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    Anaplan

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    Anaplan is the only scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in todays complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,400 of the worlds best brands continually optimize their decision-making by planning with Anaplan.

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    Connected Planning enables dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning across all areas of an organization, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, human resources, and operations. As a purpose-built platform connecting people, data, and plans, Anaplan delivers a unified real-time, cloud-based environment to optimize planning and democratize decision-making across all lines of business and business activities, from strategic to operational levels.

    Anaplan for Finance

    • Anaplan's flexible modeling capabilities automate, structure, and connect a range of financial and operational solutions including FP&A and opex to steer business performance more effectively.

    Anaplan for Supply Chain

    • Model your supply chain with intelligence. Enable real-time collaboration across departments, functions, suppliers, and customers through supply, demand, and sales & operations planning solutions.

    Anaplan for Sales & Marketing

    • Connect revenue plans to stabilize sales performance and drive growth through sales planning, sales incentives, and pipeline and revenue forecasting solutions. Marketing solutions include optimized budget allocation, spend visibility, trade promotion management, and marketing performance.

    Anaplan for HR and Workforce

    • Develop a dynamic workforce blueprint that aligns and executes your business strategies and operations with talent strategy, workforce planning, and compensation modeling solutions.

    Highlights

    • The Anaplan 2024 Decision Excellence Report shows that enterprise connectedness drives a 14% increase in TSR, a 43% reduction in unproductive meetings, and a 58% improvement in external connectivity with customers and suppliers, enhancing overall decision-making.
    • Accurate forecasting is core to effective business planning. Anaplan PlanIQ uses ML forecasting via Amazon Forecast integration to create accurate forecasts driven by internal and external factors. PlanIQ can be used with all Anaplan solutions.
    • Pricing shown is based on a representative customer and will vary based on your specific needs (users, solutions, configuration options, and contract duration). For custom quotes through private offers, please contact your Anaplan AE or AWSGTM@anaplan.com.

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    12-month contract (1)

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    Connected Planning
    Users, workspace & access to product. Varies based on specific needs.
    $750,000.00

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    As set forth in the terms or as required by law. Refunds are not offered for this product. All fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable as set forth in the terms except as required by law.

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    As you embark on your Anaplan journey and every step of the way, we focus on your success. We help you make Connected Planning work best for your unique situation. All existing or new Anaplan customers will have 24x7 product support that can be accessed via email, phone or chat. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Support/ct-p/Support#contactsupport 

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    In Financial Services, ML Solutions
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    In Data Preparation, ML Solutions, Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics

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    Overview

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    AI generated from product descriptions
    Machine Learning Forecasting
    Advanced forecasting capabilities using machine learning via Amazon Forecast integration to generate predictive models based on internal and external data factors
    Enterprise Collaboration Platform
    Cloud-based environment enabling real-time collaboration and connection across multiple organizational departments and business functions
    Scenario Planning Technology
    Flexible modeling capabilities that automate and structure financial and operational solutions for comprehensive business performance management
    Cross-Functional Data Integration
    Unified platform connecting people, data, and planning processes across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, HR, and operations
    Strategic Planning Automation
    Dynamic modeling solutions for workforce planning, talent strategy, compensation modeling, and strategic business execution
    Predictive Analytics
    Embedded predictive forecasting capabilities using statistical and predictive analytics to analyze historical data and identify trends and patterns
    Workflow Management
    Managed and governed workflows with customizable application creation, participant invitation, submission requirements, and progress monitoring
    Multidimensional Data Analysis
    Advanced data exploration across large historical and future-oriented datasets from multiple perspectives to uncover strategic insights
    Self-Service Modeling
    Workbench Modeling enables analysts to create and maintain sophisticated financial models without IT support, including what-if scenario functionality
    AI-Driven Planning
    AI-powered integrated business planning platform that enables automated and unified planning across organizational departments
    Data Workflow Automation
    Drag-and-drop interface with 300+ analytic building blocks for creating and automating data workflows
    Machine Learning Capabilities
    Automated machine learning (AutoML) and feature engineering for data science use cases across skill levels
    Data Preparation Tools
    Comprehensive data access, preparation, blending, enrichment, and statistical analytics platform
    Geospatial Analytics
    Integrated geospatial analytics capabilities for spatial data processing and analysis
    Cloud-Native Analytics
    Browser-based, cloud-native experience for building and automating data pipelines with reduced technical complexity

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    Anaplan keeps getting better and better!

