Low code knowledge is required to maintain the models. On-cloud platform which enables real-time data displayed as you plan your scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Handling sparse data and model performance when solution gets too complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it's developed for business users who prefer excel-style planning by sheets

powerful and plain development tools oriented toward financial users - no tech background required for building models

process-enhanced excel with advanced reporting and analytics functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

their marketing and sales approach.

evangelistic marketing - sometimes it feels like new iPhone presentation or weight loss drug fair.

core platform worth its money, all non-core products ridiculously overpriced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is an excellent EPM tool for business process planning. Its computing power allows you to produce real-time simulations of several scenarios based on complex sets of hypotheses defined for and by the business.

Data processing is comprehensive, covering a wide range of business needs through a large number of native functions and formulas.

A large number of use cases can be modelled.

The user experience is simple to set up, pleasant to use and allows a large number of graphical displays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite its many strengths, Anaplan could benefit from better rendering tools for modelbuilders to manage complex models. The lack of a ‘saved views’ parameter-setting page, similar to the ‘lineItem’ page, can lead to a loss of time when analysing complex models.

There is also not easy to find indication of the publication of modules, and this information could be needed for a detailed analysis, particularly in the case of models with a very large number of pages in their app.

These few elements could improve the modelling experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to login, reports of my comissions each month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no details in the comission payouts, no able to downloads reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From a partner's perspective, it is so easy to learn the programming language. From a user perspective, I like how easy it is to update front-end pages when I want to have a specific view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The company is growing quickly, and sometimes they might not keep up with the client requirements. But they seem to always push for more which is fantastic. So far, there wasn't a problem for which they didn't have an immediate solution or a workaround. So that's great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High flexibility

Anaplan's high flexibility allows it to replace most of the work done in Excel. It is like writing code.

High Performance

Anaplan can handle huge amounts of data that Excel and spreadsheets cannot handle. If designed well, there is no waiting time.

Quick development

Since a wide variety of components such as functions, batch processing, simple ELT, and AI functions are provided in advance, the system can be developed much faster than if you had to write code from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fewer graphs

While we already have simple graphs that are commonly used, in rare cases we are unable to meet our client's needs due to graph limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of my engagements on Anaplan have been around financial planning with very large and complex data sets. Anaplan's ability to allow you to slice, dice and join data to calculate forecasts is something I haven't seen on any other platform at this scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main issue I have only applies to using the Polaris engine. In Polaris, there are functions and formulas that are unavailable that are otherwise available in the standard Anaplan platform. This requires the users to think through their build and construct the model in a way that avoids these issues. Additionally, when developing in Polaris, extra care needs to be taken to ensure proper syntax as the "toaster" can take longer than in a standard Anaplan model to clear when an error is made. In general, I would recommend customers weight the pros and cons of Polaris and work with an experienced Imiplementation Partner. This should help ensure a smooth decision-making process, model build and model rollout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is an easy-to-use SaaS platform with global coverage. Over the last 10 years, they have adopted the best-in-class funcitonalities on their platform to rival other big players in the EPM space such as Oracle, SAP and TM1. It is used for enterprise wide planning and improving collaboration among various teams within an organisation from finance to sales, HR, marketing, tax, operations and treasury to name a few. The platform uses simple drag and drop functionality along with excel-like scripting to build models and front-end pages, resulting in quicker adoption times for both end-users and new model builders and making implementation a breeze. The Anaplan REST API can be leveraged to connect the system to other existing ERPs and master data source system to ensure integrity of data across an enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Anaplan has recently produced some exceptional functionalities like geo-mapping and workflow, and has a strong roadmap with GenAI coming into the picture soon, a lot of these capabilities (such as Workflow, or the new Polaris engine) come at an additional cost to customers. A lot of times customers are discouraged from using these features due to the additional price tag. This prevents consultants and partners like us from leveraging the full power of Anaplan to implement for the customer. However, the minimum/basic features that come with an enterprise licence are sufficient for a great start to the Anaplan journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Model Customization - It truly is an open box. This can be a double edge sword if not implemented right, or if requirements are not understood during development, but otherwise this allows for great flexibility in how things could be planned.

Traceability- With formula drill downs, input cell user history, and model history there are a multitude of ways to track and audit end figures in Anaplan. This is nice sitting in a finance team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Two major sticking points for me, Cube size and lack of ALM in the UX.

Cube Size - Unless you use Anaplan's Polaris models, it can become cumbersome to have many (or large) dimensions planned together. This can lead to size restraints, resorting to managing composite/concatenated list structures.

No ALM in the UX - Currently there is not a way to publish dashboard changes to a DEV environment, and then push them seamlessly to a UAT or PROD environment. As a result, it requires copying pages & repointing them - as an alternative of publishing changes across all Dev/UAT/Prod UX pages simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anaplan is a great tool for taking companies to the next level of planning capabilities. The ability to connect an enterprise in real time drives down the time and cost of running a planning cycle and pivoting based on new challenges and changing variables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can take a while to get used to the model building approach and reshaping your brain to think in multidimensional terms, especially if coming from a traditional planners toolkit (Excel). I will say the training does a good job of being thorough and on demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.