Anaplan Announces Latest AI-Powered Innovations and Applications to Drive Enterprise Decision-Making

Note: This press release is a translated excerpt of the announcement originally issued by Anaplan, Inc. in the U.S. on March 25, 2026.

Anaplan Japan Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Executive Officer: Jun Nakata; hereinafter "Anaplan Japan"), the Japanese subsidiary of Anaplan, Inc. ("Anaplan"), a provider of AI-powered scenario planning and analytics platforms, today announced the launch of new AI innovations, including the availability of Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, as well as the release of 12 ready-to-use, purpose-built applications. By combining these innovations, decades of deep expertise can now be integrated directly with predictive AI, generative AI, and agent-based AI into enterprise planning workflows. This further strengthens Anaplan’s position as a trusted decision-making infrastructure enabling organizations to make large-scale decisions faster and more accurately.

Adam Thier, Anaplan’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, said:

"As AI adoption becomes essential, new critical challenges arise in business decision-making. AI must not only retrieve answers but derive them accurately and with confidence. That’s why we’ve designed a platform that acts as a calculation engine, linking every business decision directly to financial outcomes. This enables our customers to comprehensively understand the impact of their decisions before acting, respond swiftly to market changes, and seize opportunities others may miss."

Anaplan combines the conversational access and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with its planning engine to deliver accurate, traceable, and auditable calculations. Built on proven machine learning, clear business logic, and real-time calculation models, Anaplan delivers accurate and reliable insights. Crucially, Anaplan brings over a decade of expertise in finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce planning, providing the essential business context that enables AI to interpret enterprise data and achieve the precision required for agile decision-making.

Because Anaplan deeply integrates with internal systems and workflows, it continuously generates unique scenario data, enabling faster insights and more confident decisions. Leading global AI-driven companies such as AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, ServiceNow, and Salesforce use Anaplan’s AI-powered scenario planning and analytics platform to make their most complex and critical business decisions.

AI at the Core: Intelligent Experts for Every Business Function

Following last December’s announcement of intelligent role-based agents, today’s release further expands Anaplan’s AI capabilities with new innovations that immediately boost customer productivity and accelerate the creation and deployment of secure, purpose-built AI agents tailored to each organization’s unique business needs. These include:

Anaplan CoModeler: An intelligent, role-based AI agent for enterprise planning designers that helps model builders create, extend, and optimize planning models more quickly and consistently.

Anaplan Custom Analyst and Agent Studio: A powerful toolkit that shortens development time and ensures full governance and control in deploying custom AI assistants. This enables users to instantly gain insights from their own built models by leveraging generative AI and conversational AI.

Gary Loveday, Planning Systems/BI Manager at Sky, said:

"CoModeler feels like having an extra pair of hands when building complex formulas. It saves our team significant time and allows even less experienced model builders to move faster and with greater confidence."

Lucy Crampton, Head of Planning at Virgin Media O2, said:

"CoModeler provides comprehensive implementation plans for common tasks within minutes, revealing optimization opportunities we might otherwise overlook. It also generates clear documentation by role, automating tedious tasks so we can focus our time and expertise on higher-value, complex modeling work. Furthermore, it suggests alternatives for complex challenges, enabling us to deliver results faster and with greater confidence."

Future-Ready, Ready-to-Use Applications Reveal Practical Expertise

Anaplan also announced the availability of 12 new dedicated applications with ready-to-use functionality designed to address the unique and critical challenges faced by leaders in finance, sales, supply chain, and HR. Developed leveraging over a decade of enterprise planning experience, these applications embed best practices from each domain and are designed to work together—reducing time-to-value, lowering implementation risk, and delivering greater impact. The new applications are:

Driving Profitable Growth for Finance Teams and CFOs

Project Cost Planning: Ensures real-time visibility into budgets, schedules, and resource allocation, directly aligning project spending with financial strategy, keeping investments on track, and maximizing return on investment (ROI).

Profitability Analysis: Provides real-time transparency into cost, return, and performance information, enabling leadership to validate asset allocation strategies, assess risks, and optimize outcomes through flexible and adaptive models before committing capital.

Subscription Revenue Planning: Integrates financial goals and sales execution on a single platform, enabling more accurate forecasting, precise modeling of recurring revenue, and driving predictable, sustainable growth.

Consensus Margin Planning: Aligns top-down financial targets with on-the-ground realities, enabling finance and supply