Arkieva Orbit vs Farseer

Arkieva Orbit is a digital supply chain planning platform that brings planning data into a central repository for analytics and cross-functional sales and operations planning. Its One-Plan process gives teams a shared data source. Demand planning covers analysis, segmentation, sensing, shaping and forecasting; inventory features include flexible metrics, obsolete-stock identification and alerts for imbalanced levels. Capacity planning supports what-if analysis and review of shortfalls or excess, while supply planning includes MRP, DRP and CRP. Teams can switch multiple scenarios on or off and simulate as many as needed. Orbit combines in-memory OLTP and OLAP in a multithreaded engine using available CPUs. Analytics include predictive and time-series analysis, forecasting algorithms, rule-based AI, implementation diagnostics and R integration. Deployment options are on-premise, cloud or hybrid, with web and self-hosted access. A unified data model connects Arkieva modules and external applications. Arkieva Data Connector handles batch and real-time integrations with multiple systems, including ERP, CRM, data warehouse and BI sources. Pricing is available on request.

Farseer is an FP&A platform for enterprise finance teams, combining planning, forecasting and reporting. It covers budgets, rolling forecasts, sales, workforce and ESG plans, cash-flow forecasting, profitability analysis, scenarios, variance review, forecast-versus-actuals work and financial consolidation. Modeling supports enterprise financial logic through natural-language formulas without code. A spreadsheet-style interface and dashboards let users move from profit-and-loss figures to invoices. The Rama in-memory engine processes models across products, entities, accounts, currencies and time; Farseer says it can import 350,000 rows in 35 seconds. Connectors are listed for SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery and SQL warehouses, alongside an API and custom connectors. Farseer AI can build a planning model from ERP data for sandbox review. The service is web-based, paid and priced on request, with role controls, audit logs and single-tenant Google Cloud hosting in Belgium.