# Anaplan

> Anaplan is a cloud platform for connected enterprise planning. It lets finance, supply chain, sales, and HR teams model the same business in real time, on a single multidimensional engine called Hyperblock, instead of fighting over disconnected spreadsheets. Founded in 2006 in a barn in Yorkshire, England, the company now serves more than 2,400 customers worldwide - including roughly half the Fortune 50 - and is privately held by Thoma Bravo after a $10.7 billion take-private in 2022.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** Miami, Florida, United States (founded in Yorkshire, England; long headquartered in San Francisco)
- **Founders:** Michael Gould (Founder & technical architect (creator of Hyperblock)), Guy Haddleton (Co-founder & former CEO), Sue Haddleton (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~2,200 employees (per Apollo data); has reported figures over 2,000 globally.
- **Products:** Anaplan Platform (Hyperblock), Anaplan for Finance, Anaplan for Supply Chain, Anaplan for Sales & GTM, Anaplan for Workforce
- **Notable:** Named a 9X Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software., Grew from a barn in Yorkshire to 2,400+ enterprise customers worldwide., IPO on the NYSE in October 2018 under ticker PLAN.

## Products & services

- **Anaplan Platform (Hyperblock)** — A cloud-native, in-memory multidimensional calculation engine that lets enterprises build large, interconnected planning models updated in real time.
- **Anaplan for Finance** — Financial planning and analysis: budgeting, forecasting, profitability and pricing, integrated financial planning linking strategy to execution.
- **Anaplan for Supply Chain** — Demand, supply, and integrated business planning used by 500+ supply chain customers across industries.
- **Anaplan for Sales & GTM** — Sales performance management, territory and quota planning, incentive compensation, and go-to-market planning.
- **Anaplan for Workforce** — Headcount, workforce, and HR planning connected to the rest of the business model.
- **Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP)** — Purpose-built application for retailers to plan merchandise financials.
- **Anaplan Intelligence & AI Agents** — AI layer including CoPlanner (conversational assistant), CoModeler, Custom Analyst, Agent Studio, and role-based agents like Forecaster - for proactive, AI-assisted planning.
- **Anaplan Data Orchestrator** — Unified data management layer for integrating and governing planning data across sources.

## Achievements

- Named a 9X Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software.
- Grew from a barn in Yorkshire to 2,400+ enterprise customers worldwide.
- IPO on the NYSE in October 2018 under ticker PLAN.
- Acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2022 in a ~$10.7B all-cash take-private.
- Reported ~118% net revenue retention and ~32% ARR growth around the time of acquisition.
- Serves roughly half of the Fortune 50.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Announced new AI innovations including Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, plus 12 new out-of-the-box planning applications.
- **2025-12** — Introduced a suite of role-based AI agents (Forecaster, CoModeler and domain agents) and Anaplan Data Orchestrator; positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's MQ for Financial Planning Software.
- **2025-09** — Appointed Greg Randolph as President and Chief Revenue Officer.
- **2025-05** — Expanded Anaplan Intelligence AI layer and launched new planning applications for finance, supply chain, and go-to-market.

## Links

- Website: https://anaplan.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anaplan
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/anaplan
- GitHub: https://github.com/anaplaninc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/anaplan
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anaplan/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/anaplan

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Last updated: 2026-06-02