Anaplan is Great!!! but does not totally replace excel quite yet but getting there
Updated June 26, 2017

Anaplan is Great!!! but does not totally replace excel quite yet but getting there

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan is being used at my organization for incentive compensation management and bonus tracking. Anaplan has streamlined our commission process dramatically. Prior to implementing Anaplan our previous commission cycle took nearly 45 days. We are now able to complete our commission cycle in 12 days. Anaplan improved accuracy, transparency and overall user experience dramatically.

The reason why we chose Anaplan is it is a very flexible software yet extremely efficient and allows me to make changes to our plan without having to work with software engineers to do so.

Pros

  • Very easy to customize access views and add additional users
  • Creating and publishing and creating new customized dashboards
  • Efficiency and calculation accuracy. Love the drill down feature.

Cons

  • Anaplan claims that it will totally replace Excel and it is not there yet. But it is an extremely powerful tool.
  • Sorting and alphabetizing reports in Anaplan is not good.
  • Adding simple subtotals to reports should be very easy but not in all scenarios.
Xactly, Iconixx, Callidus - each of these solutions did not allow me, the administrator to make dramatic changes to our plan. System wasn't as flexible as needed it to be. We are a high growth company and we need to make changes very quickly. Couldn't work with a system that required engineers to make changes for me.
Anaplan is well suited if you have data that must be shared or if you rely upon someone else's data. I have over 30 users that are inputting data into Anplan on a monthly basis and this would be nearly impossible and extremely error prone if [we] had to complete this in Excel. I can't think of a use where Anaplan wouldn't be well suited.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

8.3
Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
7
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
7.0
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
7
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
Not Rated
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
Not Rated
8.0
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
7
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
9.3
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
BI Standard Reporting ()
Not Rated
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
Access Control and Security ()
Not Rated
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated

Using Anaplan

250 - We use Anaplan for Sales Commissionable Employees.

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