June 11, 2019

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Anaplan debuts new user experience and mobile app for its Connected Planning platform

Anaplan Press Release

New Anaplan user experience enables more collaborative planning and decision-making
across the enterprise with intuitive navigation and data visualization

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 11, 2019 — Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN), a pioneer in Connected Planning, today unveiled an updated platform user experience and a new mobile app for access to relevant business data on the go. Revealed at Anaplan’s premier customer event, Connected Planning Xperience 2019 in San Francisco, Anaplan’s visually engaging and easy-to-use platform transforms enterprise planning with a collaborative, actionable, and accessible digital experience across devices and solutions.

Echo Global Logistics, a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, uses the Anaplan platform for enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, and planning. The company reduced its budget cycle by approximately 50% year over year, saving more than six weeks of time by leveraging the flexibility and intuitive nature of the platform across the enterprise to build complex business scenarios and engage in real-time analysis.

“With Anaplan, we are doing things that we couldn’t do before,” said Brett Lukowicz, Director of Finance at Echo Global Logistics. “On top of the existing value of the platform, we are excited for the new user experience to deliver increased efficiencies in our planning process by making it easier for our more than 100 users to actively engage in planning and collaborate in real time.”

Anaplan’s new platform experience allows users to update plans quickly, visualize impacts in real time, and make decisions confidently. For example, sales representatives can update sales opportunity forecasts in real time on the mobile app, providing sales leadership rapid visibility to sales attainment and financial performance.

Anaplan’s new and enhanced features include:

  • A new, modern user interface (UI) that facilitates enterprise-wide planning and drives personalized experiences for every user of the Anaplan platform. Users enjoy visually impactful, highly customized views and reports to drive insightful planning and analysis for every business group throughout the enterprise.

  • A redesigned home screen that provides a personalized experience so users can build plans and execute quickly, access customized views and multidimensional reports, and increase productivity with faster, direct access to the most important information and applications.

  • A mobile application for iOS and Android that enables decision making on the go, with a highly responsive and secure experience that simplifies the informed decision-making process across devices.

  • Workflow improvements including tasks, notifications, and guided experiences that take users exactly where they need to be for quicker execution and more collaborative planning.

“The new user experience of the Anaplan platform unlocks the power of Connected Planning and extends the reach of the platform,” said Sampath Gomatam, Senior Vice President of Product at Anaplan. “The workforce of the future needs access to technologies that enable them to make real-time, data-driven decisions. Our seamless new user experience allows companies to democratize decision-making by making intelligent planning technology accessible to everyone.”

The new user experience for the Anaplan platform is now available for early adopters and the mobile app is available in beta upon request. To learn more, click here.

About Anaplan
Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN) is pioneering the category of Connected Planning. Our platform, powered by our proprietary Hyperblock™ technology, purpose-built for Connected Planning, enables dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning. Large global enterprises use our solution to connect people, data, and plans to enable real-time planning and decision-making in rapidly changing business environments to give our customers a competitive advantage. Based in San Francisco, we have over 20 offices globally, 175 partners, and more than 1,150 customers worldwide. To learn more, visit anaplan.com.