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Anaplan: The Planning Cloud

Planning Never Stops. Be UnStoppable.

The Planning Cloud.

Unstoppable Companies.

Integrated Business Planning.

About Anaplan.

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PLANNINGNEVER STOPS.

You’ve heard it before. Fueled by globalization and technology, the business world is moving faster than ever. That means your rate of change and innovation has to increase—to keep pace with new competitors, new buying trends, new business opportunities, new markets. Stand still and you’ll get left behind.

BEUNSTOPPABLE.

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But every business change poses critical decisions: Where do you go? What resources do you need to get there? How do you balance new initiatives and existing investments? What is the master plan for your company? Are your financial, workforce, sales and demand plans in sync? Can you move fast enough to meet or exceed the rate of change in your marketplace?

These are questions business people are dealing with in every industry. Until now, the only way to find answers has been the slow, painful process of gathering data from single-purpose planning systems combined with a proliferation of spreadsheets for bridging gaps and making ad hoc queries. Unfortunately, these tools simply aren’t geared to take in large volumes of constantly changing street data and adjust working formulas to reflect market dynamics in real time.

Enter Anaplan. From evaluating acquisitions to changing sales pipelines to recruiting new teams, Anaplan lets you model potential outcomes and course correct on the fly. With just a few clicks and no IT intervention, you can see changes instantly ripple through your connected plans to reveal the impact across your business.

No more time outs for planning. With Anaplan, you are always adapting to change, always optimizing your physical, financial and people resources, always maximizing your yield. When you can truly say, “the planning never stops,” you are not just good—you’re unstoppable.

Anaplan has reinvented planning for the modern enterprise so that you can plan for a world… that never stops.

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PLAN, COLLABORATE,ACT.

THEPLANNING

Anaplan is the planning cloud for enterprise organizations. We builtour platform from the ground up to empower multiple groups to plan,collaborate, and execute— in real time. Now everyone can get on the same page and move forward as one, from sales to finance and from operations to HR.

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Oracle

Netsuite

Workday

HR

MARKETING

SALES

FINANCE

IT

OPERATIONS

Other

SAP

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#1SalesCustomers like HP, Kimberly-Clark, and McAfee saw the value in Anaplan’s ability to model large numbers of products, people, programs, places, and projects to deliver optimized plans that drive business growth. Today more than 230 customers worldwide rely on Anaplan to help them be unstoppable. Here are just a few examples.

With a sales team encompassing 30,000 salesrepresentatives selling over 150 product lines tocustomers in 178 countries, HP came to Anaplan toimprove the effectiveness of their territory and quota planning process.

HP’s disconnected, Excel-based planning processmade it impossible to effectively collaborate across its 4,000 sales managers and more than 380 sales plans. The company had limited visibility into its worldwide quota deployment, and the territory and quota planning process took 10 months. With Anaplan, HP now has a single, living plan with role-based visibility and controls, including globalcollaboration and advanced sales history analytics to provide data-driven account and territory opportunity assessment. Now sales managers can provide consolidated, consistent bottom-up input to plans and monitor deployed plans with real-time KPIs.

The results? Sales letters go out in days instead of weeks. Reps get visibility into deployed quota and sales performance on day one. And time spent aggregating sales data has been reduced from a month to three days.

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COMPANIES

“ I have been at HP eight years, and I have never seen a start of a year like we had this year, thanks to Anaplan.”

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Sue BarsamianSenior Vice President

Worldwide Indirect Sales, HP Enterprise Group

Hewlett-Packard

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#2 #3Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company head-quartered in London. It provides insurance, pensions, savings, and investment products to 30 million customers around the globe. Aligning and optimizing financial plans and forecasts in an increasingly fast-moving environment is a complex process that requires a high degree of accuracy and agility. Aviva’s financial reporting tools lacked the agility necessary in planning and forecasting to build scenarios quickly and deal with multiple versions. So Aviva turned to Anaplan.

Aviva needed to increase planning agility withoutcompromising financial control. They wanted to focus efforts on valued-added analysis, not the rather ugly process of consolidating group plans using multiple Excel spreadsheets.

