Anaplan - Realtime Modeling at Enterprise Scale
May 09, 2017

Anaplan - Realtime Modeling at Enterprise Scale

Steven Cox | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We use Anaplan in our sales organization for territory planning. We have built a model with the help of Anaplan Professional services to provide a unique view of our 3000 people sales organization, what accounts are being covered, what is the expected revenue, and how to optimally deploy our team to maximize revenue. Leadership is also able to set our annual goals and matriculate them down to an individual level. The tool is heavily used in our annual planning process but is also leveraged by sales operations leaders throughout the year to make informed decisions around resource deployment.

We also implemented a custom security model as we sell to the US government and there are specific requirements needed to mask government information to non-approved viewers.
  • Flexibility - we are able to conceive and deliver new model changes with limited resources and time
  • Scale - We have an operational model with over a billion elements and are able to get reasonable performance
  • Integration - Anaplan is working on their integration landscape, we currently use the SFDC connectors, but need a more robust integration framework
We looked at tools from Oracle and IBM, but felt that Anaplan has the best tool for our needs.
Anaplan is great for scaled modeling of business scenarios. You can run large models where there are very few platforms that could perform this function without high customization. When you marry a real-time model with a transaction system, you find challenges in merging the data together and having a sufficient transactional history. We are still struggling with the best approach in merging the outputs of the model to the CRM.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
Not Rated
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
Not Rated
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
Not Rated
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
4