Anaplan is a flexible tool that allows for creativity
December 20, 2022

Anaplan is a flexible tool that allows for creativity

Moriah Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We implement Anaplan for a variety of use cases within finance and alternative investments for our clients. FP&A, real estate, waterfall modeling.
  • Extremely useful for taking in multiple sources of data and manipulating it for your business needs
  • Useful for solving complex problems
  • Connected Planning
  • NUX is not yet up to par with the old UX in terms of some basic functionality or ease of user experience
  • The new modeling experience, while an improvement in many ways, still has small things that be kept be improved to ensure continuity and conversion over from the old modeling experience
  • It would be really useful to have some sort of Today function
  • Connectivity to external sources
  • automation
  • space
  • connected planning
  • We see more and more clients switch over to Anaplan
  • We see clients thinking of more use cases for Anaplan
  • It helps increase efficiency amongst organizations

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

I've used Anaplan to implement creative solutions to problems outside of finance. I used Anaplan to create models for clinical outcomes, daily tracking, used surveys to determine a tenant's expenses. Anaplan is super flexible in its capabilities and you can solve more than finance use cases using this tool.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
7
Management reporting
6
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
7
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
10
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Personalized dashboards
7
Color-coded scorecards
6
Cost and profitability analysis
7
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
6
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
6
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated