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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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View all 44 features- Forecasting (242)9.393%
- Scenario modeling (244)9.292%
- Personalized dashboards (241)9.090%
- Management reporting (244)7.979%
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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 with Watson
- 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
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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, and Prophix are common alternatives for Anaplan.
Reviewers rate Role-Based Security Model and Flat file integration highest, with a score of 9.4.
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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December 30, 2022
Powerful CPM Tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DocuSign is one of the early Anaplan adopters, the tool was purchased way before I joined the company. So, I have little to say about the selection process. Based on my personal knowledge, Anaplan has:
- better performance on large data volumes without the need to write additional code (e.g. feeders) to optimize performance
- easier and less technical data modeling (simple text-based formulae, point-and-click formulae writing, easy-to-find references, subsidiary views, etc)
- good self-documentation features
- better performance on large data volumes without the need to write additional code (e.g. feeders) to optimize performance
- easier and less technical data modeling (simple text-based formulae, point-and-click formulae writing, easy-to-find references, subsidiary views, etc)
- good self-documentation features
December 21, 2022
Powerful Solution for Collaborative Planning at an Enterprise Level
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan was selected based on its flexibility to use in any kind of planning without any pre-configured setups. The quick turnaround of use cases into models and significantly less dependency on the technical team (hence less support OPEX) in the post-go-live stage were critical in deciding on the product. Anaplan's ambitious product road map was also considered to be a strong factor to adapt to growing demands from the business and to be future-ready.
December 20, 2022
Anaplan is the best financial planning tool out there
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is a much cleaner tool for large organizations. Real time calculations are shown, as opposed to wasting time emailing documents around to different teams (also allowing for more human error that isn't auditable). Anaplan is a powerful calculation engine that can do almost anything you can do in excel. For large organizations, Excel's one obvious strength is a goal seek or solver function.
December 15, 2022
Anaplan is great
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Planful (formerly Host Analytics)
Anaplan is much more advanced and robust tool compared to its competitors
December 09, 2022
New age of Cloud Computing!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basically we chose anaplan because of the cloud based computing and it is easy to adapt to. all you need is basic knowledge of the formulas for excel and you can quickly catchup with applying the logic for anaplan. anaplan also have very helpful training materials that would help you in model building basics and apply to your future model builds as you continue to explore more complex models and formulas.
December 09, 2022
Anaplan is Super Agile and User Friendly
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Prior to Anaplan I used SAP with BW. It has been several years since I used BW but in comparison Anaplan is much easier to build out forecast and reports and easier to understand calculations. It also provides greater visibility to end users on how items are calculated. Also with BW we would have to send data back in for the forecast to update. With anaplan, forecasting is live. There is no need to send or save data, any user with access can see updates in real time.
December 09, 2022
Anaplan an intelligent and dynamic way to model company finances
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is a more dynamic and far more intelligent way to model company finances . it allows multiple users to work in it at the same time without multiple versions of files(models ) knocking about
December 06, 2022
Anaplan, a highly flexible tool for planning
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is leaps and bounds beyond Excel with versioning, multiple models linking to one data set giving one source of truth, and full audit history of changes available in the system. It enables you to fully trust the numbers you're seeing and working with and [give you] the ability for multiple people to be working in the model at the same time without worrying if its the latest version of the file.
December 02, 2022
Anaplan: great for Connected Planning!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Lots more support on the community, easier to understand, loads of online training provided, more flexible, looks more modern and up to date with loads of new features being added every year
November 30, 2022
Anaplan - the planning solution you need
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan to me is far easier to understand, more intuitive to use, the interface is quite more appealing and the overall experience is more pleasant, so to say. With HFM I feel like using a tool that was created ~20 years ago, and no matter how easy it is to use in some aspects, or how well it performs with large data sets, I would prefer and recommend Anaplan.
November 27, 2022
Exceptional Performing Tool, Built for Purpose
Anaplan has a strong value proposition and [the] best interface for users. The [platform's] competition was not as good as Anaplan for [the] problem which [we] were solving.
