Anaplan, A Review
May 15, 2023

Anaplan, A Review

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

I currently implement Anaplan as a partner consultant. I have been a part of implementations around incentive compensation, sales/demand planning, and fund & JV administration use cases. In each instance the solution was able to be handed over for the business to wholly own and maintain, highlighting the idea of 'business lead' connected planning.
  • Flexibility in how the models can be designed/work
  • Ease of new development, allowing the business to make changes or further deploy more models as needed
  • Allow for scalability as the solutions or business grows
  • Provide insights tailored to the various levels of the organization/leadership
  • Easier access to user activity metadata (tenant level reports)
  • More concrete product roadmap
  • More visibility / trainings into newly released features (outside of just the newsletter)
  • Multi-dimensional planning
  • Customization capabilities
  • Ease of development
  • Robust user community
  • Streamlined business processes
  • Reduced risk of manual error
  • Connected planning of different areas of the organization in real time

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?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Anaplan is well suited in areas that have a disparate or intensively manual planning process across multiple parties/persons. It allows for flexibility within a framework that truly enables the business to drive efficiencies, consistencies, insights, and time savings across a multitude of use cases. Anaplan is not necessarily suited to be leveraged as an ETL tool, though data transformation can be done within the tool (albeit not exactly what it is designed for).

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
6
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
8
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
9
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
6
Excel-based Reporting
6
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
9
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
6
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7