Item: Anaplan
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implemented Anaplan for a valuations use case, specifically for Private Debt. We integrated Capital IQ to bring in public financial data for market analysis and for treasury rates and exported out to a reporting software. It solved providing user control and governance over a single model. It allowed customization of multiple different methodologies and edge cases while standardizing the overall model to avoid user error and erroneous overrides.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Customization
ALM
Modeling

Cons

Sparsity/Performance
Integration
NUX

Return on Investment

Consistency
Accuracy

Usability

It's great for business users and it enables organizations to take control of their business processes.

Alternatives Considered

Pigment

Anaplan feels like the golden standard. Pigment lacks necessary functionality like actions.

Key Insights

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is very well suited to traditional use cases such as budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, sales performance management. It provides a lot of flexibilities in those use cases where it's not to too complex. However, Anaplan struggles when iterative calcs are needed. The lack of a previous function for lists outside of time is a pain point. Anaplan also struggles with sparsity. If the bounds of a particular calculation is not consistent, especially across time, the model can suffer significant performance issues.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

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Anaplan is a flexible tool with some need for advancement