Anaplan pros and cons

Vendor: Anaplan

4.0 out of 5

24 reviews
95% willing to recommend

428 followers

Anaplan Pros review quotes

JM

Founder and CEO at FP&A Strategy Consulting

Aug 24, 2021

Where we're seeing the opportunity in the market is at the Fortune 100 companies that have far more complex modeling type scenarios where you need to be able to have a lot of people collaborating together, and you need a lot of information all at everyone's fingertips. This is where you see the big advantage of a solution like Anaplan.

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DB

reviewer1129758

Senior Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Jan 19, 2022

Anaplan integrates well into my clients' core systems. The ability to aggregate the forms within the dashboarding is also useful. Only one of my clients has implemented workflow. Their usage has been very light. Dashboarding capability is probably the biggest one. My clients like having the ability to aggregate, slice and dice, and dynamically adjust things in the dashboards.

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SA

Lead Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Sep 20, 2021

Anaplan's in-memory calculation engine is super-fast compared to the old tools we previously used. You enter the data and everything shows up in one go.

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Praveen Jagadeesan

Technical Product Owner - EPM at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Nov 2, 2021

It's real-time connected planning, so the calculations are pretty much seamless as far as your model is connected.

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MM

Solution Architect and Model Builder at Changement pvt ltd

Aug 17, 2021

The solution scales well.

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VM

reviewer1646526

Senior Anaplan Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Aug 10, 2021

You don't need to have a programming language to use Anaplan.

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KC

reviewer1655052

Consultant

Aug 20, 2021

It's highly flexible. If you've got a complex environment with complex calculations, you can build that out. So that's a really good positive.

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Melquisedec Salenga

Data Engineering Sr Analyst

Aug 16, 2021

I believe Anaplan is a new cloud tool, and from time to time, there's a lot of improvement that the Anaplan company deploys with the system. So, with that improvement, we need to really adapt and know the new system trends.

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SA

Manager at Xceedance

Dec 10, 2021

The solution works very well for budgeting.

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ST

Anaplan Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 27, 2023

Anaplan provides 130 GB of cloud storage for organizations to use as part of their license.

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Anaplan Cons review quotes

JM

Founder and CEO at FP&A Strategy Consulting

Aug 24, 2021

Anaplan is a relatively expensive piece of software.

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DB

reviewer1129758

Senior Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Jan 19, 2022

Anaplan's workflow component is probably the biggest area for improvement. I'd also like to see Anaplan add an ad hoc reporting tool that allows users to query things. It's going to factor into how you design your data set and your models, but I'd like the ability to create ad hoc queries against the data that's in there.

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SA

Lead Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Sep 20, 2021

The cloud engine slows down when working with a large dataset. It still lacks a powerful engine.

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Praveen Jagadeesan

Technical Product Owner - EPM at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Nov 2, 2021

There are workspace issues, like the limitation on model sizes.

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MM

Solution Architect and Model Builder at Changement pvt ltd

Aug 17, 2021

There are so many business rules to set up in the system that as a business user it's hard to gauge what they're doing and it's possible to get lost.

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VM

reviewer1646526

Senior Anaplan Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Aug 10, 2021

It would be nice if the solution offered better extensions.

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KC

reviewer1655052

Consultant

Aug 20, 2021

The negative is that the higher the flexibility, the higher is the complexity. That can act against you as a negative because it does require a model builder or a coder/developer.

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Melquisedec Salenga

Data Engineering Sr Analyst

Aug 16, 2021

The dashboard could be better. Because within a dashboard or report, you have to do a lot of scrolling. You need to scroll down because the table doesn't fit in a single view. That's why even the users aren't happy with that kind of user experience. They need to scroll to see all the data, and it could be better if it fits in just one page. That way, you can see everything. In the next release, I want automation that's connected to Anaplan. For example, to load master data from SAP to Anaplan. I don't know if this already exists, but a log where you can see the progress and see if there's an error will also help. It would be better to give you the error message, for example, if there is an error within the automated process importing to Anaplan.

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SA

Manager at Xceedance

Dec 10, 2021

The integration technique should be a little bit easier.

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ST

Anaplan Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 27, 2023

The solution can improve by providing an easier form of integration to different platforms, such as receiving data from different Salesforce. There is a process to do it through the use of some APIs but it could be made much easier. This would be a large help to us.

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