Anaplan vs Domo comparison

Anaplan and Domo are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Anaplan is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.7, while Domo is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.0. Anaplan holds a 13.4% mindshare in BPM, compared to Domo’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Anaplan users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of Domo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Domo and Anaplan are prominent players in the business intelligence and planning software category. Domo has an advantage in integration and user-friendliness, while Anaplan excels in modeling capabilities.

Features: Domo offers ease of use, integration capabilities, and an extensive array of data connectors, complemented by the Magic ETL tool that facilitates quick data merging. Anaplan provides robust modeling capabilities, flexible scalability, and seamless integration, especially with SAP, making it suitable for complex business environments.

Room for Improvement: Domo could enhance its visualization features, rendering speed, and data integration. Improvements in dashboard customization and support for larger data volumes are also suggested. Anaplan could offer more intuitive visualization tools and improved workspace management, with a focus on simplifying setup and integration processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Domo's cloud-based setup provides straightforward deployment, though there is a learning curve. Its customer service is generally responsive, while hands-on support is appreciated. Anaplan offers flexible cloud and hybrid deployment options but faces challenges in initial setup and consistency in customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Domo's pricing is flexible but potentially expensive, though users often find value in its rapid deployment and comprehensive features for quick ROI. Anaplan involves high initial costs, which can increase with storage and user licenses, but offers substantial ROI due to its complex modeling and planning capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Anaplan

Ranking in Business Performance Management

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Production Planning (5th), Predictive Analytics (4th)

Domo

Ranking in Business Performance Management

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (47th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (15th), Reporting (8th), Data Visualization (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Anaplan is 13.4%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Domo is 1.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Antonio Flor

Lead Anaplanner at Chaucer Group

Real-time data integration enhances operational efficiency and flexibility

As a client developer and solutions architect, I use Anaplan for building modules and deploying logic end-to-end. I work closely with the business in an agile manner to ensure the model aligns with business needs Anaplan offers flexibility in building different options within the platform. The…

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James John Wilson

Business Development Manager at Freelancer

Robust, powerful, and easy to use

There were very few cases on some of the tables, the data tables, where I wish there was an additional feature or two. However, they were particular. What I wanted to see was the ability to collapse when you group a set of rows, let's say when you group them by status or health, so you have your red projects grouped up top. I wanted to compress or collapse that group of red and then open the yellow projects and then the green projects. There were a bit more features in the tables than I wanted to see. They have a widget that you can use either in Microsoft PowerPoint to pull over data into your PowerPoints and refresh graphs or charts or metrics or tables. I would love to see that available in Google Slides. I used it successfully in PowerPoint; however, at one company, they were only using Google products, and so that widget didn't help with reporting in slides. Therefore, we had to do a bit more manual work for our quarterly business reviews or monthly business reviews to produce our executive presentations. Sometimes the fonts were difficult to read if you're trying to put a lot of data in a table and show a lot of rows. Sometimes the fonts got too light, and you had to really play with it to try and figure out how to make it readable. One thing I had to do, and I don't know if it's necessarily a bad thing, was when I was running a meeting, I would have to go turn off the data jobs. If I was running a meeting and a lot of times people were scrambling in the background to do their updates even as the meeting was occurring, it would cause the page to render very slowly. It would sometimes pause or freeze. I found that if I went and turned off the status, the data update jobs that we're pulling data from Smartsheet, then the meetings would work more smoothly, and there were no interruptions or delays.

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Pros

"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is web-based and easy to use."

"The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform."

"The solution works very well for budgeting."

"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."

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

"It's simple to use with a lot of functions."

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

"The solution scales well."

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"One feature which I have found to be very interesting is the Beast manager, where you can create calculated fields. They are shared in one common repository so someone else can use the same calculated fields; they don't have to rewrite or reinvent the APIs."

"In Workbench 5, they have come up with a very useful feature called Upsert. When you're pushing data into the data set, if the data is already available it will update the data, and if that the data is not there it will insert it. That is a beneficial feature that they introduced in the latest version."

"The user interface is quite good."

"With ETL transformations in SQL lists, you often write a lot of queries. You have to build a bunch of code for the data. With Domo, one of the pieces we have is Magic ETL. In Magic ETL, you don't need to write code. You don't need to be a specialist in SQL or any database query language."

"The dashboarding itself was pretty easy. So both the front and the back end were positive in this case."

