We performed a comparison between Anaplan and SAP S/4HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."The solution works very well for budgeting."
"You don't need to have a programming language to use Anaplan."
"The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform."
"This product has a very good modeling feature, and its graphical representation of visualizations has also been valuable."
"Anaplan's strongest feature is that its GUI is very modern and user-friendly."
"The solution scales well."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is web-based and easy to use."
"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."
"I can verify and provide the overall financial aid report and also the management report."
"S4HANA is very scalable - we use it across seven or eight factories, and everything is running fine."
"S/4HANA falls under a single terminal. We can easily access the data, and the performance is good."
"S4HANA is relatively stable."
"The solution can scale well."
"The solution is flexible, has a lot of functionality, and has the ability to deliver more security than other comparable solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the inbuilt standards included in SAP that customers can adopt easily. Also offers to customize it based on the specific requirements."
"The key modules that I find most valuable are material management (MM), financial accounting and controlling (FICO), and human resources (HR)."
"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."
"The cloud engine slows down when working with a large dataset. It still lacks a powerful engine."
"Anaplan could be improved with a stronger consolidation module."
"One area of improvement is conditional formatting. It's not very practical, and you need to specify additional formatting."
"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."
"When there is a lot of data, it sometimes takes long to load."
"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."
"Automation needs to be built into this solution."
"The Capex and Opex could be improved."
"In a feature release, they could improve by adding budgetary features."
"There are some problems with the support provided for the solution, so it is not quite easy. It takes some time for them to offer us support."
"This solution works with the configuration, if the prerequisites are very clear and can be configured it works perfectly. If you need to simulate something, as a predictive tool this kind of simulation is not very accurate and it has limitations. This is something that could improve."
"If S4HANA has more AI and machine learning, it will be better and easier for reporting and dashboarding."
"During parallel preparation of go-live processes, SAP B1 and S4H transactional data alignment can be difficult to track."
"We found that the implementing partners themselves are struggling with S4HANA's features. It's not an exact translation of the older ECC, so SAP has taken a new route to do things with S4HANA. Maybe it's a good product, but the implementing partners also like to have an in-depth understanding of the full feature set the product offers."
"It is simple to implement SAP S4HANA. If you are already in this type of environment, then the transition is not very complex. However, if you do not then it can be difficult."
Anaplan is ranked 1st in Business Performance Management with 24 reviews while SAP S/4HANA is ranked 2nd in ERP with 65 reviews. Anaplan is rated 8.0, while SAP S/4HANA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Anaplan writes "Great for large-scale modelling, easy to learn, and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA writes "The solution is highly scalable, with solid performance and integration". Anaplan is most compared with SAP ERP, Oracle Hyperion, IBM Planning Analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud and Board, whereas SAP S/4HANA is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP Business One, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Odoo.
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