Anaplan brings a new generation of ai-powered decision infrastructure to India. Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 8: Anaplan, a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today's complex business environment, announced the availability of Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst and Agent Studio in India, alongside the launch of 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box enterprise applications. The launch signals a shift from fragmented systems to a unified planning model across finance, supply chain and operations. Together, these innovations embed AI directly into enterprise planning, enabling greater agility, speed and decision-making confidence. "The mandate to adopt AI across APAC and Indian boardrooms has created a new critical challenge: AI must do more than just retrieve conversational answers it must compute them with absolute mathematical precision and confidence," said Amit Bagga, Managing Director, APAC, Anaplan. "That is why we've architected our platform to be the computational engine that connects every operational choice to its financial outcome. This gives our customers the ability to see the full impact of a decision before they make it, allowing them to bypass the noise, respond to market volatility faster, and capitalize on opportunities others cannot see." Anaplan combines the conversational access and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) with a deterministic planning engine to deliver accurate, traceable and auditable calculations. Built on proven machine learning, explicit business logic and real-time calculation models, the platform provides precise, reliable insights for enterprise decision-making. Drawing on deep expertise across enterprise planning functions, Anaplan provides the context and intelligence organizations need to evaluate scenarios and make decisions with confidence. Many of the world's leading AI organizations, as well as India's largest enterprises, rely on Anaplan's AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform to navigate their most complex and critical business decisions. AI at the Core: Intelligent Experts for Every Business Function Following the global introduction of intelligent, role-based agents, the announcement expands Anaplan's AI capabilities in India with innovations designed to deliver immediate productivity gains while enabling organizations to build and deploy secure, fit-for-purpose AI agents tailored to their unique business requirements. Anaplan CoModeler, an intelligent, role-based AI agent designed for enterprise planning architects and model builders. It enables users to create, extend and optimize planning models with greater speed, consistency and efficiency. Anaplan Custom Analyst and Agent Studio provide a powerful toolkit for building and deploying custom AI assistants. The solution reduces development time while maintaining governance and control, enabling organizations to leverage conversational AI to gain immediate insights from custom-built planning models. Future-Ready Out-of-the-Box Applications Reveal Domain To support the growing demand for rapid digital transformation, Anaplan also announced the launch of 12 purpose-built applications that deliver out-of-the-box functionality across finance, sales, supply chain, IT and HR Leaders. These purpose-built applications enable organizations to deploy faster, reduce complexity and drive better outcomes. For Finance Teams and the Office of the CFO - Project Cost Planning: Provides real-time visibility into project costs, budgets and resources. - Profitability Analysis: Provides real-time visibility into costs, returns and performance to guide allocation decisions. - Subscription Revenue Planning: Unifies finance targets and sales execution for more accurate forecasts - Consensus Margin Planning: Bridges the gap between finance and supply chain, aligning strategy with operational execution. - Software Spend Optimization: Gives IT and finance visibility and control over software spend aligned to business priorities. For Supply Chain and Retail Leaders - Trade Promotion Management: Strategically plans and executes retail promotions with clear visibility into spend and performance. - Spend Analysis and Forecasting: Automates variance analysis and provides accurate spend forecasts with real-time cost insights. - Assortment Planning: Defines pre-season inventory strategy by aligning product mix to each store or channel. - Allocation and Replenishment Planning: Executes in-season with precision by forecasting location-level demand and reducing stockouts. For HR and Workforce Leaders - Contact Center Planning: Creates staffing plans that balance service levels, control labor costs, and close skill gaps. - Project Resource Planning: Optimizes talent allocation with visibility into project demand and supply. For Sales and Marketing Leaders - Sales Forecasting: Enables accurate, intelligent go-to-market forecasts with dynamic scenario modelling and real-time pipeline visibility. "India's economic engine is driven by massive, diverse enterprises, yet many still rely on a patchwork of disconnected software, paying a heavy 'silo tax' on their agility," said Sanket Deodhar, India Head, Anaplan. "Our new out-of-the-box applications are optimized for the age of AI and designed specifically to accelerate time-to-value. By combining decades of deep functional expertise with computational AI, we are giving Indian CXOs a clear, rapid path to Connected Enterprise Maturity-enabling them to make fast, informed and effective decisions that outpace the competition." Today's announcement marks another step in Anaplan's commitment to helping enterprises embed AI into decision-making processes across the organization. By combining a unified planning platform, domain-specific applications and decades of planning expertise, Anaplan is enabling India's leading enterprises to make better decisions, faster, and at scale. About Anaplan: Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today's complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. More than 2,600 global brands plan with Anaplan. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com (ADVERTORIAL DISCLAIMER: The above press release has been provided by VMPL. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of the same.) Disclaimer: No Business Standard Journalist was involved in creation of this content First Published: Jun 08 2026 | 6:55 PM IST

Anaplan, an AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform, has announced new AI innovations including CoModeler, Custom Analyst and Agent Studio, alongside 12 purpose-built applications for enterprise planning workflows. CoModeler is an AI agent designed to help model builders create and optimise planning models more quickly. Custom Analyst and Agent Studio enable customers to deploy custom AI assistants for immediate insights from their models whilst maintaining governance controls. The 12 new applications address specific challenges across finance, supply chain, retail, HR and sales functions. These include project cost planning, profitability analysis, subscription revenue planning, trade promotion management and sales forecasting, embedding domain-specific best practices to accelerate implementation. Anaplan combines large language models with a deterministic planning engine to deliver precise, auditable calculations. More than 2,500 global brands use the platform.

Anaplan announces latest ai-driven innovations and applications to advance enterprise decision-making. By GlobeNewswire March 25, 2026 New offerings combine AI reasoning with Anaplan's platform, leveraging deep domain expertise, machine learning, and dynamic calculations to enable confident decisions at scale MIAMI, March 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Anaplan, a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today's complex business environment, today announced new AI innovations, including the availability of Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, alongside the launch of 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box applications. Together, these innovations bring decades of deep domain expertise and predictive, generative, and agentic AI directly into key enterprise planning workflows, positioning Anaplan as the decision infrastructure enterprises can rely on to make better, faster decisions at scale. "The mandate to adopt AI has created a new critical challenge for business decision-making: AI must do more than retrieve answers - it must compute them with precision and confidence," said Adam Thier, chief product and technology officer, Anaplan. "That is why we've architected our platform to be the computational engine that connects every operational choice to its financial outcome. This gives our customers the ability to see the full impact of a decision before they make it, allowing them to respond to market changes faster and capitalize on opportunities others can't see." Anaplan combines the conversational access and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) with a deterministic planning engine to promote accurate, traceable, and auditable calculations. Built on proven machine learning, explicit business logic, and real-time calculation models, Anaplan delivers precise, reliable insights. Crucially, with over a decade of domain expertise across finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce planning, Anaplan provides the business context AI needs to interpret enterprise data and enable the precision required for agile decision-making. Because Anaplan is deeply integrated across enterprise systems and workflows, it continuously generates proprietary scenario data that drives faster insights and more confident decisions. Many of the world's leading AI organizations, including AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, ServiceNow, Salesforce and others, rely on Anaplan's AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform to make their most complex and critical business decisions. AI at the Core: Intelligent Experts for Every Business Function Following the introduction of intelligent, role-based agents in December, today's launch expands Anaplan's AI capabilities with new innovations designed to deliver immediate productivity gains for customers while accelerating the ability to build and deploy fit-for-purpose AI agents tailored to their unique business needs. This includes: powered by * Anaplan CoModeler: An intelligent, role-based AI agent for the architects of enterprise planning, CoModeler empowers model builders to create, extend, and optimize planning models with greater speed and consistency. * Anaplan Custom Analyst and Agent Studio: A powerful toolkit that reduces development time and ensures full