan is great
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan makes the vision of connected planning truly come to life. It is a tool that is easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to integrate with other models as well as other cloud solutions. It is customizable so can be adapted for almost any use case. In addition, it is constantly evolving to keep up with the ever changing demands of its customers.
- Connect Plans
- Aggregate Data
- Quickly calculate complicated logic
- Advanced Reporting
- AI
- ML
December 14, 2022
Anaplan - Your Planning Guru !!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is used as part of sales, financial planning and connected planning systems. Anaplan makes business decisions easier by making it live for most business users involved in planning and as well the dashboards and pages make it easier for users to navigate thru multiple planning and pages. Anaplan drives collaboration within the company
- Dashboarding and Reporting
- Hierarchy creation
- Deployment made easy
- Scenario planning is made easy
- administration by business users made easier
- Tool Bar on Pages
- Workflow capability needs to be updated
- Managing Actions needs to be improved for developers and as well the size of the columns in actions sections needs to be flexible
- Online training
Yes
December 09, 2022
New age of Cloud Computing!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Anaplan in creating Financial Planning models for our clients. One of the key features of Anaplan is its accessibility. With a cloud-based platform, all you need is a browser and internet connection. Also, the anaplan community is really open to user ideas, making the platform improve in many ways. It usually requires more space when dealing with a large quantity of data. But with the new Anaplan Polaris technology, I hope it can help resolve to deal with such big data. The problem with sparsity, Anaplan is addressing this with the Anaplan Polaris technology and I am really excited to try it to our models and see what it can do.
- User Management
- Cloud Computing
- Financial Reports
- Security and Maintenance
- Handling of Big Data
- Bugs and Fixes
- Support
- Integration
December 09, 2022
Anaplan is Super Agile and User Friendly
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Anaplan to manage the the FP&A planning process. FP&A planning includes detailed people planning, Sales planning through cohorting and other factors, ZBB opex planning, and scenario planning.
- Agility
- user interface
- Don't need to be a coder to build in Anaplan.
- There is size constraints/limits. That being said, Anaplan is already addressing that concern.
- Difficult to compare native versions. Anaplan has a workaround but it is not ideal.
December 09, 2022
Anaplan review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is the current solution used for the commercial planning process. It allows to plan volumes, pricing and promotions (discounts/rebates/A&P spend) and it allows to track the effectiveness of each promo with a feedback of actual data that are brought in at the lowest level of detail.<br>Another use case where Anaplan is used is for planning the NSV impact of NPI (new product introduction).
- modern UX
- on the fly calculation
- short lifecycle implementation
- in the new UX it would be great to have more flexibility in terms of layout design
- multirole for user
- admin cockpit to check performance of the model
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our organization provides professional services to design and implement the Anaplan platform for clients across a variety of use cases ranging from finance to supply chain.
- Flexibility to design a technology solution around a business process.
- Real time calculations at scale (billion's of calculations)
- Ease of integration with CloudWorks
- Simplified architecture with self contained data, business logic, and user interface layers in a cloud based SaaS application.
- Advanced geo mapping charts in user interface.
- Better organization of developer interface.
December 09, 2022
Anaplan an intelligent and dynamic way to model company finances
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Anaplan to forecast Construction and Maintenance projects across several industries. Across the life cycle of the Project, we forecast revenue, cost and commitments. this data was used to recognise revenue and then was combined with other data to form the company accounts and board reportable numbers
- forecasting over time
- combining data sets
- Modeling different scenarios
- Current date
- Sensitivity analysis
December 06, 2022
Anaplan, a highly flexible tool for planning
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are a global consulting firm focused on delivering operational transformation and enabling technology solutions to the alternative investment industry. As such, we have implemented Anaplan for several of our clients for various use cases. It is a highly flexible tool. For instance, I have implemented it for FP&A, investment budgeting, and forecasting as well as several other use cases.
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Asset modeling
- A "Today" function
- Error reporting while building
December 03, 2022
Anaplan Connected Planning and User-Friendly Planning tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have implemented Anaplan solution in Demand Planning, Workforce Planning, Sales Planning, and FP&A Planning. Anaplan is solving complex business problems. It gives the capability to perform scenario planning/sensitivity analysis with the critical business drivers that could have a significant impact on the business in uncertain times. It gives management powerful insights for making the right decisions at the right time. This is one platform that orchestrates all the functions in the organization.
- Customization capability and ease of development and usage
- Provide resolution to complex problems with ease
- New UX functionality helps users navigate between different dashboards in different workspaces easily
- Build multiple hot reports which are scalable and very user-friendly
- Workspace capacity constraints
- The line items used as filters in Saved views need to be highlighted to ensure accidental deletion during the build
- Need Filter References and In NewUX need tracking of Modules and action used in the page.
- Integration with SAP sources
December 02, 2022
Anaplan: great for Connected Planning!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We deliver high-quality Anaplan solutions for our customers within expected timeframes and on budgets. We translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models. Anaplan allows for connected planning and an integrated source of truth from various parts of the business e.g. Sales,
HR, and Finance can be planned in a more effective way—a “Single source of the
truth.” Anaplan provides the flexibility you need to build and maintain models over time and prevent
errors. We work on a varied amount of use cases from FP&A, Supply Chain, and Workforce Planning.
- Connected Planning
- Slice and Dice reporting
- Data Integration
- Selected Access
- Synchronized sorting
- Free colour choice for title AND body text on a normal UX page