Anaplan

Anaplan is a simple to use, single platform that empowers end users in Finance, Operations and Sales to rapidly design, build and deploy rich operational and performance management applications in the Cloud. All without the involvement of IT and no additional hardware.

The self-service platform connects business users from across the 'front lines' liberating IT and saving both time and money, with a modern enterprise interface similar to personal social media platforms.

Anaplan for Finance - Finance teams use Anaplan to analyse, model, forecast and report across their business, all via the web in a secure environment.  Anaplan enables them to replace spreadsheets and overcome the inconsistencies associated with using such tools for planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting, to give them unparalleled speed, performance, accuracy and visibility when it comes to planning and understanding their businesses. Anaplan enables Finance executives to:

• Prepare for budget collection in hours
• Forecast updates connected to operational activities across the business; and
• Build a straegic plan in as little as 3 - 10 days.

Why Anaplan?

• Easy to get started - copy and paste your own P&L, cashflow and balance sheet into Anaplan
• Easy to use - option to use pre-configured mapping tables to map sales items to debtors/accounts receivables, purchases to creditors/accounts payables, and expenses to accruals based on the way you manage your business
• Unlimited users within Finance for one monthly fee
• Hosted on the web, eliminating on-premise software costs
• Developed by the original Adaytum/Cognos Planning development team

Key Features:

• Configure detailed income statement to balance sheet mapping in less than 4 hours
• Import and map data naturally and easily into the Anaplan platform
• Translate operational activities into detailed weekly or monthly cash flows
• Automate mapping of Actuals into Forecast by setting Forecast start date
• Automate building of departmental or cost centre income and expenditure reports from GL by GL code and distribute to managers for forecast update
• Connect sales forecasts to operational plans with finance forecasts, budgets and plans
• Create workforce plans and reports that link to compensation, capacity and commission plans and headcount reporting
• Enable detailed revenue planning and allocations from bookings
• Handle very large allocations - allocated across 100million records, in less than 10 seconds
• Deploy to 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 users instantaneously with simple workflow and fine grained security settings with built-in collaboration tools for communication

If you would like to know more, please contact us.