November 12, 2024

Anaplan Integrated Financial Planning and Operational Workforce Planning Applications Lower Costs and Accelerate Time to Value for the Offices of the CFO and CHRO

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Anaplan innovation continues under its $500M multi-year product investment designed to advance category leadership in scenario planning and analysis
Anaplan’s Integrated Financial Planning and Operational Workforce Planning Applications Lower Costs and Accelerate Time to Value for the Offices of the CFO and CHRO

MIAMI, FL - Anaplan, the leading scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment, previously outlined a multi-year innovation roadmap that delivers breakthrough platform capabilities, applications and AI designed to help enterprises make decisions better, faster and more efficiently than others in their markets. More specifically, in October, Anaplan outlined a $500M multi-year product investment designed to advance its category leadership in scenario planning and analysis — the first groundbreaking product released in connection with this investment was Anaplan Data Orchestrator, a native enterprise-ready data integration, transformation, and management product that accelerates time to better decision-making.

The product innovation momentum continues with the release of Anaplan’s Integrated Financial Planning (IFP) and Operational Workforce Planning (OWP) applications — the latest in a series of configurable and fully upgradeable applications based on best practices and common customer use cases. Anaplan applications are tailor-made solutions with built-in best practices that fully leverage the flexibility, capabilities and configurability of the Anaplan scenario analysis and planning platform.

The Anaplan IFP application includes:

  • Easily configurable best-practice FP&A processes like P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow management as well as Revenue, OpEx, Headcount, Capital and Long-range planning
  • Out-of-the-box scenario and planning models and dashboards
  • Pre-built and extensible data models along with no code integrations to ERP/GL systems via Anaplan Data Orchestrator
  • Innovative and easy to use guided configurator
  • Fully integrated with Anaplan’s Financial Close and Consolidation, Disclosure Management and Anaplan XL Reporting applications for a comprehensive cloud native suite to fully automate and enable the office of the CFO

“The IFP application dramatically accelerates time to value for our customers. IFP incorporates planning best practices and is enhanced with out-of-the-box scenario modeling, reporting, and dashboarding. The most noteworthy impact of the IFP application comes from helping companies make better decisions, quickly. In a rapidly changing environment, providing a single source of planning truth, fosters collaborative decision-making, and offers flexibility to customize and extend for unique planning needs,” said Yuri Polyakov, Anaplan’s SVP Applications, Finance & Workforce.

The Anaplan OWP application includes:

  • A secure, accurate, and real-time view of positions, requisitions, workforce trends, and costs across the organization
  • The ability to drill into pertinent workforce details
  • Accelerated alignment of strategic plans with execution, translating those plans into unified talent needs, and ensuring consistency between top-down and bottom-up planning
  • Out-of-the-box, easily configurable best-practice workforce planning capabilities
  • Pre-built and extensible data models along with no code integrations to HR/HCM, ATS and ERP systems via Anaplan Data Orchestrator
  • The ability for FP&A teams to monitor variances against budget guidelines, ensuring ongoing workforce changes (e.g., hiring, cost variances, hiring location and timeframes) are in alignment with the committed budget scenarios

“We’re excited to leverage Anaplan’s OWP application to empower our leaders and HRBPs to plan and gain insights into our workforce across our global brands in a complex environment. With full visibility into workforce dynamics, headcount, and costs, ensuring our positions align with our strategies and targets — setting us up for execution success,” said Mario Sejdia, Director of Digital Transformation at Delivery Hero.

“The release of our IFP and OWP applications complete a best-in-class connected portfolio for the office of the CFO,” said Adam Thier, Anaplan’s Chief Product and Technology Officer. “The combination of our integrated IFP and OWP applications with Anaplan’s Financial Close & Consolidation and Disclosure Management applications provide the industry’s most comprehensive consolidation and financial/workforce planning solution, delivering out-of-the-box best practices that dramatically accelerate time to value, reduce cost, and nearly eliminate implementation risk when compared to competitors’ start from a blank sheet of paper tool offerings.”

About Anaplan

Anaplan is the only scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights — so businesses can make the right decisions, right now.​

More than 2,400 of the world’s best brands continually optimize their decision-making by planning with Anaplan. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com.