A budgeting and planning system that promotes real-time business performance improvement with supply chain management, financial, and sales modules.

Product Overview

Anaplan Connected Planning platform helps companies improve business performance in real-time. The cloud-based platform connects real-time data, people, and plans across your business. Modules offer functionality in sales, supply chain planning, marketing, IT, and workforce management.

Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s planning platform in every business function to make informed decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. The powerful in-memory engine, Hyperblock, supports detailed and complex planning models.

Pros

  • Connected Planning platform enables collaborative planning
  • Hyperblock™ modeling and calculation engine
  • Unified cloud-based software
  • Fast reactions to demand changes
  • Effectively monitors precisely defined KPIs

Cons

  • Pricing is on the high end
  • No embedded ETL tools in base plan
  • Specific pricing details unavailable from developer

Target Market

Large enterprises, particularly those in sales, operations, and finance. There are solutions for retail, manufacturing, technology, and financial industries.

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Key Features

Anaplan can be broken up into these modules and use cases:

Finance

Build financial plans and orchestrate performance with speed, precision, and true collaboration.

  • Cross-enterprise revenue planning
  • Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Capital project integrations for detailed capital planning
  • OpEx planning
  • Model generation and long-range scenario planning
  • Reporting and analysis

Sales

  • Sales capacity
  • Account segmentation and scoring
  • Territory planning
  • Sales forecasting
  • Quota planning
  • Deal desk
  • Sales forecasting
  • Incentive compensation

Supply Chain

  • Sales and operations planning
  • Predictive analytics
  • Demand planning
  • Supply planning
  • Product and sales forecasting
  • Supply chain finance
  • Trade promotions planning
  • Distribution requirements planning

HR & Workforce

  • Headcount and cost planning
  • Workforce capacity planning
  • Succession planning
  • Compensation and equity modeling
  • Workforce optimization, including call center
  • Talent strategy

Industries Served

  • Consumer goods
  • Financial and business services
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Technology and media

Product Overview

  • Type BI Tools
  • Client OS Web
  • Deployment Cloud Hosted

Developer Overview

  • Name Anaplan, Inc.
  • Year Founded 2006
  • Headquarters San Francisco ,California ,USA
  • Type Public (NYSE: PLAN)
  • Est. Size 1k-5k employees
  • Est. Revenue $100M-$200M

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User Reviews of Anaplan

RK Del Rosario
Overall
★★★★★
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Anaplan Review

February 4th, 2022 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

It used to take us five days to react to demand changes. Now, with Anaplan, it takes us less than five minutes to come up with the necessary adjustments in production.

Kerry Small
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Anaplan Review

February 4th, 2022 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Anaplan helps us to see what’s possible with collaborative planning–within sales, and across Vodafone.

Maxime Firth
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Anaplan Review

February 4th, 2022 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Thanks to precisely defined KPIs, we can effectively monitor activities and results at any level with Anaplan.