With Anaplan, Aviva gained a single data source forfinancial planning across all of its businesses. The cloud-based platform enabled rapid roll-out across all groups. Now planners can build scenarios quickly, manage multiple versions, and create customized reporting hierarchies.

Aviva completed the Anaplan implementation in two months and rapidly scaled up to 180 users enterprise-wide. Time to consolidate plan numbers was reduced from one week to one day. The cloud-based process connects business units in real time, enabling a faster, more efficient, more accurate, more collaborative planning process.

Aramark provides award-winning food and beverage services to healthcare institutions, universities, school districts, stadiums and arenas. The company’s success is demonstrated by its $13 billion in revenue derived from operations in 22 countries around the world. Aramark chose Anaplan to more effectively deploy its 270,000 employees’ labor across a network of entertainment and food service facilities, primarily in North America. Aramark first benchmarked best practices and modeled them in Anaplan to systematize and streamline processes that align labor with demand across its over 7,600 service facilities. Key to their success was the ability to aggregate multiple data sources into Anaplan’s cloud-based platform, automating the integrations for a consolidated, consistent stream of data inputs into its demand plan. The results reveal measurably better insights into performance on a site-specific level. Managers are able to identify business opportunities across a vast, disparate network of business site operations with data that illustrates where, when, and how labor can be optimized against demand on a daily, even hourly basis.

“ Through using Anaplan we have a more agile and efficient planning process.”

Finance Workforce planning and optimization

The model we built on the Anaplan platform has helped us achieve immediate saving. We are able to provide our field management teams across the country with significant and specific sales and productivity opportunities.”

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Darren CraddockDirector of Planning and Forecasting

Aviva plc

Autumn BaylesVP of Global Operational Excellence

Aramark

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Activision is the world’s largest video game publisher with $4.5 billion in annual revenue and 7,000 employees worldwide. As a global retail organization, one of the most critical functions at Activision is cross-departmental trade management. The process, which links field sales, retail marketing, finance, and accounting, was fraught with inaccuracies and delays due to limited planning tools and reliance on spreadsheets.

To address the problems, Activision selected Anaplan. Just two weeks after the company went live with its trade management application, productivity increased by an estimated 50 percent.

Anaplan provides Activision with a more stable, consistent, transparent workflow across the organization. In addition to immediate productivity gains, the company now has 100 percent confidence in its data when making decisions on retail spend.

“What we loved about Anaplan was that we could so easily customize it to meet the specific needs of each department. Each of the four groups involved in Activision’s trade management process—Sales, Marketing, Finance and Accounting—engage with the data differently, and Anaplan made it very easy to tailor to their individual perspectives.”

Patrick O’BrienSenior Manager of Finance

Activision

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The Anaplan platform enables cross-functional collaborative planning that extends from corporate financial plans to factory, store, sales-team or account-level plans.The result: Distributed, on-the-ground expertise meets centralized, top-level insight for complete top-down, bottom-up alignment.

Anaplan delivers a high rate of user adoption and engagement by combining self-service power with easy usability. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can engage on models and plans from any device.

Why Anaplan?

Pre-built Apps Get started quickly with 100 apps and accelerators

In-memory data engineUse all your data, down to the transactional level, to plan for multiple dimensions of your business in real time

Built-in intelligenceModeling and planning essentials, time and hierarchy management, version control, collaborative workflow, auditability

Spreadsheet-like immediacyModify and maintain apps without IT support. Immediate calculations and “what-ifs”

Collaborative planning hubCreate a hub to collaborate across your organization on a central view of plans, budgets, and forecasts

Cloud deliveryIntegrate with ease, access anytime, rapid deployment, low TCO

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Anaplan is the planning cloud for Sales, Finance, Operations, and HR. We built our platform from the ground up to empower you to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time.

From evaluating acquisitions to changing sales pipelines to recruiting new teams, Anaplan empowers you to model potential outcomes and course correct on-the-fly. With Anaplan, you are always adapting to change, always optimizing your resources, always maximizing your yield. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA with global offices on four continents.

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