Flexible platform, business user owned
December 30, 2024

Flexible platform, business user owned

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Use cases we have implemented for customers range across, Finance, Sales Performance, and Supply chain. Specifically for finance, income statement planning, balance sheet planning, and deeper dives into each of those, for example product line P&Ls. For Sales Performance, we have done sales and territory planning - calculating quotas and assigning to sales reps, then tracking attainment of the those targets. For Supply Chain, demand planning and supply planning.

Pros

  • Calculation engine on large sets of data
  • Security - selective access
  • custom planning pages

Cons

  • reporting and use of excel add-in, Anaplan still can't replicate what smartview does with hyperion
  • Integrations, very limited options for direct connections , you basically need an ETL tool to set up automations with source systems and target reporting systems
  • No now() formula, to tell Anaplan what day it is, requires an automated integration to get todays date
  • Sunset legacy system and saved 60%
  • Removed keyman dependency at client , no more excel models
  • Provided transparency to sales reps for their quotas and related attainment
Anaplan is a great system for end users, the flexibility allows model builders/architects to set up pages and receive user feedback, enhancements can be made to further driver user adoption. You can pretty much build anything which is great, but you do need a very talented architect and model builders to pull it off and maintain.
Anaplan vs Oracle Hyperion - Anaplan is far better calculation engine and way more modern. However, Anaplan still struggles to provide reporting, especially adhoc reporting in excel based off a data model.

Anaplan vs Pigment - Anaplan is a more proven product, however, Pigment has far more direct connections and has invested more money into the product early.

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Anaplan's feature set?

Yes

Did Anaplan live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

It works well if the customer does not rely on lots of reporting in excel, if the usecase can provide limited reporting on the Anaplan pages. However, if data is pulled down into excel and then tons of detail reporting is done Anaplan wont work well. Also its important for the customer to have an ETL tool or else end users will be manually uploading CSVs

Anaplan Feature Ratings

7.8
Long-term financial planning
7
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
8
Management reporting
8
8.5
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
8
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
10
10.0
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
9.8
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
2.7
Flat file integration
4
Excel data integration
2
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
2
2.0
Customizable dashboards
2
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
9.0
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
10
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
9.0
Role-Based Security Model
9
Report-Level Access Control
9
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9

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