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The Anaplan
platform explained
Isolated point solutions and standalone spreadsheets are yesterday’s solutions
for planning across departments. Today, the Anaplan platform delivers a single
real-time, cloud-based environment that can help you accurately plan and
optimize, quickly respond to change as a department or organization, and
seamlessly align across the entire business to meet business objectives
To enable businesses to be proactive, nimble, flexible, and collaborative,
the Anaplan platform combines five elements for success: versatility, scale,
connection, foresight, and self-service.

Enable real-time enterprise planning and action Key benefits

Leverage patented in-memory, Java-based Hyperblock ™
• Solve any planning challenges across the business with
technology on a multitenant cloud platform for advanced business user–owned models.
decision-making without compromising speed. You get: • Get granular insights, drive growth, and monitor real-time
• Versatility through the world’s most powerful modeling metrics to pivot quickly. Stay aligned to changing market
engine. conditions with Anaplan’s flexible modeling engine. “We liked that we could broaden the use of
• Scale for granularity of insight to help you predict and • View plans across the business at aggregate and detailed a successful platform already implemented
optimize analytics, reporting, and planning. levels. Compare different dimensions of your business in within the company. And we quickly realized
real time.
• The power to connect plans and collaborate seamlessly the agility that Anaplan had compared to
across the entire business. • Reduce costs and risks by eliminating spreadsheets and
its competitors.”
consolidating redundant planning systems.
• Foresight using predictive analytics and “what-if” scenarios.
• Increase accuracy of decisions and improve business
• Self-service capabilities to build and manage your own
outcomes leveraging predictive analytics and ”what-if” Benefits
models on a single source of planning truth.
scenario analysis. • Easy implementation and rollout across the enterprise,
Drive integrated planning across the company • Easily consolidate data. Business owners can streamline leading to self-sufficient business owners and greater IT
Plan and manage performance for any area of the business— data integration by linking models and plans. consistency and governance.
from Sales and Finance, to Supply Chain—all connected in
• Leverage pre-built apps to expedite planning and increase • Native collaboration means faster user adoption to become
real time time to value. self-sufficient and build models independently.
Simplify data integration efforts • 100% business self-service so you can own, connect,
Select from a variety of data integration options to consolidate and synchronize various parts of the business using large
planning data in one place on a cloud-based platform. volumes of data in Anaplan models.

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Key features
One platform to drive integrated business planning dimensional planning intelligence, including time, versions, Scalability provides granularity of insight
Leverage one common platform for integrated planning and unlimited hierarchies, user-defined formulas, and master Only Anaplan offers scalable in-memory technology able to
reporting with apps and processes across all lines of business, data. Examples include: handle tens of billions of cells in one model and recalculate
including Finance, Sales, Supply Chain and Operations, • Financial planning: Leverage unlimited scenario planning a billion numbers in less than a second.
Marketing, HR, and IT. Ensure high adoption and planning to evaluate and compare impact before finalizing strategy.
Pre-built apps designed for business users
automation as you roll out new apps in a real-time, cloud- Cascade plans top-down by key dimensions, and build
based environment for all business needs. Activate a purpose-built app, with built-in best practices, with
budgets with bottom-up detail to improve collaboration,
one click in the App Hub. No technical knowledge and skills
reduce iterations, and align plan, budget, and forecast.
Multiple data integration options to centralize data required to implement, deploy, or tailor an app.
• Financial consolidations: Support multiple entity, account
Save time and effort when you leverage one cloud-based
structures, consolidation versions, and currencies. Manage Security and compliance
platform to align data across your planning landscape.
and reconcile IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and any other GAAP.
Centralize your planning data from transactional source Single, highly available, continuously monitored, secure cloud
• Sales: Calculate complex sales incentive plans, manage platform and infrastructure. Role-based access control and
systems in an Anaplan data hub model for use throughout all
equitable sales territories, and predict future sales results user management and single sign-on support with SAML 2.0
Anaplan apps. Choose from a variety of integration options,
across complex sales hierarchies (e.g., geographies, accounts, compliance. Disaster recovery and full data encryption. ISO
including:
customers, etc.) at any level of granularity. 27k certified and/or SOC audited facility data centers. Testing
• Self-service data import and export
• Supply chain: Manage your S&OP processes, demand and auditing of security and confidentiality practices. SOC 1
• Anaplan HyperConnect powered by Informatica forecasts, and supply plans on a single platform, utilizing Type 2 compliance, annual third-party penetration tests, and
• Pre-built ETL connectors to Informatica, MuleSoft, SnapLogic, any time dimension—quarterly, monthly, or even daily. on-going vulnerability scans.
and Boomi for hundreds of data sources, including Workday, Build scenarios on plans and master data to simulate adding
NetSuite, Oracle, and SAP products, changing sources, and new routings.
• Custom integration using Anaplan REST-API • Human resources: Govern the workforce planning process
with policies, budget versioning, role-based access control,
Real-time reporting and dashboards for visual insight
and built-in audit trails.
Quickly assess the health of your business with role-based,
• Marketing: Easily transfer budget across your organizational
built-in dashboards and analytics for at-a-glance insight
hierarchy to deploy funds to high-performing campaigns.
(e.g., charts, graphs, maps, waterfall, and more). Complete
Utilize a comprehensive campaign hierarchy with roll-up
financial reporting (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) across
capacity for resources, budget, spend, and results for all
plans, actuals, and forecasts for real-time, integrated reporting.
marketing activities within the business.
Pivot reports by any dimension (time, geography, product)
for custom views on-the-fly. Self-service UI for modeling, analysis, and “what-ifs”
Enable end users to easily create and modify complex models
Dynamic time, versions, hierarchies, and scenarios
and “what-if” scenarios on the fly that answer complicated
Instantly cascade strategic plans by key dimensions to align
quantitative questions and span multiple areas of the business.
plan, budget, and forecast. Compare multiple versions with
Create simple, real-language formulas—no coding required.
centralized control for consistent versioning company-wide.
Drag-and-drop hierarchy changes with immediate effect,
Make smart business decisions using unlimited scenarios
with no dependence or burden on IT.
for proactive comparative insight. Leverage built-in multi-

