Review of Anaplan
Updated November 15, 2023
Review of Anaplan
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used across the organization in multiple different use cases, including compensation forecasting, profitability, expense forecasting, and much more. The business problems it is mainly addressing the providing a consolidated and consistent platform for users to conduct the business forecasting process. Each business unit does the forecast in a different manner and the challenge was getting them to do something consistently and effectively.
- Multi-dimensional analysis allows you to gather more insights.
- The table layouts are familiar to business users.
- Speed and execution of calculations is pretty much instant.
- Better workflow functionality.
- Additional data integration options.
- More AI abilities.
- Ability to instantly see downstream effects from changing drivers.
- Dashboard reporting.
- Multi-scenario planning.
- Increased productivity.
- Work hours saved.
- New forecasting abilities.
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
Anaplan Feature Ratings
Using Anaplan
Anaplan is primarily used by Sales Operations and Sales organizations for their annual planning processes. Our sales operations users are the power users of Anaplan, while our sales organization represent the typical end business users.
8 - Our organization has 8 technical resources to support the Anaplan models for our sales operation business unit. 100% of our technical Anaplan staff have their Anaplan solution architect certifications. Most of the team members previously were in Anaplan consulting with various experience in different business functions including, finance, hr, supply chain, and sales operation planning.
- Sales Territory Planning
- Headcount Planning
- Quota Planning
- We use Anaplan to track hierarchy changes to the companies in our CRM.
- Financial Planning