MIAMI, Feb. 3, 2026 — Anaplan, the leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52978625, January 2026). We believe this recognition underscores Anaplan’s proven ability to help organizations modernize planning, budgeting, and forecasting with greater agility and confidence.
The IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors based on both current capabilities and long-term strategy, with a focus on how well their solutions support enterprise-wide planning, budgeting, and forecasting across finance and the broader business. The report noted, “The vendor offers a single, unified platform for integrated business planning, which natively connects finance, supply chain, go-to-market, and workforce to enable real-time cross-functional scenario planning and immediate visibility into financial impacts.”
“As organizations shift toward continuous, data-driven planning, enterprise planning, forecasting, and budgeting applications are becoming the backbone of financial resilience. The ability to pair GenAI and agentic workflows with trusted, governed data will help drive accuracy, consistency, and continuous insights that will allow organizations to navigate economic uncertainty more effectively,” said Megha Kumar, research vice president, analytics and AI, IDC.
The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a three to five-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.
“Dynamic planning, budgeting, and forecasting have become mission critical as volatility and complexity continue to redefine how businesses operate,” said Neil Thomas, SVP of finance and workforce applications at Anaplan. “We believe the recognition as a Leader in this assessment reinforces the value of scenario-based planning and analysis in enabling decision excellence, bringing finance and cross-functional teams together to continuously model what’s next and make confident decisions in real time.”
Anaplan’s cloud-native, AI-driven platform enables dynamic forecasting, scenario modeling, and cross-functional planning at enterprise scale. The report noted, “Anaplan delivers prebuilt, upgradable applications that can be deployed rapidly without extensive customization, reducing implementation cycles and enabling faster user adoption compared with building models from scratch.”
For more information on why Anaplan was named a Leader in financial planning and analysis, explore the solutions page or access the report excerpt.
Source: “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment,” January 2026, IDC #US52978625
About Anaplan
Anaplan is a leading AI-driven 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 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com.
About IDC MarketScape
The IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.
