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Anaplan

514 Reviews and Ratings

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360 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Anaplan

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    		Anaplan is a scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in complex business environments so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, the Anaplan platform surfaces key insights.N/A

    Vena

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		Vena Solutions provides a financial process automation solution to automate Corporate Performance Management, accounting and budgeting, Regulatory & Compliance, and other finance-related processes. It is scaled for medium to large-sized organizations.N/A
    Pricing
    AnaplanVena
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    N/A
    Complete
    N/A
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AnaplanVena
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—The Professional Plan is the most flexible way to get started quickly and can be added onto as a company grows. The plan includes: Vena Platform, Customer Success Manager, Standard Support and Customer Portal. Complete Plan includes everything in Professional, plus: Vena Insights, Premium Support, Sandbox Environment, and Expert Managed Services. For a limited time, new customers who use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Online) as their primary ERP can get a free year of Vena and 40% off implementation costs. Vena also offers special pricing for not for profit organizations. To learn more, speak to an expert.
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    Community Pulse
    AnaplanVena
    Considered Both Products
    Anaplan
    Andris Ingiļāvičus
    Senior Anaplan Consultant in Information Technology at Keyrus (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Anaplan
    Compared to OneStream and Venna Anaplan offers a more modern look and feel of the platform. It is better situated and maintained in regards of platform updates as it's a full SaaS software there are never any issues with the system version as it's always automatically up to …
    Incentivized
    Alejandro Gomez
    in Information Technology at Mentat Technology (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Anaplan
    Anaplan combines the best of both worlds, the flexibility, ease of use, and freedom of modeling of a spreadsheet and the control, calculation power, and reliability of the best planning, budgeting, and consolidation software vendors.
    Incentivized
    Josh Baker
    Vice President of IT in Information Technology at PJT Partners (Banking, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Anaplan

    Other platforms offer some scale vs Anaplan by adding great user interfaces and many out of the box functionality (Time filtering, versions, predefined tables (modeled sheet), chart of accounts (debit, credit)). However, very structured architecture makes edge use cases harder …

    Incentivized
    Vena Solutions
    Dipak Ugale
    System Integration Consultant in Engineering at JLL (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Vena
    Vena is much faster than other such software which is available in market. If we talking about pricing $$$ so Vena is affordable to smaller companies also. it's help us quicker integrations with other software and User Interface is much better than other software. Vena gives …
    Incentivized
    Tim Kan
    Senior Manager in Finance and Accounting at Archaea Energy (Renewables & Environment, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Vena
    The best ROI and the honesty that the sales team brought
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Vena
    Ultimately we decided on Vena because of the Excel interface which we knew would improve adoption. We also like the platform agnostic integration and easy-to-use web interface. The OLAP cube was also appealing to allow for a variety of pivoted reports.
    Incentivized
    Andrea Croak, CPA, MBA
    Financial Planning & Analysis Lead in Finance and Accounting at Builder Homesite Inc. (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Vena
    The Excel functionality better suited our end users.
    Incentivized
    Nicolas LEFEVRE
    Directeur Principal - Conseil en Management - Responsable Anaplan, Vena et SAP in Professional Services at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton (Accounting, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Vena
    More flexible and Excel embedded
    Cloud Solution
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AnaplanVena
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    7.4
    214 Ratings
    Vena
    7.1
    112 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.47 Ratings6.571 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.9214 Ratings7.5100 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.96 Ratings7.4108 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    Vena
    7.6
    202 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.18 Ratings8.3196 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.18 Ratings8.4194 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.18 Ratings8.4171 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.370 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    8.4
    221 Ratings
    Vena
    8.3
    159 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.67 Ratings7.783 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.9219 Ratings9.1115 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.2192 Ratings8.1134 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.98 Ratings8.5120 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    8.2
    8 Ratings
    Vena
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.17 Ratings8.094 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.17 Ratings7.477 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.43 Ratings7.383 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    9.3
    224 Ratings
    Vena
    8.3
    196 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.18 Ratings9.1184 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.8224 Ratings7.9183 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.18 Ratings8.3186 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.773 Ratings8.550 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.18 Ratings7.9142 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    7.6
    213 Ratings
    Vena
    7.3
    102 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.3204 Ratings7.799 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.3190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.9198 Ratings7.087 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    8.9
    322 Ratings
    Vena
    8.1
    242 Ratings
    Long-term financial planning9.1297 Ratings8.1218 Ratings
    Financial budgeting9.3301 Ratings8.3233 Ratings
    Forecasting9.3310 Ratings7.2224 Ratings
    Scenario modeling9.2312 Ratings7.6203 Ratings
    Management reporting7.7311 Ratings9.1230 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    7.7
    275 Ratings
    Vena
    7.6
    211 Ratings
    Financial data consolidation8.0255 Ratings9.0182 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports7.4211 Ratings7.4133 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.312 Ratings6.2128 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations7.39 Ratings7.8126 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.38 Ratings6.589 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting7.7244 Ratings8.0160 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails9.0256 Ratings8.2186 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    8.0
    293 Ratings
    Vena
    8.0
    231 Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting9.0271 Ratings8.4206 Ratings
    Management Reporting8.0284 Ratings8.4216 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting7.8262 Ratings9.2225 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting8.214 Ratings7.6168 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing7.31 Ratings6.565 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    9.2
    313 Ratings
    Vena
    7.5
    178 Ratings
    Personalized dashboards8.5307 Ratings8.4151 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards9.4291 Ratings8.6115 Ratings
    KPIs9.120 Ratings6.2131 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis9.3270 Ratings7.7142 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting9.5281 Ratings7.1128 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data9.114 Ratings6.8100 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Anaplan and Vena
    Feature
    Anaplan
    8.1
    319 Ratings
    Vena
    8.8
    227 Ratings
    Flat file integration8.9309 Ratings8.4185 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.8287 Ratings9.1211 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.5269 Ratings8.8169 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AnaplanVena
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (335 ratings)
    8.2
    (246 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (35 ratings)
    8.4
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (64 ratings)
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.2
    (27 ratings)
    8.6
    (100 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.9
    (27 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)