o9 Solutions, Inc. is a private enterprise software company focused on AI-powered planning and execution for large, complex organizations. Its Digital Brain Platform and APEX Operating Model are designed to connect planning, forecasting, decision-making, and execution across supply chain, commercial, procurement, merchandising, sustainability, and financial domains. The company positions its platform around an enterprise-wide model of data, knowledge, and decisions rather than disconnected point applications.
o9 Solutions, Inc. serves enterprises operating in volatile, multi-tier value chains and supports use cases ranging from integrated business planning and demand planning to supplier risk management, merchandise planning, revenue growth management, and sustainability. Its platform is used across more than 30 industry verticals, including retail, consumer products, industrial manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, telecom, energy and resources, high tech, and wholesale distribution.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
o9 Solutions, Inc. delivers cloud-native planning and decision intelligence software built on its Enterprise Knowledge Graph, which links operational, commercial, supplier, and financial data into a shared decision model. Key platform capabilities include AI and machine learning, scenario modeling, digital twin modeling, workflow collaboration, real-time replanning, and agentic AI support for planning and execution decisions across strategic, tactical, and operational horizons.
Its offerings are designed to integrate with core enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, and PLM environments so teams can work from a live, connected model instead of siloed plans. o9 Solutions, Inc. also supports deployment and procurement through major hyperscaler ecosystems, giving customers flexibility in cloud strategy while keeping planning, analytics, and execution workflows on a unified platform.
Products and Services
- Digital Brain Platform: Flagship AI-powered enterprise planning and execution platform that connects data, knowledge, and decisions across supply chain, commercial, procurement, and financial workflows using the Enterprise Knowledge Graph.
- APEX Operating Model: AI-driven operating model that helps enterprises plan, execute, and learn as one connected system, with agentic AI and continuous decision recomputation across demand, supply, product, and P&L domains.
- Integrated Business Planning: Solution for connecting finance, marketing, sales, and supply chain planning on a single live platform, with unified operational and financial views and cross-functional S&OP workflows.
- Demand Planning: AI-driven demand planning software for collaborative forecasting, sensing changes in demand, and aligning commercial and supply decisions around a reconciled demand signal.
- Supply Chain Planning & Analytics: Supply chain planning suite covering end-to-end planning and analytics, including master planning, control tower, inventory optimization, production scheduling, and scenario analysis.
- Supplier Collaboration & Risk Management: Connected procurement and supplier network solution that combines supplier collaboration, multi-tier visibility, risk sensing, exception management, and resilience planning.
- Merchandise Planning: Retail planning solution that unifies merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, size and pack optimization, store forecasting, allocation, replenishment, and category-oriented decision support.
- Revenue Growth Management: Commercial planning software that connects pricing, promotions, assortment, trade investment, and strategic P&L decisions in a single AI-powered environment.
- ESG & Sustainability: Sustainability planning solution for measuring footprint, embedding sustainability signals into planning, supporting ESG-aware decisions, and improving visibility across the value chain.
- Category Management: Retail-focused commercial planning solution that connects assortment, pricing, promotion planning, and vendor negotiation support for grocery and broader merchandising use cases.
Target Customers
o9 Solutions, Inc. primarily targets large global enterprises with complex supply chains, broad product portfolios, and cross-functional planning requirements. Its buyers typically include supply chain, operations, procurement, merchandising, commercial, sales, marketing, and finance leaders that need tighter coordination between planning and execution.
The company is especially relevant for organizations in retail, consumer products, manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, telecom, energy and resources, high tech, and wholesale distribution. It is best suited to enterprises looking to replace fragmented legacy planning environments with a unified platform that can model constraints, simulate trade-offs, and connect operational decisions to financial outcomes.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: o9 Solutions, Inc. has a verified AWS Marketplace seller presence and supports deployment of its cloud-native planning offerings on AWS through its AWS ecosystem alignment.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: The o9 Digital Brain is available through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, supporting Azure-based procurement and deployment for enterprise customers.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: o9 Solutions, Inc. is available on Google Cloud Marketplace and supports Google Cloud-based deployment for its planning and decision intelligence platform.
Key People
- Chakri Gottemukkala: Co-Founder and CEO
- Sanjiv Sidhu: Chairman and Co-Founder
- Igor Rikalo: President and Chief Operating Officer
- Gabe Cortes: Chief Financial Officer
- Brett Theisen: Chief Revenue Officer
- Umesh Arasu: Chief Product Officer
- Vikas Goel: Chief Human Resources Officer
- Dr. Ashwin Rao: Executive Vice President, Next-Gen AI and Technology
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Employees: Approximately 3,500
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries — Leader. 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Process Industries — Leader. 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms — Niche Player. 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Supply Chain Planning Solutions — Customers’ Choice.
- Forrester: 2022 The Forrester Wave: Collaborative Supply Networks, Q4 2022 — Leader.
- IDC: 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall Vendor Assessment — Leader. 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries Vendor Assessment — Leader. 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Distribution Industries Vendor Assessment — Leader.
