Columbus Consulting has built a broad network of partners. Our clients benefit from our experience with a wide range of vendors as we help them select and/or implement solutions that meet their needs.
Advarics innovations create the digital transformation of retail. Their intuitive software systems serve and empower people. Advarics is a cloud-based retail technology company with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Originally founded in Innsbruck, Austria, advarics now serves retailers across Europe, UK, the Nordics and North America, providing modern, scalable solutions for point-of-sale, merchandise management, and omnichannel retail.
Anaplan is the category-defining leader in Connected Planning, which connects people, data, and plans to enable real-time decision-making critical for today’s rapidly changing business environments. Our platform, powered by our proprietary Hyperblock™ technology, is purpose-built to enable large global enterprises to do dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning to accelerate business value. Based in San Francisco, we are a privately-held growth company with 18 offices globally, 175 partners, and more than 900 customers worldwide.
Aptos is the largest provider of enterprise software focused exclusively on retail. Aptos’ cloud-based Singular Retail™ solutions are trusted by over 1,000 retail brands in 65 countries. With industry-leading omnichannel commerce and merchandise lifecycle management solutions, we help retailers develop dynamic and responsive assortments, streamline operations and deliver integrated, seamless experiences… wherever shoppers choose to engage.
Bamboo Rose is the industry-leading Multi-Enterprise Product and Supply Chain Platform, connecting the entire retail community and helping companies bring great products to market faster, more efficiently, and at higher margins. The platform features a suite of patented business applications, including Bamboo Rose Marketplace, Product Lifecycle Management, Sourcing, Purchase Order Management, Global Trade Management, and Financing, each one supported by intelligent data engines for optimization, costing, and scheduling across the platform.
Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software, Inc.) provides seamless, friction-free commerce, empowering every organization and person on the planet to fulfill their potential. Blue Yonder’s machine learning-driven digital fulfillment platform enables clients to deliver to their customers when, how and where they want it. Applying over 35 years of domain expertise, contextual intelligence and data science, Blue Yonder is helping more than 3,300 of the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers and logistics companies create more autonomous, sustainable and profitable operations.
The Board Enterprise Planning Platform is an all-in-one solution that unifies business intelligence (BI), corporate performance management (CPM), and AI in a single, low-code environment. It empowers organizations to plan, simulate, and analyze across finance, merchandise planning. operations, and strategy—without relying on fragmented tools or spreadsheets.
Impact Analytics™ offers the only retail-, CPG-, and supply chain-focused suite of planning and merchandising products that’s complete, fully integrated, and built on native AI. A growing roster of top brands rely on our SaaS solutions to quickly maximize ROI and grow profitably from data-driven decision-making across full-lifecycle categories including demand forecasting, pricing optimization, assortment, inventory management, and financial planning. In 2023, Fortune named us a top 100 Most Innovative company, more than 300 global retailers ranked us the #1 Targeted Solution Vendor (RIS Software LeaderBoard), and The Financial Times ranked us a Fastest-Growing company—for the fourth straight year.
Supply chains are the lifeblood of global commerce: driving economies forward, sustaining lifestyles, bringing the world closer together. Yet today, they’re stretched and fragile. Rising consumer demands, geopolitical disruptions, labor challenges and the push for sustainability are testing businesses everywhere. Too often, only the world’s biggest players can access the right solutions, when they should work for everyone. At Infios, we believe the future is better when supply chains work better. Because when businesses of every size thrive, so does the world.
Invent.ai is a pioneering AI-decisioning platform that gives retailers distinct capabilities to make the best planning and operational decisions to grow sales, revenue and margin dollars. Delivering fast, measurable value through its technology solutions, invent.ai brings together retail planning data, predicts outcomes, and optimizes inventory, pricing and merchandising.By combining break-through AI with deep retail expertise, invent.ai helps global retailers achieve immediate comp and EBIT growth.
JumpMind is an engineering company focused on high-quality enterprise software. Their clients include some of the most prominent names in retail. Because of JumpMind’s commitment to customer success, all of their customers are referenceable. Founded in 2008 in Columbus, Ohio, JumpMind’s product line includes: JumpMind Commerce – an evolutionary commerce platform including point-of-sale, self-checkout, pricing and promotion, and more. Metl – simple, robust data integration. SymmetricDS – industry-leading data synchronization.
Manhattan Associates designs, builds and delivers market-leading Supply Chain Commerce Solutions for its customers around the world. Manhattan Associates help drive the commerce revolution with unmatched insight and unrivaled technology, connecting front-end revenue and relationships with back-end execution and efficiency—optimized on a common technology platform. This platform-based approach is enabling leading companies across the globe to get closer to their customers and achieve real-world results.
Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Oracle’s NetSuite is THE #1 AI Cloud ERP!! NetSuite is used by 42,000 plus customers, and it’s AI-powered business management suite connects data across ERP/Financials, CRM, ecommerce, and more. Because when you have a single source of truth, your AI doesn’t just guess – it knows. NetSuite’s customers range from zero revenues up to multiple billion in revenues, and NetSuite provides a “Suite” of modules specifically designed for retailers, apparel, and consumer goods.
o9 Solutions is the premier AI-powered platform for driving digital transformations of integrated planning and operations capabilities. Whether it is driving demand, aligning demand and supply, or managing P&L, any process can be made faster and smarter with o9’s AI-powered digital solutions. Bringing together technology innovations—such as graph-based enterprise modelling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform.
More than 30,000 organizations of all sizes rely on Oracle Cloud Applications to run their most important front- and back-office business operations. Each suite of applications is designed to work together to help eliminate IT complexity and maximize the benefits of data. Built and run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the applications deliver the scalability, security, and performance today’s businesses demand.
Netail’s mission is to transform how retailers make profitability decisions. To support this mission they have developed Profitmind, an AI business analyst that analyzes your competitors and your internal data to identify sales, profit and working capital opportunities. Profitmind is a break through AI solution that combines Generative AI and Machine Learning to find and communicate growth opportunities in retail business language. Use Profitmind to supercharge your teams to find and capture growth opportunities faster.
RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software. Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, removing siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing space, allocation, workforce, markdown and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform.
S5 offers a powerful platform connected with purpose-built apps to empower better decisions across your supply chain. This intuitive suite of applications provides users with AI-driven insights.
Salesforce is the world’s #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We help your marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT teams work as one from anywhere — so you can keep your customers happy everywhere.
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables our customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference.
Symphony RetailAI is the leading global provider of role-specific, AI-enabled revenue growth management solutions and customer-centric insights for retailers and CPG manufacturers across the entire value chain. Our proven, industry-leading, AI-enabled software, coupled with the industry’s only conversational natural-language AI interface, CINDE, provides key users with proven prescriptive and preemptive recommendations that make it easy to identify end-to-end growth opportunities, activate plans and realize measurable profit and revenue growth. Our solutions are specific to key decision-maker roles focused on profitable growth across the retail value chain from source to consumer. With our strong global partner ecosystem, we serve more than 1,200 organizations worldwide – including 15 of the top 25 global grocery retailers, 25 of the top 25 global CPG manufacturers, thousands of retail brands, and hundreds of national and regional chains – all through the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Symphony RetailAI is a SymphonyAI company.
Toolio is a cloud-based merchandise planning platform built to help the next-generation of retailers make faster, data-driven merchandising decisions. Toolio integrates to your ERP, e-commerce or BI tools, and streamlines the end-to-end planning and merchandising processes including merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy management, assortment planning, and demand planning & replenishment. They help the industry’s fastest growing retailers save time and increase top-line revenue, profitability and cash flow through better planning.
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