Anaplan is an enterprise connected planning platform for FP&A, supply chain, and sales planning. See its history, features, pricing, and Thoma Bravo buyout.
Anaplan is an enterprise cloud platform for connected business planning, unifying financial planning, supply chain planning, sales planning, and workforce planning within a single shared data model, so that changes in one part of the business are reflected across every connected plan.
Founded in 2006 in Yorkshire, England by Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould, the company grew into a major enterprise software vendor headquartered in San Francisco, going public on the NYSE in 2018 under the ticker PLAN.
In 2022, private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquired Anaplan for approximately $10.7 billion, taking the company private; it continues to operate as a standalone enterprise planning vendor under Thoma Bravo ownership.
Anaplan's core technology is Hyperblock, a proprietary in-memory calculation engine that allows large, interconnected planning models to update and recalculate in real time as inputs change.
The platform offers purpose-built modules for FP&A (scenario planning, consolidation, reporting), supply chain planning (demand, supply, and inventory optimization), sales planning (territory and quota alignment), and workforce planning (headcount and talent budgeting).
More recently, Anaplan has added AI-driven capabilities across its modules to help planners generate scenarios, insights, and recommendations faster, under a broader 'agentic enterprise' decision-making positioning.
Anaplan does not publish list pricing publicly. Instead, the company uses a custom, quote-based enterprise sales process tailored to the number of users, planning models, and modules a customer licenses.
Industry estimates suggest annual contract values can range from roughly $30,000 to $50,000 for smaller deployments up to well over $1 million annually for large, multi-module enterprise rollouts.
Prospective customers must contact Anaplan's sales team or a certified partner directly to receive a tailored quote and implementation plan.
Anaplan was founded in 2006 in Yorkshire, England by Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould.
No. Anaplan went public on the NYSE in 2018 under the ticker PLAN but was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2022 for approximately $10.7 billion and is now privately held.
Anaplan is used for connected enterprise business planning, including financial planning and analysis, supply chain planning, sales planning, and workforce planning.
Anaplan does not publish pricing publicly; it uses a custom, quote-based enterprise sales process, with estimated annual contracts ranging from tens of thousands to well over a million dollars depending on scope.
Hyperblock is Anaplan's proprietary in-memory calculation engine that powers real-time recalculation of large, interconnected planning models.
Anaplan is typically compared to Oracle EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning, OneStream, and Jedox in the enterprise planning software category.
Anaplan reports serving more than 2,000 customers worldwide across industries including consumer goods, technology, retail, and financial services.
Anaplan is headquartered in San Francisco, California, after originally being founded in Yorkshire, England.