CAT4 - Your Catalyst for
Business Transformation

When transformation needs to move from strategy to results — consulting firms and their clients trust CAT4.

Most transformation programmes are managed through disconnected spreadsheets, manual PowerPoint reports, and email chains — with no real-time visibility and no single source of truth. CAT4 replaces all of that. One platform for planned vs actual tracking, real-time dashboards, automated reporting, workflow automation, and role-based access control — so every stakeholder sees exactly what they need, the moment it changes.
Trusted by Adidas, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Siemens, Bosch and 250+ large enterprises worldwide
25 years  ·  40,000+ users  ·  250+ installations

If These Problems Feel Familiar, You Are Not Alone

Your programme runs across multiple workstreams. The status report is a 40-slide PowerPoint assembled manually every two weeks.

Finance has one version of the savings number. The PMO has another. The steering committee asks which one to believe.

An initiative slipped three weeks ago. You found out at the monthly review.

Every update means chasing project managers by email. Half of them are in different time zones.

The board wants a consolidated view. Building it takes a week of analyst time every month.

You have milestones marked complete. But nobody is tracking whether the change has actually landed in the organization.

This is how most large transformation programmes run. Not because the people are wrong — but because the tools were never built for this scale.

How CAT4 Brings Structure to Complex Execution

Built for the capabilities that matter most when running transformation at scale.

Visibility

Planned vs actual across milestones and financials simultaneously — at every level: initiative, programme, portfolio, organization. Degree of implementation shows how deeply change has actually landed, not just whether a milestone was ticked. Phase gate methodology built in: PMI, PRINCE2, V-Model.

KPIs, OKRs and KRAs tracked. Real-time the moment any value changes.

Intelligence Without Effort

Dashboards configured once — always live, always current. No business analyst, no Power BI licence, no IT ticket. Export any view to PowerPoint in one click. Reports emailed automatically to any stakeholder on any cadence. Nobody has to ask. Nobody has to chase.

Workflow Without Friction

Event-triggered alerts notify the right person the moment something changes. Stakeholders approve, reject or escalate directly from their inbox — no login required. Any number of schedulers and triggers configurable. Nobody monitors the tool. The tool monitors the programme.

Control Without Complexity

Role-based access configured by level, function and seniority. The board sees the executive summary. The project manager sees their workstream. The sponsor sees what needs a decision. All configurable without developers. Each client gets a dedicated instance with their own database — complete data isolation.

Where Consulting Firms and Their Clients Use CAT4

Four common deployment contexts. One platform.

Business Transformation and Cost Saving

Consulting firms use CAT4 to run cost reduction and business transformation programmes for their enterprise clients. Planned vs actual savings tracked at every initiative level. Degree of implementation confirms the change has landed — not just been reported.

Multi-Project and Portfolio Management

When multiple programmes run simultaneously, CAT4 gives the portfolio office a single view across all of them. Resources, milestones, financials and risks aggregated from initiative level to board level. No spreadsheet consolidation. No version mismatch.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Transactions

M&A integration programmes run on tight timelines with high stakes. CAT4 tracks workstreams across both organizations, manages dependencies, monitors synergy realization, and gives leadership real-time visibility into integration progress at every level.

Business Process Automation

CAT4's workflow engine automates the operational layer of any programme. Approvals, notifications, task assignments, escalations and reporting — all configured without development. Processes that previously required manual coordination run automatically.

25 Years. 250+ Enterprises. Trusted by the Firms That Run the World's Largest Transformations.

25
Years in operation
250+
Enterprise installations
40,000+
Users on the platform
7,000+
Simultaneous projects at a single client
2,000+
Users on a single corporate licence
Trusted by
Adidas Lufthansa Volkswagen Siemens Bosch Deutsche Post TUI Vattenfall
Deployed by leading consulting firms
Roland Berger BCG PwC EY Deloitte Arthur D. Little Andersch
Certifications and deployment
ISO 27001 ISO 9001 TISAX Single Sign-On On-Premise Cloud

Up and Running Faster Than You Expect

Start with a standard deployment in days, then customize on agreed timelines.

Standard deployment in days

The standard version of CAT4 is live within days. Your team can start running programmes on the platform before the ink is dry on the engagement.

Customization on agreed timelines

Every client requirement is different. Custom configurations, integrations and workflows are scoped and delivered on timelines agreed upfront — no surprises.

Training in hours, not weeks

CAT4 is built to be used by programme managers, not trained by IT departments. Users are productive within hours. Adoption is not a project.

Your own dedicated instance

Every client receives a dedicated instance with their own database. Your data stays yours. Fully isolated, fully secure, deployable on-premise or in the cloud.

What Teams Achieve When Programmes Run on CAT4

From cost reduction to post-merger integration, in the words of the people who ran these programmes.

EBS Business School

EBS Business School

Cat4's financial management is one of the most flexible on the market. It can be used for budgeting purposes, cost planning and controlling, profitability analysis, development of business cases in general, and management of cost reduction projects. The underlying concept is both straightforward and flexible, Cat4 also allows the definition of accounts. Financial transactions can be planned for each account, each point in time, and each project (or WBS element). Based on the accounts, a calculation schema can be set up that even allows for performance indicators to be computed. The aggregation of such indicators along the WBS is possible. In addition, many of the financial indicators are implemented as standard functionality, e.g. Earnings before Interest, Tax, and Amortization (EBITA).
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Vattenfall Europe

Vattenfall Europe

The implementation of our processes in Cat4 was the logical continuation of our efforts to make decisions that are as transparent as possible and based on reliable information. In addition, we have created a platform with the project portal on which all project participants can not only find out about their own project activities, but also view the contents of the projects of other business units. This led to a clear gain in transparency and simplified voting. In this way, we regularly discover synergy potential between the business units.
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Langenscheidt KG

Langenscheidt KG

A group-wide earnings improvement program was initiated to strengthen sustainable earning power. Cat4 served as the central coordination and control instrument under the name "Top-Speed". All measures were stored in the system and could thus be promoted centrally and decentrally. The transparency gained in this way about the current status of all measures helped us significantly to successfully complete the program.
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Organizations on CAT4

Enterprises that have run complex transformation programmes on CAT4.

Adidas
Bosch
Bühler Group
Heidelberg
Hyundai
Lufthansa
MAN SE
Merck
Olympus Corporation
Remondis
Rockport
Schlemmer
Siemens
Tönsmeier
Vattenfall
Volkswagen Group

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EBS Business School
Cat4's financial management is one of the most flexible on the market. It can be used for budgeting purposes, cost planning and controlling, profitability analysis, development of business cases in general, and management of cost reduction projects. The underlying concept is both straightforward and flexible. Cat4 also allows the definition of accounts. Financial transactions can be planned for each account, each point in time, and each project (or WBS element). Based on the accounts, a calculation schema can be set up that even allows for performance indicators to be computed. The aggregation of such indicators along the WBS is possible. In addition, many of the financial indicators are implemented as standard functionality, e.g. Earnings before Interest, Tax, and Amortization (EBITA).