What is Anaplan Platform?
The Anaplan Platform will help you build a platform built for Connected Planning. Designed to help companies succeed at scale, Anaplan’s cloud-native solution connects people, data, and plans across the enterprise, bringing complex scenario modeling, automated data analysis, and advanced Machine Learning capabilities to drive growth and give businesses a tremendous competitive advantage.
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93 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+85 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Anaplan Platform?
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
Emotional Footprint
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Feature Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting
Planning and Scheduling
Collaboration
Financial Reporting and Consolidation
BI and Performance Management
Marketing Analytics
Business Application Integration
Governance Risk and Compliance
Data Visualization
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Anaplan Platform Reviews
Kyle M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2021
Anaplan Platform Combines both CPM and BI Tools
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Anaplan Platform from other similar products?
Anaplan Platform offers data models that are maintained by end users, not IT experts. This makes it easy to analyze data without requiring help from data experts or IT Specialists.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Anaplan Platform offers a wide array of capabilities such as BI, enterprise planning, augmented analytics and predictive analytics in one single solution. I like that Anaplan Platform reduces the hassle of accessing data from multiple sources by combining information in one centralized location.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Anaplan Platform is the most effective tool that I have ever used to visualize data with since it has zero outages and offers free support whenever there is an issue.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend any business person considering this tool, to buy it asap in order to enjoy all cloud analytics capabilities in one unified system.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Damian B.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2021
Anaplan- future of financial planning and analysis
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Anaplan Platform from other similar products?
Unique combination of data base, big data and calculation features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data integrity
What do you dislike most about this product?
Visualisations
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To ensure that model building activities are done by highly experienced anaplanners with a good business insight
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Matthew K.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
"Clear leader of cloud-based planning"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Anaplan Platform from other similar products?
Anaplan has been in the space longer than their competitors and have an established foundation as the alternative to "sending spreadsheets back and forth". Because of that, Anaplan is generally considered the safer solution, with more established customers and peer references. However, Anaplan's competitors, mainly Adaptive and OneStream, are pushing hard to get Anaplan's market share.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Anaplan's methodology for building and maintaining models is intuitive and truly drives sustainability for planning models. With Excel, people would do things in several different ways and it was always a nightmare to complete a consolidated planning process. Anaplan sets one approach and methodology for all users and allows connected planning to be a reality. While your team does have to learn and understand this methodology, once you do, you can truly realize the platform's value proposition.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Anaplan's visual interface can be improved. They've made significant improvements in recent years, but the base modeling interface still looks a little dated. This is a turnoff for new users and hinders the user adoption process.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Setup periodic trainings - Anaplan is not valuable to your organization unless your team knows how to use it and manipulate their models. Establish a plan of ownership - typically the reason a company is considering Anaplan is because they don't want IT to have full ownership of their planning solution. Just make sure to establish where that line is between business and IT ownership. Simpler is better - it's easy to fall into the trap of designing and builder a really complex Anaplan model, but foundationally, simpler Anaplan models are more sustainable and will last at your organization for a longer period of time.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Under Delivered