I'm very excited to share two new comprehensive technical resources that showcase the exceptional performance capabilities of Anaplan’s Polaris calculation engine. These documents provide detailed benchmarks and real-world performance metrics that demonstrate how Polaris delivers the scale, speed, and interactivity required for modern enterprise planning.
Anaplan has invested an enormous amount of time and effort in building the proprietary Polaris engine to be the most performant and scalable interactive general-purpose multi-dimensional planning tool. These documents show in quantified terms against real-world scenarios what has been achieved.
Chart showing Average Response Time and other Statistics for a 20 user concurrency test of 6 User Journeys comprising 80 Interactive Steps on the Demand and Inventory Planning Supply Chain Application running on Anaplan Polaris.
Polaris Scalability: Powering Multi-Dimensional Planning
The first resource, Anaplan Polaris: Powering high-dimensional calculations and sub-second interactivity at enterprise scale reveals the raw technical capabilities of the Polaris engine. The benchmarks are impressive:
- Quintillions of addressable cells per line item, enabling organizations to model at their natural business dimensionality
- 30+ billion populated cell capacity in a single model (we've seen production models with 17+ billion cells)
- Millisecond-level recalculations – even single-cell changes in trillion-cell models complete in just 3 milliseconds
- 2.5 million aggregation operations across deep hierarchies completed in under 14 seconds
These metrics show the scale and raw power of the Polaris calculation engine in technical terms. However, to truly understand the relevance of these metrics we need to understand how Polaris can be used in a business context – and to demonstrate that we have also benchmarked the Polaris powered Demand and Inventory Applications for Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Planning: Performance in Action
The second resource, Anaplan Polaris: Enterprise-grade speed for supply chain demand and inventory planning demonstrates these capabilities in a real-world context. Using a representative dataset from a large consumer goods company (20,000+ SKUs, 300+ customers, 250+ locations), we tested six common supply chain planning user journeys with 20 concurrent users.
The results speak for themselves:
- 90% of user interactions completed in under 1 second
- 1 minute 33 seconds total processing time for all six user journeys
- 1.16 seconds average response time for the median user interaction
This level of performance transforms how planners work, eliminating the frustration of waiting for calculations and enabling truly interactive, collaborative planning sessions.
Why This Matters
These benchmark documents demonstrate that enterprises no longer need to choose between Interactivity, scale, and speed. With Polaris, you can model your business at its full complexity while maintaining the sub-second responsiveness that keeps planners engaged and productive. Whether you're doing financial planning across across thousands of entities or optimizing inventory across a global supply chain, Anaplan Polaris delivers the performance you need.
