Deloitte Expands Data-Driven Business Planning and Analytics Offerings with Anaplan

Anaplan joins Deloitte's Technology Alliances Portfolio to offer clients a disruptive, enterprise business planning platform

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Oct 27, 2014, 08:00 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today announced it is broadening its business planning and execution offerings through an alliance with Anaplan. Deloitte is integrating its technology consulting and tax management services with Anaplan's configurable, cloud-based platform to help clients better manage risk, improve cash flow, reduce errors and increase savings.

Deloitte clients will be able to run and monitor real-time, dynamic calculations of business scenarios through a dashboard application that connects financial, sales and operational data across departments, industries and locations. Tax departments, for example, can model scenarios to better understand the tax implications of major business decisions around talent mobility, transfer pricing and M&A transactions.

"We are helping our clients transform their tax departments with technology, and this creates a strategic advantage in today's competitive business environment," said Sam Kapreilian, chief technology officer, Deloitte Tax LLP. "Deloitte's systems and tax knowledge and experience, combined with Anaplan's platform, will help organizations perform in new and exciting ways with accelerated speed to value and the ability to uncover risks and strategic opportunities."

Anaplan and Deloitte are disrupting the business planning and forecasting industry by enabling organizations to significantly enhance the accuracy and speed of their business planning activities. Tasks that have traditionally been difficult to manage because of disparate spreadsheet and enterprise resource planning applications are more easily achievable. Examples include deploying sales coverage models and improving accuracy around trade promotion management, inventory planning, transfer pricing, cash flow forecasting and sales forecasting.

"Disruptive innovation forces such as cloud-based, in-memory technologies are having exponential impacts on the pace of change in business – disrupting and reshaping companies, business models, and even entire industries," said Carol Lindstrom, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Regardless of the industry, we are able to bring clients ground-breaking business planning services and technology with Anaplan, driving disruption and innovation in business planning collaboration and data-driven decision making."

"The combination of Anaplan's market-leading technology and Deloitte's industry and business insight, enables us to better serve our enterprise clients by aligning their people, plans and spend to their market opportunities," said Doug Smith, executive vice president, Anaplan. "Deloitte's experience and insight in a diverse range of industries enable its professionals to advise Anaplan clients on how to turn the complexity of business operations into powerful, easy-to-use applications and plans."

About Deloitte Tax LLP
Deloitte Tax helps clients lead the transformation of the tax function into a strategic partner that supports growth and sustained profitability within an organization. With deep experience across a broad range of services and industries, Deloitte Tax has more than 10,000 trusted advisors who combine their knowledge of tax technical resources and technology to uncover insights and smarter solutions for clients in today's complex global and regulatory environment. For more information visit www.deloitte.com/us/tax. Join us on twitter @DeloitteTax.

About Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte Consulting helps organizations grow their businesses and enhance value by identifying actionable insights. More than 27,000 professionals provide a broad range of capabilities across human capital, strategy and operations, innovation and technology that are aligned to the particular needs of specific sectors, businesses and organizations. Deloitte Consulting provides clients with leading business insights that can help generate a tangible and measurable impact. For more information visit www.deloitte.com/us/consulting.

About Anaplan
Anaplan is disrupting the world of business planning and execution. We built our platform from the ground up to empower companies to plan, collaborate and act — in real time. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts and course correct on the fly. With Anaplan's cloud-based platform, you can continuously align your people, plans and spend to your market opportunities. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with global offices on four continents. To learn more, visit anaplan.com. Join us on twitter: @anaplan

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