Julie Gerlach has been appointed to the company.

"Julie has a considerable understanding of the IBM Analytics market, having run customer success and account management programs for New Zealand IBM customers, in previous roles," CorPlan New Zealand says in a LinkedIn post.

"Leading our Northern region, Julie is working with New Zealand organisations supporting their performance management, data analytics and AI journeys," the post continues.

CorPlan is a business performance management firm assisting customers to generate greater visibility, transparency, accuracy and efficiency from through the business performance management cycle.

The company has more than 500 customers across a range of industries, supplying them with over 850 solutions and garnering expertise in the various sectors it serves as a result.

Its products use a variety of IBM products such as IBM Planning Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics as well as SPSS and Watson applications.