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Anaplan is the only scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in todays complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 of the worlds best brands continually optimize their decision-making by planning with Anaplan.
Overview
Connected Planning enables dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning across all areas of an organization, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, human resources, and operations. As a purpose-built platform connecting people, data, and plans, Anaplan delivers a unified real-time, cloud-based environment to optimize planning and democratize decision-making across all lines of business and business activities, from strategic to operational levels.
Anaplan for Finance
- Anaplan's flexible modeling capabilities automate, structure, and connect a range of financial and operational solutions including FP&A and opex to steer business performance more effectively.
Anaplan for Supply Chain
- Model your supply chain with intelligence. Enable real-time collaboration across departments, functions, suppliers, and customers through supply, demand, and sales & operations planning solutions.
Anaplan for Sales & Marketing
- Connect revenue plans to stabilize sales performance and drive growth through sales planning, sales incentives, and pipeline and revenue forecasting solutions. Marketing solutions include optimized budget allocation, spend visibility, trade promotion management, and marketing performance.
Anaplan for HR and Workforce
- Develop a dynamic workforce blueprint that aligns and executes your business strategies and operations with talent strategy, workforce planning, and compensation modeling solutions.
Highlights
- The Anaplan 2024 Decision Excellence Report shows that enterprise connectedness drives a 14% increase in TSR, a 43% reduction in unproductive meetings, and a 58% improvement in external connectivity with customers and suppliers, enhancing overall decision-making.
- Anaplan Forecaster is our next-generation AI-driven forecasting capability, natively built into the Anaplan platform. As part of Anaplan Intelligence, it empowers teams to create accurate, transparent, and scalable forecasts that seamlessly connect into enterprise planning.
- Pricing shown is based on a representative customer and will vary based on your specific needs (users, solutions, configuration options, and contract duration). For custom quotes through private offers, please contact your Anaplan AE or AWSGTM@anaplan.com.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Connected Planning | Users, workspace & access to product. Varies based on specific needs. | $750,000.00 |
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As you embark on your Anaplan journey and every step of the way, we focus on your success. We help you make Connected Planning work best for your unique situation. All existing or new Anaplan customers will have 24x7 product support that can be accessed via email, phone or chat. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Support/ct-p/Support#contactsupportÂ
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Scenario Planning Platform
Cloud-based platform enabling dynamic and collaborative planning across multiple organizational domains
AI-Driven Forecasting
Native AI-powered forecasting capability for creating accurate and scalable enterprise forecasts
Cross-Functional Modeling
Flexible modeling capabilities that automate and connect financial and operational solutions across departments
Real-Time Collaboration
Unified cloud environment supporting real-time collaboration across departments, functions, suppliers, and customers
Enterprise Connectivity
Platform designed to connect people, data, and plans across strategic and operational business levels
Predictive Analytics
Embedded predictive forecasting capabilities using statistical and predictive analytics to analyze historical data and identify trends and patterns
Workflow Management
Managed and governed workflows with customizable application creation, participant invitation, submission requirements, and progress monitoring
Multidimensional Data Analysis
Advanced data exploration across large historical and future-oriented datasets from multiple perspectives to uncover strategic insights
Self-Service Modeling
Workbench Modeling enables analysts to create and maintain sophisticated financial models without IT support, including what-if scenario functionality
AI-Driven Planning
AI-powered integrated business planning platform that enables automated and unified planning across organizational departments
Data Workflow Automation
Drag-and-drop interface with 300+ analytic building blocks for creating and automating data workflows
Machine Learning Capabilities
Automated machine learning (AutoML) and feature engineering for data science use cases across skill levels
Data Preparation Tools
Comprehensive data access, preparation, blending, enrichment, and statistical analytics platform
Geospatial Analytics
Integrated geospatial analytics capabilities for spatial data processing and analysis
Cloud-Native Analytics
Browser-based, cloud-native experience for building and automating data pipelines with reduced technical complexity
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4.3
2 ratings
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Segun Oladele
Reporting and forecasting have become more automated through intuitive data organization and flexible number calendarization
Reviewed on Nov 24, 2025
Review from a verified AWS customer
How has it helped my organization?
Anaplan provides me with real time insights and I find it beneficial for decision making. I rate it an eight. After we have loaded our operation plan into Anaplan , it is easy to go back and recalendarize or reallocate numbers forward or backward.
For example, with rolling forecasts, you can go back after three months to do a rolling forecast and determine whether to replan forward or backward.
Anaplan saves time for me and is cost effective.
What is most valuable?
I like about Anaplan the simplicity and the way it makes reporting easier and planning is broken down well. You can calendarize your numbers and do some auto allocations of numbers. These features make it a very robust planning tool.
The main benefits that I have seen from using Anaplan are the ease of automation and the way the feature looks and feels. The UI and UX is simple and you can easily see the general overview of what you have done. The chart tree is easy to follow. If you are not used to using that resource, it may take some time, but for Anaplan, it is easy to get your way around with the tree of the charts and chart of accounts.
What needs improvement?
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.
What other advice do I have?
Anaplan's scenario planning feature is used for forecasting. The integration capabilities of Anaplan have helped to streamline data consolidation in my organization. We use JD Edwards as the basic ERPÂ system and the data from JD Edwards is transmitted into Power BI so that it can be transmitted into Anaplan. The interface of this process is wonderful and simple for users. We can perform integrity checks where you can verify all the data from JDE to Anaplan to HFMÂ and see them at a glance to ensure all the numbers are complete and there is no variance. The user interface is very friendly.
Anaplan has helped to adapt to market changes. Planning happens outside of Anaplan because you need to consider economic situations and the factors that are driving your numbers. If, for example, we are planning inflation to be single digit but it becomes double, you have to go into Anaplan to change that. Anaplan will not automatically do that for you.
