Anaplan is the best tool for planning
July 02, 2024

Anaplan is the best tool for planning

Roman Orlov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

In my company, as a consultant, I successfully implemented Anaplan in many use cases: FP&A, Sales Planning, Demand Planning, Budgeting, Payroll, Production and many other examples.
The companies benefitted greatly from connected planning:
- time consumption for planning process decreased significantly up to x10 times;
- accuracy of forecast and analysis increased due to higher detalization which was impossible before.

Pros

  • Forecasting
  • Budgeting
  • Integration
  • Detailed Analysis
  • Visualization
  • Connected Planning

Cons

  • Licenses pricing
  • Flexibility of Dynamical Hierarchies
  • Native subtotal functionality, i.e. select several items from list and see the summary
  • Forecast accuracy increase by up to 20%
  • 50% time efficiency improvement by demand planners
  • Precise forecast in real-time with less time effort: from 7 days to 3 days
  • Saving 400 man-days per year on data consolidation and verification.
  • Process automation and a single methodology significantly reduced errors and dependency on people
Anaplan is an intuitive system, easy to learn for newcomers. One of the best solutions on the market. It has use-friendly and stylish interface which is enjoyable to work with. It is improving constantly based on users' and builders' feedback.

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 a universal tool for various use cases: FP&A, Sales Planning, Demand Planning, Budgeting, Payroll, Production. It can be customized almost for any organization in any field.
Anaplan would be less appropriate as a transactional system. Using it as an accounting system, for example, is not a good practice.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

10.0
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
9.0
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
8
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
8
9.7
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
9
10.0
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
10.0
Flat file integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
10.0
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
8.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8

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