Anaplan: great for Connected Planning!
December 02, 2022

Anaplan: great for Connected Planning!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We deliver high-quality Anaplan solutions for our customers within expected timeframes and on budgets. We translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models. Anaplan allows for connected planning and an integrated source of truth from various parts of the business e.g. Sales,
HR, and Finance can be planned in a more effective way—a “Single source of the
truth.” Anaplan provides the flexibility you need to build and maintain models over time and prevent
errors. We work on a varied amount of use cases from FP&A, Supply Chain, and Workforce Planning.
  • Connected Planning
  • Slice and Dice reporting
  • Data Integration
  • Selected Access
  • Synchronized sorting
  • Free colour choice for title AND body text on a normal UX page
  • Multidimensional modelling
  • Data Integration
  • Data Validation
  • Selective Access
  • Enable organisations to spend more time on analysis versus input gathering
  • Make better business decisions through increased visibility and transparency into business drivers
  • Planning tool fits well within the modern business world
Lots more support on the community, easier to understand, loads of online training provided, more flexible, looks more modern and up to date with loads of new features being added every year

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 data integration, transparency on what's driving numbers, evolving businesses where hierarchy structures change, connecting Supply chain planning into FP&A planning (volume), standardization across the business, and multi-dimensional modeling capabilities. The data integration side works great with a number of options connecting your Data warehouse to Anaplan models via Anaplan Connect,
Cloud Works, or API.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
9
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
10
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
9
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
Customizable dashboards
9
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10