We founded and built Adaytum in the '90s

  • Last new technology entrant in the EPM/Business Modeling space
  • Started in the mid-market
  • Attacked the enterprise vendors in 2000
  • $60m revenue in 2002

Sold the company to Cognos in 2003

What we left behind - and what is still industry standard today

  • Script Engine (and yet another system for automation)
  • Admin Console (another system for administration
  • Model Builder (another system for modeling)
  • Calculation engine (a separate system for manipulation)
  • ETL Systems (connecting to other systems)
  • HOLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP (making it multi-dimensional)
  • Relational Databases
  • Base Servers (to hold it all together)
  • Consultants (helping everyone understand the system
  • IT Guy (guarding and maintaining all the systems
  • Administrator (controlling and designing systems)
  • End user (turns back to the spreadsheet because it's all too overwhelming

20+ years leading design of multi-dimensional planning systems

What is we could know what's changing in our business? Right now.
And what if we could understand the impact of those changes? This minute.
And what if we could collaborate to decide what to do about it?
And what if we could do all that without I.T?

This is going to take some work... better head to the barn

2009. After 3 years R&D in a cold, Yorkshire barn...

A blazing fast business modeling platform:

  • Unified java Architecture
  • Plug & Play Application Environment
  • In-Memory Calculation Engine

Anaplan

Now that you've seen where we've come from, join us to see where we're going