Anaplan
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Empowers Business Users with Flexible, User-Friendly Low-Code Platform
What do you like best about the product?
This is a low-code/no-code platform that empowers business users to take ownership of their applications, reducing dependence on IT and eliminating common bottlenecks. Its hyper-block technology supports real-time collaboration throughout the organization, helping to break down silos. The platform also gives you the flexibility to define your own models without being constrained by rigid structures or limitations. It's user friendly UX allows model builder to build highly customized UX with KPIs, Charts and Conditional formatted tables, hence improving overall user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
The extra efforts in handling sparsity of the model; we need to spend significant efforts in building concatenated list to reduce sparsity of the model to gain better performance. Polaris seems to be an answer for that, however, the costs of the license would be higher.
The limitation in reporting, currently we are restricted to do slice and dice on the reporting dimensions included in the module. It would be nice if we could also include properties of the reporting dimensions to achieve something similar in BI tools.
The current solution on this would be exporting the data with the properties and build those kinds of reports in BI tools.
The limitation in reporting, currently we are restricted to do slice and dice on the reporting dimensions included in the module. It would be nice if we could also include properties of the reporting dimensions to achieve something similar in BI tools.
The current solution on this would be exporting the data with the properties and build those kinds of reports in BI tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan effectively replaces disconnected Excel-based processes by creating a single, cloud-based planning environment where all teams work from the same real-time data. Instead of juggling multiple spreadsheets across departments, Anaplan connects finance, sales, supply chain, and HR into one integrated model.
This eliminates version-control issues, reduces manual consolidation, and ensures consistent assumptions and formulas across the enterprise. Users can collaborate simultaneously, run live “what-if” scenarios, and update plans instantly — without waiting for manual data rollups.
By removing Excel silos, Anaplan improves data accuracy, speeds up decision-making, and shifts focus from spreadsheet maintenance to value-added analysis. The result is a more agile, transparent, and collaborative planning culture across the company.
This eliminates version-control issues, reduces manual consolidation, and ensures consistent assumptions and formulas across the enterprise. Users can collaborate simultaneously, run live “what-if” scenarios, and update plans instantly — without waiting for manual data rollups.
By removing Excel silos, Anaplan improves data accuracy, speeds up decision-making, and shifts focus from spreadsheet maintenance to value-added analysis. The result is a more agile, transparent, and collaborative planning culture across the company.
Flexibility and Power for Complex planning tasks.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is highly capable and can handle any task with impressive flexibility and power. It is also able to manage large amounts of data effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is a very expensive tool, but it can be worthwhile if you develop a well-defined use case. Although Anaplan is capable of handling almost any task, it's important to consider whether a particular task truly needs to be done within Anaplan, or if it would be more cost-effective to handle it elsewhere. We should remember, that Anaplan is the planning tool at first. For example, raw data transformation might be better performed outside of Anaplan to save on performance / cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having worked in the consultancy business for many years, I deal with clients' challenges on a daily basis. Anaplan supports its clients across a wide range of use cases, but what stands out most is how Anaplan serves as a single source of truth for key planning processes within a company. This centralization helps eliminate data silos and allows Anaplan to function as an effective process orchestrator.
Smarter Forecasts, Stronger Decisions through Integrated Finance Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud-based software platform primarily designed for Connected Planning, and it has now expanded its capabilities to include finance, sales, supply chain, retail, and workforce management. The platform enables users to conduct dynamic scenario analysis, variance analysis, and generate real-time reports within the application. As a low-code solution, Anaplan can be easily managed by business users after the initial implementation. Recently, Anaplan introduced Financial Close and Consolidation solutions, providing a more comprehensive financial offering. Additionally, the product features prebuilt applications that help organizations reduce implementation time by two to three weeks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has consistently faced challenges due to its expensive licensing model and performance limitations when handling large datasets. The basic AI and Gen AI features are not only costly but also have a very limited user base, as their use cases are quite narrow. Achieving scalability with Anaplan comes at a significant expense. Additionally, its ad hoc analysis capabilities, especially in Excel, are much weaker compared to other EPM tools, which forces users to rely solely on the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has provided us with a comprehensive end-to-end connected planning solution. The product's modeling capabilities are straightforward and do not rely heavily on other products or tools. Recent improvements in third-party software integration, particularly through ADO, have made it much easier and faster to pull data from various sources. Anaplan's support service is very responsive, typically replying within a few hours. Software updates are seamless and do not require assistance from the development or support teams. Anaplan has been valuable for both opportunity and demand planning, enabling us to identify opportunities that are likely to convert quickly into sales. Additionally, it provides us with useful aging reports.
Seamless Collaboration and Real-Time Planning Power
What do you like best about the product?
Real-time data updates make planning super smooth.
Flexible modeling — easy to tweak logic anytime.
Seamless collaboration across teams in one place.
Flexible modeling — easy to tweak logic anytime.
Seamless collaboration across teams in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
Large models can get a bit slow at times.
Debugging complex formulas isn’t always intuitive.
Limited visualization options compared to BI tools.
Debugging complex formulas isn’t always intuitive.
Limited visualization options compared to BI tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps bring all planning activities into one connected platform. It removes manual Excel work, ensures real-time data accuracy, and makes collaboration across teams much easier. Overall, it speeds up decision-making and gives better visibility into business performance
Unmatched Flexibility for Financial Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is best tool for Financial planning. Anaplan gives you the flexibility to design the solution based on the organizations requirement. It is very flexible as we start from scratch and we dont have any rigid prebuilt template that we have to follow. It is very easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting functionality in Anaplan leaves much to be desired.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is helping in standardizing the process across organization. It gives an easy view of the reports to the management which were spread across multiple excel sheets.
Unmatched Scalability and Flexibility for All Your Planning Needs
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability and flexibility in planning is the cornerstone feature of this product. Errors associated with excel based planning can be eliminated and much more can be done with productivity improvements. The calculation engine Hyperblock is the foundation that powers this tool. The ability to customize for any type of planning be it sales, finance, supply chain, headcount etc helps in exploiting synergies of different orgs. In addition, the new features like combined grids, ADO etc will definitely make it a serious product in the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
More AI features are required for the increasingly competitive industry. The product roadmap is already filled with AI roadmap so it is just a matter of time. The tool is costly and the pricing definitely needs to be standardized and made transparent for all customers. Also, there should be focus to replace visualization tools like PowerBI by bringing in visual planning. This has been addressed with geo-mapping feature that is released recently but Anaplan should be bringing in and constantly improving the features like these. On the upsteam, the integration ability with other systems should be made easily. ADO is definitely a game-changer but it needs to be bi-directional.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We plan our sales performance and territory management with Anaplan. It has been great and suits our use-case well. We dynamically manage territories and Anaplan has improved our productivity by mostly eliminating our manual workload. The sales cycle, which used to take months, has been reduced typically to days. The time to value is great, and they are making a lot of improvements to the product roadmap which we are looking forward to. Also, we identify the potential of a territory and it helps make decisions quickly and manage workloads of reps. We are also using it to segment and prioritize the accounts within different businesses.
Highly Adaptable Platform That Grows with Your Business
What do you like best about the product?
The platform's modularity accommodates even the most specialized business processes, enabling us to have the platform adapt to our business needs rather than forcing our business to adapt to the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform lacks extensibility, which has forced us to create several workarounds to better integrate it with our process automation. Features released at each initial GA stage often feel incomplete or fall short of what was promised on the roadmap. That said, these features do tend to improve over time and eventually align with the original vision. We've also experienced moderate to significant cost increases during each contract negotiation, particularly when there are changes to platform features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform offers strong data governance, providing a single source of truth for forecasting approaches. Its forecasting models are straightforward and easy to understand, and the data integration processes are also simple to follow.
Unmatched Scalability and Flexibility for Any Business Process
What do you like best about the product?
The scalability and flexibility. Any business process for a multitude of use cases (FPA, SPM, WFM, Call Center Planning, etc.) that can be dreamed up can be implemented in Anaplan
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a large push to out of the box applications so increase time to value. I understand why this makes sense as not every company has the funds and capacity to implement a tool from scratch, but Anaplan has been very successful help companies implement the business process that fits them best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At my company, we rely on it to monitor our staffing across projects, track project margins, forecast deliverables, and handle many other tasks. It serves as a central hub where everyone can see how we are progressing toward our goals and where any issues can be flagged. This setup has made my job much easier, as project managers can update their own items without needing my constant involvement, ensuring I always have access to the most current reports I need.
A fantastic multi-purpose EPM platform for true Cross Planning & Analytics (XPA)
What do you like best about the product?
Highly flexible, highly configurable, ever-improving UX and ever-growing list of functionalities such AI, ADO or Excel add in.
What do you dislike about the product?
The sales strategy felt overly aggressive, and there’s room for improvement in the account executives’ product expertise to provide a smoother purchasing and renewal process. An experiences and trusted advisor is needed to know when to choose pre-built Apps over Customised models, Standard Calculation Engine vs Polaris or other options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlined, controlled and auditable FP&A across business areas and regions. Best in-class Demand Plan connected to Supply.
Feature-Rich and Responsive, But UX Needs Modernization
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan has added a ton of features over the last year and seems like they really are listening to feedback. Workflow has improved immensely. The new calculation engine addresses major concerns of the past version. And now with combined grids, that solves for one of the largest headaches in development.
What do you dislike about the product?
A key dislike of the platform - at times the UX pages can look clunky and old fashioned. Especially when compared to some competitors solutions from best in class reporting tools like Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan can solve for tons of problems - lately I've used for budget forecasting, FP&A, SaaS revenue and Capacity Planning
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