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PROS

Anaplan excels in three-dimensional data analysis, visualization, and integration, providing excellent visibility and reporting capabilities.
Anaplan is a no-coding platform that is easy to learn and use, with excellent interactive training and global process change support.
Anaplan significantly reduces the time spent on planning and reporting, freeing up finance teams to focus on analytics and improving forecast accuracy.
Anaplan's scenario planning and integration capabilities streamline data consolidation, facilitating collaboration and flexibility in complex environments.
Anaplan supports agile business changes, enabling swift adaptations, and offers substantial scalability and storage for organizations.

CONS

Anaplan needs improved dashboard capabilities for enhanced visualization.
The workflow component in Anaplan requires significant improvements.
Anaplan lacks sufficient automation features, particularly for data integration from various sources like SAP.
There are performance issues with Anaplan when managing large datasets, causing slow load times.
Pricing and space issues are notable concerns for Anaplan users.
 

Anaplan Pros review quotes

Segun Oladele - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager, Accounting at BIC
Nov 24, 2025
Anaplan has helped to adapt to market changes, and its scenario planning feature is used for forecasting, with integration capabilities that streamline data consolidation across JD Edwards, Power BI, and HFM through a wonderful and simple interface.
reviewer2794500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Anaplan Solution Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
After we implemented it in Anaplan, it made the calculations much easier and at one time, multiple users could log into Anaplan and work simultaneously for different areas.
Phil Z - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Planning Analytics SME and Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 19, 2025
Anaplan is excellent for summarizing clean data and is easier to use for reporting and security, while Planning Analytics is better for data cleansing and low-level data manipulation.
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BP
Technology Lead at Randstad Digital
Jan 6, 2026
Anaplan has positively impacted my organization by reducing the coding work involved by developers, increasing work flexibility, and enabling a better division of tasks among testing, development, and implementation teams.
Nitish-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Finance Systems at QualiTest Group
Jun 3, 2026
The multidimensionality helps significantly with scenario planning, allowing me to run various scenarios and check the outcomes, which suits my needs well.
Mabid Wyed - PeerSpot reviewer
Anaplan Model Builder at Xenlytics
Dec 30, 2025
Since we began using Anaplan, our firm has been very organized, and we have been gradually moving up in the market.
PB
Applied Model at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
Anaplan has positively impacted my organization by reducing the time my team previously spent hours on reporting, and now this time has been minimized, and they are easily maintaining things in Anaplan.
SA
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 25, 2025
Anaplan's connected planning feature is its most valuable aspect, allowing for seamless financial planning, HR planning, and updates.
Antonio Flor - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Anaplanner at Chaucer Group
Nov 27, 2024
Anaplan offers flexibility in building different options within the platform.
JM
Founder and CEO at FP&A Strategy Consulting
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.
 

Anaplan Cons review quotes

Segun Oladele - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager, Accounting at BIC
Nov 24, 2025
I still decided to give Anaplan an eight because I have not seen a specific dashboard on Anaplan. Anaplan could have a dashboard where you can see the flow of your numbers displayed on pictorials rather than just saying this is the number.
reviewer2794500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Anaplan Solution Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
There is a chance of improvement for the history. In Anaplan back-end model, if there is any change, it is captured in the history, however, on the front-end UX page, if there are any changes on the UX page, there is no history captured.
Phil Z - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Planning Analytics SME and Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 19, 2025
Anaplan lacks a native ETL tool, making it challenging to integrate numerous flat files.
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BP
Technology Lead at Randstad Digital
Jan 6, 2026
Anaplan can be improved, particularly regarding latency issues when running deployments that may cause the system to hang.
Nitish-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Finance Systems at QualiTest Group
Jun 3, 2026
In terms of technical support, I would rate Anaplan a two out of ten, as they are poor.
Mabid Wyed - PeerSpot reviewer
Anaplan Model Builder at Xenlytics
Dec 30, 2025
One improvement that could be added to Anaplan is to stabilize the models when data complexity increases, allowing us to manage our time and space well.
PB
Applied Model at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
I chose a rating of eight because there is one backlog item: we are currently not using Anaplan for data reporting purposes.
SA
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 25, 2025
I would rate scalability between six and seven. Anaplan had issues before, but the new Polaris engine solves them, although its implementation is more challenging compared to the Classic engine.
Antonio Flor - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Anaplanner at Chaucer Group
Nov 27, 2024
Anaplan could enhance its user interface by including a more user-friendly API.
JM
Founder and CEO at FP&A Strategy Consulting
Aug 24, 2021
Anaplan is a relatively expensive piece of software.