I like Anaplan more than the Cognos product because it is more updated and works with different tools. You can automate with various features and even implement artificial intelligence to help data flow properly. Anaplan is more current. In the age of artificial intelligence, if Anaplan could research into using more artificial intelligence to design and sort data, that would be beneficial.
My recommendation for other organizations considering Anaplan is to adopt it for the ease of working with it to do reporting and planning. It consolidates your efforts so that you do not have to report in one place and budget in another place.
I gave this review a rating of eight.
Manufacturing
Highly Flexible and Customizable, But Loading Times Need Improvement
Reviewed on Nov 21, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a highly adaptable tool that can be customised to fit the unique needs and use cases of your organisation. Very user friendly to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lengthy loading times during the recalculation of complex calculations are frustrating in Polaris.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By providing a single source of truth, this tool centralises planning processes and makes them accessible to a broader audience.
Ken C.
Empowers Business Users with Flexible, User-Friendly Low-Code Platform
Reviewed on Nov 12, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
This is a low-code/no-code platform that empowers business users to take ownership of their applications, reducing dependence on IT and eliminating common bottlenecks. Its hyper-block technology supports real-time collaboration throughout the organization, helping to break down silos. The platform also gives you the flexibility to define your own models without being constrained by rigid structures or limitations. It's user friendly UX allows model builder to build highly customized UX with KPIs, Charts and Conditional formatted tables, hence improving overall user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
The extra efforts in handling sparsity of the model; we need to spend significant efforts in building concatenated list to reduce sparsity of the model to gain better performance. Polaris seems to be an answer for that, however, the costs of the license would be higher.
The limitation in reporting, currently we are restricted to do slice and dice on the reporting dimensions included in the module. It would be nice if we could also include properties of the reporting dimensions to achieve something similar in BI tools.
The current solution on this would be exporting the data with the properties and build those kinds of reports in BI tools.
The limitation in reporting, currently we are restricted to do slice and dice on the reporting dimensions included in the module. It would be nice if we could also include properties of the reporting dimensions to achieve something similar in BI tools.
The current solution on this would be exporting the data with the properties and build those kinds of reports in BI tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan effectively replaces disconnected Excel-based processes by creating a single, cloud-based planning environment where all teams work from the same real-time data. Instead of juggling multiple spreadsheets across departments, Anaplan connects finance, sales, supply chain, and HR into one integrated model.
This eliminates version-control issues, reduces manual consolidation, and ensures consistent assumptions and formulas across the enterprise. Users can collaborate simultaneously, run live “what-if” scenarios, and update plans instantly — without waiting for manual data rollups.
By removing Excel silos, Anaplan improves data accuracy, speeds up decision-making, and shifts focus from spreadsheet maintenance to value-added analysis. The result is a more agile, transparent, and collaborative planning culture across the company.
This eliminates version-control issues, reduces manual consolidation, and ensures consistent assumptions and formulas across the enterprise. Users can collaborate simultaneously, run live “what-if” scenarios, and update plans instantly — without waiting for manual data rollups.
By removing Excel silos, Anaplan improves data accuracy, speeds up decision-making, and shifts focus from spreadsheet maintenance to value-added analysis. The result is a more agile, transparent, and collaborative planning culture across the company.
Evgeny S.
Flexibility and Power for Complex planning tasks.
Reviewed on Nov 10, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is highly capable and can handle any task with impressive flexibility and power. It is also able to manage large amounts of data effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is a very expensive tool, but it can be worthwhile if you develop a well-defined use case. Although Anaplan is capable of handling almost any task, it's important to consider whether a particular task truly needs to be done within Anaplan, or if it would be more cost-effective to handle it elsewhere. We should remember, that Anaplan is the planning tool at first. For example, raw data transformation might be better performed outside of Anaplan to save on performance / cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having worked in the consultancy business for many years, I deal with clients' challenges on a daily basis. Anaplan supports its clients across a wide range of use cases, but what stands out most is how Anaplan serves as a single source of truth for key planning processes within a company. This centralization helps eliminate data silos and allows Anaplan to function as an effective process orchestrator.
Shruti M.
Smarter Forecasts, Stronger Decisions through Integrated Finance Planning
Reviewed on Nov 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a cloud-based software platform primarily designed for Connected Planning, and it has now expanded its capabilities to include finance, sales, supply chain, retail, and workforce management. The platform enables users to conduct dynamic scenario analysis, variance analysis, and generate real-time reports within the application. As a low-code solution, Anaplan can be easily managed by business users after the initial implementation. Recently, Anaplan introduced Financial Close and Consolidation solutions, providing a more comprehensive financial offering. Additionally, the product features prebuilt applications that help organizations reduce implementation time by two to three weeks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan has consistently faced challenges due to its expensive licensing model and performance limitations when handling large datasets. The basic AI and Gen AI features are not only costly but also have a very limited user base, as their use cases are quite narrow. Achieving scalability with Anaplan comes at a significant expense. Additionally, its ad hoc analysis capabilities, especially in Excel, are much weaker compared to other EPM tools, which forces users to rely solely on the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has provided us with a comprehensive end-to-end connected planning solution. The product's modeling capabilities are straightforward and do not rely heavily on other products or tools. Recent improvements in third-party software integration, particularly through ADO, have made it much easier and faster to pull data from various sources. Anaplan's support service is very responsive, typically replying within a few hours. Software updates are seamless and do not require assistance from the development or support teams. Anaplan has been valuable for both opportunity and demand planning, enabling us to identify opportunities that are likely to convert quickly into sales. Additionally, it provides us with useful aging reports.