Item: Anaplan
Rating: 10
Author: Dmitry Pasko

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Anaplan for many use cases, including FP&A, Forecasting, Demand Planning, Portfolio Management, Sales Reps performance and Allocation and many other use cases.

Anaplan is a very flexible platform and with a dedicated team of SME, Solution Architect and Model Builder, it allows to build almost any solution in a timely manner and make it work efficiently within the agreed budget.

Anaplan has its own methodology, which has proven to be very successfull and helped to deliver hundreds and thousands of projects already for companies of any caliber.

Pros and Cons

Forecasting
User Experience
Workflow
FP&A
Security
Integration
The Anaplan Way project methodology

Flexible Reporting
Additional Workflow features
Faster and easier integration options with other platforms

Return on Investment

Improved Planning Speed
Better Quality Forecast
Better visibility on how KPIs change over time

Alternatives Considered

Workday Adaptive Planning

Anaplan is more flexible, easier to use, has a better user interface and performs better.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, Google Analytics, MySQL

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan can be used with any use case, but it is ideal for FP&A, it recently received a refined workflow, updated User Experience, Cloudworks (automated model to model or data storage to model option). While there is a room for imrovement in some areas, Anaplan is constanly improving their product and gives updates on different fields of the platform.

Anaplan - great tool for almost any use case

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan