Anaplan

Anaplan Specialization - Financial and Operational Planning and Analysis Systems. Model any external and internal changes, assess their impact on your business, and make adjustments on the fly - with Anaplan, you, your analysts, your management, and others can do so quickly, easily, and on any amount of data available. Anaplan is a private company with headquarters in San Francisco and global offices on four continents.

The company has created a platform for real-time planning, analysis and interaction. Anaplan product is used by companies such as, HP, Diageo(McAfee Intel Security),,,, Procter & Gamble Aviva MTS Bank Financial Group, Life Kimberly-Clark Eastern, TEKTA Europe GROUP, etc. MEDSI

According to Forrester, Anaplan has dramatically changed the traditional approach to EPM, focused on the financial component. Customers use Anaplan's flexible and scalable platform to plan and model business processes not only in finance, but also in areas such as sales, marketing, human resources and supply chains.

The new generation of users wants to be online 24 hours a day, be able to work anytime from anywhere. It is not surprising that product qualities such as speed and usability are becoming more and more popular.

Performance indicators

2018: Revenue growth 39.8% to $168 million

In fiscal 2018, Anaplan's revenue was $168 million, up 39.8% from a year earlier. The number of users of the company's products in two years increased from 434 to 979 customers.

History

2022: Thoma Bravo buys Anaplan for $10.7 billion

In mid-March 2022, the investment company Thomas Bravo announced the purchase of Anaplan. The deal amounted to $10.7 billion.

Anaplan positions itself as a company that provides a transformative approach to managing business performance for enterprises in various industries. The company offers a cloud-based connected platform that helps companies plan and make better decisions faster.

Business software developer Anaplan sold for $10.7 billion

Anaplan's Polaris calculation engine and Hyperblock technology allow customers to see what-if scenarios, contextualize up-to-date performance in real time, and predict future results for faster, more reliable solutions. Anaplan argues that its customers get the opportunity to quickly change strategies, reallocate resources and optimize plans for growth, efficiency, demand and profitability.

Anaplan's platform features include the ability to share data across the enterprise, providing stakeholders with up-to-date real-time information and insights.

Anaplan is a clear leader in network planning, addressing critical business challenges for the world's largest businesses as they implement strategic and comprehensive digital transformation, "noted Thomas Bravo Managing Partner Holden Spath. - We've watched Anaplan for years and have seen the incredible value the company brings to customers through its best-in-class planning platform.

Thoma Bravo is an active buyer of tech companies. Among other acquisitions of Thomas Bravo: Veracode for $950 million in 2018, a firm cyber security Proofpoint for $12.3 billion in June 2021 and a customer service company Medallia for $6.4 billion in July 2021.

The acquisition of Anaplan is expected to close in the first half of 2022, subject to normal closing conditions including shareholder approval of Anaplan and regulatory approval.^[1]

2018: Going public with a capitalization of $2.07 billion

On October 12, 2018, Anaplan became a public company. It listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol PLAN.

Initially, Anaplan planned to hold an IPO in the range from $13 to $15, but then raised it to $15-17. On the eve of trading, the company named the price at $17, according to which it decided to sell 15.5 million shares on the exchange and raise about $263.5 million. With such an IPO, the vendor's market capitalization is estimated at $2.07 billion.

Anaplan Business Planning Software Developer Goes Public

Anaplan's main underwriters under the listing were KeyBanc Capital Markets, Canaccord Authenticity, Evercore ISI, JMP Securities, Needham & Company, Piper Jaffray and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. They have the right to sell an additional 2.3 million shares of Anaplan.

Anaplan intends to use the funds raised as part of the IPO to increase the financial flexibility and recognition of the company in the market.

We expect to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and other general corporate tasks, including financing our operating needs. However, we have no specific plans to use the funds. In addition, we can use some of the money raised to acquire or invest in competitive products, technology or companies, Anaplan said in a statement.

