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We’re immensely proud to have reached ‘unicorn’ status (over $1B) in such a short period of time. Since the launch of our platform in 2014, we’ve rapidly grown into a company valued at $2.7B, but there’s nothing mythical or magical about our meteoric rise. Our success is (in part) the result of unprecedented work from an unparalleled team of industry experts and, it seems, one of the largest global media publications has taken notice!
We’re honored to have been featured by Forbes, and we see it as a testament to the dedication of our team, the quality of our product and the exceptional vision of our leadership. The article by Steve Banker, who spoke to o9’s CEO and Co-Founder, Chakri Gottemukkala, highlights our work with some of the world’s leading companies; partnerships that have allowed us to apply our platform to myriad industries, from retail to manufacturing and beyond.
Our platform’s AI and machine learning capabilities allow us to make predictions and recommendations that, in turn, help businesses make proactive, data-driven decisions – as opposed to reactive responses – to changes in the market. By leveraging these advanced technologies, we can help our clients stay ahead of the competition and adapt to the ever-changing business landscape.
The result? Protecting profits and safeguarding bottom lines in the face of fluctuating market conditions.
We believe that our platform has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses make decisions across industries. By empowering decision-makers with real-time insights and AI-powered recommendations, we can help organizations stay ahead of the curve and succeed in today’s fast-paced business environment. And we’re just getting started.
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The Digital Brain Platformo9 offers a leading AI-powered Planning, Analytics & Data platform called the Digital Brain that helps companies across industry verticals transform traditionally slow and siloed planning into smart, integrated and intelligent planning and decision making across the core supply chain, commercial and P&L functions. With o9’s Digital Brain platform, companies are able to achieve game-changing improvements in quality of data, ability to detect demand and supply risks and opportunities earlier, forecast demand more accurately, evaluate what-if scenarios in real time, match demand and supply intelligently and drive alignment and collaboration across customers, internal stakeholders and suppliers around the integrated supply chain and commercial plans and decisions. Supported by a global ecosystem of partners, o9’s innovative delivery methodology helps companies achieve quick impact in customer service, inventory levels, resource utilization, as well as ESG and financial KPIs—while enabling a long-term, sustainable transformation of their end-to-end planning and decision-making capabilities.