Anaplan, the tool that can bring all of your data together.
August 29, 2024
Anaplan, the tool that can bring all of your data together.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used for budgeting and forecasting for our headcount, operating expenses, and revenue. We take each part of our model and combine it to create our end-of-year financial statements. During the year we utilize Anaplans' versioning functionality to perform reforecasts and to track how we have been performing compared to our benchmarks. This helps us flag areas of improvement and be more proactive during the next cycle as to where resources need to be allocated. Anaplan allows us to be more collaborative with a cloud-based tool. Data is accessible to all users and we can see changes in real-time. We perform daily refreshes from our data warehouses to ensure there is no disconnect between data coming in and some other system. Prior to switching to Anaplan we were constantly trying to find the correct worksheet or a "final version" and had difficulty communicating a final budget effectively.
Pros
- Cloud based platform that allows for real-time data and collaborative environment
- Management of dimensions natively within the tool, minimized reliance on data warehouse
- Ability to maintain multiple versions and run comparisons between them
Cons
- The learning curve can be high for building and maintaining models from scratch
- While flexible, the system still requires expert configuration and changes can be tricky
- Model sparsity and performance can be an issue when data volumes increase greatly
- Our month long close process has now been reduced to 3 days to complete with a 2 day review
- We are able to be more accurate in our budgets thanks to our ability to manage and view prior data
- Our ability to collaborate in a cloud-based platform has greatly reduced our errors in reporting.
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

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