12 new pre-configured applications: time-to-value reinvented
12 new pre-configured applications: time-to-value reinvented
March 20, 2026
Beyond AI innovations, Anaplan simultaneously launched 12 new ready-to-use applications, bringing decades of enterprise planning expertise and predictive, generative, and agent-based AI capabilities directly into key workflows. The stated goal: drastically accelerate time-to-value for business teams, without requiring custom development. GlobeNewswire
These applications cover all major areas of enterprise planning:
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Finance Consensus Margin Planning,
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Software Spend Optimization,
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Project Cost Planning,
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Subscription Revenue Planning,
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Profitability Analysis Commercial & Sales Go-To-Market Capacity Planning,
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Sales Forecasting,
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Territory & Quota Planning,
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Segmentation & Scoring
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Supply Chain Demand Planning,
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Statistical Forecasting,
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Integrated Business Planning,
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Trade Promotion Management
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Workforce
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Operational Workforce Planning.
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Contact Center Planning,
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Project Resource Planning
What sets these applications apart from traditional approaches: they are continuously maintained and updated by Anaplan and its partners, with new feature deployments on an ongoing basis at no additional cost and without a migration project. Your models evolve with the platform, not against it.
Anaplan Data Orchestrator : Clean Data as Fondation
Behind these innovations, the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) consolidates the platform's data foundations. This integration component connects Anaplan to ERP systems (SAP, Oracle), CRM (Salesforce), and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake) via a no-code interface, ensuring that planning models are based on fresh and consistent information. GlobeNewswire Specifically, ADO operates like an intelligent ETL — Extract, Transform, Load —:It collects, prepares, and routes the data to business models in the right format, at the right time. And this is where a frequently underestimated challenge lies: poorly prepared data produces a poorly calibrated model. Garbage in, garbage out—the golden rule of data also applies in planning. This is a major turning point for Anaplan. By integrating ADO into its ecosystem, the platform reaches a new milestone toward its ultimate ambition: becoming the unique and sovereign tool of the data value chain, from ERP output to Business Intelligence without disruption, without re-entry, without loss of consistency.
What all of this concretely changes for your projects
These developments are not just product announcements; they change the game on the ground for companies that are deploying or considering Anaplan:
Faster implementations, controlled costs
The use of AI agents and preconfigured applications significantly reduces implementation time and costs. What used to require several months of custom development can now start in a few weeks on proven foundations.
Enhanced governance at every level
Complete traceability, dedicated application roles, accountability of all stakeholders: governance is no longer a barrier to adoption, it becomes its driving force.
A platform open to new users
The natural language modeling capabilities, led by CoModeler, open Anaplan to business profiles that were previously excluded. Less dependency on IT, more autonomy for Finance, HR, Supply Chain and Sales teams.
What Kelerian remembers
Each of these three developments — AI agents, preconfigured applications, ADO — answers a question our clients have been asking us for years: how to go faster without sacrificing quality or governance? Anaplan now responds to this with a consistency and ambition that confirm its position as the undisputed leader in enterprise planning.
Our role at Kelerian remains what it has always been: to help you make the most of these innovations with the business rigor and field experience that no AI agent can replace.
Sources : Anaplan Newsroom, Anaplan Announces Latest AI-Driven Innovations, 25 mars 2026 — Anapedia, March 2026 Releases — Supply & Demand Chain Executive, mars 2026 — IDC, Research VP Analytics and AI, cité par Anaplan, décembre 2025.