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# Anaplan Review

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Anaplan

4.2

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Pricing

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### About Anaplan

Anaplan is a cloud-based business-planning tool designed for sales, finance, and operations units of an organization. The solution is based on hyperblock technology, the system that provides a single modeling environment for the organization with the ability to work on large models.

Anaplan includes a built-in application platform that allows an organization to quickly build or modify their planning applications. Its App Hub offers pre-built applications for sales, operations, finance, and human resources along with a custom app module to modify these apps per organizational needs.

Anaplan creates a collaboration hub for cross-functional planning to enable distributed expertise for corporate planning, delivering both top-down and bottom-up alignments. The feature includes multi-dimensional planning based on hierarchies, relationship, time, real-time modeling and calculation, central data repository and application cataloging.

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## Anaplan User Interface

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Anaplan

4.2

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Ratings Breakdown

-   3.89Ease of use
-   4.0Value for money
-   3.91Customer support
-   4.06Functionality

Pricing

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## Anaplan Pricing and Plans

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## Anaplan Features

-   Popular features found in Sales Tracking
    
    Activity Dashboard
    
    Appointment Scheduling
    
    Interaction Tracking
    
    Task Management
    
-   More features of Anaplan
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Ad hoc Reporting
    
    API
    
    Audit Trail
    
    Bonus Management
    
    Budgeting/Forecasting
    
    Budget Management
    
    Channel Management
    
    Collaboration Tools
    
    Commission Management
    
    Compensation Plan Modeling
    
    Compensation Statements
    
    Dashboard
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Field Sales Management
    
    Financial Analysis
    
    Forecasting
    
    Goal Setting/Tracking
    
    Idea Management
    
    Incentive Management
    
    Key Performance Indicators
    
    KPI Monitoring
    
    Market Data Analysis
    
    Modeling & Simulation
    
    Opportunity Management
    
    Payroll Management
    
    Performance Metrics
    
    Planning Tools
    
    Predictive Analytics
    
    Project Accounting
    
    Quota Planning
    
    Reporting/Analytics
    
    Reporting & Statistics
    
    Roadmapping
    
    Salary Planning
    
    Sales Forecasting
    
    Sales Planning
    
    Scenario Planning
    
    Scorecards
    
    Strategic Planning
    
    Territory Management
    
    "What If" Scenarios
    

## Anaplan User Reviews

## Anaplan customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.2/5
- Total reviews: 33

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 16 reviews (48%)
- 4 stars: 11 reviews (33%)
- 3 stars: 5 reviews (15%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 1 reviews (3%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 3.9/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3.9/5
- Functionality: 4.1/5

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### simple product to use

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Nicolas C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

overall, i recommend this over powerBi as it is so much easier to use and find what you are looking for

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

platform is super user friendly. everything youre looking for is right there at your finger tips and has so much more info that you probably didnt even know you had access to

#### Cons

exporting data to excel from Anaplan can be a little frustrating because it sends over way too much info and never looks clean and easy to read

#### Reasons for switching to Anaplan

price per user and accuracy of the data being puled from sales history

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### Anaplan for Sales

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Joshua J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, Anaplan has been an easy to use, consistent, accurate tool in tracking my Sales Attainment as an Account Executive.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like the intuitive design of the dashboard and the timeliness of the updates. I can count on Anaplan being consistent and accurate.

#### Cons

The dropdown menus took a while to master/commit to memory but, now that I've done that, I can quickly navigate through the tools.

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### Complex software - better for larger companies

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Sophie F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, I found that Anaplan was a complex and expensive tool that was too difficult to use for the purposes we needed it for. It was not easy to create meaningful outputs and it became someone's full time job to manage it. I imagine it would be great for large corporates but maybe not smaller companies.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Anaplan is a very complex software. It is good for companies that have multiple dimensions that need to be considered such as multiple revenue streams, entities, costs etc. The excel add in was quite good with Anaplan, it was easy to extract data into an excel directly from Anaplan itself and this would usually be done in a matter of seconds. The ability to create multiple versions was also good and relatively easy to do.

#### Cons

It is relatively difficult to use. In order to get a successful output from Anaplan you need to be an expert in the field in my opinion. Without expert knowledge it is really difficult to make changes or improvements. I found that using Anaplan was over complicated for a business with less than £50m turnover. While the ability to have multiple dimensions etc was good, the building of this was time consuming and without expert knowledge I found it was easy to make a mistake.

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### Best CPM tool in the market !

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Go to financial planning tool in the market !

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Cloud based planning tool to run business team and plan/achieve the goals . The data modeling made easy with Anaplan . The inbuilt calculation engine works incredibly well.

#### Cons

The functionality of getting to see the objects under a connected source system will definitely help !

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### Anaplan is a huge time saver

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Before Anaplan, we were on excel documents that required many versions and iterations. We started with financial planning as a model and have since expanded into other solutions for issues that have arisen. The goal is to continue to plug new models into this tool, like many power users I've seen at Anaplan conferences, in order to get all of our data on one platform.

#### Cons

Initial set up requires a lot of learning and time. Their training session is several days and still requires additional follow up work and communication with their implementation team. Graphs and data visualization is also far lacking compared with Tableau or even Excel.

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### Anaplan can manage large data but lacks the new bells and whistles

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Pat D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Anaplan was a necessary evil but I did not enjoy the complexities of uploading data sets into the tool.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Anaplan has the ability to support a very large data set for an enterprise level organization with multiple users

#### Cons

The code base is hard to master, making uploading changes into Anaplan difficult and time consuming. Other products have allowed for more direct input into the tool itself without code.

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### Good tool but has some drawbacks

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Agile! Near-real-time update - in-memory calculations

#### Cons

Not enough integrations; high implementation investments

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### Transform Your Business

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: February 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I have nothing but good things to say about this software!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Cloud connected forecasting software that takes businesses to the next level by replacing their old Excel files and manual updating processes, and provides them with a window into the future. This tool can do (almost) anything when it comes to analyzing large data sets and providing fully transparency and connectedness in your business.

#### Cons

Some small functionality issues when you're in the tool, but so minor you hardly notice.

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### Anaplan for TMC

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: July 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Our clients have shifted share due to our reporting being above our competitors.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I support a TMC team within the hospitality space. We use Anaplan for our performance metrics and to manage our programs. Anaplan lays the data out in a visually pleasing way and allows for graphs that can easily be exported for the client.

#### Cons

I have been overall very pleased with the product. From the administrator perspective it would be nice if the uploads worked a bit faster.

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### Demand Planning Tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kunal P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: April 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This product is great for demand planning. My company uses it across all of our categories.

#### Cons

None at the moment fairly new user to this program

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