Anaplan for Higher Ed - Highly Recommend!
June 22, 2023

Anaplan for Higher Ed - Highly Recommend!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan addresses a wide range of issues from financial planning to demand planning to sales performance management. In my current role, I am focused on financial planning across different institutions, though I have also used it successfully for sales performance management. It is a fully connected planning platform, which allows users to enter details concurrently and see results in real time.
  • Integrated Planning
  • Flexible Building
  • End user experience
  • License Management for large user bases (1,000+)
  • Syncing only certain features instead of the full model
  • Reporting on App Administration
  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Interconnectivity
  • Reduced turnaround time for planning
  • Stay up to date with real time changes
  • More visibility into planning numbers and workflows
In a prior role, we also evaluated OneStream, but the end users chose Anaplan due to its flexibility and end user experience. Demos of both software systems were seen and selection was based on that.

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 most planning scenarios. I recommend its use for a wide variety of planning use cases - basically anything that is in spreadsheets can be built better in Anaplan.

That being said, Anaplan is not a data warehouse. I would not recommend using it to store or translate large sets of data.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
8
Financial data consolidation
5
Journal entries and reports
5
Local and consolidated reporting
5
Detailed Audit Trails
5
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
10
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Report-Level Access Control
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8