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Vendor: Anaplan
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Anaplan Pros review quotes

JM
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.
reviewer1129758 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2163972 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 10, 2024
Anaplan's scalability stands out compared to other platforms, especially for scenario planning and what-if analysis.
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SA
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.
PJ
Nov 2, 2021
It's real-time connected planning, so the calculations are pretty much seamless as far as your model is connected.
MM
Aug 17, 2021
The solution scales well.
reviewer1646526 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 10, 2021
You don't need to have a programming language to use Anaplan.
reviewer1655052 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MS
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.
SA
Dec 10, 2021
The solution works very well for budgeting.
 

Anaplan Cons review quotes

JM
Aug 24, 2021
Anaplan is a relatively expensive piece of software.
reviewer1129758 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2163972 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 10, 2024
One key area of improvement is pricing.
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SA
Sep 20, 2021
The cloud engine slows down when working with a large dataset. It still lacks a powerful engine.
PJ
Nov 2, 2021
There are workspace issues, like the limitation on model sizes.
MM
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.
reviewer1646526 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 10, 2021
It would be nice if the solution offered better extensions.
reviewer1655052 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MS
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.
SA
Dec 10, 2021
The integration technique should be a little bit easier.