--- description: Review of Anaplan Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Anaplan | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Auto Dealership CRM Software](/directory/3171/dealership/software) > [Anaplan](/software/7378/anaplan) # Anaplan Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/7378/anaplan Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/7378/anaplan?page=2) > 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. > > Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 33 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 33 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Anaplan - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Contact Anaplan directly for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English, French, German, Japanese, Russian - **Available Countries**: Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - "What If" Scenarios - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Ad hoc Reporting - Audit Trail - Bonus Management - Budget Management - Budgeting/Forecasting - Channel Management - Collaboration Tools - Commission Management - Compensation Plan Modeling - Compensation Statements - Dashboard - Data Import/Export - Field Sales Management - Financial Analysis - Forecasting - Goal Setting/Tracking ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Auto Dealership CRM Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3171/dealership/software) ## Related Categories - [Auto Dealership CRM Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3171/dealership/software) - [Higher Education CRM Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3231/higher-education/software) - [Sales Force Automation Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/254/sales-force-automation/software) - [Banking CRM Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/336/banking-crm/software) - [Hotel CRM Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/339/hospitality-hotel-resort-crm/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Workday HCM](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/390210/workday-hcm) — 4.5/5 (1745 reviews) ## Reviews ### "simple product to use" — 5.0/5 > **Nicolas** | *24 April 2026* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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 > > overall, i recommend this over powerBi as it is so much easier to use and find what you are looking for ----- ### "Anaplan for Sales" — 5.0/5 > **Joshua** | *18 June 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. > > Overall, Anaplan has been an easy to use, consistent, accurate tool in tracking my Sales Attainment as an Account Executive. ----- ### "Complex software - better for larger companies" — 3.0/5 > **Sophie** | *17 April 2026* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Best CPM tool in the market \!" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *16 March 2023* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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 \! > > Go to financial planning tool in the market \! ----- ### "Anaplan is a huge time saver" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *12 February 2018* | Real Estate > > **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. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/7378/anaplan?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/7378/anaplan) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data