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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
November 30, 2022
Anaplan - the planning solution you need
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We implement solutions with the Anaplan tool for enterprise customers on a wide range of use cases that their line of work requires. The most common problems we aim to resolve are outdated processes using robust tools that are very time-consuming for the end user, as well as creating a stable connected planning experience for every branch of the organization. Our scope are multiple CBP implementations that are currently live, and have been helping our users make better decisions faster and easier.
November 27, 2022
Exceptional Performing Tool, Built for Purpose
Anaplan helps us to manage the pipeline, resource tracking, revenue generation, and forecasting of the financials. It is extremely flexible and easy to use. It has one of the best front ends for adoption. It has an Excel add-in and PowerPoint to make things [easy] for users. We can export the data to work offline as well.
November 21, 2022
Anaplan - Connected Planning and Beyond
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Anaplan is one of the vendors we use in organization for EPM consulting. We provide EPM/Financial solutions to customers. Anaplan has come out as one of the preferred vendors for businesses of various sizes and scales. Its being used to address Financial Planning, Sales planning, Supply chain planning and Workforce planning solutions.
November 19, 2022
Great system to help automate processes across your whole business, from front to back-office!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We leverage Anaplan for various workstreams (automating data collection, forecasting, portfolio tracking, investor reporting, various fee and promot[ing] calculations, etc...). Being that Anaplan is extremely flexible, we can customize models for our specific business use cases, allowing us to standardize processes while providing users with a simplified user interface to navigate.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently use Anaplan to address business management and planning. Anaplan allows for the improvement of many common problems facing organizations currently relying on tools such as Microsoft Excel for many complex business needs as they grow and need a product that will allow them to scale their models with their growth. Some common examples are the single source of truth nature of Anaplan vs. multiple versions of spreadsheet files, ease of auditability Anaplan provides, and the varying levels of control over access by user/role type.
November 15, 2022
The future of planning is connected - Anaplan
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As an Anaplan Partner, we work to implement highly successful connected planning projects at global leaders across myriad industries. Many companies will begin with a pressing use case, such as financial forecasting or OPEX planning, that stems from an overarching corporate objective. Once the first use case is stood up, companies find that having everything in one cloud-based system (vs. rogue Excel spreadsheets) creates synergies and increases productivity, and choose to build additional use cases. As a partner, we help guide companies on how to build these additional use cases out as a 'honeycomb', to ensure they aren't building silos, but rather, a connected planning ecosystem.
November 08, 2022
Anaplan is a great replacement for Excel across many use cases
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I currently implement Anaplan across a wide range of use cases for various finance industry customers. Some of our customers are in insurance, private equity, real estate development and investment banking, and have all found Anaplan to be incredibly useful. Anaplan has been a great asset for converting these companies' dated and clunky Excel models into a single source of calculations and end user displays. End users are always incredibly satisfied with the ease of use Anaplan brings to their day to day lives over their prior processes.
November 08, 2022
Anaplan Connected Planning
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Anaplan in a wide array of use cases in the Sales Performance space. Anaplan has helped our customers leverage connected planning across the businesses stemming across Comp Plan Design, Territory Management, Territory Quota, Incentive Comp, & CRO reporting.