What is Bedford Advantage?

Bedford Advantage is a managed service that keeps your Anaplan platform supported, optimised, and aligned to the needs of the business throughout its entire lifecycle. Rather than treating Anaplan as a project that ends at go-live, Bedford Advantage helps organisations continually improve and evolve their planning capabilities as priorities, processes, and business requirements change.

The service is built around four pillars: Review, Response, Optimise, and Enhance.

• Review focuses on maintaining visibility. Through regular platform assessments, governance reviews, and strategic conversations, we help organisations understand how their Anaplan environment is performing, where risks may be emerging, and where opportunities for improvement exist. This ensures decisions are based on evidence rather than assumptions.
• Response provides ongoing support and expertise when issues arise. Whether users need assistance, models require troubleshooting, or business-critical processes need attention, organisations have access to experienced Anaplan specialists who can resolve challenges quickly and minimise disruption.
• Optimise ensures the platform continues to deliver maximum value. As usage grows and planning processes mature, models can become more complex and new requirements can emerge. We identify opportunities to improve performance, streamline processes, strengthen governance, and help organisations get more from their existing Anaplan investment.
• Enhance focuses on the future. Businesses don’t stand still, and neither should their planning platforms. This pillar supports the delivery of new functionality, additional use cases, evolving business requirements, and emerging capabilities, ensuring Anaplan continues to support strategic objectives as the organisation changes.

Together, these four pillars create a proactive approach to platform management. Instead of simply maintaining the status quo, Bedford Advantage helps organisations continually improve the effectiveness, adoption, and impact of their planning environment.

The result is an Anaplan platform that remains technically healthy, strategically relevant, and capable of delivering value long after implementation. Rather than drifting away from business needs over time, it evolves alongside them, helping organisations make better decisions with greater confidence.