Anaplan is an enterprise connected-planning platform founded in 2006 and headquartered in Miami (originally York, UK, then San Francisco). The company pioneered cloud-based integrated business planning, allowing finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce teams to model and align plans on a shared in-memory engine known as Hyperblock.
In March 2022, Thoma Bravo announced the acquisition of Anaplan in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $10.7 billion, with shareholders receiving $66.00 per share — a roughly 46% premium to the prior trading average. The deal closed in June 2022 after shareholder approval, taking Anaplan private. Acquisition financing was provided by Owl Rock Capital, Blackstone Credit, Golub Capital, and Apollo Global Management. As a result, Anaplan is no longer publicly traded and venture funding totals are historical context rather than current valuation signals.
The platform supports financial planning and analysis (FP&A), supply chain planning, sales performance management, workforce planning, and broader integrated business planning. Native predictive AI capabilities target demand forecasting, scenario modeling, and what-if analysis at enterprise scale. Anaplan serves nearly 2,000 customers including Coca-Cola, Shell, VMware, and many Global 2000 enterprises.
Under Thoma Bravo ownership Anaplan has continued investing in AI-driven planning, including agentic and copilot-style features, while competing with Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, SAP IBP, OneStream, Pigment, and Board. The competitive landscape has tightened with newer cloud-native challengers like Pigment gaining ground in mid-market FP&A.
Buyers should consider Anaplan when they need a single planning fabric across finance, supply chain, and sales at large enterprise scale, and are willing to invest in modeling expertise. The trade-off is that Anaplan implementations are typically multi-quarter and require dedicated model builders versus lighter-weight cloud FP&A tools.