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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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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are an implementation partner of Anaplan. We help solve our clients forecasting issues by developing models using Anaplan. The common issues in the existing forecasting are due lack of agility and pressures on margins. Lack of agility is mainly driven by speed and flexibility of existing models (Excel). Anaplan reduces the time it takes to forecast and increases the flexibility to forecast and analyse at a greater depths. Anaplan also allows users to focus and explore at various levels to provide better insights on profitability.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Anaplan is a highly versatile platform with the ability to seamlessly build for varied use cases, it also provides the data integrity and helps to maintain golden source of truth for large organizations. Drastically bringing down manual effort involved in business planning process and quick implementation cycle is its biggest win, which makes it the favorite choice for customer nowadays.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Anaplan addresses a wide range of issues from financial planning to demand planning to sales performance management. In my current role, I am focused on financial planning across different institutions, though I have also used it successfully for sales performance management. It is a fully connected planning platform, which allows users to enter details concurrently and see results in real time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases: Reserves Reporting, Forecasting, Cost Management, and planning. For all use cases, we had multiple spreadsheets that no one person fully understood. By implementing Anaplan we have removed duplicate spreadsheets, simplifying reporting processes and ensuring one version of the truth. We have also improved forecasting accuracy and processes leveraging inbuilt version control as well as general controls [functions] such as access controls and model deployment via application lifecycle management.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Anaplan is relatively low cost platform which provided business a quick ROI.I am using Anaplan since year 2015 and switched my career to consulting, before year 2015 I used to work as a Head of Production Planning and Logistics for one of the Tata Group entity. I was responsible for end to end supply chain, production planning , distribution planning , after market and logistics planning. It was very difficult for me to do planning, budgeting, supply chain provisions in excel spread sheets at granular level of details, considering huge count of SKU's I was not able to create detailed rough cut /short term planning at product or product-customer level, because of which I always faced challenges while planning plant capacity, planning constraint based production etc. It was always difficult for me to commit production / distribution to sales team, impact on inventory carrying cost.From 2015 I have started using Anaplan and I implemented many end to end Anaplan models in the field of Production planning, inventory planning , capacity planning, S&OP, demand planning, supply planning for multiple global customers and I really can see my clients taking huge benefit out of Anaplan in terms of profitability or cost reduction. With proper planning process company can decide their strategy to make business more profitable.
May 15, 2023

Anaplan, A Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Anton Mineev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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:
  • 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.
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.
Kavin Kumar Lohanathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 24, 2022

Anaplan for Business

Dennis Lucanas, CPA, Certified Master Anaplanner | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Bikash R Shil | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
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.
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.
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
Allan Mark Lumanog | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 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&amp;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).
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