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Anaplan

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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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Popular Features

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  • Flat file integration (281)
    9.5
    95%
  • Forecasting (282)
    9.3
    93%
  • Scenario modeling (284)
    9.2
    92%
  • Management reporting (283)
    8.3
    83%

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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…

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Financial Consolidation demo

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Anaplan Demand Planning Demo

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See the Future Clearly by Planning Demand with Anaplan

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.7
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

9.1
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.2
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9.2
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

9.1
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.2
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.6
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

9
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.8
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

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

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 and drive growthScreenshot of OpEx Planning: Review revenue-target-setting goals by brand, season, and capacity all on one, unified, highly-visual dashboardScreenshot of Supply Planning: Break down costs across assembly production to project profitability and align your supply chain to market opportunitiesScreenshot of Territory and Quota Planning: Keep track of sales goals and quotas across territories and industries to optimize sales performanceScreenshot of Headcount Planning: Easily align workforce plans with your strategic plans and quickly see where the best qualified talent resides to fit your organization’s staffing needsScreenshot of Marketing: Eliminate spreadsheets to drive efficiency across planning and manage budget against planned activity

Anaplan Videos

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.

Watch Anaplan transforms the way users see, plan, and run their businesses, to move forward with confidence in a complex and changing world.

Anaplan Integrations

Anaplan Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll countries
Supported LanguagesMulti-lingual support

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Cognos Analytics, Oracle Hyperion, and Prophix are common alternatives for Anaplan.

Reviewers rate Financial budgeting highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Anaplan are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Anaplan Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)90%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Anaplan has been implemented in various industries to address a wide range of business challenges. Users have found that the software replaces duplicate spreadsheets and simplifies reporting processes, resulting in one version of the truth. Anaplan's inbuilt version control and access controls have improved forecasting accuracy and simplified forecasting processes. It has also helped standardize forecasting and reporting approaches across different asset classes, benefitting functions such as HR, Finance, Accounting, and Management Controlling.

The flexibility of Anaplan allows users to customize the software to meet their specific business needs. It supports a multitude of use cases including financial planning and analysis, customer success, collections, capex forecasting, opex forecasting, headcount and personal spend forecasting, balance sheet forecasting, cash flow forecasting, P&L forecasting, collections forecasting, and management reporting. Multiple users can input forecast assumptions in real-time, enabling dynamic results. Furthermore, Anaplan allows for faster implementations by providing a single platform and source of truth for multiple planning use cases.

Anaplan's powerful calculation engine enables users to run multiple scenarios in seconds, facilitating what-if analysis and scenario comparison during budgeting and forecasting processes. The software is widely used in sales performance management for functions like territory management, account planning, quota allocation, and incentive compensation planning. In addition to its extensive use cases in finance and sales planning, Anaplan is employed across various industries including real estate development, insurance, telecommunication infrastructure, and banking. The platform empowers organizations by providing scenario planning and sensitivity analysis capabilities that enable informed decision-making. With its user-friendly interface and real-time calculations, Anaplan assists businesses in centralizing data and maintaining a golden source of truth for better planning outcomes.

Highly scalable and flexible data integration and modeling capabilities: Reviewers have praised the Anaplan platform for its highly scalable and flexible data integration and modeling capabilities, allowing for easy evolution from simple calculations to complex formulas. Many users have highlighted this as a major strength of the platform.

Real-time data capabilities enabling informed decision-making: The real-time data capabilities of Anaplan have been widely praised by reviewers for enabling informed decision-making based on up-to-date information. Several users have mentioned that this feature has greatly contributed to their ability to make agile decisions in a fast-paced business environment.

User-friendly interface contributing to high end user adoption: The user-friendly interface of Anaplan has been consistently highlighted by reviewers as a key strength of the platform. Users appreciate the intuitive design, which resembles Excel and allows for quick task completion. This ease of use has contributed to high end user adoption and overall positive feedback from customers.

Limited storage: Some users have found the limited storage in Anaplan to be a hindrance in efficiently managing their data. They have expressed difficulties in storing and organizing large amounts of information, which can impact their ability to effectively utilize the software.

Expensive: Several reviewers feel that Anaplan is expensive and could be more cost-effective considering its features and capabilities. This pricing structure may make it less accessible for smaller businesses or organizations with budget constraints.

Glitches with the interface: Users report experiencing glitches with the interface, causing difficulties in navigating and performing tasks smoothly. These issues can disrupt workflow and decrease efficiency for users.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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November 09, 2023

