How is anaplan different?

Anaplan offers both customizable "out of the box" app solutions as well as the flexibility to create your own models depending on your business needs. At it's core Anaplan is a real-time calculation engine which when used correctly can reduce your time to tangible actionable business results. Anaplan for us offers the ultimate level of flexibility that is able to scale/adapt as our business grows and evolves.

Anaplan stands out as a cloud-based platform designed for comprehensive business planning and performance management. What distinguishes Anaplan from other solutions is its commitment to connected planning, fostering collaboration across the enterprise by intertwining data, people, and plans. Offering flexibility and scalability, Anaplan allows users to tailor the platform to their specific planning needs without extensive coding, making it adaptable for organizations of varying sizes. Its advanced modeling and simulation capabilities empower users to create dynamic models, facilitating scenario planning and informed decision-making. Real-time collaboration features enable teams to work concurrently on plans, reducing organizational silos. Anaplan's integration capabilities with external systems, such as ERP and CRM, ensure a holistic view by incorporating data from various sources. Additionally, its cloud-based nature allows for continuous updates and improvements, ensuring users have access to the latest features without disruption. This emphasis on connectivity, flexibility, and continuous enhancement positions Anaplan as a robust solution for modern business planning challenges.

Anaplan is up to date modern and powerfull platform for integrated planning. In my opinion key points - Possible to manage and support by people from business no IT (however center of execllence in case of of using all benefits and opportunities of platform). - More easy for changing in business/process requirements. Not so rigid like older solutions. - Great marketing and learning materials. Great top notch learning center which helps to be involved in modeling with anaplan. - Lots of cool feauters that many other vendors do not have like: ALM (DEV-TST-PROD environment), Workflow (new), restoring to any point of system, auto creation of model map etc. - Despite Anaplan is quite mature and stable platform it is still developing and adding new features and fuctionality. - No need for own IT . All It infrastructure on vendors's clouds (however not only Anaplan )

Anaplan is a blank model when you start with but you can implement anything using Anaplan tool. Implementation duration can be very less in implementing in Anaplan. Turnaround time in production to fix any issues also quicker. Easy to Onboard and adopt to the tool.

In-memory computing and multidimensionality set Anaplan apart from its competitors. Read more here: https://www.anaplan.com/platform/.