o9 Solutions has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service into o9's Digital Brain platform, focusing on improving enterprise supply chain planning.

The collaboration aims to leverage Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service capabilities and o9’s Digital Brain to digitize and connect organizational "tribal knowledge" in emails, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, chat systems, etc. This integration will enable content generation, summarization, image understanding, semantic search, and language-to-code translation to transform data into actionable insights, improving decision-making and planning speed. Over time, the system is expected to improve its query responses and provide more refined insights, facilitating more efficient workflows.

Analyst QuickTake: o9 Solutions has been leveraging partnerships with Big Tech companies to enhance its supply chain planning offerings. In February 2024, the company broadened its partnership with AWS to support digital transformation in large enterprises. The company had previously collaborated with AWS to deploy its Digital Brain platform on AWS for various client industries.