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Key benefits at a glance

Modeling User interface
Benefits Benefits
differentiators differentiators

Build more accurate models of any planning and performance Immediately render plan
Flexibility to model any management process for finance, sales, supply chain, workforce, Understand impact of plan, master data, and model changes
and model changes to all
use case or IT, from strategic to operational levels. Includes time series in real time without additional clicks.
views
and order/opportunity modeling and complex KPIs.

Simplified user experience allows planning and analysis (and

Integrate plans across all use cases in real time, avoiding transfer Combined planning,
Integrate planning master data maintenance) to occur simultaneously on the
of data from point applications and spreadsheets. Enable reporting, and analytics
across all use cases same view. Reduced training time.
integrated business planning at strategic and operational levels.

Real-time model View and validate impact of modeling assumptions on plans Allow business users to pivot their views for planning,
Interactive pivoting for
adjustments and KPIs in real time. reporting, and dashboarding for analysis and planning at
planning and reporting
multiple levels. Avoid redefining multiple sets of views.
Excel® formula-like Define business rules and calculations without using technical
calculation definitions expressions, scripting, or coding Simplified user experience and reduced training time with
Single, consistent
one UI for planning, modeling, and administration. Allow
Real-time hierarchy Allow business users to change hierarchy definitions in real time, business user-friendly UI
business users to entirely own and maintain the application.
management using drag-and-drop functionality.

Create scenarios on-the-fly to test assumptions and optimize

Real-time ”what-if” projected outcomes. Allow changes to scenarios based on master  Application management
Benefits
scenarios on plans and data in real time (e.g., new products, customers, new hierarchy differentiators
master data definitions). Leverage predictive analytics for additional foresight
into your business performance.
Enable business users to turn models into apps without
App building
coding, including dashboards, reports, and models.
Understand and audit changes to your models and revert back
Model change history
to older model versions.
Download, publish, and exchange apps to speed up
App Hub
Understand changes and change drivers to your plans. Provide implementation and sharing of best practices.
Data change history
transparency to cross-functional planning.

About Us
@anaplan
Anaplan is the leading planning and performance management platform for smart businesses. Anaplan combines an unrivaled planning and modeling
engine, predictive analytics, and cloud collaboration into one simple interface for business users. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San facebook.com/anaplan
Francisco with 16 offices worldwide. To learn more, visit anaplan.com.
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