Anaplan is Flexible but Comes with Drawbacks

We have been using Anaplan for Financial Planning for the past 2 years. Overall, the tool is very flexible, robust and has a lot of very useful features, but also comes with a number of noteworthy drawbacks. The learning curve to become fluent on the platform is relatively steep and it is essential to build up and maintain a level of competency across the team of core users. There are also structural modeling constraints the are inherent to the multi-dimensional nature of the tool that require very thoughtful architecting when building new, complex models.