Item: Anaplan
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 and Cons

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.

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.

Most Important Features

Decentralized/cloud-based
Native aggregations along a hierarchy
Real time updates to reporting

Return on Investment

Decreased cycle times
More collaborated planning
Dramatically increased visibility and auditability

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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 Rocks.

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan