Easy to learn, difficult to master
October 11, 2022
Easy to learn, difficult to master
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
We use Anaplan for financial consolidation, capital planning, and headcount management. Anaplan helps with creating a decentralized, real time source of truth that we can quickly use to make business decisions. In combination with our existing HRIS solution Anaplan also allows us to efficiently track and report on headcount at a granular level.
- Cloud based source of truth
- Flexibility to quickly develop in response to business need
- Very flexible
- Did I mention flexibility?
- Can be difficult to implement in-house without an experienced team
- Would enjoy no/low code API integrations with other systems
- Not great with sparse data sets (Anaplan has recently released functionality called "Polaris" that is supposedly better with sparse data sets
- Not the best for management reporting, BUT, our strategy is to use external BI tools in combination with Anaplan for management reporting.
- Decentralized source of truth
- Flexibility
- Allowed us to reduce time to report for budget/forecast
- Time savings on month end budget versus actual reporting
- Allowed for standardization of business processes.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Anaplan again?
Yes