Item: Anaplan
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by the Corporate department for various use cases. Use cases range from revenue recognition to resource management. The primary use case is revenue recognition. Anaplan does calculate revenue by month and LTD across many projects across its entire life. It does also help with creating reporting and dashboarding to support the analysis.

Pros and Cons

Fast Calculation
In Memory Calculation
Multi Dimensionality

System in synchronous. Not Async.
Read/write sometime can be slow for no apparent reason
UI is getting better but should be best

Most Important Features

Audit functionality
User management
Open platform for building

Return on Investment

Idea-to-Build iteration is much faster than other tools
Low maintenance if configured properly
Easy user management

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?

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is good as a calculation engine if you have already prototyped a solution. You take that prototype and move to Anaplan to make a custom solution. It's great for anything that requires in-memory calculation. Unfortunately, Anaplan is not a transactional system due to its synchronous nature of updates. API still follows synchronous updates so it's not good if you want to do parallel read/write.

Anaplan as fast calculation engine

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan