Anaplan for Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions
September 16, 2022

Anaplan for Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions

Ravikumar Manchi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We use Anaplan for Financial Planning and Budgeting process where we budget for Revenue, Expenses and Resources like Funding, Capital, Risk, Balance Sheet numbers from lowest level granular level of the business.

There are different type of business and each business is having its own way of generating revenue. We build tree to project revenues and linked resources automatically using connecting planning nature of Anaplan.

We also implemented Sensitivity Analysis on Baseline to simulate some scenarios to understand the direction of the market and directive actions to mitigate risk well in advance.
  • In-memory Calculations
  • Easy to Implement
  • Handles linkages dynamically
  • Finding out todays date is not available
  • Metrics invers is not available
  • Sometimes Performance issues when huge calculations involved
  • NUX
  • Concurrency handling
  • In-memory Calculations
  • Integration
  • We are able to improve efficiency in Planning
  • Improved the Transparency
  • Scenario planning helped in better decision making by looking into future scenarios
Not used Hyperion but Anaplan is blank sheet and we can implement whatever is our requirement.

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 well suited for any kind of planning and Analysis uses cases.

Anaplan is well equipped for any usecases involving transactional data directly and some advanced analytics is not possible as of now and may available in future.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

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