Anaplan Reviews & Product Details

Anaplan is a great planning and analytical tool to conver a wide range of general and industry-specific use cases through an amazingly flexible modeling engine and nice user inteface. Recent addition of powerful workflow functionality looks great as well

There is a bit of a learning curve for users to learn navigation and advanced features, such as pivot, drill down, etc. Integrations could be improved as well. Importing large data sets could be faster.

Sales Forecasting, Territory and Quota, various data management and analytical edge cases

Its flexibility and scalability make it suitable for various use cases across different industries. Easy to use, Ease to implement, Reliable customer support, Easy to integrate

Limited offline flexibility, integartion is complex

Anaplan addresses a variety of business challenges and provides solutions that are particularly valuable for organizations involved in planning, budgeting, and performance management.Some of the common problems that Anaplan helps customers solve include: Spreadsheets Limitations Disconnected Planning Processes Inefficient Manual Processes Difficulty in Scenario Analysis

Anaplan is breaking down the silo between different business units at companies by introducing integrated planning

Standardization sometimes forces organizations to be less flexible than they originally wanted

Anaplan addresses the challenge of fragmented and disconnected planning processes within organizations by providing a cloud-based platform that unifies data, people, and plans. It enables seamless collaboration, facilitates dynamic modeling for various planning activities, and offers real-time insights, thereby solving the problem of inefficiency and lack of coordination in business planning. Anaplan's flexibility, scalability, and integration capabilities empower businesses to make informed decisions and adapt to changing circumstances effectively.

Anaplan's constantly evolving features added on to its core functions

Some of the newly introduced features were buggy. Could benefit from additional testing

Data centralization and alignment across the business. Planning and forecasting sales.

Customizability and the performance of the calculation engine

High learning curve. Not very user friendly

I used Anaplan to create models for sales planning. It enables consolidation of planning data.

Anaplan is a great tool for taking companies to the next level of planning capabilities. The ability to connect an enterprise in real time drives down the time and cost of running a planning cycle and pivoting based on new challenges and changing variables.

It can take a while to get used to the model building approach and reshaping your brain to think in multidimensional terms, especially if coming from a traditional planners toolkit (Excel). I will say the training does a good job of being thorough and on demand.

Anaplan is solving a vast array of my customers' problems, across industries and use cases. I have implemented Anaplan for fast food chain restaurants, oil & gas, healthcare, SaaS companies. Anaplan's flexibility can tackle any industry and any challenge presented.

Anaplan is a cloud-based planning and performance management platform that enables businesses to plan, budget, forecast, and analyze data in a collaborative and connected environment. Anaplan is a very Flexibile and Scalable platform due to hyperblocks/hyper models, very strong in Collaboration and Ease to Use which includes Ease of Implementation becasue of we can build models using Agile methodology. As Anaplan supports various planning areas in an organization we can build an enatire build Connected Planning environment and can easily build Scenario Planning capabilities because of its multi dimensionality capabilities. Supports various types of Data Integrations and last but not least the product is continuously being innovated. Anaplan has great customer support

Inspite of a lot of advatanges, managing new development and production bug fixes is still a painful proicess. Need more innovation in UX pages versioning as the cganes in NewUX are mostly manual.

At Qualys, becasue of Anaplan the time for forecasting and Budgeting has been reduced drastically and the platform provides an amazing collabrative experience unlike excel. Pur CFO now can look at the budget and Forecast vs Budget vs actuals variance all in single place and is all live data unlike with excel where there were teams pulling multiple files and trying to aggregrate every week/month.

Anaplan as a solution provides flexibility whilst creating a robust and secure environment to connect people, data and plans. It is the best placed tool I have come accross to replace the 'messy middle' and heavy dependence on modelling in excel. The platform allows you to build your processes, formulas and plans in line with the structure of your business and the ability to drill down provides transparency. It allows for end to end planning accross your business. In the Alternative Investment industry we have seen this clearly. In additon to standard FP&A and Workforce Planning use cases Anaplan can truly offer a breadth of capabilities. Real Estate firms use it plan the entire lifecycle of their assets from Acquistion Underwriting Models, through Developments, Asset Level Planning, Disposals and Fund Modelling. Private Equity firms have seen value in building out Fund Outcomes models, Valuations, Carry Waterfalls and more.

Management Reporting has been a great new feature but it would be great to see this develop even further. Adding the TODAY function would also be useful and the ability to sub-total via a selection in reports

Time to value, with short implementation time-frames, Anaplans benefits rapidly realized. The platform enables collaboration, provides one source of truth, enables security, version control and transparency.

Flexibility, Scalable , Customizable, Dyanamic User Interface , NUX Pages and Reporting , Quick Modelling , Ability to model what if scenarios like excel models.

Security Setup needs improvement; Groups wise provisioning needs to be enabled; inbuilt integration capability needs to be enabled. Provide an ability to customize security like SAP and Oracle systems.

Anaplan allows us to plan quickly and quickly provide decisions. This enabled in increased productivity and efficiency across the team. Moreover, the value-driven using Anaplan helped to reduce the cost in the organization.

Self service for FP&A analysts Self service for LOBs users Rapid implementation time Flexibility to make changes Quick backup and recovery

130 GB model size limit Missing public APIs (There is only one API related to data import/export)

FP&A planning, forecasting & budgeting (Contribution Margin, Opex, Capex, Headcount, Personnel spend, Department Spend, Program Spend etc) Connected planning Treasury planning Collections forecasting T&Q Sales Planning