Anaplan Gets Top Honours at CIO HONOUR AWARDS® 2014 in Singapore

Singapore – 23 October 2014 – Anaplan received two top honours from Singapore’s CIO community with the CIO HONOUR AWARDS® 2014 in the Sales Performance Analytics and Integrated Performance Management Analytics categories at a glittering RED CARPET HONOUR AWARDS® reception event. The CIO HONOUR AWARDS® is a powerful endorsement promoted by CXO HONOUR®, a recognised endorsement platform amongst the CIO community in Singapore. The Top honours were chosen by an independent advisory council of emminent CIOs based on the results from an opinion poll that was made available to more than 500 CIOs in Singapore.

Anaplan’s in-memory planning and execution platform was recognised because it creates a hub for collaborative planning and execution for key stakeholders in an organization—from finance to sales to operations and more. Using Anaplan’s comprehensive business rules and user-based role security, enterprises are finally achieving an integrated environment for secure, real-time team collaboration on shared plans. With just a few clicks, users can create and manage critical connections between plans, people, places, products, promotions and more.

Anaplan enables organizations to drive sales productivity and effectiveness by aligning all the moving parts of the process including target setting, territory, quota, rep coverage, overlays, channel partners, commissions, forecasting and more.

“Anaplan provides a single solution that IT loves. It unifies data from across the enterprise and interconnects plans to give unprecedented trust and visibility into the planning process. We feel extremely honoured and delighted to be considered as a top leader in both Sales Performance Analytics and Integrated Performance Management Analytics by Singapore’s CIO community,” said Samir Neji, Managing Director, Anaplan Asia Pacific, upon winning these awards. “We wish to thank all CIOs and business managers – including our customers and partners for their continued support and trust – and the distinguished CIO Advisory Council for endorsing us.”

The awards are given based on a business’s overall value delivered to the market, its relationships with the partners and the channel, as well as for its potential to grow in a particular sector. In total, more than 80 categories across hardware, software and services are awarded, covering cloud, big data, business analytics, infrastructure, security, and mobility, among others.

The inaugural award ceremony was held at The St. Regis Singapore on October 8^th, 2014.

The CXO HONOUR® is an online endorsement platform that is uniquely positioned to capture the preferences and the opinions of the relevant C-level suite about their incentive compensation management vendors. Because the endorsements are viewed as peer recommendations, the community considers it as a very valuable and trusted local source for the future buying needs. The CXO HONOUR® platform is supported by Ideation Edge Asia (www.ideationedgeasia.org), or IDEA for short, an industry association of C-level senior business leaders interested in fostering a business community to further their understanding of technology trends that shapes business, societal, environmental & economical changes in Asia.

About Anaplan
Anaplan is disrupting the world of business planning and execution. We built our platform from the ground up to empower companies to plan, collaborate and act—in real time. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts and course correct on the fly. With Anaplan’s cloud-based platform and applications, you can continuously align your people, plans and spend to your market opportunities. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA with global offices on four continents. To learn more, visit anaplan.com. Join us on twitter: @anaplan