Anaplan- a great tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our company moved completely from the standard locally stored data into Anaplan Cloud solution. It improved a lot the whole process of transforming source data into financial results. Many aspects of the daily job were enhanced - security, managing ability, accuracy, scalability, efficiency. I'd like to recommend Anaplan to all those people that need a solution having a database + calculation functions on big sets of data.
  • Flexibility.
  • Scalability.
  • Cloud experience.
  • Access management
  • Hearing community.
Anaplan is well suited for all the cases where the data sets need to be fully compatible without losing any numbers in between. If somebody had a database where numbers and master data are stored and wanted to use this data for calculations in many different aspects, then Anaplan would definitely be for him.
  • Multi purpose usage
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
92%
9.2
Long-term financial planning
90%
9.0
Financial budgeting
100%
10.0
Forecasting
90%
9.0
Scenario modeling
90%
9.0
Management reporting
90%
9.0
Consolidation and Close (4)
82.5%
8.3
Financial data consolidation
90%
9.0
Journal entries and reports
70%
7.0
Local and consolidated reporting
80%
8.0
Detailed Audit Trails
90%
9.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (3)
80%
8.0
Financial Statement Reporting
80%
8.0
Management Reporting
80%
8.0
Excel-based Reporting
80%
8.0
Analytics and Reporting (4)
85%
8.5
Personalized dashboards
90%
9.0
Color-coded scorecards
80%
8.0
Cost and profitability analysis
90%
9.0
Key Performance Indicator setting
80%
8.0
Integration (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Flat file integration
100%
10.0
Excel data integration
80%
8.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
100%
10.0
BI Standard Reporting (1)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling (2)
85%
8.5
Publish to PDF
90%
9.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Data Discovery and Visualization
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security (1)
90%
9.0
Role-Based Security Model
90%
9.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
80%
8.0
Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
90%
9.0
  • Customer satisfaction was much improved.
Anaplan is a way more efficient solution that SAP BW. Performance of Anaplan beats SAP definitely and people prefer to use Anaplan more than SAP. It's much easier to adopt Anaplan which is easy than SAP which needs some experience before using it efficiently. Generally Anaplan is more pleasant to operate on than SAP BW.
100
Various- from business users, through analysts to High management
30
Few categories of people:
1. Strong developers
2. Solution architects
3. Anaplan PMs
4. Business analysts
  • Budgeting
  • Headcount planning
  • Financial reporting
  • Master data management
  • Model analysis
Anaplan is one of the most suitable products for corporate businesses. Supporting many different areas is a powerful solution
Not Sure
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Anaplan provides great real time collaboration experience. Users can interact with models live. It makes the product ideal for the processes where people use designed solutions at the same time. With the advanced features of keeping the concurrent activities properly queued- anaplan makes it safe and reliable for all the users
Anaplan was chosen among other available solutions thoughtfully. With all its features all the previously used software was beaten by far.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Lack of experienced builders
  • No Training
Relatively easy for people having database background
Just right
To hire master anaplanner being able to lead the design strategy
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
N/A
Anaplan support's turnaround time is quick, however quite often there is too long chain to get to desired issue resolution.
N/A
No
No exceptional support experience
Anaplan is a great as a comprehensive tool. I would recommend it
  • Calculations
  • Formulas building
  • User management
  • Building dashboards
Yes, but I don't use it
Very reliable and scalable product
Cloud based product, available everywhere where there is internet connection
No issues
  • Alteryx
Custom connector built- technical knowledge was required
  • File import/export
Get familiar with API
Not participated
Proper support provided
No
  • New functionalities
  • Expansion of features
No
No
Sai Bandaru | TrustRadius Reviewer
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
Scenario-based planning is best in Anaplan and easy to learn development and managing the administration
  • Scenario plannning
  • user administration and ALM
  • Pages and boards
  • hierarchy management and flexibility in hierarchy management
  • comments Sections
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
100%
10.0
Long-term financial planning
100%
10.0
Financial budgeting
100%
10.0
Forecasting
100%
10.0
Scenario modeling
100%
10.0
Management reporting
100%
10.0
Consolidation and Close (4)
95%
9.5
Financial data consolidation
100%
10.0
Journal entries and reports
100%
10.0
Local and consolidated reporting
100%
10.0
Detailed Audit Trails
80%
8.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Financial Statement Reporting
100%
10.0
Management Reporting
100%
10.0
Excel-based Reporting
90%
9.0
Analytics and Reporting (4)
100%
10.0
Personalized dashboards
100%
10.0
Color-coded scorecards
100%
10.0
Cost and profitability analysis
100%
10.0
Key Performance Indicator setting
100%
10.0
Integration (3)
100%
10.0
Flat file integration
100%
10.0
Excel data integration
100%
10.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
100%
10.0
BI Standard Reporting (1)
100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling (2)
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Report Versioning
100%
10.0
Data Discovery and Visualization
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
100%
10.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
100%
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
100%
10.0
Mobile Application
100%
10.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
100%
10.0
  • One system for various planning within the organization
  • easy to manage the models for business teams
  • Planning and reporting within single platform
50
50
  • sales
  • finance
  • supply chain
  • user managment
  • reporting
  • workflow
Yes
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
better
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
workshops, model schemas, user stories written, agile planning, dev, test, bat test, deploy, new phases of updates and new capability building
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • change management, last minute requirement changes
Multiple ways to implement
  • Online training
One of the best trainings i have attended. Level 2 training was challenging but was able to go thru due to understanding of the basics.
Learning made easy . One of the best trainings i have attended. Training was very detailed training by the trainer, which helped me understand the basics of the model building. Level 1 training was easy and instructor was most helpful here. Level 2 training was challenging but was able to go thru due to understanding of the basics.
extensive
have a over all schema of planning dashboards
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively
easier to make changes to user interface
No - we have not done any custom code
no
easy to contact and get help
Not, because i am from partner
Yes
Yes
Time when model performance was low, anaplan gave a report on where we coupld improve and gave us solutions in our way of model building
Easy to use
  • pages
  • running actions
  • user setup
  • searching actions by names
  • importing saved views from other models (takes time in scrollings)
Yes
not used yet
Good
Always good
Its a good platform with better stability
  • Excel
  • tableau
It was easy
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • ETL tools
Follow the steps carefully
best response
Best Responce
support
No
Yes
  • Comments
  • Time stamp
No
No
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