en.Wedoany.com Report on Mar 26th, US enterprise planning software provider Anaplan has launched a new suite of AI tools and 12 business planning applications, expanding its platform's use of predictive, generative, and agentic AI. These releases aim to deeply integrate AI into daily planning processes, rather than as a standalone assistant layer.
The new offerings include Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, targeting customers who build and use planning models in finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce management. These tools combine large language models with Anaplan's existing planning engine to support computation, analysis, and workflow tasks within the platform.
Anaplan also released 12 pre-built applications tailored for specific business functions, covering areas such as finance, supply chain, retail, human resources, sales, marketing, and IT. These apps focus on specific use cases like project cost planning, profitability analysis, software spend optimization, category planning, and sales forecasting.
Anaplan's Chief Product and Technology Officer, Adam Thier, explained the company's perspective on AI in business planning: "The mandate to adopt AI introduces a new critical challenge for business decisions: AI must do more than retrieve an answer—it must compute the answer with precision and confidence. That's why we designed our platform as a calculation engine that connects every operational choice to its financial outcome. This enables our customers to see the full impact of their decisions before they make them, empowering them to respond faster to market shifts and seize opportunities others can't see."
CoModeler is aimed at model builders who create and maintain the data structures of enterprise planning systems, designed to help users create, scale, and refine planning models more consistently. Custom Analyst and Agent Studio allow customers to build their own AI assistants on top of existing models. These assistants can be governed within the planning framework, providing natural language querying and the ability to extract insights from data.
Users from two telecom groups shared their experiences. Gary Loveday, Planning Systems and BI Manager at Sky, said: "When building complex formulas, CoModeler feels like having an extra pair of hands. It saves our team a huge amount of time and helps new model builders progress faster and with more confidence." Lucy Crampton, Planning Lead at Virgin Media O2, added: "CoModeler consistently delivers comprehensive implementation plans for common tasks in minutes, reveals optimization opportunities we might have missed, and generates clear, role-specific documentation, taking on the heavy lifting so we can focus our time and expertise on higher-value, more complex build work."
The 12 applications represent another part of Anaplan's strategy, offering packaged products built around common use cases within functions like finance and supply chain to reduce implementation effort and provide teams with a faster path to operation. EJ Tavella, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Integrated Business Applications at Anaplan, noted: "Our applications are optimized for the AI era and built on decades of deep functional expertise. Each application reflects the complex relationships and trade-offs that define how modern enterprises operate. By combining domain expertise with AI, we give our customers more than insight—we give them a clear path to making fast, informed, and effective decisions."
Anaplan stated that over 2,500 global brands use its platform, including major technology groups like AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, ServiceNow, and Salesforce, which also use its scenario planning and analysis software for internal decision-making. These AI planning tools are designed to address core concerns of large organizations using AI in planning and finance, ensuring outputs are traceable and auditable.
