Anaplan

Anaplan is used for many typical use cases, starting from finance, supply chain, territory and quota planning, sales and operations planning, marketing management, call center planning, to incentive compensation, and many others. I do utilize Anaplan's scenario planning feature.

The multidimensionality helps significantly with scenario planning, allowing me to run various scenarios and check the outcomes, which suits my needs well. Anaplan performs exceptionally in scenario planning.

The user interface in simplifying data modeling is simple and user-friendly; it makes it easy for end users, and I often call it Excel on steroids because it is as easy to handle and use as Excel.

The strong points of Anaplan include the dashboarding capabilities, integration perspective, and various domain outcomes with multidimensionality, so there are various positive points, more than negatives.

When addressing what could be improved about Anaplan, I acknowledge that drawbacks can be the pricing, and at this point, the scalability is getting questioned due to several other tools emerging that are more scalable in nature, along with challenges in dealing with sparse data sets that increase the size of Anaplan considerably, which competitors are working on and challenging Anaplan's market position.

I believe the licensing cost for Anaplan is on the higher side, as there are cheaper options coming into the market, so I think it is somewhat overpriced.

I have been using Anaplan for more than eight years.

There were some integration issues earlier, but now, with product development and good integration capabilities, Anaplan is performing very well with new features. Previously, the product faced many integration challenges and was not supported by many integration suites, but that situation has significantly improved.

Anaplan as a company provides implementation services for customers. I am currently working on Anaplan for different companies, specifically in the internal finance team of Qualitest Global, where I support the internal Anaplan models.

In terms of technical support, I would rate Anaplan a two out of ten, as they are poor. They are not very responsive, and they often try to sell packages or new products every time I seek technical support, which is not satisfactory.

It does not take much time to deploy a solution according to the use case and the implementation being performed. The duration depends on various factors, such as whether I am working on a project that outputs only two reports, which will not take much time, or a bigger project with more than two hundred reports, which obviously takes more time, regardless of the finance side of it.

The number of people usually involved in implementation, such as configuration and deployment, depends on the size of the project. It depends on the size of the use case being implemented, and it is not fixed that a certain use case will require a specific number of resources.

For benefits utilization and measurement, I do not have any specific metrics for using Anaplan's real-time insights for decision-making.

When talking about cheaper options, I refer to Pigment and Board, which come at a slightly cheaper cost; it depends on what is being selected, and Onine is also somewhat on the cheaper side or perhaps equivalent.

Anaplan does not have on-premises deployment; it is all on cloud.

I have not found clarity in the basis of questions regarding what the best features in Anaplan are or why customers choose this solution over others on the market.

I still use Anaplan, though I have seen many peers moving out of Anaplan due to pricing scenarios.

I have not utilized predictive analytics in Anaplan.

I would rate this review a seven overall.