o9 Announces Winners of Its Inaugural Partner Awards 2024

Winners include Microsoft, Accenture, MangoGem, and many more

o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced the winners of its inaugural Partner Awards 2024. The o9 Partner Awards 2024 highlights these partners' critical role in driving success and innovation across the o9 ecosystem. The award ceremony took place at aim10x On Tour Dallas, where the recipients of the o9 Partner Awards were celebrated for their outstanding contributions. Winners were selected based on their exceptional performance and collaboration within specific categories.

The following winners were celebrated:

Implementation Partner of the Year: Accenture

Accenture was recognized as Implementation Partner of the Year for leading approximately 30 client implementations in 2024, making them the Consulting partner with the most ongoing projects.

Best Augmentation of o9 Capabilities: MangoGem

MangoGem was selected as the recipient of this award in 2024 for its innovative technology solutions, which complemented the functionality and value of the o9 platform.

Best Sales Enabler: AWS

AWS won the Best Sales Enabler category for its robust support in expanding o9’s market reach and driving significant sales growth through an increased number of new opportunities.

Top Performing Hyperscaler: Microsoft

Microsoft was recognized as the winner in the Top Performing Hyperscaler category. As a trailblazer and industry leader in Generative AI, Microsoft continued to set the standard for innovation and excellence in the field, which enabled seamless scaling of o9’s platform globally.

Excellence in Client Advocacy: aioneers

aioneers was selected as the winner in the Excellence in Client Advocacy category for their strong relationships with joint clients and high client satisfaction scores.

India Partner of the Year: Thoucentric

Thoucentric is the winner of the India Partner of the Year award for their unwavering support in the Indian market, demonstrating excellence in delivering o9 to a diverse range of clients.

Subhadra Shankar, Managing Director, Supply Chain & Operations at Accenture, said:

“This award is a testament to the hard work by our teams to drive supply chain reinvention for our clients to help them sense of market changes, forecast demand, and drive intelligent decisions at the speed of digital business. We look forward to the journey ahead of us, as we continue to bring next-generation autonomous business capabilities to our clients.“

Ben Rodriguez, CEO at MangoGem, said:

"Our collaboration with o9 has enabled us to turn MangoGem’s cutting-edge technology into real value for our customers, solving complex planning and scheduling challenges. Looking forward to continued success together."

Shelley Bransten, Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Solutions at Microsoft, said:

“Microsoft is honored to accept o9’s Top Performing Hyperscaler Partner of the Year award. Through our collaboration, we’re proud to deliver powerful business outcomes on the Microsoft platform. We look forward to accelerating our rich co-innovation to deliver meaningful supply chain transformations across industries for our valued customers worldwide.”

Thorsten Piehl, Managing Director & Partner at aioneers, said:

"We as AIONEERS-EFESO are very honored to receive this award. Our most important goal is to deliver value to our clients. We drive this with a holistic business transformation approach and by translating business requirements into the best, most efficient and user-friendly set-up of o9 as close to the leading practice reference model as possible. We are happy to deliver in the future more client-centric projects always as one strong successful TEAM independent if the team members come from our clients, o9 and AIONEERS-EFESO.”

Neelakshi Kotnis, Founder & Director at Thoucentric, said:

"Thoucentric, a Xoriant company has focused on deeper understanding of client business needs, and the technologies they invest in equally for almost 10 years now. o9 has been our coveted partner for more than 7 years, and they have entrusted us with delivering successful projects for 75+ clients. We have our in-house, ground-up functional and technology training. Our unique consulting framework and stellar capability have helped clients realize the right business benefits for our clients. This award is a validation of the successful collaboration with o9. We thank o9 for this recognition as this provides us with an opportunity to be noticed by their existing and potential clients globally."

Tanguy Caillet, Executive Vice President of Strategic Sales and Global Partnerships at o9, said:

"Our extensive ecosystem of partners is instrumental in helping us deliver exceptional value to our customers. These awards recognize the outstanding contributions of our top partners who have significantly impacted o9 and our clients in 2024. We are proud to collaborate with these industry-leading companies and look forward to continuing our successful and long-lasting partnerships."

About o9

o9 is a leading AI-powered platform for integrated business planning and decision-making for the enterprise. Whether it is driving demand, aligning demand and supply, or optimizing commercial initiatives, any planning process can be made faster and smarter with o9’s AI-powered digital solutions. o9 brings together technology innovations—such as graph-based enterprise modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform. For more information, please visit www.o9solutions.com.

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