    Reviewed on Aug 22, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Building and making updates to Anaplan is really easy to learn for new users. Especially those already familiar with Excel, the formula syntax is easy to learn in Anaplan. Anaplan also has great customer support. They get back to you right away.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Anaplan can be built overly complex and take up too much space if enough upfront work and thought isn't put into the design.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Anaplan saves our customers time and also gets them out of several different excel files. Streamlines their planning process. Everything is in one place, and everyone can access it, and it also updates all output reports live.
    Food & Beverages

    Real-time insights using Anaplan

    Reviewed on Aug 08, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    Real-time connected planning helps to eliminate silos allowing for data driven decision making. Easily scalable and auditable gives us confidence our data is safe and secure.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Limited visualisations mean other reporting tools are usually required.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Anaplan has enabled the business to easily consolidate data from multiple units to give real-time data to decision makers
    Consumer Electronics

    Good adaptive tool for supply chain

    Reviewed on Aug 03, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    Anaplan is easy to use. It can be customized to your business and manufacturing model. What I liked best was it's ability to scenario plan supply chain outcomes based on our requirements .
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I would like Anaplan to integrate high level analytics into the software so it can be used without having to use other tools.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Other legacy tools were complicated to integrate and use especially for a small and meduim scale industry. Anaplan worked perfectly for our business needs and was easy to use and maintain history.
    jack c.

    Planning tool that does most of it well

    Reviewed on Jul 31, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    With a solid foundation of data, integrations, financial models, the tool can be as flexible as the company needs. The code is easy to understand and easily built out with the proper talent (either in house or contracted). Users do not need extensive architecture knowledge to stand up models and then connect the pipes together. This allows teams to trial and error fairly quickly to build new use cases. The ability to manage a large portion of the infrastructure within the function and outside of IT is also very appealing. Typically, finance functions rely on IT to perform regular tasks and wait for results - with Anaplan, a lot of those activities can remain with the business. There are a variety of integration tools available as well as native tooling that can support an enterprise.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Without major talent, the models can quickly go awry and be poorly designed. Though the functionality may work, it might be less performant or create complexities when trying to adjust existing logic. Talent is also a large factor when considering this tool as it requires either building a team in house or contracting out. With contractors, you run the risk of knowledge gaps & lack of documentation for proprietary processes. To facilitate the implementation phase, business owners need to actively participate and devote a large number of hours to support the build. This is expensive to manage with larger organizations and could be less likely with smaller organizations. On the support side, you may contract out activities but there is a ramp up time that companies need to factor in (though this is true with most tools). The pricing model is quickly evolving to a subscription based model (again not uncommon amongst most SaaS platforms these days). Customer support is fairly basic and can be escalated, but is cumbersome during critical periods.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    FP&A and close use cases at the moment, but are exploring additional use cases as we grow. As a global enterprise, we have performed several M&A activities that resulted in many planning processes & Excel-based packages. The tool consolidates all activity into 1 tool and eases corporate's requirement for consolidations. The tool also acts as the single source of truth for the forecast/budget and allows finance teams globally to perform their close reconciliations. There is a large automation piece factored in so users do not need to update Excel sheets manually every period or forecast cycle. This is a major time saver and resolves most user errors when managing manual calculations. The tool also consolidates master data so all teams operate on 1 standard and prevents the misstatement of KPIs based on segregated hierarchies. Overall, Anaplan is the starting point to create consistency and flexibility in how we manage our FP&A processes.
    Srinivas Chappidi

    Cloud technology enhances budgeting and reporting with intuitive features

    Reviewed on Jul 28, 2025
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    What is our primary use case?

    My client is using Anaplan  for budgeting and planning purposes. They execute their budgeting and planning processes by utilizing this tool.

    What is most valuable?

    Both Hyperion  and Anaplan  serve the same purpose for budgeting and planning, but Anaplan is cloud-based. Previously, my client was using Oracle Hyperion  Planning and Essbase , which was on-premises. Anaplan, being a cloud-based platform, allows customers to adapt easily. It is easier to enter data, load data, and develop reports compared to Hyperion.

    In Anaplan, once you create a system, the end user can utilize the reports immediately. Users can create UX pages with boards and worksheets. The boards contain different cards such as bar cards, chart cards, map cards, KPI cards, and field cards. These cards are used for high-level reports and top-level management reporting. For plant-wise location, worksheets can be created for analysis purposes, analyzing data at the plant level, while reports are used for top-level purposes.

    The board functionality works similarly to a dashboard, where users can add different cards. Users can drag data and add chart cards, field cards, map cards, and KPI cards to a single board.

    Anaplan can handle large sets of data and models within its ecosystem. Data volume is not an issue for the platform.

    What needs improvement?

    The tool is very effective from a user perspective, providing good analysis and reporting capabilities. It is an excellent tool for financial planning, supply chain planning, and territory and quota planning.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have a total of 3.5 years of experience in Anaplan.

    How are customer service and support?

    I provide technical support for clients but have not had experience contacting Anaplan's technical support directly.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Positive

    How was the initial setup?

    The setup of Anaplan is very straightforward.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    Currently, Anaplan is more expensive compared to other tools. This pricing is based on the tool's demands. However, I believe the price might decrease after some time.

    What other advice do I have?

    I previously worked with Hyperion Essbase  and Hyperion Planning from Oracle, and now I work with Anaplan technology.

    I provide technical support to users for security-related issues, creating new administration roles, and workflow management. We assist with security provisioning, user creation, workflow issues, and technical business logic modifications. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Anaplan a 9.

    If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

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