Item: Anaplan
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Anaplan allows faster implementations and therefore allows providing a ready-to-use product in less time. Moreover, Anaplan allows having a single platform and a single source of truth connecting several planning use cases (Connected Planning). Anaplan is capable to support advanced planning needs with real-time calculations and a user-friendly interface.

Pros and Cons

Supporting planning processes
Connecting different planning processes
Real-time calculation

Data sparsity management
Notifications management
Cells attachments/comments management

Most Important Features

Easy-to-read blueprint
Implementation quickness
Cloud platform

Return on Investment

Planning Cycle Time Reduction
Data Errors Reduction
Improved visibility on planning assumptions and outcomes

Alternatives Considered

Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik

In the case of "from scratch" implementations, Anaplan allows faster implementations and therefore allows providing a ready-to-use product in less time. Moreover, Anaplan allows having a single platform and a single source of truth connecting several planning use cases (Connected Planning). Anaplan is capable to support advanced planning needs with real-time calculations and a user-friendly interface.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel

Likelihood to Recommend

Depending on the specific requirements there are areas in which some tools perform better than others or are more adequate than others. For example, Anaplan doesn’t offer the on-premises solution being a natively cloud SaaS; instead, Anaplan allows real-time calculations and refresh of the entire model with the possibility to fully drill down the results. Therefore, a preliminary software selection would be desirable to select the software that best fits the requirements. Anaplan is capable to support and connect very well any planning process, instead, it is not the most appropriate tool for use cases like detailed transactions storage.

Anaplan review

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan