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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85 Likeliness to Recommend
89 Plan to Renew
78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+78 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
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Vendor Capability Ratings
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Business Value Created
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Ease of Implementation
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Ease of Data Integration
Anaplan Platform Reviews
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
Kevin M.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted May 2021
Top-notch product that’s constantly innovating
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Anaplan Platform from other similar products?
Anaplan is the most flexible/configurable tool I’ve used compared to other “out of the box” solutions. I love how it can be applied to almost every business use case because of its flexibility. The learning curve of being a model builder isn’t that bad since a lot of the skills from excel are transferable.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It allows me to use my technical skills but also my creativity to come up with solutions. In Anaplan - model building and solutions can come in different ways. There can be multiple ways to build something out though there are best practices and preferred methods.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The look and feel of the NUX from an FP&A perspective. It’s not the best for large data sets like in most FP&A models (e.g. inputting forecast values for example)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would invest in hiring a dedicated model builder to own the product and become your SME during the initial implementation.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2021
Extremely customizable; do-it-all tool!
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
