Anaplan

Anaplan is a planning and scenario analysis platform used by large organisations to link strategy with day-to-day decisions. Its site now describes it as decision infrastructure with artificial intelligence built in, running on a calculation engine the company calls Hyperblock.

The company is based in San Francisco, according to its earlier profile text.

What Anaplan offers

• Financial planning — planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and reporting.
• Supply chain planning — demand, supply and sales and operations planning.
• Sales planning — territories, quotas, incentives and seller capacity.
• Workforce planning — headcount and talent plans tested against budget scenarios.
• Retail planning — a unified view of demand and financial results.
• AI features — combines language models with a deterministic calculation engine.

Who it works with

Large and fast-growing companies in many industries. Consulting firms and a partner community deliver Anaplan to their own clients.

Key facts

• Based in: San Francisco, USA
• Customer base: over 2,800 brands, according to the site
• Partners: consultancies and solution partners