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Michael Gould, FounderAiming to redefine the new age of connected planning through technology, Anaplan’s cloud platform offers large-scale collaborative planning and decision making across complex processes. The platform addresses excessive and disparate data by leveraging standards-based data integration for organizations to make better, informed decisions. It enables businesses to implement any planning process virtually by connecting all the employees and data in real time and get insights into business operations. Connected planning ensures that every individual within the organization uses the best available data to implement effective plans and drive better decisions.
Anaplan uses Hyperblock™, powerful and flexible modeling and calculation engine, to enable detailed planning models and utilize data down to the transactional level. As an in-memory engine of the Anaplan platform, Hyperblock™ helps businesses build plans for any level of management. Once an enterprise customer uploads data to the Anaplan Cloud, the engine enables users to organize and analyze siloed enterprise data sets from different areas of business operations.
Hyperblock™ also combines with cube, columnar, and cell-based frameworks to meet real-time modeling and calculation demands.
Connected planning is transforming the way enterprises work, allowing for more informed decisions, using data accrued from every corner of the business
Anaplan’s platform provides application lifecycle management (ALM) to supervise application and security features that enable good governance for IT requirements and business users. The platform’s added data visualization capabilities and versatile encryption help users understand changes to data sources and ensure real-world business success. Operations managers can use platform’s interfaces to drive day-to-day processes which result in organizations using enterprise-grade planning across thousands of users with zero to minimal IT support requirement.
In an instance, Anaplan helped Booking.com, a travel service provider, to overcome their operational impediments. The service provider averages over one million bookings within the 24-hour period. The company’s hyper-growth combined with ascending digital travel sales caused the company to increase its employee headcount and inventory of properties two-fold. They also faced the challenging of keeping their financial planning process in lockstep with the rampant growth. Anaplan’s flexible and robust cloud-based platform provided them the functionality and speed to scale and centralize their financial planning processes. The platform enabled the company to dynamically analyze and refine financial plans in real time across all business levels. As an outcome, Booking. com was able to streamline all their manual processes and reduce the time spent on consolidation and forecasting. The company’s FP&A team was also able to improve productivity and collaboration by gaining access to a more comprehensive and holistic view of the business.
Moving ahead, Anaplan is ensuring that businesses achieve connected planning at scale, from a single use case within one business unit to enterprise-wide connected planning across hundreds of processes. With a goal to help organizations re-imagine planning in today’s technology-driven world, Anaplan offers the most flexible, scalable, and collaborative connected cloud planning system.
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Company
Anaplan, Inc
Management
Michael Gould, Founder
Description
Provides connected cloud platform for financial planning for organizations to be dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent to drive business forward
