o9 solutions looks at Integrated Business Planning capabilities to transform businesses, and its mission is to drive digital transformation of planning and decision making in global corporations. From utilizing next-generation platforms to improve supply chain, to empowering and forecasting initiatives; o9 solutions helps in actively optimizing revenue and margin performance through their AI platform. With its rapidly increasing customer base, o9 solutions reported a 400%+ increase in year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) from new customers during Q4’21. Whereas on annual basis o9’s ARR grew more than threefold in 2021 compared to 2020.
By hiring 449 employees and increasing headcount by 87% headcount in 2021, o9 solutions has further expanded its capabilities in India to support the global growth. The company currently has 972 employees and further expects more than 60% growth in terms of hires in 2022.
o9’s platform addresses the most critical planning challenges that global enterprises are facing and helps in doing so in a scalable fashion. Through this, o9 solutions looks into transforming the decision making of an enterprise and thereby becoming the Digital Brain of an enterprise. The company’s strong results in 2021 and momentum heading into 2022 are a clear validation of the massive value-generation potential of a digital platform like the o9 Digital Brain for global companies who have embarked on a digital transformation journey.
Basis this information, Siddhartha Niyogi, Director, India Operations, o9 Solutions, would be more than happy to provide his inputs on:
1) How o9 achieved a record number of new customer wins as well as expansions with existing customers in 2021 during these uncertain times imposed by the pandemic
2) Supporting global growth from India
3) Hiring plans and employee focused initiatives in India and globally