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Anaplan vs Unit4 Business World comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Anaplan
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Business Performance Management (1st), Production Planning (4th), Predictive Analytics (5th)
Unit4 Business World
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud ERP (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Anaplan and Unit4 Business World aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Anaplan is designed for Business Performance Management and holds a mindshare of 5.8%, down 9.9% compared to last year.
Unit4 Business World, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud ERP, holds 3.6% mindshare, up 3.5% since last year.
Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Anaplan5.8%
Workday Adaptive Planning5.9%
Oracle Hyperion4.7%
Other83.6%
Business Performance Management
Cloud ERP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Unit4 Business World3.6%
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP21.6%
NetSuite ERP21.3%
Other53.5%
Cloud ERP
 

Featured Reviews

Segun Oladele - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager, Accounting at BIC
Reporting and forecasting have become more automated through intuitive data organization and flexible number calendarization
I do not have any improvements from my own end at this time.There are some specific features or functionality that I would like to see included in Anaplan in the future. From what we have been using, I do not think there is any specific one because we import and export numbers. Importing and exporting with CSV files is already available in Anaplan. I do not have any special requests from Anaplan. 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. Simple dashboards should be implemented.
IM
Head Of Operations Support Unit For One Corporate System (Ocs) at CGIAR
Integrated finance and HR have supported growth while support and on-premise limits need work
Unit4 ERP7 will not be improved as it is no longer supported by Unit4. The cloud ERP CR and ERP X do have clear roadmaps available to customers. Many of the gaps have been filled by the ERP suite of products. New improvements will include AI agents to automate finance and HR processes.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"There is a full set of reports available for sales."
"It’s very agile and we can do changes in minutes, rather than waiting for consultants and change requests, so it’s as dynamic as the business."
"It's simple to use with a lot of functions."
"The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform."
"Technical support has been good."
"The forecasting and planning cycles that used to take months to collaborate now only take a week to finish and be worked upon."
"The solution improves forecast accuracy, drives up the quality of analytics, and frees up about 30% of finance people’s time during the planning cycle so they can focus on value-added analytics instead of just consolidating numbers."
"It's real-time connected planning, so the calculations are pretty much seamless as far as your model is connected."
"Unit4 Business World's most valuable feature is flexibility. Its dashboards are easy."
"The Unit4 ERP product is very flexible and can be configured to fit most business processes."
"The financial features are the most valuable because we did not have good financial software and our organization had been growing."
"Agresso includes a set of reporting and analytic tools that can be used to create a variety of reports unlike traditional ERP."
"Unit4 Business World is a reliable product."
"We try not to do customization, but we do configuration, and the configuration is extremely flexible with many options for integrations as well."
"The product's self-service capabilities have benefited our organization."
 

Cons

"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."
"I chose a rating of eight because there is one backlog item: we are currently not using Anaplan for data reporting purposes."
"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."
"The tool needs to work on its integration with MS Excel and MS Word. The tool does not allow data analysis in spreadsheets which is possible on other platforms. I want the solution to be more collaborative to facilitate decision-making in organizations."
"There are workspace issues, like the limitation on model sizes."
"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."
"When there is a lot of data, it sometimes takes long to load."
"Whenever you load the data in Excel and then send it back to Anaplan, it takes a lot of time."
"I would like to see direct communication support to engage with clients. The parent company should have a direct relationship with clients. Also, the tool's licensing, upgrade, and maintenance costs should be reduced."
"Reporting and analytics features must be improved."
"For people on-premise, customer service is not great. During these 12 years, the quality of support has been a significant issue."
"Limited industries covered - Agresso lacks some key modules"
"Well, the commercial section is the worst in this company (0/10), al menos in our case."
"I would like to see more flexibility in the customization for us to be able to customize it based on the client's requirements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"This is a yearly subscription. So a customer initially buys a workspace and specifies how much GB they want. The minimum starts at around 30 GB. You can buy multiple workspaces."
"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."
"Anaplan is a bit pricier compared to its competitors - the license costs about $4,000 per user annually."
"The tool’s pricing is reasonable and competitive with other solutions."
"The cost of Anaplan is a challenge for clients, especially if they don't have an ongoing long-term use case for it. It's a $50,000 licensing fee just to get started. Clients need a strong business case to switch from Excel to Anaplan. But if clients have used something similar in the past, such as Hyperion or other solutions, that's not a factor because they know what to expect."
"The license is a yearly subscription. There are three licensing tiers: the model builder, planner, and the reporting."
"This is an expensive product and if the price were reduced then it would attract more customers."
"I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
University
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise18
No data available
 

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...
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...
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...
What needs improvement with Unit4 Business World?
Unit4 ERP7 will not be improved as it is no longer supported by Unit4. The cloud ERP CR and ERP X do have clear roadmaps available to customers. Many of the gaps have been filled by the ERP suite o...
What is your primary use case for Unit4 Business World?
We have been using Unit4 Business World on-premises with 10 different research institutes for Finance, HR, Procurement, and Projects. This Unit4 product is no longer supported by Unit4. It is repla...
What advice do you have for others considering Unit4 Business World?
If you are a new customer, you should look at Unit4 SaaS ERPX, which is where Unit4 is focusing most of its development. It has been designed and optimized for the cloud and is more affordable than...
 

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