We performed a comparison between Anaplan and Planful based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Anaplan's most valuable features are that it's a no-coding platform, everything can be scaled to your other functions, and it's easy to learn and use (especially because Anaplan provides excellent interactive training)."
"Technical support has been good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is web-based and easy to use."
"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."
"The solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature of Anaplan is machine learning. The solution is constantly evolving from feedback. Additionally, there is a wide range of training material online."
"You don't need to have a programming language to use Anaplan."
"This product has a very good modeling feature, and its graphical representation of visualizations has also been valuable."
"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."
"Automation needs to be built into this solution."
"Anaplan should come up with flexible options to connect to a data warehouse rather than an Anaplan hub."
"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."
"The integration technique should be a little bit easier."
"Anaplan could be improved with a stronger consolidation module."
"Space and integration are a problem."
"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."
"The visualization tools in the product are limited in comparison to other reporting tools."
"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."
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Anaplan is ranked 1st in Business Performance Management with 24 reviews while Planful is ranked 16th in Business Performance Management. Anaplan is rated 8.0, while Planful is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaplan writes "Great for large-scale modelling, easy to learn, and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planful writes "It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve". Anaplan is most compared with SAP ERP, Oracle Hyperion, SAP S/4HANA, IBM Planning Analytics and NetSuite ERP, whereas Planful is most compared with Adaptive Insights, Vena, Board, Prophix and Oracle HFM.
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