Anaplan, which came from a combination of two words “analysis” and “planning,” is a comprehensive and robust organizational planning platform. It helps large organizations in making important, intelligent business plans and decisions by allowing them to collect and access significant business data easily.
This web-based enterprise platform for business planning is also known for its in-memory database and calculation engine called HyperBlock. By hyper-block, we mean, when a customer enterprise uploads data to the Anaplan cloud, its users would be able to quickly organize and analyse disparate sets of enterprise data from finance, human resources, sales, and other areas of business operations.
Anaplan platform provides enterprise customers with familiar excel-style functionality, and therefore, ordinary business users are able to use the software to make data-driven decisions that would otherwise require a data-scientist’s skill set.
Anaplan incorporates modules for workforce force planning, quota planning, commission calculation, project planning, demand arranging, budgeting, planning and forecasting, monetary consolidation, and productivity modelling.
Anaplan's cooperative, intuitive and engaging user experience carries the right individuals into the planning process at the right time, across devices and solutions. The whole organization will want to share continuous information, empower more brilliant and quicker decision-making, and uncommon adaptability.
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Embedded optimization includes optimizer, cutting-edge predictive algorithms, and evolving AI/ML capabilities that transform complicated inputs into actionable recommendations.
With embedded intelligence, one can access hundreds of variables and constraints, which let optimization and ML capabilities solve for an optimal answer.
With embedded intelligence, one can derive recommendations for many complicated use cases that include sales territory planning, inventory management, project portfolio optimization, etc.
Further, embedded algorithms enable statistical forecastings such as Curve Fit, Smoothing, Seasonal Smoothing, and many more.
Anaplan’s Hyperblock calculation engine enables multi-dimensional scenario modelling with unlimited constraints. This powerful technology allows companies to model the most complicated scenarios so that they can stay ahead of market changes. Meanwhile, Anaplan maintains 100% consistency across all model changes.
Anaplan offers two calculation engines – the Classic Engine and Anaplan Polaris TM. These engines are designed to solve any type of business problem at scale. Together, these engines empower businesses to easily expand plans and use cases alongside rapidly growing business needs.
In addition to this, HyperModel TM capabilities allow users to incorporate vast amounts of data into their use cases to solve complex business scenarios and naturally adjust forecasts.
Anaplan allows users to integrate and analyze data within a unified platform, thus, creating a single source of truth from planning to decision-making. APIs, ETL connectors, and built-in integrators easily communicate with other solutions.
Anaplan has connectors for ETL and ESB tools that integrate with systems of record, such as Informatica, MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, and SnapLogic.
Anaplan supports purpose-built integrations for enterprise systems of engagement – Tableau, Workiva, and DocuSign.
Anaplan can further be extended with custom integrations using REST APIs and scripting.
The Anaplan platform connects the whole enterprise and scales across trillions of cells, hundreds of models and use cases, thousands of users, and multiple versions. Calculations in Anaplan stay consistent and rapid for all data sets and any number of users.
Hyper-threading with CPU cores allows the Anaplan platform to process millions of rows per second.
Anaplan’s Hyperblock technology processes only the relevant cells, dramatically reducing calculation time.
Application lifecycle management (ALM) in the cloud systematically synchronizes structure between models.
Anaplan platform has industry-leading security capabilities, thus, it gives businesses the transparency, visibility, access, and control needed for superior data safekeeping and protection. This platform offers best-in-class security and compliance including BYOK, single sign-on support with SAML 2.0, and data encryption at rest and in transit.
Identity and authorization management in Anaplan provides users management, access control, and selective access.
Authentication is validated through SSO and certificates.
Encryption is kept at rest and in-transit with an option for BYOK.
Audit functionality in the Anaplan platform, tracks users’ activity and access control security events.
Anaplan platform is software that analyses business performance data, which the decision- makers or managers can employ while moving forward. It generally covers enterprise-wide processes and single usages. With Anaplan, businesses and organizations are able to make sure that everyone involved in the decision-making process is on the same page. Anaplan allows decision makers to collaborate with ease, thus this results in a faster process of finding resolutions to issues at hand. Apart from these, there are a few more benefits that this platform offers.