Anaplan: For Faster and Efficient Solutions to your Requirements
December 28, 2021

Anaplan: For Faster and Efficient Solutions to your Requirements

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan platform has many potential use cases and currently, we are making use of it in the Sales and Finance domains. The models developed helped speed up the existing process, which was quite manual and inefficient on Excels. With Anaplan implementation, all the data and reports and connected and help provide users with a platform to plan, evaluate and report their numbers. Also, with its in-memory calculation engine, the results of the changes are reflected in real-time at all levels, thus making it ideal for What-if Analysis. The new UX introduced by Anaplan provides enhanced reporting capabilities, providing industry-standard views. The Powerful computation engine and high-customizations help leverage it across all verticals.
  • Real time updates at all levels
  • Capabilities to highly customize solutions with a lot of available options
  • Interface is pretty close to excel, thus making it easier for users to adapt to it
  • Workspace size is limited to 130GBs:
  • Though Anaplan has introduced Hypermodels, the cost is on a higher end
  • Customizations on New UX:
  • Anaplan has been adding more options to the bucket, and Management Reporting is one of them, but the options to customize on the Board and Worksheet pages can be enhanced
  • User Experience
  • Scalability
  • Customizations
  • Enterprise solutioning capabilities
  • Time saving
  • Resource cost saving
  • Standardized data Reporting
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management solutions are high on coding and their response time is on a higher end. Also, they have a fixed structure, which renders them unsuitable for some of the requirements.

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 provides us with a very powerful platform to build any requirements from scratch and that makes it suitable for almost any requirement in the EPM domain. Also, the key benefit of Anaplan is the in-memory Calculation engine, which makes the experience for users almost real-time. When it comes to storing and processing transactional data, this is not the tool, and rightly so, as it is an Analytical tool and not a transactional system.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
7
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
7
Excel-based Reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
8
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Customizable dashboards
7
Publish to PDF
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7