Technology: Anaplan, Intouch Advance

CLOUD-BASED business Anaplan, which has its main UK research and development headquarters in York, has reported a turnover increase and global expansion.

The firm is predicting a 134% growth in revenue for the first half of its fiscal year, to January 2016.

Across the UK, Anaplan has 120 employees, and 500 in total across the globe.

Customers of the firm increased 160% to more than 50,000, and include Kimberly Clark, HP, Intel Security and Pandora use the firm to remove spreadsheet-intensive processes.

“Digital disruption has meant that businesses now have to plan and optimize performance in real-time to stay competitive,” said Anaplan chief executive Frederic Laluyaux. “Large and fast-growing companies are choosing Anaplan because our enterprise architecture enables planning at scale across the entire enterprise.”

Anaplan has raised $150m in venture capital, the latest round led by DFJ Growth, with investments from Brookside Capital, Coatue Management, Granite Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Sands Capital Management, salesforce.com, Shasta Ventures, and Workday.

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TELECOMS provider Intouch Advance has won £2.5m worth of contracts.

Major client wins have boosted the firm’s projected turnover. 15 new customers were signed up for the six month period to 30 September.

These include Blackpool Football Club, Bermar Building, Kingstown Associates, Tate Solicitors, Yorkshire Payments, LCF Law, Outwood Grange Academy and Cue Garden.

Chief executive Simon Pollard said: “Our new customers acquired during this period range from SMEs to large enterprises and organisations from across a broad mix of industry sectors, such as education, financial services and retail.

“Our award-winning customer service and tailored telecoms product offerings are behind our ongoing success with existing clients,” explained Pollard

10 existing customers have also renewed contracts with Intouch Advance

The company has also grown its customer services and telesales teams over this time and continues to recruit in line with its expanding business portfolio.