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Blue Ridge Wants to Fire the Spreadsheet - Not the Planner
The Atlanta supply-chain company spent nearly two decades turning forecasts into buying decisions. Now its biggest bet is that software should handle the routine 80 to 95 percent - and show its work when humans step in.
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.
ArchLynk
ArchLynk has built a global business around the unglamorous systems that decide whether a shipment moves, a warehouse flows and a product clears customs. Its bet is that deep SAP supply-chain specialization can beat the sprawling generalist integrator.
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.