November 21, 2022
Anaplan - Connected Planning and Beyond
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is much more customizable and better suited to End user interaction. Also, it provides far more customizable reporting capabilities within the tool. Also, Anaplan is much more suited to implementation of different use cases where Hyperion is limited to some select few like FP&A, Opex and Workforce planning.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan brings Excel functionality into the modern era and improves upon it. Anaplan's robust calculation engine can handle large amounts of data and calculations that will usually cause issues in other tools. Add to that all of the additional user functionality plus a better end user presentation. As Anaplan grows within an organization, it's simple to connect the different models and use cases to eliminate the silo approach that has developed in many instances in the past.
November 15, 2022
The future of planning is connected - Anaplan
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan has the best real-time, multi-dimensional calculation engine that I've worked with. This is core to creating a highly accurate forecast that provides the level of detail necessary to be useful to planners.
November 07, 2022
Anaplan is flexible and fits all the needs
Anaplan is the most flexible solution that provides extended value across business value chains.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Flexibility, ease of use, transparent interface, calculation engine
October 27, 2022
Anaplan for me !!!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Easier to learn with good trainings and certifications available in Anaplan Academy ,easier to upgrade with frequent releases coming up, lot of support available on community.
October 26, 2022
Highly Recommended Planning and Forecasting Tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan system/structure is not a far departure from Microsoft Excel which many people are most familiar with - this allowed for an easy transition during our first implementation as well as onboarding new users. Anaplan presents itself in a somewhat familiar structure while allowing for powerful features once users are comfortable with the core system. While it may not be as flashy as some other products, it shines through based on practicality and reliability.
October 07, 2022
Fast planning and budgeting in a seamless cloud environment
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan provided more flexibility with the dashboarding and user interface. We also felt that with time we could learn how to manage the application ourselves and maintain the model/changes in the future. Anaplan has many training modules to enable the business to take-over their own model and maintain it for the future. We felt that was important so we were not reliant on consultants for every little change we have to make to our process.
September 30, 2022
Anaplan offers large scale calculation power and flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My first experience of an EPM system was Hyperion on-premise. I found that you needed a lot of database understanding and a coding mind. Whereas Anaplan is more logical, you can write formulas in a similar way to excel. Anaplan is also much more flexible and forgiving of any changes to the upfront design. I remember our Hyperion model had to be rebuilt as the wrong assumptions were made of dense vs. sparse dimensions during the design phase.
September 29, 2022
Best Cloud solution for Planning...
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apart from Anaplan, I have only used Microsoft Excel and Anaplan has a huge cloud advantage over excel. Input providers can fill out the assumptions fields directly in the master version, making Excel input sheets sent per email and manual consolidation redundant. However, Anaplan provides a single, real time source of truth as its connectors and import functions ensure that parameters are always up-to-date. Anaplan also provides better Security and access to correct Content based on the Roles.
September 28, 2022
Perfect tool for in-depth scenario modelling
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Excel becomes incredibly slow when there is a lot of data and end users can't interact easily through spreadsheets. While it is good for quick calculations, it is not ideal for creating complex plans with lots of inputs and assumptions. I have never seen an Excel spreadsheet that contains multiple scenarios for regular (e.g. rolling monthly) forecasts. Anaplan can do this easily.
September 20, 2022
Anaplan - an all-rounder planning tool to bring together siloed teams in a VUCA world
Anaplan combines the best of both worlds, the flexibility, ease of use, and freedom of modeling of a spreadsheet and the control, calculation power, and reliability of the best planning, budgeting, and consolidation software vendors.
September 20, 2022
Anaplan For Finance, Sales & Supply Chain Planning
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Anaplan provides the capability to do enhanced scenario modelling almost realtime and has wide range of integration options available to integrate the application with a wide variety of third-party systems. Anaplan UX is very intuitive which drives greater end user adoption. Additionally Anaplan also provided embedded AI/ML capabilities which can be utilised for modelling a wide variety of use cases.
September 19, 2022
Anaplan Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hierarchy changes are must easier and effective in Anaplan, if you were to add a new product across 15 different markets you'd have to go through each tab of excel and manually insert the new product and ensure all formulas are copied down and are following the logic of other products. Whereas in Anaplan you add it once and it flows through the whole model