"The best feature of Domo is that it's completely on the cloud. I also like that you can handle data end-to-end without having to depend on multiple tools. Another specific feature I like the most about Domo is Magic ETL because, through it, you can do all your expression, transformation, and loading activities very smoothly. The tool also follows the lineage concept, so you can understand what kind of transformations took place on a particular data set. You can find end-to-end data from the source until it has become the final output or the final data set. Whatever happened to a particular data set, you can understand it through the Domo lineage, and that isn't possible in most of the tools available in the market, but in Domo, that's available. The tool is also solid and because it's on the cloud, it uses multiple data engineering in the backend and multiple algorithms in the back, behind the scenes, resulting in a great performance. For example, if an end user such as the CEO or COO opens a report or the dashboard and it takes more than ten seconds, the end user won't be interested in looking at that report or dashboard, but Domo enables better performance and there's usually no performance issues from that tool."

"The ease of use, overall, is one of the valuable features, as is the ease of setup. Other than making sure IT was aware of, and agreed with our proceeding, we did not need IT for any of the setup. The ease of setup is more valuable than you might think. The ease of configuring the security policies, setting up groups, and setting up personalized data permissions so that only certain people can see certain data — that stuff is amazing... Domo really is extraordinarily full-featured, but it's really easy to use."

"Domo is not a difficult tool to learn. All you need to know is the SQL for the ETL part. You don't need to write much code. That's the great part. It uses legacy languages, like SQL, which is very common among developers who then don't have to go and learn Domo's own syntax. Therefore, you don't have to learn another hard language to use Domo."

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Cons

"It would be nice if the solution offered better extensions."

"Anaplan is a relatively expensive piece of software."

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

"Automation needs to be built into this solution."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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"I would like to see more dashboard creation options."

"One of the biggest problems is that end users require a license to run their own reports and dashboards, which are fairly expensive."

"Their STK is not up to date and you can't access it on their website. They have a private STK to access resources in Domo."

"They could use more charts. They have had a very limited number of charts we can use. I believe, now, there are somewhere around 30 of them, but they could definitely use some more options."

"One of the improvements that could be made is related to improved storage options."

"Domo or any other BI tool has room for improvement, in particular, in the calculations. User-guided material isn't available for calculations. The tool, though user-friendly, could also be more customizable, especially when you're building a dashboard. Data integration could also be improved in Domo because even if the tool connects to multiple data sources, some hiccups still arise and need to be addressed."

"There were very few cases on some of the tables, the data tables, where I wish there was an additional feature or two."

"It is very difficult too, if we do have specific requests or errors that we can't get figure out - especially when it comes to the development platform, developing custom connectors or doing any kind of API work, custom cards - in that there's a lag in the response time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Anaplan is a bit pricier compared to its competitors - the license costs about $4,000 per user annually."

"The entry-level is anywhere from about $30,000 to $50,000 a year, however, it does go up significantly after that depending on the complexity and how much space you're using."

"A value-for-money product and a very reasonable price compared to competitors like SAP or IBM."

"The tool’s pricing is reasonable and competitive with other solutions."

"We are currently using a free workspace license for 90 days. We are satisfied with the price of the solution. There are additional costs if you want more storage, the default limit is 250 GB."

"This is an expensive product and if the price were reduced then it would attract more customers."

"The license is a yearly subscription. There are three licensing tiers: the model builder, planner, and the reporting."

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"The pricing differs from customer to customer, depending on the package."

"No matter if you're a developer or an end-user, the licensing cost is around $12 per user per month."

"For about 100 users our cost is $95,800."

"Because it's software as a service, it's more expensive on the face of it. But there are a lot of variables. I don't have to pay for servers or for infrastructure. I don't have to pay labor for my IT organization to set up or maintain the environment. I don't have to pay for them to upgrade the software, and test it, etc., because when it rolls out, it is transparent and seamless for us. But, because of that, it costs more, I imagine, than Sisense, or Yellowfin, or Power BI. A lot of those make it sound like they're inexpensive, but when you add in all the hidden costs and all of the overhead, it's probably comparable."

"The solution is expensive compared to one of its competitors."

"Domo is slightly costly but it's much cheaper than some."

"Domo has more than one licensing model. You can choose between the yearly subscription and the per-user licensing model. The tool is flexible in terms of licensing. As for the cost, Domo is an end-to-end BI tool so its pricing is a little higher than other players in the market, for example, non end-to-end BI tools such as OBIEE and Tableau specific only for business intelligence and presenting data to the end users, unlike Domo which handles everything. You want to get Domo as an integration tool, an ETL tool, etc. As the tool is end-to-end, its cost is always going to be a little higher than other BI tools, but it's worth paying because you won't have to spend extra for other activities. After all, Domo can do those activities."

