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Anaplan - Your Planning Guru !!
Updated December 14, 2022

Anaplan - Your Planning Guru !!

Sai Bandaru | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan is used as part of sales, financial planning and connected planning systems. Anaplan makes business decisions easier by making it live for most business users involved in planning and as well the dashboards and pages make it easier for users to navigate thru multiple planning and pages. Anaplan drives collaboration within the company
  • Dashboarding and Reporting
  • Hierarchy creation
  • Deployment made easy
  • Scenario planning is made easy
  • administration by business users made easier
  • Tool Bar on Pages
  • Workflow capability needs to be updated
  • Managing Actions needs to be improved for developers and as well the size of the columns in actions sections needs to be flexible
  • Scenario plannning
  • user administration and ALM
  • Pages and boards
  • hierarchy management and flexibility in hierarchy management
  • comments Sections
  • One system for various planning within the organization
  • easy to manage the models for business teams
  • Planning and reporting within single platform

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

Scenario-based planning is best in Anaplan and easy to learn development and managing the administration

Anaplan Feature Ratings

10.0
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
9.5
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
10
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
8
9.7
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
9
10.0
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
10.0
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
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
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10

Using Anaplan

Evaluating Anaplan and Competitors

Yes
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
better

Anaplan Implementation

Multiple ways to implement
  • Implemented in-house
Yes - workshops, model schemas, user stories written, agile planning, dev, test, bat test, deploy, new phases of updates and new capability building
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • change management, last minute requirement changes

Anaplan Training

  • Online training
One of the best trainings i have attended. Level 2 training was challenging but was able to go thru due to understanding of the basics.
Learning made easy . One of the best trainings i have attended. Training was very detailed training by the trainer, which helped me understand the basics of the model building. Level 1 training was easy and instructor was most helpful here. Level 2 training was challenging but was able to go thru due to understanding of the basics.

Configuring Anaplan

extensive
have a over all schema of planning dashboards
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively - easier to make changes to user interface
No - we have not done any custom code

Anaplan Support

easy to contact and get help
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Problems left unsolved
Slow Initial Response
Not, because i am from partner
Yes - Yes
Time when model performance was low, anaplan gave a report on where we coupld improve and gave us solutions in our way of model building

Using Anaplan

Easy to use
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
  • pages
  • running actions
  • user setup
  • searching actions by names
  • importing saved views from other models (takes time in scrollings)
Yes - not used yet

Anaplan Reliability

Good
Always good
Its a good platform with better stability

Integrating Anaplan

  • Excel
  • tableau
It was easy
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • ETL tools
Follow the steps carefully

Relationship with Anaplan

Upgrading Anaplan