Anaplan Reviews & Product Details

Anaplan brings different departments together on a single, cloud-based platform. Instead of working in separate spreadsheets or systems, both teams share one source of truth — linking headcount, compensation, and workforce plans directly to financial forecasts and budgets, for example.

The advance and easy to implement security allows you have multiple profiles on the same page and any update can be automatically reflected on the end-user reports. Anaplan has recently released new functionalities that make it easier to apply AI forecasting and the Polaris engine allows you to analyse very sparse datasets and slice and dice the data in new and creative ways.

By breaking down silos, Anaplan helps organizations align operations and talent strategy with financial goals — ensuring plans stay agile, transparent, and tightly integrated across both functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Downsides of Anaplan revolve around the time needed to certify users around the platform, lack of automated connectors with other EPM tools and lack of customization for the reports 9even though this area has shown great improvement in recent years with many interesting items on the pipeline). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You don’t have to make the same changes in both Dev and Prod. You can simply sync the models instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no guardrails in place, and everything gets pushed to prod regardless of the code’s calculation effort, poorly written code, or design issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan's powerful and in-memory calculation engine helps provide near real-time experience to the users

High scalability, Auditing, and all the other features make Anaplan an enterprise solution

Customer support helps get through any hurdles at a much faster pace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its single-threaded nature makes it sometimes hung if something is running already, for instance, a data load process or something related to a wrong command, etc. which puts all the users on a halt for a few seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is a tool that is easy to use, not only for end users but also for developers building planning applications. The structure, building blocks, and user-friendly ("Excel-like") modeling interface make this tool suitable for a wide range of use cases, from financial forecasting and sales performance to supply chain. One tool enables the chaining of different areas, creating a unified environment with real-time collaboration that allows end users to view the latest updates made within the team or by other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool lacks some essential features that could help developers and users build and utilize the tool more effectively and fully leverage its potential. Lack of versioning, partial promotions, multifilter, or long rollback times are some of the most missing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Anaplan for the past 10 years, and witnessed Anaplan ongoing product enhancements.

1.Regular updates ranging from modeling capabilities, user interface improvements, user management, machine learning based forecasting, workflow automation features makes Anaplan an increasingly powerful and user friendly platform.

2. Implementation time with Anaplan is notably shorter compared to other Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools, allowing organizations to deploy solutions faster and realize value more quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, I really enjoy modeling in Anaplan and its capabilities. However, I believe there’s still room for improvement in the user experience (UX) to enhance usability. Additionally, some Excel functionalities are not yet available in Anaplan, which occasionally requires workarounds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate Anaplan's flexibility in allowing me to model nearly any business logic, regardless of complexity or unique company requirements, while keeping it clean and scalable. Despite its powerful capabilities, Anaplan operates with surprising speed, enabling quick model updates, such as changes in compensation plans or new scenarios, without needing to rebuild everything from scratch. This rapid adaptability allows me to transform ideas into functional models in a matter of days, rather than waiting for longer development cycles. I love the transparency Anaplan offers, as it allows me to trace numbers back to their source, providing an opportunity to address and fix discrepancies directly, which shifts planning from detective work to genuine operational intelligence. This traceability ensures that every metric can be followed back to its origin, facilitating instant issue resolution. The combination of flexibility and transparency makes planning faster, more efficient, and significantly more reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find that Anaplan presents a steep learning curve for new builders. Understanding elements like sparsity, model architecture, and integrating lists, modules, and formulas can be overwhelming at first. Even for experienced users, navigating through Anaplan’s UX can be time-consuming due to quirks in the interface. Additionally, while data integrations have improved over time, they still fall short of the seamless and modern experience that many clients expect. Anaplan’s performance can decline if a model isn’t perfectly architected, leaving little room for error in design. Overall, while it’s a powerful tool, it requires skilled builders and thoughtfully planned governance to make the most of its capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a long-time implementation partner of Anaplan, I can definitely vouch for its native cloud system where it is built for ease of implementing building of models as well as intuitive and collaborative UX features which make business users understand and use Anaplan efficiently. Latest features like workflow and ADO have been incorporated which allows data management and loading in-house leading to greater data quality loaded into models and also managing tasks like approvals and automation easily. Vast customer support portal and community wherein there are new ideas as well as readily available solutions. Integration to and from Anaplan for database and well as BI tools and also custom integrations possible using API. Excellent safety and security features to ensure role as well as granular access for users can be managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the initial phase, it can be a bit tricky to get around, especially for users with new/limited experience. Essentially a planning tool, not a data and BI tool completely, so for BI features, you need to link to external tools for rich reports and charts, although the new UX provides great options. Bulk adding of users in a workspace is not possible. Lesser use of AI features for now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is kind of excel on cloud with advanced capabilities and can manage more complex data model, have better visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan doesn't have any out-of-the-box advanced templates for say supply chain planning and thus everything can be build from scratch but it is lot of efforts during the implementation of the use case phase and not recommended for clients who want the solution very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is a powerful and user-friendly solution that integrates easily, making it ideal for planning business processes of any complexity. It significantly reduces the time required to accomplish these tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

However, implementing the solution can become quite tedious if the publisher's recommended best practices are not adhered to. Careful attention to design is crucial for developing an effective tool and ensuring that users are able to fully adopt the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.