Anaplan: Standardization and Optimization
December 07, 2021

Anaplan: Standardization and Optimization

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Our firm leverages Anaplan for all things ranging from portfolio company operations to internal compensation management. The one thing that these use cases all have in common is that they aim to solve the problem of manual entries/inconsistencies/errors in offline tools such as Excel. Users can now focus less on the manual-intensive work they were previously doing as it is solved by time-intensive calculations and integrations.

Pros

  • Standardization and Optimization.
  • Integrations.
  • Is a fierce calculation engine if used properly.

Cons

  • While the reporting looks clean, it leads customers to believe that this is a place to dump large sets of data which ends up slowing down the tool.
  • The cross section of sparsity and size constraints.
  • NUX ALM.
  • Intergrations.
  • Data manipulation.
  • Sensitivity Planning.
  • Major time saver.
  • Faster processing times.
  • Ease of access to data sets (imports and exports).

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Anaplan is best suited for organizations looking to clean up their planning processes or feel that their current processes are just flat-out garbage. Anaplan forces you to legitimize your operations in an approach that's tailored to industry best practices. If your organization is heavily invested in spreadsheets and your employees don't want to break their computers, this is probably the tool for you. This tool is probably not for you if you're looking to backfill old data with little to no calculations. This is not a reporting tool, but rather a GREAT calculation engine.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

9.2
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
8
8.0
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
8
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
8
7.7
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
7
Excel-based Reporting
7
9.0
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
8
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
8.0
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8
8.0
Customizable dashboards
8
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
8.0
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
8
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7

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