About Cataligent | 25 Years of Transformation Execution

Volker Voigt, Managing Director and Founder of Cataligent

Founder and Managing Director

Volker Voigt began his career at Arthur D. Little, one of the world's most respected management consulting firms, where he led restructuring and business transformation Programs across multiple industries and geographies. Running these engagements gave him a front row seat to a problem that kept repeating itself. Consulting firms were delivering strong strategies but struggling to make them stick. The tools available were either too generic to be useful or too complex for Program teams to adopt quickly. Neither worked.

In 2000, Volker co-founded Cataligent with a clear purpose. He wanted to build the execution platform that transformation Programs actually needed. For 25 years CAT4 has been trusted by over 250 large enterprises and deployed by some of the world's leading consulting and restructuring firms. Volker continues to write and speak on Program management and strategy execution and remains closely involved in how CAT4 evolves.

Why consulting firms choose Cataligent

Not every software company understands how consulting engagements actually work. We do because we come from that world.

Built by consultants, refined through 25 years of real engagements

CAT4 was not designed in a vacuum. Every feature exists because a real Program team needed it during a real engagement. That depth of operational understanding is why consulting firms trust it where generic tools fail.

Your methodology embedded in the platform

CAT4 is a no-code platform. Your firm’s frameworks, KPI structures, phase gate models, and reporting templates are fully embedded in the platform with expert support from our team to ensure everything is set up just right. The result: a solution that truly reflects how your firm works, not the other way around.

One platform across every mandate your firm runs

Once your team knows CAT4, every new engagement starts faster. No retraining, no reconfiguring from scratch. Your methodology travels with the platform across every client you serve.

Enterprise security that passes every IT review

ISO 27001, TISAX, single sign-on, MFA, on-premises or cloud deployment. Every client gets their own dedicated instance and database. No shared infrastructure, no data co-mingling between engagements.

Our global consulting and implementation partners

CAT4 is deployed through a network of consulting and restructuring firms who bring the platform into their client engagements. These are the firms that trust CAT4 to be the execution backbone of their transformation mandates.

Roland Berger Boston Consulting Group PricewaterhouseCoopers Ernst & Young Deloitte Arthur D. Little Andersch AG Deutsche Bahn Management Consulting Haselhorst Associates Consulting The Performance Factory Draxinger & Lentz The Institute for Strategy Execution

Credentials and achievements

ISO/IEC 27001

Certified to the international standard for information security management.

ISO 9001

Certified to the international standard for quality management systems.

TISAX Assessed

The automotive industry data security framework governed by the VDA and ENX Association. Required by major automotive manufacturers.

Kununu Top Company

Recognized every year since 2022, placing Cataligent consistently in the top 5% of most recommended employers in the DACH region.

250+ installations

Large enterprise deployments across Europe, the United States and India over 25 years of operation.

40,000+ users

Active users on the platform worldwide, including 2,000+ users under a single corporate licence at one client.

7,000+ live projects

Simultaneous active projects managed within a single client deployment at peak.

25 years

Continuous operation since 2000 with the same founding purpose and the same commitment to execution.

Global reach

Clients across manufacturing, energy, automotive, financial services, logistics and consulting in Europe, US and India.

What our clients say

In the words of the organizations that have run their most complex Programs on CAT4.

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).

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.

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.