Anaplan vs Fintastic (2026)

Data reaches Anaplan through Anaplan Data Orchestrator, which connects, transforms and loads data from source systems into planning models, and through CloudWorks for cloud storage, a prebuilt Informatica connector, a command line utility for on premises jobs and transactional and bulk APIs. The agents work on that data inside Anaplan.

Analyst writes updates back to the live planning model within the user's permissions, CoModeler edits import data sources and creates list import actions, and the role based agents start Anaplan workflows. None of them posts a change into an ERP, CRM or HR system on its own.

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Native integrations sync ERP, CRM, HRIS, marketing automation and data warehouse systems into a live actuals version, with no nightly load to wait for, and Fintastic builds a connection for a system it does not yet cover. A Google Sheets add on lets customers pull their own Fintastic data into a sheet through custom functions, signed in with their Fintastic account and refreshed in the background. The agent's work happens inside the planning model those feeds keep current. It reads and builds there, and nothing it does reaches back into the source systems.

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Anaplan Workflow breaks a planning process into tasks, approvals and handoffs with owners and deadlines, and ties them to data updates run by Data Orchestrator. Workflow Agent builds those flows from a typed or spoken description, a document or a whiteboard image, adjusts them as the process changes and flags bottlenecks with fixes such as adding a reviewer. The role based agents for finance, sales, supply chain and workforce share one calculation and data foundation, so each one works with the plans of the other functions in view.

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Each question runs in three parts. The agent works out what is needed, the platform serves only the slice of the model it touches, and the engine computes the answer. Longer work happens over a conversation, such as a planner and the agent shaping a rate curve over fifteen turns on a copy of a version. Fintastic offers no runtime that chains steps, hands work between agents or runs a planning process on its own.

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Workflow launches tasks by itself when a threshold is crossed, a condition is met or an upstream change lands in the model, and any task can run on a schedule. Data updates triggered by Data Orchestrator feed the same process. The role based agents watch performance continuously and send alerts when they spot a deviation or a risk, so the finance agent can surface a variance before anyone asks. People also reach the agents by typing or speaking a question inside their Anaplan applications, on desktop or mobile.

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The agent starts when a planner asks it something inside Fintastic, whether why a number moved, whether two reports tie, what happens under a change or to build an object. Live actuals arrive continuously through the integrations, yet no schedule, data event or message from another tool starts the agent, and it is not offered in chat tools or outside assistants.

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Agents answer from the customer's live planning models, modules and lists, and Anaplan's data ontology ties them to the business context of finance, supply chain, sales and workforce planning. Analyst queries across every model behind an application, works from a synced copy of the data that honors selective access, and reads extra context admins add in the notes of any line item.

The calculation engine computes the numbers, so each figure in an answer comes from the model, and Analyst shows the source data behind it. CoPlanner works from key data points in the application's models, refreshed on a regular cadence, so its answers can lag the latest change to a plan.

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The agent queries the live planning model at full granularity, with its dimensions, formulas, versions and dependencies, not an extract or an aggregate a day behind. Structure aware tooling serves it only the part of the model a question touches, so it can trace a figure to transaction lines or read the logic of an existing formula, not its label. Answers stay tied to the same model the plan runs on.

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CoModeler knows the current state of the model and remembers the last few prompts of the conversation, which survives a page refresh, an accidental close or signing in again, but conversations are not saved from one session to the next. Analyst carries follow up questions within a session and keeps no chat history once the session ends or the user moves to another page. What lasts beyond that is the planning model itself, the workflow history and the audit trail, all of which belong to the application.

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The agent keeps a memory of conclusions and conventions, such as what bookings means in a particular model, while numbers are always looked up fresh. Memories are scoped to the tenant, the version and the user, every one is visible and editable, and the agent changes only memories it wrote, never a person's. Threads stay saved and searchable, one per topic, Board or scenario. How long a memory lasts, short of someone deleting it, is left open.

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CoModeler lays out a step by step build plan with annotations and dependencies and executes no change without the builder's explicit confirmation, though a builder who opens a prompt with Approve skips the plan and lets it build at once, and Anaplan steers CoModeler toward development environments.

Analyst writes back to a live plan only within the permissions the user already holds, and Anaplan Workflow routes submissions to assigned approvers with deadlines and notifications. Agent Studio keeps every agent inside the platform's existing roles, so an agent cannot reach data or actions its user could not.

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Nothing the agent builds, whether a metric, formula, list, dimension or report, enters the model until the planner approves it, and the agent cannot change the plan on its own. Scenarios run on a copy of a version, so the baseline stays as it was. The agent acts with the asking user's permissions and has no elevated path around the access model, and it can refuse a request the data cannot support and explain why.

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Anaplan holds SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports and ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701 and, since September 2026, 42001 certificates, and its trust center adds CSA STAR Level 1, Cyber Essentials, ENS, TX-RAMP and TRUSTe.