governance and control for deploying custom AI assistants, allowing customers to leverage generative, conversational AI to gain immediate insights from their custom-built models. "CoModeler feels like an extra set of hands when building complex formulas," said Gary Loveday, planning systems and BI manager, Sky. "It saves our team significant time and helps newer model builders progress faster and more confidently." "CoModeler consistently delivers comprehensive implementation plans in minutes for common tasks, surfaces optimization opportunities we might otherwise miss, and produces clear, role-specific documentation that takes on the heavy lifting so we can focus our time and expertise on higher-value, more complex build work," said Lucy Crampton, head of planning, Virgin Media O2. "It also proposes alternative approaches to complex solutions, helping us accelerate delivery with greater speed and confidence." Future-Ready Out-of-the-Box Applications Reveal Domain Expertise in Action Anaplan also announced the availability of 12 new purpose-built applications that offer out-of-the-box functionality to address specific, high-value challenges faced by finance, sales, supply chain, IT, and human resources leaders. Drawing on more than a decade of enterprise planning experience, these applications embed domain-specific best practices and are designed to accelerate time to value, lower implementation risk, and drive greater impact as customers connect multiple applications together. These new applications: * Drive profitable growth for finance teams and the office of the CFO * Project Cost Planning: Connects project spending directly to financial strategy with real-time visibility into budgets, timelines, and resource allocation, keeping investments on track and maximizing return on investment (ROI). * Profitability Analysis: Provides real-time transparency into costs, returns, and performance with flexible, adaptable models that allow leaders to test allocation strategies, assess risk, and optimize outcomes before committing capital. * Subscription Revenue Planning: Unifies finance targets and sales execution on a single platform to build more accurate forecasts, model recurring revenue with precision, and drive predictable, sustainable growth. * Consensus Margin Planning: Bridges the gap between finance and supply chain by aligning top-down financial targets with operational realities to protect margins, maximize profitability, and enable more confident, data-driven decisions. * Software Spend Optimization: Gives IT and finance control over software spend and aligns technology investments with business priorities through unified contract data, proactive renewal management, and powerful scenario planning. * Build resilient operations for supply chain and retail leaders * Trade Promotion Management: Strategically plans and executes retail promotions with clear visibility into spend and performance, enabling teams to allocate funds more effectively and maximize promotional ROI. * Spend Analysis and Forecasting: Automates variance analysis and delivers accurate spend forecasts with real-time visibility into cost drivers, improving financial control and predictability. * Assortment Planning: Defines a precise pre-season inventory strategy by aligning product mix to each store or channel, matching local demand to maximize sell-through. * Allocation and Replenishment Planning: Executes with in-season precision by forecasting location-level demand and generating inventory recommendations that reduce stockouts, protect margin, and ensure the right product is in the right place at the right time. * Align talent with strategy for HR and workforce leaders * Contact Center Planning: Understands contact center capacity and creates staffing plans that balance service levels, control labor costs, and close skill gaps. * Project Resource Planning: Optimizes talent allocation with visibility into project demand and supply, ensuring complex projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at high quality. * Deliver predictable revenue for sales and marketing leaders Advertisement * Sales Forecasting: Enables accurate, intelligent go-to-market forecasts with dynamic scenario modeling and real-time pipeline visibility, empowering leaders to drive predictable, repeatable revenue performance. "Our applications are optimized for the age of AI and based on decades of deep functional expertise," said EJ Tavella, EVP and GM of integrated business applications, Anaplan. "Each application reflects the complex relationships and trade-offs that define how modern businesses operate. By combining domain expertise and AI, we give our customers more than insights - we give them a clear path to making fast, informed, and effective decisions." Today's announcement from Anaplan signals a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise AI. The organizations that will create the most value will not simply adopt AI but embed it deeply into the way decisions are made across the enterprise. With a unified platform, a new suite of domain-specific applications, and decades of planning expertise, Anaplan is helping redefine how AI drives better decisions at scale. About Anaplan Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today's complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights - so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com. Media contact: