Anaplan announces deeper functional integration with Salesforce.com

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Anaplan has announced a deeper level of functional integration with Salesforce. Users can now easily access and modify models and plans within the Salesforce interface via single user authentication.

Bi-directional data integration between Salesforce and Anaplan ensures models and plans are continuously refreshed with real-time data. Anaplan's now seamless operation within the Salesforce Sales Cloud enables sales professionals to make real-time, data-driven decisions associated with territory management, quota assignments, commissions calculations, sales forecasting, and quote configuration.

By combining advanced analytics and collaborative planning, Anaplan is solving three key sales challenges which are the creation of bullet-proof sales plans, execution of plans with real-time CRM data, and the ability to adapt plans to disruption on the fly. Anaplan is powered by Hyperblock, a patented, in-memory modeling and calculation engine that enables a single planning environment for the entire organization and rapid modeling by the business user.

Anaplan's user-friendly application enables accurate and timely planning for a variety of business functions, including sales forecasting, territory planning, quota planning and commissions calculation.