Anaplan - Connected Planning and Beyond
Updated October 26, 2023

Anaplan - Connected Planning and Beyond

Nikhil Luthra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan is one of the vendors we use in organization for EPM consulting. We provide EPM/Financial solutions to customers. Anaplan has come out as one of the preferred vendors for businesses of various sizes and scales. Its being used to address Financial Planning, Sales planning, Supply chain planning and Workforce planning solutions.
  • Financial Planning
  • Customizable Features
  • Integration Capabilities
  • Hot Reporting
  • Extended Capabilities like Cloudworks, PlanIQ
  • Performance and Model Locking
  • Integration Performance
  • Workflow customizations
  • Modeling
  • Reporting
  • Integration
  • Anaplan provided improved Business planning cycles
  • Better visibility on connected planning solutions and processes
  • On the fly reporting
  • Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management
Anaplan is much more customizable and better suited to End user interaction. Also, it provides far more customizable reporting capabilities within the tool. Also, Anaplan is much more suited to implementation of different use cases where Hyperion is limited to some select few like FP&A, Opex and Workforce planning.

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Anaplan's feature set?

No

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 best suited to Business of low and medium scale to support with their planning process of forecasting and budgeting. Anaplan provides customizable platform and is easily integrated with other tools. Anaplan is less appropriate for consolidations, Financial close and long range financial planning.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
3
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
6
Management reporting
6
Financial data consolidation
3
Journal entries and reports
4
Local and consolidated reporting
5
Detailed Audit Trails
2
Financial Statement Reporting
4
Management Reporting
5
Excel-based Reporting
3
Personalized dashboards
6
Color-coded scorecards
7
Cost and profitability analysis
7
Key Performance Indicator setting
7
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
7
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
7
Customizable dashboards
7
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
4
Role-Based Security Model
7
Report-Level Access Control
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
5
Mobile Application
5
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
5

Using Anaplan

200 - As part of Consulting firm, we provide consulting to multiple clients.
200 - Knowledge of Multidimensional modelling
Strong in Excel models building
Planning and Forecasting
  • Headcount Planning
  • Opex Planning
  • FP&A
  • Retiring excel and moving to Cloud
  • Connected Planning
  • Interactive Reporting
  • Expanding the footprint to other functions
  • DMS
  • Polaris
Anaplan is a market leader in P&F cloud solutions and is coming up with various features which will make it even stronger contender for future P&F implementations and retaining existing customers