Great modeling platform to drive business change
December 05, 2023
Great modeling platform to drive business change
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Maintaining accurate and timely financial forecasts driven by professional services revenue drivers. Our business forecasts change on a daily basis when operational drivers change - such as landing new clients or projects and staffing changes, so it's important that we have 1) consistent driver data linked to source systems 2) ability to handle complex modeling needs, like complicated revenue billing models and 3) flexible and consistent reporting.
- Financial Modeling
- Flexiblilty to adjust to changes in business needs
- Nice UX
- Improvement in Excel add-in
- Automated report delivery
- Improvement in workflow
- More accurate forecasts
- Compliance and data validation checks to ensure accuracy
- Expansion into planning areas we didn't expect
- Oracle Hyperion (discontinued) and Adaptive
Anaplan is what I would consider a modeling platform. It excels at taking a forecasting or planning process and systematizing it - and allowing for whatever nuances and granularity you need to perform that modeling. It is not positioned as "data collection" platform - which are typically designed to take data uploads from Excel to calculate basic opex and revenue models. It's much more customizable and flexible.
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