Platform
Plan and manage performance the smart way on the Anaplan platform
Smart businesses are proactive and fast to respond to both expected and unexpected changes.
They are nimble, operate in faster cycles, and course-correct earlier and more often.
Anaplan’s platform combines the five elements required to enable this – connection, versatility, foresight, scale, and self-service.
VERSATILITY
The world’s most powerful modeling engine. Model and manage virtually any planning, forecasting or optimization process.
CONNECTED
The power to connect models and collaborate seamlessly across the entire business, so numbers flow freely in real time.
SCALE
A calculation engine capable of managing tens of billions of cells in one model and recalculate a billion numbers in less than a second.
SELF SERVICE
The power to build, connect, and govern your own models. Economical implementation. Easy adoption and use.
FORESIGHT
The ability to calculate outcomes from what if scenarios, combined with the power of predictive analytics.
Anaplan is…a capability to cover any process you have.
To the great extent you have numbers to play with it is
the right tool. There is no limit in terms of what you can do.
- Yves Cabanac, Head of Sales Compensation, HP
The Anaplan Platform
Anaplan App Hub
Anaplan App Hub enables customers and partners to build, share, and deploy cutting-edge apps. The Anaplan community brings together experts from a wide range of business domains, industries, and organizations. You can quickly discover the applications you need, deploy them in one click, and customize them to solve your company’s complex challenges. You can also easily build your own applications on the platform and share them with others.
Hyperblock™: a new cloud-based, in-memory architecture
Only Anaplan offers scalable in-memory technology able to handle tens of billions of cells for thousands of users across multiple models. Built for large enterprises, Anaplan has developed and patented a uniquely powerful in-memory, Java-based planning engine. Anaplan’s Hyperblock™ technology enables real-time analysis, model changes, plan adjustments at unprecedented scale.
Modelling innovations
Only Anaplan has the modelling flexibility to handle virtually any planning and optimisation use case across the entire business: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Workforce, IT, and beyond. This self-service modelling flexibility ensures high adoption by business users and enables decision-making automation via business rules and predictive analytics
The Anaplan user experience
What makes the Anaplan user experience so unique? To start, all changes to plans or models happen in real time—Anaplan updates numbers immediately. This breaks the traditional process of waiting minutes and hours, if not overnight, for plan changes and interrelated calculations to process. Anaplan also offers an innovative Model Map to visually explore, zoom in, analyze, and change planning models—similar to being able to visualize Excel® formulas within and across workbooks.
APPS TAILORED TO AND BY THE BUSINESS
Quickly roll out flexible apps configurable for your business—or get standard apps in one click, all in a single, real-time planning environment covering all line-of-business planning needs.
SINGLE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
One cloud-based environment for all use cases, rather than multiple types of legacy planning tools, with automated upgrades and guaranteed SLAs.
COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME VIEW
Compare current plans, prior plans, KPIs, and goals across the entire organisation immediately as plans change.
“WHAT-IFS” ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE
Create scenarios on-the-fly and collaborate on them across all lines of business to form an optimal response.
TRANSLATE INTO A COMMON LANGUAGE
Consolidate and translate into comparable terms all your disparate plans including: bookings, revenue, launches, P&L, volume/ mix, distribution, production, and inventory.
SIMPLIFY DATA INTEGRATION
Where data integration is needed, leverage hub-spoke model for shared data (master data and transactions) across planning processes. Leverage self-service data integration UI and prebuilt connectors.
PLAN AT THE LEVEL OF IMPACT
Allow all parts of the business to easily plan, capture assumptions, and build detailed planning models that evolve over time to match business reality
CROSS-ORGANISATIONAL ALIGNMENT
Swiftly communicate decisions and align plans across the organisation in response to threats and opportunities in one real-time cross-organisational environment.
COLLABORATE IN REAL TIME
Empower all business functions to propose and change plans and assumptions in real time for transparent decision-making across the organization.
SECURE CLOUD PLATFORM.
Avoid shadow IT with a single, secure planning platform, enabling business flexibility, collaboration, and ownership. Eliminating Excel, email attachment–based collaboration, and unsecure business-owned databases helps ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and standards
