Anaplan announced a new suite of role-based AI agents that embed intelligence across core business functions, setting a new industry standard for real-time decision-making. In addition to CoModeler, Anaplan has introduced four additional intelligent role-based agents, now available to customers: Anaplan Finance Analyst continuously monitors financial performance, automates month-end processes, quickly detects deviations, surfaces key business drivers and proactively mitigates risk while capitalizing on opportunities across financial planning and consolidation. Anaplan Supply Chain Analyst surfaces risks and opportunities, runs scenarios, enables end-to-end visibility and orchestrates execution to enhance collaboration across demand and supply planning processes.
Anaplan Sales Analyst alerts teams to risks, runs impact scenarios and enables decisive action to optimize revenue performance management. Anaplan Workforce Analyst identifies workforce risks, determines and communicates the impact of headcount decisions and provides real-time answers for smarter workforce planning. Anaplan's role-based agents support business users by analyzing data, generating narrative reports and dashboards, recommending actions and executing approved changes -- such as reallocating resources based on scenario outcomes or publishing updated planning views to stakeholders.
The introduction of role-based agents adds to the stream of AI-driven innovation that Anaplan continues to deliver to customers: On September 9, Anaplan completed the acquisition of Syrup, an AI-native supply chain platform for retailers. The new advanced forecasting capabilities leverage proprietary neural network-based engines trained on granular sales data, product imagery, and external signals like social sentiment, influencer trends and even weather patterns to deliver highly accurate forecasts and dynamic recommendations across the full retail planning lifecycle. On October 20, Anaplan launched AnaplanForecaster, an AI-native forecasting solution that is purpose-built for business users -- no data science expertise required.
Forecaster is the next generation of the company's time-series forecasting product, PlanIQ, and delivers expanded ML algorithms and improved exploreability while generating more granular and precise forecasts that feed directly into Anaplan models. Anaplan has commenced limited customer availability of Anaplan Custom Agent, giving organizations the power to build and extend custom AI analysts with the transparency and governance needed to reflect their unique business processes and scenario models. To support customers' efforts to build their own custom AI analysts, the company has also developed Anaplan Agent Studio.
Through Agent Studio, customers can utilize Anaplan's embedded AI capabilities and bespoke planning workflows to create custom AI analysts.
