Anaplan For Finance

Steer business performance by connecting data, people, and plans across FP&A

The State of
Connected Planning

We surveyed over 1,000 businesses around the world. See what we learned about finance planning.

Connected Planning for Finance

Disruption is now an expected course of business. Traditional planning is often slow, error-prone, and fragmented, and adopting finance best practices such as driver-based, rolling forecasts and zero-based budgeting is difficult. Anaplan for Finance, a cloud-native platform, is different. It connects people, plans, and data across finance—and even across your organization—to let you make the right decisions quickly.

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improved productivity realized by FP&A forecasters

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Less than twelve months breakeven

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With the Anaplan platform, finance teams say goodbye to aggregating spreadsheets and rigid tools and hello to value-added analysis, better management decisions, and collaboration throughout the entire business. Adopting a Connected Planning approach in finance aligns corporate objectives with financial plans that are linked to market events and operational tactics, resulting in finance transformation that accelerates business value.

Financial Planning and Analysis Software Use Cases

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The new reality in Finance

New dynamics are impacting CFOs’ ability to execute strategy. From regulatory changes around cyber security, data privacy, and financial reporting, to volatility and uncertainty due to shifts in economic, fiscal, monetary, and trade policies, to digital disruption and business model innovation, today’s finance teams are under increasing pressure to anticipate and react with greater speed and agility.

Regulatory environment

Volatility and uncertainty

Digital disruption and business model innovation

The future of decision making in Finance

Finance leaders need to invest equally in operational efficiency to create fast, reliable decision processes, and business partnering to deliver stronger business insight for management decision-making. Anaplan for Finance provides FP&A teams with a business self-service, cloud-native planning, analysis, and reporting solution for real-time decision-making.

Using Anaplan, financial analysts adjust planning, analysis, and reporting models quickly to include changing business conditions without relying on IT. Anaplan’s flexible modeling capabilities enable finance organizations to automate, structure, and connect a range of financial and operational use cases so that they can steer business performance more effectively.

Transform decision making with Anaplan

The Anaplan platform transforms finance by connecting data, people, and plans within finance and across the enterprise. Using Anaplan, organizations anticipate performance gaps with greater lead time, analyze root causes by drilling down into dimensionally rich financial and operational data, assess the impact of alternative courses of actions quickly, and enable more effective decision-making and execution.

Additional solutions

Sales

Supply
chain

Marketing

Marketing resource management
Marketing performance management

Information
Technology

Project portfolio management

Workforce

Succession planning
Workforce capacity planning

The Connected Planning difference

Dynamic

Plan in a dynamic, continuous way by measuring, monitoring, drilling deep into root causes, performing “what-if” analysis and re-forecasting in real-time.

Collaborative

From the head office to the shop floor, finance can collaborate with all departments across the enterprise to align objectives with operational tactics and financial plans.