Anaplan Rocks.
Updated May 08, 2023

Anaplan Rocks.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

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.

Pros

  • Anaplan continues to innovate and does a good job of incorporating Anaplan customer and partner feedback into their roadmap.
  • Anaplan offers a flexible and agile product that allows plans to be agile and adapt quickly to changing business needs.
  • Anaplan continues to champion their community and hosts great events to promote knowledge transfers that benefit the entire Anaplan ecosystem.
  • Anaplan account executives champion their accounts and want to help them succeed.
  • Anaplan has a host of middleware connectors.

Cons

  • Management reporting in Anaplan has come a long way, but there is still room to grow here. Already leaps and bounds above where it was even the last year, but still not as flexible reporting as other tool built specifically for reporting.
  • Anaplan support is not always the most responsive.
  • Anaplan is inefficient with extremely granular data.
  • Decentralized/cloud-based
  • Native aggregations along a hierarchy
  • Real time updates to reporting
  • Decreased cycle times
  • More collaborated planning
  • Dramatically increased visibility and auditability

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

For any sort of planning, Anaplan is a must. Cannot recommend the product or company enough. Great product, fantastic organization. The first Anaplan implementation is the most challenging, but after that, when multiple models and use cases are achieved, the benefits continue to roll in. Anaplan is especially well suited for areas that are currently driven by disparate planning, and drives tremendous growth by giving end users a greater chance to plan together. We use Anaplan for financial, volume, capital, and workforce planning.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

8.4
Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
5
9.3
Financial data consolidation
10
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
8
6.5
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
5
5.8
Personalized dashboards
8
Color-coded scorecards
5
Cost and profitability analysis
5
Key Performance Indicator setting
5
7.3
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
5
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
7
5.0
Customizable dashboards
5
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
9.5
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
10
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
5.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
5
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
4

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