Anaplan Review
Updated July 28, 2020

Anaplan Review

Amarjit Gill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Anaplan for Finance
  • Anaplan for Sales

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

I work at an Anaplan Implementation partner (Resource Torrent). Most of our implementations have been related to financial planning and analysis for small to mid size companies, most pre IPO. Anaplan is being used by FP&A only in most if not all our implementations and not by the whole organization. The business problems solved by Anaplan is alleviation of the reliance and management of large and complex Excel workbooks which are hard to maintain and even harder to update.
  • Real time updates in the system.
  • Ease of use for Excel users.
  • Ability to do what if analysis.
  • While reporting has been improved via the dashboards, there is some way to go here, graphs etc.
  • Reduced turn around time for sales planning
Anaplan is easier to customize as Host is more module based
Use should be for analytics and forecasting and not as BI tool. Great tool for real time what if analysis.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
7
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
7
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Benchmarking with external data
7
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
7
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
6
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated