Anaplan Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, and groups.

Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.

Is accessible from a mobile device and by users on the go.

Provides analytics tools that reveal important business metrics and track progress.

Creates dashboards to track information like open positions, current headcount, and recruiting pipeline.

Define compensation packages and allowance plans within the system. Specify the various components of compensation, including base pay, bonuses, and equity. Structure compensation pools and hierarchies for continual planning.

Coordinate new hire, transfer, promotion, and termination events within the system using rules to automatically facilitate the associated compensation adjustments.

Streamline the flow of work processes by establishing triggers and alerts that notify and route information to the appropriate people when their action is required within the compensation process.

Access employee compensation history and talent records when evaluating compensation adjustments to inform decision making.

Maintain compliance with corporate policies, state mandates, and federal regulations regarding compensation with built in compliance features, including automated identification and flagging of unapproved behaviors.

Integrate employee performance data from a third-party performance management solution to supplement compensation history and establish pay-for-performance compensation structures.

View budgetory allocations across the organization, compensation information related to individual employees or departments, and underlying compensation trends in analytics dashboards embedded in the system.

Create standard and ad-hoc reports of compensation data within the system. Trends and other graphical representations of data displayed by analytics dashboards can be included in reports.

Easily import data into or export data from the system, and access employee compensation data quickly within the system. Create compensation hierarchies so that managers can access relevant team information.

Extend compensation configurations around the globe using flexible location profiles, multiple language options, and automatic currency conversion tools within the system.

Predict the number and types of employees necessary to meet anticipated demand to control labor costs.

Plan employee work shifts according to availability and provide notifications to employees when they are scheduled.

Employees can submit paid time off (PTO) or leave of absence requests that managers can approve or deny within the platform.

Organize, sort, and view employees based on skills and qualifications in order to make smarter workforce decisions.

Identify high performing employees with potential to be promoted with minimal development.

Tools designed to help analyze employee data and develop baselines for evaluating and optimizing workforce management.

Managers and employees can create or claim available work shifts and receive notifications on their mobile device.

Message other team members or managers through built-in text or emailing functions and communicate scheduling or leave requests.

Assigns achievement badges to high-performing employees based on pre-determined standards.

Automatically recognizes achievements that should be added to the leaderboard.

Helps users determine sales goals by calculating potential commission rates.

Highlights top-performing employees to publicly reward their achievements.

Creates user profiles similar to social media pages that display private or public statuses and updates.

Generates reports with customizable fields to further understand employee performance.

Visualizes individual and team insights such as new leads and outbound calls.

Allows teams to set trackable goals within the tool.

Integrates with CRM and financial systems to help determine goals

Organizes team members by roles, activities and objectives and weighs tasks by importance.

Allows managers and administrators to peruse profiles and monitor employee behavior and performance.

Uses collected data to assist organizations in understanding what they can afford now, and in years to come.

Creates a continuous and recurrent planning process that can be calculated according to a specified and customizable timeline.

Leverages data from budgeting and forecasting processes to help corporations understand their reality and make decisions accordingly.

Offers methods of visualizing data via customizable dashboards, statistical graphs, and charts.

Scours data for actionable insights.

Allows users to customize their own reports according to business needs.

Provides pre-built reporting templates to organize data for payroll, manufacturing, and other company factions.

Allows for searchable communication within the tool via notes, checklists, and discussions to ensure clarity between users.

Reflects updates immediately, ensuring users have the most recent data while maintaining records of past performance.

Updates varying factors in real-time, assuring forecasts and inferences are continually made according to the most recent information.

Displays and shares company performance data to increase transparency across the board.

Analyzes aggregated supply chain and shipping data to gain predictive insight

Monitors and tracks the physical status of goods and materials

Aggregates and centralizes data regarding product movement, materials management, and financial information

Generates reports that identify KPIs and other relevant metrics

Project out as the year progresses to accommodate trends that affect key business drivers.

compare Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow for multiple periods

Forward-looking Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements are synchronized with GL data

Provides comprehensive visibility and oversight into supply chain operations

Provides inventory scheduling and inventory management functionalities

Provides employee scheduling and employee management functionalities

Automates the tracking and recording of activities within the entire supply chain lifecycle

Plan and optimize resources effectively.

Create supply plans based on things such as predicted demand, capacity, and material availability

Plan warehouse activity to execute adjustments to sales and inventory targets

Establish inventory targets based on changes to the sales plan

Ability to figure out what products to buy and when to buy them.

Import trial balance, monthly P&L, balance sheets, and other types of financial data

Define budget structure elements and how they are linked hierarchically

Keeps track of all versions of a budget and allows users to compare versions

Include budgeting formulas to estimate direct and indirect costs, operating and non-operating revenues

Test the potential financial impact of business decisions on revenues and expenses

Users can customize standard budget periods (3, 9, or 12 months)

Consolidate multiple budgets from different departments or business entities

Users with administrative access rights can modify budgets

Workflows are used to define the steps required to alter budgets and who needs to approve changes

Forecasting is based on past transactions and historical financial or operational data

Ability to recreate forecasts to include new information that may impact budgets

Support multiple types of forecasts such as balance sheet and cash flow forecasts

Used to review and update budgeting assumptions for a predefined period (usually one year)

Uses AI algorithms and models to predict future trends and outcomes, based on historical data and patterns

Data from multiple systems can be centralized into a single repository

Financial information can be imported from multiple sources such as spreadsheets, text files, or databases

Match invoices, payments, and bank statement information

Provide multiple types of reports such as point-in-time snapshot reports, or year over year

Offers standard financial reports out of the box

Allows users to edit reports and to combine multiple reports

Creates workflows to assign tasks for audit and inspections, monitor work in progress, timelines, and approvals.

Adjusts journal entries in order to have an accurate balance sheet and income statement

Financial statements and statistical reports (such as KPI) can be assembled into financial packages

Analysis that creates business plans outside of finance, including sales, marketing, or HR.

Reports on departmental KPI metrics measured against targets.

Consolidates planning processes across an organization into a single solution.

Ensures data is aligned and consistent across databases in departments like accounting, payroll, and recruiting

Provides overview of planning and prediction for current and future employee headcount

Outputs reports on headcount and budgeting analytics

Calculates outputs for budgeting and predicting expenses related to base compensation like salary and benefits

Offers integration with numerous adjacent HR and ERP software solutions like accounting, workforce management, CPM, HR analytics, org charts, and ATS

Provides overview of salaray ranges in relation to job levels

Offers the ability to rearrange company hierarchy and employee details in a chart format

Onboarding and offboarding procedures are automated to streamline approval processes for stakeholders

Displays and compares pay equity information, comparing the parity of pay across demographics.

Comes with native pay equity module or capabilities.

Facilitates organizing workers into salary bands and comparing or contrasting across different levels in the organization.

Provides ability to score accounts based on potential revenue to prioritize accordingly.

Provides ability to structure topline revenue goals.

Segment accounts based on ideal customer profile and business objectives.

Ability to monitor plan performance data to identify deviations and course correct for rep and business unit.

Forecast sales data for sales teams, individual reps, territories, or products.

Integrates with a variety of business systems to pull in relevant data and make data-driven decisions.

Abilty to create and run "what-if" scenario modeling to inform business decisions.

Ability to manage distribution of territories and alter segmentation and coverage to meet business goals.

Define territories to ensure optimized market coverage and allocate resources appropriately.

Ability to manage and adjust quotas continuously as needed based on market changes, new hires, territory changes.

Enable organizations to adjust sales capacity based on volatility such as headcount changes, restructuring, or organizational growth.

Design quota targets based on factors such as account size, rep performance, and pipeline needs.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Uses AI to ensure the following of rules and creates detailed audit trails which helps compliance and audit preparation.

Uses AI to match transactions across accounts and systems, and flag exceptions and discrepencies.

Uses AI to extract, clean, and validate financial data from disparate sources, while identifying errors and inconsistencies.

Generates AI-assisted financial reports and provides thorough analytical insights.