"The EPM market is growing because business stakeholders see these solutions as a way to innovate and accelerate processes for planning, analysis, compliance-driven financial reporting, and management reporting," wrote Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Paul D. Hamerman in the report. According to Forrester's report, "Anaplan disrupts the traditional notion of finance-centric EPM. Customers use Anaplan's flexible and scalable planning and modeling platform in sales, marketing, HR, operations, and other domains, in addition to finance." The company received the top score in the Strategy category and also earned the highest score possible in the model development, prebuilt planning models, configuration flexibility, and SaaS approach and maturity criteria.