Our own enterprise product

Polar Star

Enterprise platform for transformation management — from strategy to adoption.

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Product

What is Polar Star?

Polar Star is a proprietary enterprise-class platform created by DACOST for managing complex organizational transformations. It combines project portfolio management, governance, risk, budgets and adoption analytics in one cohesive environment — tailored to the needs of large industrial and corporate organizations.

Replaces

What Polar Star organizes and replaces

Scattered Excel spreadsheets

No more manually collecting status from dozens of files and emails.

PMO–business–board misalignment

One view of transformation for all organizational levels.

No risk visibility

Risk register, mitigation plans and status tracking in one place.

Manual board reporting

Automated executive reports generated continuously, not once a month.

Roles

Who is Polar Star for?

01

C-Suite

Full picture of transformation — status, risk, value — in real time.

02

PMO

Central management of project portfolio, resources and dependencies.

03

IT Leadership

Architecture governance, vendor tracking and technical milestones.

04

Change Managers

Adoption planning, training and organizational readiness tracking.

Capabilities

Key Capabilities

01

Project Portfolio

Managing multiple initiatives with a view on dependencies and priorities.

02

Governance & Compliance

Approvals, escalations, audit trail and responsibility matrix.

03

Risk Management

Risk register, mitigation plans and real-time status tracking.

04

Executive Dashboard

Clear dashboards tailored to board and operational level.

05

Adoption Tracking

Readiness metrics, training results and system utilization rates.

06

Budgets & Costs

Planning, tracking and reporting of transformation budgets.

07

Vendor Management

Contracts, deliverables and vendor evaluation in one place.

08

Reports & Export

Automated reports for management, supervisory board and stakeholders.

Implementation

How implementation works

01

Configuration workshop

We understand your processes, terminology and program structure.

02

Configuration & migration

We configure Polar Star for your environment and migrate data.

03

Pilot with key users

We run a pilot, collect feedback, and adjust.

04

Rollout & training

Full deployment, training, documentation, and support.

Case studies

Use Cases

SAP S/4HANA transformation spanning multiple countries
Holding consolidation and group process standardization
ERP system rollout to multiple manufacturing locations
Digitalization program in industrial or mining sector
Organizational transformation after a merger or acquisition
Cloud-first strategy implementation for a capital group

Deployment Models

Polar Star adapts to the security and infrastructure requirements of your organization.

On-premisePrivate CloudHybridSaaS (Enterprise)
Differentiator

Why Polar Star is not just another generic SaaS

Built by transformation practitioners — not product developers without operational experience
Tailored for the realities of large industrial organizations — not startup-friendly SaaS
Combines governance, risk, adoption and budget in one tool
Deployed together with consulting — we do not leave clients alone with the tool
Configurable to the specific processes and terminology of your organization
Integrates with SAP, ERP and BI systems you already have
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Book a Polar Star Demo

We will show Polar Star using a real example tailored to your scenario.