How it started
History
John Galt Solutions was founded in 1996 by Annemarie Omrod. The company is named after the iconic figure in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, John Galt. John Galt Solutions' initial projects involved building data warehouses for utility companies. In 1997, John Galt Solutions built its forecasting tool the ForecastX Wizard. In December 1998, ForecastX competed in the M3 Forecasting Competition, an academic forecasting accuracy competition sponsored by INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration), finishing in the top two positions in all categories.
In conjunction with Holt Wilson (Central Michigan University) and Barry Keating (Notre Dame University), John Galt Solutions published Business Forecasting (6th Edition).
The company has strategic partnerships with PeopleSoft, Oracle, Infor and QAD.
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