Item: Anaplan
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I recently worked at a major healthcare company where we utilized Anaplan as our enterprise budgeting and forecasting tool. We planned for our entire P&L using Anaplan. The biggest problem Anaplan addressed was our inability to quickly and accurately consolidate our entire plan for executive reporting. We went from thousands of spreadsheets to 8 models in Anaplan that were able to handle 95%+ of all of our budgeting processes. Consolidation of our plan data was a breeze.

Pros and Cons

Consolidation.
Integration.
Modeling.

Dashboarding.
Reporting.
Development iteration management.

Most Important Features

Integration capabilities.
Scalability.
Community knowledge base.
Model building.
Model versioning.

Return on Investment

The biggest ROI has been on our people and time.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan was best suited for us where we had an archaic excel-based planning model(s) and needed a way to consolidate thousands of models into one source of the truth and then consolidate our entire P&L for annual budget planning and reporting. Where Anaplan is limited is going to be around reporting. Reporting/dashboards were not the most pleasant to look at in their classic UX. At my previous company, we implemented Anaplan prior to their New UX. Their New UX is a 100% better visualization tool however it still falls short of its competitors. At the time of this review, data visualization is better suited for tools like Power BI and Tableau.

Anaplan helped Transform our Financial Planning

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan