Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)

Align strategic goals and targets. Drive business efficiency with connected FP&A.

AI-driven scenario modeling and analysis solutions to align strategic, financial, and operational planning.

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2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software

Anaplan named a 9X Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software and recognized for ability to execute and completeness of vision.

2025 Gartner MQ for Financial Planning Software

Connect across your finance organization with an integrated approach to FP&A

Enable FP&A teams to generate insightful financial performance projections for confident, data-driven decisions.

FAQs

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FP&A is the process of budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and analyzing operational and financial data — enabling businesses to make informed decisions about growth, investments, resource allocation, and more.

FP&A software facilitates connected enterprise planning. It centralizes financial data, automates workflows, and provides advanced analytics that enable finance teams with a single source of truth for improved forecast accuracy, collaborative decision-making, and business resilience.

Anaplan offers a unified planning platform, with AI at the core, that brings together data from across the business (ERPs, operations, sales, and more), enabling real‑time forecasting, scenario modeling, and collaborative financial planning — streamlining your budgeting and forecasting workflows.

Anaplan integrates seamlessly with various enterprise systems like ERPs, CRMs, HRIS platforms, and more through robust connectors and APIs, ensuring a single source of truth for all your financial data and enabling connected planning across your organization.

Yes — Anaplan provides generative and agentic AI capabilities that help finance teams automate routine tasks, generate smarter forecasts, and surface actionable insights.

Using dedicated FP&A software like Anaplan helps to:

  • Reduce manual effort and errors in budgeting/forecast cycles
  • Improve forecast accuracy and agility with AI-driven insights
  • Enable fast scenario modeling and decision-making
  • Align financial plans with operational and strategic goals
  • Provide enterprise‑wide visibility and cross‑functional collaboration

CFOs, financial analysts, finance managers, and other decision‑makers across departments use FP&A tools to gain real‑time visibility into financials, run dynamic forecasts, model different scenarios, and align financial planning with business strategy. 

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