"I'm not sure about pricing, but I believe Domo is quite costly. Prior to joining this organization, I had a Domo license with my former employer and I think that license was around $500 to $600 annually. That was for a single license. I think it varies, depending on the organization that is acquiring Domo."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

31%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

12%

University

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What are your main use cases for Anaplan?

Anaplan is an industry-leading cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) platform that combines business planning and analytics in a single solution. It is designed to assist organizations...

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Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

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Is Anaplan better than SAP ERP?

There are different aspects of both Anaplan and SAP ERP that I like and dislike. Anaplan improves forecast accuracy and drives up the quality of analytics. Rather than spending all of their time co...

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What do you like most about Domo?

All our client SLAs and daily and weekly dashboards are tracked on Domo.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Domo?

Domo is expensive compared to other solutions.

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What needs improvement with Domo?

One of the biggest problems is that end users require a license to run their own reports and dashboards, which are fairly expensive. Domo is also not the easiest product to use and is more expensiv...

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Anaplan is a cloud-based planning and performance management platform with documented use cases in finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, IT and HR. At the core of Anaplan's technology is a single hub where business users can build, deploy, maintain, and share models without coding or reliance on IT personnel.

With Anaplan You Can:

Accelerate revenue growth
Convert data into market opportunity
Drive higher sales performance
Gain market share
Improve customer satisfaction
See edge-to-edge across your company
Achieve business and technology goals
Become agile and resilient with continuous models and forecasts

The Anaplan Platform Is:

Flexible
Scalable
Collaborative
Secure
Multi-dimensional
Built to help businesses think ahead and rapidly adapt to change

Anaplan Benefits:

Illuminate blind spots and hidden opportunities.
Easily create a shareable, living representation of how your business actually works.
Dynamic planning allows you to continuously adapt to market changes and other changing circumstances effectively.
Information is always readily available and can be easily shared with all teams across your enterprise.
Anaplan provides intelligent decision-making. The platform gives you all the information you need to make business decisions and also gives you the ability to run several “what if” scenarios to determine which decision is best based on a large range of variables - at record speed, instead of it taking days or weeks to complete.
By using Anaplan, you can adapt to changes very quickly. You can consider all of the possible options before responding in real time.
Anaplan can be used remotely from wherever you are.
Anaplan will help your organization stay focused and on target. You can stay in control with the ability to run scenario calculations quickly and use the information to make adjustments as needed.
Anaplan provides accurate, real-time data so you don’t have to worry about the risk of bad data. In turn, this boosts shareholder confidence because Anaplan’s platform mitigates the risks associated with incorrect data.
Anaplan’s Connected Planning helps you meet regulatory requirements. All the relevant business data is held in one place, therefore making adjustments easier to implement quickly. With Connected Planning, results also have a full audit trail.

Anaplan Features:

Hyperscale computing: Anaplan eliminates the “messy middle” caused by out-of-date, siloed signals.
Integrated and dynamic signal set: This feature incorporates internal and external factors, relationships, and market context across functions which can all be seamlessly integrated.
Responsive unified system: Anaplan’s high-fidelity, responsive, and unified system for execution and accountability is reliable, accurate, and traceable.
Real-time insights: Detect signals hidden in your systems and gain insight into every asset, resource, risk, and change to help provide decision clarity.
Unlimited multi-dimensional scenarios: Anaplan helps your organization run unlimited multi-dimensional scenarios to identify ideal plans of action.
Synchronization: Using Anaplan, you can synchronize execution and readiness. Anaplan enables autonomous and coordinated in-market action by connecting headquarters to your most remote outposts.

Reviews from Real Users:

"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.” - Sandeep A., Lead Analyst at a retailer

"This product has a very good modeling feature, and its graphical representation of visualizations has also been valuable.” - Raghavendra K., Lead Consultant at a tech services company

"Anaplan is a three-dimensional cloud platform that is good for analyzing data, visualization, integration, terrific for visibility.” - Anaplan model builder at a tech services company

Anaplan

Domo is a cloud-based, mobile-first BI platform that helps companies drive more value from their data by helping organizations better integrate, interpret and use data to drive timely decision making and action across the business. The Domo platform enhances existing data warehouse and BI tools and allows users to build custom apps, automate data pipelines, and make data science accessible for anyone through automated insights that can be shared with internal or external stakeholders.

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HP, ForeScout, DocuSign, EAT, Pandora, Aviva, Intel Security, Zalora

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