Anaplan- a great tool
Updated November 09, 2023

Anaplan- a great tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Our company moved completely from the standard locally stored data into Anaplan Cloud solution. It improved a lot the whole process of transforming source data into financial results. Many aspects of the daily job were enhanced - security, managing ability, accuracy, scalability, efficiency. I'd like to recommend Anaplan to all those people that need a solution having a database + calculation functions on big sets of data.
  • Flexibility.
  • Scalability.
  • Cloud experience.
  • Access management
  • Hearing community.
  • Multi purpose usage
  • Customer satisfaction was much improved.
Anaplan is a way more efficient solution that SAP BW. Performance of Anaplan beats SAP definitely and people prefer to use Anaplan more than SAP. It's much easier to adopt Anaplan which is easy than SAP which needs some experience before using it efficiently. Generally Anaplan is more pleasant to operate on than SAP BW.

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Anaplan's feature set?

Yes

Did Anaplan live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Anaplan is well suited for all the cases where the data sets need to be fully compatible without losing any numbers in between. If somebody had a database where numbers and master data are stored and wanted to use this data for calculations in many different aspects, then Anaplan would definitely be for him.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
7
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
9
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
8
Excel-based Reporting
8
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
8
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
Customizable dashboards
8
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Role-Based Security Model
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9

Using Anaplan

100 - Various- from business users, through analysts to High management
30 - Few categories of people:
1. Strong developers
2. Solution architects
3. Anaplan PMs
4. Business analysts
  • Budgeting
  • Headcount planning
  • Financial reporting
  • Master data management
Anaplan is one of the most suitable products for corporate businesses. Supporting many different areas is a powerful solution

Evaluating Anaplan and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Anaplan provides great real time collaboration experience. Users can interact with models live. It makes the product ideal for the processes where people use designed solutions at the same time. With the advanced features of keeping the concurrent activities properly queued- anaplan makes it safe and reliable for all the users
Anaplan was chosen among other available solutions thoughtfully. With all its features all the previously used software was beaten by far.

Anaplan Implementation

Anaplan Training

Relatively easy for people having database background

Configuring Anaplan

To hire master anaplanner being able to lead the design strategy
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - we have not done any custom code

Anaplan Support

Anaplan support's turnaround time is quick, however quite often there is too long chain to get to desired issue resolution.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
Slow Initial Response
No exceptional support experience

Using Anaplan

Anaplan is a great as a comprehensive tool. I would recommend it
ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Cumbersome
  • Calculations
  • Formulas building
  • User management
  • Building dashboards

Anaplan Reliability

Very reliable and scalable product
Cloud based product, available everywhere where there is internet connection
No issues

Integrating Anaplan

  • Alteryx
Custom connector built- technical knowledge was required
  • File import/export
Get familiar with API

Relationship with Anaplan

Not participated
Proper support provided