Sign in runs through SAML 2.0 single sign on, with OAuth for APIs and integrations, role based access control, central identity management and IP allow lists, and only users with the AI Admin role can open Agent Studio. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, a bring your own key add on puts the key in the customer's hands, and customer data, model structures and metadata never train a foundation model. Every agent and every AI Gateway request runs under the user's existing Anaplan permissions.

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Single sign on and identity providers handle login and provisioning, and admins set data visibility by dimension, dataset, view or version for users and groups, inside Fintastic or through third party provisioning tools. The agent runs as the person asking, within the same permissions as a human user down to column level masking, so two people get two correctly scoped answers and no answer carries data the asker could not open. Fintastic holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and encrypts data in transit and at rest.

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Workflow keeps timestamped audit trails and flow chart reports of tasks, approvals and progress, and the platform sends audit events to a customer's SIEM for alerting. Every change CoModeler makes lands in model history under the user who directed it, marked AI assisted, and Analyst and CoPlanner show the source data, model and timestamp behind each answer. AI Gateway records every tool call an outside assistant makes, with a timestamp and usage details, and throttles heavy use, and Agent Studio shows AI credits, interactions and usage per user.

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Conversations with the agent stay saved and searchable by topic, Board or scenario, and it shows each object it builds before anything is approved, along with the drivers and postings behind any number it explains. A log of what the agent changed, when and for whom, separate from the conversation itself, is not part of what Fintastic offers today.

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Anaplan runs as its own cloud service, with in country data centers that keep customer data local for residency rules, among them AWS hosted locations in Singapore and the UAE and data centers in Indonesia, India and Australia. The Singapore center keeps data inside Singapore for public sector and financial services clients. The platform is also sold through AWS Marketplace. There is no customer hosted or on premises edition.

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Fintastic runs as a hosted service on AWS with encryption in transit and at rest, continuous monitoring and yearly disaster recovery tests. Which AWS region holds a customer's data, and whether a buyer can choose one, is not public.

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Prebuilt role based agents cover financial planning and consolidation, revenue performance management, supply chain planning and workforce planning, each embedded in the matching Anaplan application.

Agent Studio switches on ready Analyst configurations, Finance Analyst, Supply Chain Analyst, Sales Analyst and Workforce Analyst, for an application, and CoModeler and Workflow Agent arrive as ready agents for building models and processes.

Packaged applications such as Integrated Financial Planning, Demand Planning, Territory and Quota Planning and Operational Workforce Planning give each agent a ready model to work in.

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Fintastic offers one AI Agent that works across finance, sales, workforce, marketing and IT plans, and the objects it builds are made to order for each request. Each of those planning areas gets the same agent answering questions about its own plans, from pipeline health and headcount costs to channel efficiency and technology spend. No library of prebuilt agents, planning templates or ready models comes with it.

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Anaplan pairs a language model's reasoning with its own deterministic calculation engine, so the arithmetic in an answer is computed by Anaplan, not by the model, which also keeps token use down. A customer has no say in which model runs the agents, and the provider is not named. The Claude, Gemini and Copilot connections through AI Gateway are outside assistants reading Anaplan data, not a choice of model for Anaplan's own agents.

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Fintastic does not name the language model behind its agent, and there is no option for a customer to pick or change it. The arithmetic never depends on the model, since the deterministic engine performs every calculation, and customer data and memory are not used to train shared or foundation models.

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Transactional and bulk APIs extend the platform for integration work, with OAuth that a customer sets to its own authentication and access policies. AI Gateway adds a supported MCP interface with permissions, rate limits and audit, through which outside assistants and agents query planning data. Access through the gateway starts read only, so an outside agent can look up a forecast but cannot change a model, a formula or a plan through it.

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Outside software has no developer route into Fintastic. No API reference, SDK or MCP server is offered for building on the platform or letting another assistant work in the model. The security page mentions encrypted connections to its web services and APIs in passing, and data moves through the native integrations.

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CoModeler finds error prone formulas, redundant structures and slow spots in a customer's planning model, then documents each formula in plain language, and Workflow Agent studies how long tasks take to suggest a faster flow. Both of those check the customer's own model and process. A team has no way to test how an agent answers or acts before rolling it out to planners.

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Fintastic suggests buyers judge any planning agent by asking the same question twice, asking something the model cannot answer and asking it to explain a known number. Those are checks a person runs by hand. The product has no test cases, scoring or review step for measuring the agent's answers before or after rollout.

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Everything the agents do happens inside Anaplan, through its models, workflows and data connections. Data from other systems arrives through Data Orchestrator, CloudWorks and the APIs, and none of the agents clicks through another application on a user's behalf.

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The agent works through Fintastic's own model, tooling and calculation engine, and data arrives through native integrations, so nothing drives a browser or a desktop application on the customer's behalf.

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