Flexible planning tool that scales with your organization
December 12, 2023
Flexible planning tool that scales with your organization
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
At CloudFlare, we use Anaplan for Finacial Planning and Sales Compensation Management use cases. Our goal was to diminish the reliance on spreadsheets while facilitating the oversight of these processes as our company scales.
- on the Financial Planning side, our implementation covers workforce planning, expense planning, depreciation + amortization, & costs allocation. We have also built comprehensive scenario features to facilitate "what-if" analysis and iterative planning.
- on the SCM side, our model handles the entire process from plan design and assignment to the release of the compensation statements which our sales team consults in Anaplan directly.
- on the Financial Planning side, our implementation covers workforce planning, expense planning, depreciation + amortization, & costs allocation. We have also built comprehensive scenario features to facilitate "what-if" analysis and iterative planning.
- on the SCM side, our model handles the entire process from plan design and assignment to the release of the compensation statements which our sales team consults in Anaplan directly.
- Adapts to any company's processes thanks to great flexibility
- Handles big amounts of data
- Actualization is easy thanks to switchover functionality
- Fully interactive dashboards can be created with very few clicks
- Granular security controls
- Performance handling sparse data sets
- Not flexible in handling of dimensions
- Many features behind paywalls
- Reduced Financial Consolidation process from 1 week to 1 day (previously Excel-based)
- Enabled a mostly remote Finance team to double in size
- Embedded Anaplan team (Center of Excellence) address issues and provide enhancements continuously
Managing spreadsheets in Excel or Google Sheets becomes too time consuming as the business and team grows so transitioning to a tool like Anaplan is a natural evolution.
I have used Power BI as a complement to Anaplan in the past in order to make the data that was consolidated in Anaplan available to a broader audience within the company. I have found that Power BI has more options for presenting data in a dashboard than Anaplan but was more limited in the amount of data it could handle while retaining good performance.
I have used Power BI as a complement to Anaplan in the past in order to make the data that was consolidated in Anaplan available to a broader audience within the company. I have found that Power BI has more options for presenting data in a dashboard than Anaplan but was more limited in the amount of data it could handle while retaining good performance.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Anaplan again?
Yes