Anaplan Review
December 08, 2023

Anaplan Review

Harshita Mysore Shankar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We currently use Anaplan for Workforce & Expense planning use case. Anaplan addresses both Tops Down and Bottoms Up planning with extensive scenario modeling capabilities.
  • Anaplan provides flexibility to develop any planning use case and organizations that leverage this end up using connected planning efficiently
  • Easy integrations to ensure upstream data retrieval and downstream reporting
  • Quick turnaround in terms of implementations and bug fixes
  • Better Reporting
  • Sub-totaling functionality to enable reviewing totals irrespective of hierarchy
  • Templates for initial build
  • Better forecasting capabilities with YoY rolling forecast
  • Better reporting with Management Reporting capabilities and NUX
1. Performance
2. Flexibility and Ease of Use
3. Security

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

Well suited scenarios:
  • Connected Workforce & Expense Planning
  • Scenario Modeling
  • Marketing Budgeting and spend
  • Territory and Quota Planning

Not suitable scenarios:
  • Consolidation
  • Operational Use Cases

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
5
Journal entries and reports
4
Local and consolidated reporting
6
Detailed Audit Trails
8
Financial Statement Reporting
7
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
8
Personalized dashboards
7
Color-coded scorecards
8
Cost and profitability analysis
7
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Customizable dashboards
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
6
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated