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PROS

Anaplan is a cloud platform that provides real-time connected planning, making calculations seamless when the model is connected.
It is highly flexible, capable of handling complex environments and calculations, and scales well to meet the needs of large organizations like Fortune 100 companies.
Anaplan integrates well with core systems and provides a robust dashboarding capability for aggregating, slicing, and dynamically adjusting data.
Anaplan's machine learning feature and connected planning capability allow for seamless financial and HR planning with constant evolution based on user feedback.
Organizations have experienced positive impacts from using Anaplan, with improved organization, reduced time spent on reporting, increased work flexibility, and better resource allocation among teams.

CONS

Anaplan requires an improved dashboard experience to avoid excessive scrolling and enhance user satisfaction with data visibility.
Automation for seamless integration, such as loading master data from SAP and providing clear error logs, would be beneficial.
Integration with various platforms and tools, including a simpler API for data exchange, needs enhancement.
The complexity of Anaplan necessitates model builders or coders, posing a challenge for business users.
Anaplan's pricing is considered relatively high, with calls for a review to improve affordability.
 

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.
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.
reviewer1129758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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.
 

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.
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.
reviewer1129758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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.