Anaplan's flexibility can adress many use cases.
December 31, 2021

Anaplan's flexibility can adress many use cases.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan adresses HR, Finance, Accounting and Management Controlling business cases. Everyone of those business cases usually involve a few users at first (around 100) and can grow to several hundred of users, for exemple Financial Controllers, Management Controllers, Accountants, Accounting directors, HR Controllers ect...

Pros

  • Anaplan calculations within a single model are real time.
  • The platform's felxibility allows to adress many uses cases
  • Anaplan's functionalities are always improving and updated.

Cons

  • The volumetric and space impacts needs to be weighed in before choosing an option for every new development
  • Model to model communications are not real time.
  • Imports from outside systems into Anaplan can be improved
  • Anaplan projects can be implemented quickly.
  • Users are very satisfied with it once they learn how to use it
  • It can address many business cases successfully.
  • The ROI on all projects has been positive
Anaplan is much more user friendly then TM1 (Planning Analytics) and is in state of continued improvement which makes the users trust in its future.

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 is very well suited to adress real-time reporting needs and budgetary planning and rolling forecasts needs. It is not as much appropriate when the users' primary concerns are the beauty of the visualization, although it has improved.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

9.8
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
9
9.0
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
9
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
9
9.0
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
9.8
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
9.0
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
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
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated

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