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DALLAS, March 15, 2022 – o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that it ranked No. 67 on Inc. Magazine’s third-annual Inc. 5000 Regionals Southwest list. The list ranks fast-growing private companies based in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, representing a unique look at the most successful companies within the Southwest region’s economy.
o9’s President and Chief Operating Officer Igor Rikalo credits the remarkable revenue growth of 168% between 2018 and 2020 to o9’s commitment to delivering very significant customer value through technology that transforms the way companies plan and make decisions. The o9 Digital Brain platform is an AI-powered platform for integrated business planning and decision-making, that brings more transparency and agility to the business, resulting in better decisions across organizational silos, increased productivity, and less impact on the Earth’s resources.
“o9 was born out of the vision to create the most value-generating enterprise software platform by bringing together the world’s best technology, planning expertise, and industry know-how,” Rikalo said. “From 2018 to 2020, we quadrupled the size of the o9 team globally, which has helped us scale as we continue on our growth path. We are extremely proud of our position in Inc. Magazine’s Southwest Region list of fastest-growing private companies.”
The companies on this list show a remarkable growth rate across all industries in the Southwest region. Between 2018 and 2020, these 141 private companies had an average growth rate of 154% percent. In 2020 alone, they added 10,563 jobs and nearly $10.9 billion to the Southwest region’s economy. Overall, companies based in Austin, Texas, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Fort Worth, Texas, had the highest growth rate.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000 Regionals Southwest, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, metro area, and other criteria, can be found at inc.com/southwest starting March 15, 2022.
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The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
