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Anaplan named overall leader and recognized as an "Exemplary provider" Across three 2026 ISG Buyers Guides(TM). For the second consecutive year, Anaplan led the overall scoring in the 2026 ISG Buyers Guides(TM) for supply chain planning, sales and operations planning, and retail supply chain planning MIAMI, July 8, 2026 - Anaplan, a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform that serves as the decision infrastructure for the Agentic Enterprise, today announced it has been named the overall leader and recognized as an "Exemplary" provider in the 2026 ISG Buyers Guides(TM) for supply chain planning, sales and operations planning, and retail supply chain planning. Supply chains run on thousands of interdependent decisions: a supplier delay that changes a production schedule, a demand spike that strains inventory, tariff shifts that reprice a sourcing strategy. Anaplan's deterministic platform integrates real-time data from any enterprise source and combines probabilistic AI, planning workflows and role-based agents. This ensures operational leaders not only understand how a change in one part of the chain moves through the rest of it, but can also act on that change, with confidence, in real time. The acknowledgement by ISG for the second consecutive year reinforces Anaplan's product leadership, deep domain expertise and continued commitment to AI-driven innovation for the office of the chief supply chain officer. Supply chain planning has become a boardroom priority because every disruption has financial, operational and customer impact. What's changed is that leaders no longer have time to wait for a quarterly re-plan when a port closes or a key supplier goes dark. Anaplan brings AI and advanced scenario modeling together, with the required business context, so teams can see what's changing, understand the tradeoffs, and act - all within a single, unified platform. EJ Tavella, EVP, GM, Integrated Business Applications, Anaplan The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides for Supply Chain Planning evaluated more than 20 providers across product experience and customer experience, scoring usability, capability, reliability, validation and total cost of ownership and return on investment. The rankings recognize software providers that combine strong product capabilities with a proven ability to deliver customer value. Anaplan, which supports more than 700 supply chain customers, including Nvidia, Michelin, Bayer, and Carter's, eliminates decision latency, turning reactive supply chains into proactive growth engines. Its evaluation confirms that Anaplan's leadership in supply chain is not a one-off achievement but a sustained trajectory of innovation across S&OP, retail and broader supply chain planning David Menninger, Executive Director and Distinguished Analyst, ISG ISG provides authoritative market research and coverage on the business and IT software industry, and the reports are designed to help organizations evaluate software providers. 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, its platform intelligently surfaces key insights - so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,600 global brands plan with Anaplan. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com.

Anaplan CEO Charlie Gottdiener believes the "SaaS Apocalypse" is overblown, arguing it will separate winners from losers rather than harm all enterprise software companies. The enterprise planning platform, which generates over $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue, has undergone a dramatic turnaround since being taken private in June 2022. When Gottdiener became CEO in December 2022, Anaplan had $600 million in ARR but was unprofitable with unsustainable margins. The company refocused its strategy by listening to customers, who valued the platform's flexibility but cited lengthy implementations and complex model building as issues. Anaplan addressed these concerns by developing out-of-the-box functionality for high-frequency use cases in supply chain and other domains, whilst expanding offshore engineering capabilities to reduce costs. The company now operates profitably whilst continuing to invest in product development and AI.

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