What is Anaplan?

It is a powerful, flexible, scalable, and collaborative platform for organisations to plan, analyse and optimise their business operations across finance, supply chain, sales, marketing, and HR to facilitate real-time decision-making and improve overall business performance.

At a more detailed level:

• It supports integrated business planning, allowing organisations to create flexible models, collaborate across teams, and gain real-time visibility into their performance including profitability analysis.
• Use Anaplan to build custom planning models and applications tailored to specific business needs, including financial planning, consolidation, forecasting, sales and operations planning, workforce planning, supply chain optimisation, budgeting, and much more.
• The platform supports data integration from different sources, allowing leaders to bring together financial and operational data for analysis and decision-making.
• It offers financial consolidation capabilities for organisations with multiple subsidiaries or business units.
• With its drag-and-drop interface, customisable dashboards, and interactive visualisations, Anaplan empowers users to explore data, conduct scenario analysis, and make agile decisions seamlessly.
• Anaplan supports collaboration and data sharing, enabling teams to work together in real-time and align their plans and objectives.
• Anaplan supports compliance and risk management, by providing visibility into financial data ensuring regulatory adherence.

As a cloud system, Anaplan ensures scalability, reliability, and accessibility, without extensive IT infrastructure or maintenance. Anaplan also provides security features to protect data, including encryption, access controls, and compliance.