Anaplan
Helping Connected Leaders And Teams Forecast Continuously

Facing disruption and uncertainty, leaders accountable for business performance have to make quick decisions with confidence to effectively pivot as conditions change. Leaders from finance to operations must have real time insight to respond to dynamic situations, and create organizational resilience enterprise wide.

Enter Anaplan.

Anaplan is a cloud-native enterprise SaaS company helping global enterprises orchestrate business performance. The company’s unrivalled hyperscale computing lets you digitally encode business strategy and link it to operational plans. “We make it possible to illuminate blind spots lurking between siloed transactional enterprises systems. So you gain cross-silo line-of-sight. Can trust a single source of truth. And act on real-time internal and external signals to make better decisions to advance your business,” says Frank Calderoni,Chairman and CEO, Anaplan.“Empowered with shared insight, your teams can continuously model and forecast at the most outer edges of your business, and synchronize actions for your entire enterprise—from the CFO to your regional hubs and to your most remote factory floor.”

Partnership with AWS

What steers Anaplan ahead is its strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to provide the Anaplan platform for enterprise planning on AWS. This collaboration expands the reach of the Anaplan platform to new geographies and customer segments on AWS’s market-leading cloud infrastructure. Anaplan on AWS will also deliver added value to customers by helping them more efficiently leverage solutions on AWS—including AnaplanPlanIQ with Amazon Forecast—and easily integrate with AWS data sources and advanced intelligence capabilities.

“Never before have business leaders put such a strong emphasis on and prioritized the critical need for effective, intelligent enterprise planning,” mentionsCalderoni. “Organizations are leveraging Anaplan to transform their operations and manage their business with greater agility and resilience. Our relationship with AWS will arm business leaders with enhanced planning capabilities to help them make confident decisions in real time, optimize performance, and scale to the opportunities in their markets. We see tremendous opportunities to work with AWS customers to drive their transformation efforts across finance, supply chain, workforce and sales.”

Anaplan’s Connected Planning platform provides value to every line of business in the enterprise and the unique ability to accelerate decision-making across these lines of business. The Anaplan AWS relationship represents a unique opportunity to innovate within the business applications category. “We’re thrilled to be expanding our collaboration with Anaplan to bring advanced planning capabilities to our enterprise customers where real-time data and integrated planning are critical to making strategic decisions faster,” mentions Ryan Broadwell, Global Director of ISV Partners, AWS. “Customers can derive unparalleled benefit from the agility, scaling, and intelligence of Anaplan on AWS.”

Anaplan Helps

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for organizations and communities on the front lines of the response or whose businesses have been disrupted. Teams and leaders everywhere are faced with making complex decisions quickly as they manage through this new reality. Anaplan is helping global organizations use Connected Planning to collaborate across teams, model different scenarios, and accelerate decision making when changes occur. As the world responds to the evolving COVID-19 situation, Anaplan want to put its platform to use helping organizations, agencies and businesses navigate this crisis while prioritizing the health and safety of employees and communities.

Anaplan’sAnaplan Helps is a program to help organizations and our customers navigate the impacts of COVID-19, through our Connected Planning platform. One of the ways we are doing this is offering access to the platform at no charge for 90 days* to immediately aid these companies responding to the crisis. After the 90 days, customers have the option to continue at their contracted price or discontinue the service. The solution is a starting point for your organization to get a glimpse of the power of Anaplan and what planning needs it can provide. “As COVID-19 continues to unfold around the world, we are solely focused on how best to support our employees, customers, partners and community as we navigate this rapid change together. First, we would like to thank the healthcare professionals, researchers and leaders who are on the front lines, and our thoughts are with those who have been impacted by the virus,” informs Calderoni. “Finally, we understand that many of you must continue to run your business. We are fully dedicated to assuring the reliability, scalability and innovation of the Anaplan platform to deliver the highest level of support and performance to you. If there is anything that we can do to support your organization’s business continuity, response and contingency efforts, please reach out to your Anaplan representative.”