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Ross Daniels Has Spent a Career Making Complex Software Easier to Choose
From Cisco's contact-center business to Board's enterprise planning platform, Ross Daniels has built a career around a deceptively difficult assignment: making complicated technology clear, useful, and ready to grow.
The $3.7 Billion Bet on Giving Big Business a Better Memory
o9 Solutions wants to replace the monthly spreadsheet séance with a living model of the enterprise. Its wager: the company that remembers why a plan failed can make the next decision faster - and waste less along the way.
Anaplan
Anaplan is a cloud platform for connected enterprise planning. It lets finance, supply chain, sales, and HR teams model the same business in real time, on a single multidimensional engine called Hyperblock, instead of fighting over disconnected spreadsheets. Founded in 2006 in a barn in Yorkshire, England, the company now serves more than 2,400 customers worldwide - including roughly half the Fortune 50 - and is privately held by Thoma Bravo after a $10.7 billion take-private in 2022.