Anaplan - Rigid, Clunky, Terrible UI, Missing Functionality
May 03, 2017
Anaplan - Rigid, Clunky, Terrible UI, Missing Functionality
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
We currently have Anaplan for the purpose of managing territories, account deployment, and quota planning. That means that we are using the product exclusively within sales operations. The business problem that it is attempting to solve is that there are lots of potential accounts that a rep can work on, and it is difficult to prioritize and balance the accounts by the rep's level or tier; as a result, we need to assess the aggregate value of books by rep, team, and region.
- It's fast
- What-if scenarios
- Rigid
- Expensive for being Excel in a straight jacket
- Formula Syntax is unnecessarily complicated
- Limited sorting or filtering capability
- You can't change or choose the colors your charts use
- Excel and Tableau
Anaplan and Tableau are very different tools. Anaplan is horrible for dashboarding... Anaplan has what-if capability which Tableau does not. What-if capability is pretty much what we're paying for. You can build very similar models in excel and Tableau with greater flexibility. One perk of Anaplan, is they store the data you upload to Anaplan and within the tool it is very fast.