o9 Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9 Solutions, a leading software company that is powering enterprise planning and decisioning models across 30-plus industry verticals with its groundbreaking, AI-powered Digital Brain platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54125926, September 2026).

The IDC MarketScape states that “clients consistently cite the platform’s configurable, building-block architecture, rather than a rigid packaged product, as a key driver for vendor selection and the most valued attribute and a key driver for vendor selection.” This lets enterprise users tailor the tool to their unique requirements and make structural changes, such as adding or removing product lines, with minimal manual effort. Other strengths noted by the IDC MarketScape include strong handling of complex hierarchies and multichannel/multi-entity scale and emerging AI/GenAI capabilities deliver measurable business outcomes.

o9’s Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) capability connects strategy and execution by embedding financial planning directly into a retailer’s merchandising ecosystem. Built on a single data model, the solution ensures that financial targets are not abstract goals but active constraints that shape assortment, item planning, and inventory decisions. As the retailer’s priorities evolve, plans stay synchronized - pre-season and in-season - without the need for workarounds. o9 MFP runs on the Digital Brain platform’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph, which powers merchandising and supply planning. This ensures that financial metrics are directly linked to product, channels, and operational decisions rather than managed in isolation.

"Leading retailers are redefining MFP as a living model that evolves continuously with actual performance versus simply locking in assumptions at the start of a season," said Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, o9 Solutions. "We believe our recognition as a Leader in this IDC MarketScape underscores our conviction that financial plans should connect directly to the operational levers that drive them, so when sales assumptions shift, the impact on inventory, receipts, and margin is visible immediately. That shared, real-time understanding between finance and merchandising is what allows retailers to protect margin, redirect investment when needed, and proactively manage inventory risk."

To download a complimentary copy of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment, click here. To learn more about o9, visit www.o9solutions.com.

About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About o9 Solutions
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.

o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence. For more information, please visit www.o9solutions.com.