Before going public, Anaplan updated its management staff and, in particular, replaced its CFO. It was David Morton, who had previously held a similar post at Tesla Motors, but left a month after joining the company due to a series of speculative reports from Elon Musk about the privatization of Tesla.^[2]

2017

$60 million investment

On December 7, 2017, Anaplan announced that it had received an additional $60 million in its next round of funding. The main partner of the Series F round, along with Salesforce Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners and other investors, was the Premji Invest fund. As a result, the total amount of funds raised amounted to $300 million, and the total value of the company reached $1.4 billion.

This year, Anaplan was included by Deloitte in the Technology Fast 500 report as one of North America's fastest growing companies. The funds will be used to expand the sales market, improve customer services and develop a partner program to meet the growing global demand for the Anaplan integrated planning platform. Taking into account the key areas of business development, the network of international offices will be expanded, as well as the number of development teams to increase the efficiency of innovation processes and improve the product.

"Anaplan solutions are used worldwide to integrate data, personnel and planning processes. Our Foundation has become a leading partner in this investment round as we have seen how the quality of decision-making within organizations improves when using the Anaplan platform. " Sandesh Patnam, partner of Premji Invest investment fund

"We are grateful to our investors and are confident that the funds allocated will serve as an additional impetus for the growth of our company. The current round of funding opens up new development opportunities for us, will increase the number of partners and customers, and will help implement technologies to further improve Anaplan's advanced integrated planning platform. " Frank Calderoni, President and CEO of Anaplan

2016: Anaplan raises $90M investment

Anaplan announced in January 2016 that it had raised an investment of 90 million. dollars USA The main investor was Premji Invest. Baillie Gifford, Founders Circle Capital, Harmony Partners and current investors Anaplan (Brookside Capital, Coatue Management, DFJ Growth, Granite Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Sands Capital Management, as well as Shasta Ventures) also participated in this funding round.

Anaplan will use the funds raised to meet the growing global demand and develop the cloud platform of the same name for business planning and modeling. Allen & Company LLC acted as Anaplan's financial advisor in this round of investment solicitation.

Gartner has included Anaplan in the Visionaries category of its magic quadrant for Strategic Corporate Performance Management Solutions and in the Sales Performance Management category.

Forbes magazine included Anaplan in its ranking of the top 100 global cloud services of 2016.

In Britain, Anaplan is recognized as the best IT employer of 2016 according to Computing and BCS.

2015: More than 100% profit increase

In April 2016, Anaplan announced a double increase in profit for fiscal year 2015. ^[3], with growth of more than 100%

• The number of corporate clients worldwide has grown to 430 (by 75%).
• Compared to last year, the number of users increased by 90% to 70,000.
• According to the cost of capital estimate, its volume increased from 90 million dollars USA to 1.1 billion US dollars.
• The total number of employees grew by 80% to 575 people in 15 countries, including new representative offices in India, China and Japan.

Over the past 12 months, Anaplan's customer base has been expanded with international companies representing a wide range of industries and markets: CareerBuilder, Chevron, Dairy Farmers of America, Gatwick Airport, GrubHub, Schneider Electric, Tata Steel, Ticket Monster, Zillow Group and new AXA units.

Anaplan's new clients in Russia include Energoprom Group, Amway Russia, one of the largest national retail chains and a number of other companies.

2014:91% growth in customer base

In February 2015, Anaplan reported a 91% increase in its customer base in 2015 FG (January 31, 2014 - January 31, 2015). The increase in the order portfolio for the same period amounted to 230%. This means that in 2015 FG, the company received 2.1 times more orders than in the previous two years.

• Anaplan's customer base now includes companies from 20 countries around the world.
• The number of users worldwide has doubled (over 35 thousand people).
• In Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management" report in January, Anaplan was awarded the title "Visionary."
• In April 2014, Anaplan opened a representative office in Moscow.
• The company's representative offices opened in Russia and Malaysia, thereby expanding the network to 13 offices in 10 countries. The company's workforce grew from 140 to 325 employees.
• In 2014, the Anaplan Hub Conference was held in five cities, and in 2015 the Hub Conference will bring together participants in nine cities around the world, including Russia.

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