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Anaplan is flexible and fits all the needs
Updated November 07, 2022

Anaplan is flexible and fits all the needs

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We address our capacity requirements balanced against our pipeline. We need the accuracy and flexibility to iterate staffing scenarios and understand where we truly need good people in advance of it being critical so that we can hire and staff appropriately.
  • Complex modeling
  • Business user administration
  • Excel like syntax
  • Standard best practices/framework for complex real world use cases
  • Documentation capability
  • Scalability
  • Extensibility
  • Flexibility
  • Better decision making
  • Proactive activity
Anaplan is the most flexible solution that provides extended value across business value chains.

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 can get the job done across any business need. Don't expect a plug and play, but where detail and insight matter to drive your business forward, you can rely on the platform to drive value.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

9.0
Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
8
4.0
Financial data consolidation
4
Journal entries and reports
2
Local and consolidated reporting
3
Detailed Audit Trails
7
8.0
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
6
8.0
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
5
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
9.0
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
7
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
10.0
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10

Using Anaplan

32 - Finance, supply chain, sales operations, business management
5 - Excel modeling, SQL server, Hyperion, IBM
  • Workforce planning
  • Labor management
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Pipeline management
  • S&OE collaboration
  • Opportunity reporting
  • Profitability management
  • Skills management/employee engagement
  • Predictive headcount planning
Flexible and my investment in getting people to learning is creating new ROI through their ability to creatively use the tool.

Evaluating Anaplan and Competitors

Yes - Anaplan replaced Oracle as the leading solution for our clients for planning analytics capabilities.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Anaplan can service multiple business functions within the context of connected planning. By being able to serve multiple capabilities within a single code base and model, it is value accretive not only from time savings on efficiency within teams, but provides significant intangible ROI from the perspective of information made available across business users.
Many of the considerations that we look at includes usability related to our current business users' expectations for Excel like functionality. A better selection process would consider how business process can be made more efficient, how collaboration can be developed within the solution, how we can scale to self-own our solutions, and expand our ROI of the tool by allowing for scalability to not only mean the model growing, but value being added for new use.

Using Anaplan

Anaplan is very strong as a modeling tool, and it's overall user experience has dramatically improved over the last 1.5 years, but data integration and the subject matter expertise needed to become a power user is a high learning curve. However once you have become proficient, there isn't a limit to Anaplan's usability.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Technical support not required
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Difficult to use
Not well integrated
Inconsistent
Lots to learn
  • Multidimensional modeling
  • User interface design
  • Easy to build new activity.
  • Design considerations for reporting and end user experience
Yes - This is dependent on the design of the boards, but generally works well. It is highly dependent on best practices and generally is best for field insights.