Item: Anaplan
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Anaplan is used across our whole organisation, and continues to be implemented in our departments. In a nutshell, we are using Anaplan to modernise our existing processes. Many of our previous processes involved manual data manipulation and intervention within Microsoft Excel or other closed-off systems. Anaplan provides a powerful calculation engine that is owned by our business users, with stronger control and scalability than Microsoft Excel and more agility than 'off-the-shelf' solutions.

Pros and Cons

Data Integrations.
Calculations.
Scalability.
User Security and Access Control.
Cloud Platform.

Custom formatting options.

Most Important Features

Modelling.
Cloud Platform.
User Access.
Data Integration.

Return on Investment

Consolidated processes across organisation.
Standardised organisation definitions.

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 is very well suited to processes that are scalable in nature (i.e. there are not a lot of calculation exceptions) and require a cloud solution or collaboration. A strong use case for Anaplan is in Financial Planning & Forecasting, where different members across an organisation collaborate to create a forecast. Anaplan is less suited to processes that have a lot of exceptions in the calculation logic. Indeed, few systems are suited to these processes tend to be manual and small scale.

Anaplan is a Powerful and Scalable Solution

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan