Anavate broadens Argano’s portfolio of planning, forecasting, and automation services with award-winning Anaplan offerings
PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Argano, the world’s first and largest digital services consultancy focused exclusively on enabling high performance across its clients’ business operations, today announced that it has acquired Anavate Partners (“Anavate”), a specialized global consulting firm with expertise in cloud-based planning and forecasting solutions, specifically Anaplan.
Today’s announcement advances Argano’s 2025 strategic growth plan and follows recent additions of Attentis, Real Dynamics, and Netlogistik. Anavate represents Argano’s fourth acquisition in 2025 and the twentieth since its founding in 2020, reinforcing the company’s commitment to scaling global reach, expanding technical capabilities, and broadening its solution portfolio. Argano’s transformational acquisition strategy is fully funded by capital secured over the past year.
Anavate brings a strong track record of enabling enterprise-wide planning transformation across core functions including finance, sales, marketing, and supply chain. With a client-first approach and highly specialized experience in Anaplan, Anavate is known for helping organizations digitally transform processes, relieve time-consuming planning pain points, and automate workflows at speed and scale. The firm has been recognized by Anaplan for excellence in implementation and client impact, earning the Trailblazer Partner of the Year award in 2025 and Rising Star Partner of the Year award in 2024. The acquisition further enhances Argano’s ability to deliver integrated performance management solutions to clients worldwide.
“As we continue building the world’s most comprehensive platform for operational transformation, we are aligning with expert teams that complement and extend our capabilities,” said Chip Register, CEO of Argano. “Anavate adds immediate depth in enterprise planning and automation and marks an important milestone along our path to becoming the strongest Anaplan partner in the U.S. As one integrated platform, we’re excited to welcome our new colleagues and partner with them as we continue to deliver exceptional client outcomes and drive digital transformation at scale.”
The Anavate founding partners Kevin Philip, Tristan Gaynor, George Heiler and Dave McLurg commented: “We are very excited about the path ahead with Argano for our clients and our employees. With complementary capabilities and a shared focus of delivering excellent technological expertise, we look forward to helping businesses drive greater outcomes and prepare for the future of digital transformation. Joining Argano allows us to bring more solutions to more clients, and we’re grateful to our incredible team for their outstanding commitment as we begin this next chapter with a partner that shares our obsession with client success.”
“As a key Anaplan partner, Anavate has played an important role in helping our joint customers optimize their planning processes so they can make the right decisions for their business, right now,” said Kuntal Vahalia, Senior Vice President, Global Channels & Alliances at Anaplan. “This is an exciting evolution for Anavate, and we look forward to a continued partnership focused on delivering joint customer outcomes.”
Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to Argano, and Ernst & Young LLP served as financial diligence advisor to Argano.
About Argano
Argano is the world’s first and largest digital services consultancy focused exclusively on enabling high performance across our clients’ business operations, at scale and around the globe. Forged from world-class specialist consultancies with decades of enterprise technology, data, cloud, AI and operations expertise, Argano supports the full transformation capabilities through strategy, design, execution, and ongoing managed services. We modernize and optimize core functions across customer engagement and service, revenue management, finance and planning, supply chain, and workforce optimization. Our promise to clients is maximizing their growth, profitability, commercial agility and customer satisfaction, guaranteed. Learn more at argano.com.
About Anavate Partners
Anavate Partners is a consulting firm specializing in cloud-based planning and forecasting solutions, with deep expertise using the Anaplan platform to digitally transform finance, sales, marketing and supply chain planning processes. Recognized as Anaplan’s Trailblazer Partner of the Year in 2025 and Rising Star Partner of the Year in 2024, Anavate has a proven record of implementation success and client impact. The company also leverages the revolutionary Workato platform to rapidly modernize and automate corporate workflows. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Anavate sources and trains the best consultants from across the globe to serve clients across the U.S. and around the world, delivering measurable and value-adding solutions with an unwavering commitment to customer success. Learn more at www.anavatepartners.com.
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