50 Providers to Watch for 2018
At Spend Matters, we routinely review the latest procurement technology and service offerings. This uniquely positions us to help you with your vendor selection process. The 50/50 lists are the result of intense debate, discussion and refinement among all Spend Matters analysts, and reflect our unbiased, independent view of the organizations you should know and watch.
This year's issuing the Spend Matters ‘Providers to Watch’ list and it’s never been this competitive and dynamic. Note that the companies on the lists were independently selected by the Spend Matters analyst team based on each provider’s merits.
Take a look at the providers our analysts believe are worth considering for your procurement projects:
Agiloft
460 Seaport Ct. #200 | Redwood City, California | 94063 United States
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Winner of the PC Mag "Editors' Choice" award and top-rated by users on Capterra, Agiloft Contract Management Suite works the way you do. Automate contract generation, approvals, reporting for working with customers and suppliers. Deep configurability means the system conforms to your supply chain and procurement processes and not the other way around. Trusted by 3+M users.
AnyDATA Solutions
3rd Floor 17 Carlton House Terrace | London, Westminster | SW1Y 5AH United Kingdom
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A true end-to-end rapid analytics platform (PaaS), extensible across functions, industries different use cases, providing a Market Place of Data, Contract Management, Compliance On Boarding and Analytics Solutions. The power to combine cleansed data, contracts, on boarding information and enrichment data to get the full story. Applications ready to go to day, integrated and with the flexibility to change as
APEX Analytix
1501 Highwoods Blvd, Ste 200 | Greensboro, NC | 27410 United States
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P2P leaders across the world’s largest companies use APEX Analytix supplier portal software; controls, audit and analytics software; and recovery audit services in virtually every country to produce billions in documented savings and income each year. Leveraging the latest in cognitive computing and our massive proprietary database of scored supplier records, APEX Analytix helps companies recover and prevent overpayments, improve
Aquiire
10290 Alliance Road | Cincinnati, Ohio | 45242 United States
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Aquiire, a Coupa company, offers an intelligent real-time Procure-to-Pay suite which brings the convenience and simplicity of the consumer shopping experience to the business user with unparalleled compliance and savings. Aquiire features patented, real-time B2B e-commerce shopping from a single search, advanced machine learning to improve search relevance and spend visibility and cutting-edge supplier relationship management technologies to automate buyer/seller
Aravo
100 California Street, Suite 1320 | San Francisco, CA | 94111 United States
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Aravo provides the market's leading third-party risk management and regulatory compliance solution. Aravo launched its cloud-based platform in 2004 and continues to serve as the industry's leading innovator today. Our market-leading third-party risk and compliance solutions include Registration and Qualification, Anti-Bribery / Anti-Corruption, Responsible Sourcing, and Data Privacy / Data Security. The world's best-run businesses utilize Aravo's platform, including General
AvidXchange
1111 METROPOLITAN AVENUE, SUITE 650 | Charlotte, North Carolina | 28204 United States
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BidMode
470 Sapphire Drive | Carmel, Indiana | 46032 United States
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Powerful sourcing optimization with the best customer service in the industry.
Bodhala
222 Broadway, Floor 19 | New York, New York | 10038 United States
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Bonfire
121 Charles St. W. #C429 | Kitchener, Ontario | N2G 1H6 Canada
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Bonfire is a leader in strategic sourcing and procurement technology that makes the Request for Proposal (RFP) process easy. The collaborative and powerful cloud-based platform offers online solicitation, submission, contract evaluation and management, and vendor performance. Bonfire is smart sourcing, made easy. www.gobonfire.com
Bugcrowd
921 Front Street | San Francisco, CA | 94111 United States
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BuyerQuest
343 West Bagley Road | Berea, Ohio | 44017 United States
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BuyerQuest enables the Next Generation Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Experience BuyerQuest delivers an unparalleled eCommerce experience to some of the world's largest and most sophisticated procurement organizations. Our software streamlines and enhances the corporate buying process in order to increase user adoption, drive contract compliance, and save money. Search - Buy - Pay A P2P Solution that creates real value for an
Celonis
Theresienstr. 6 | Munich, Bavaria | 80333 Germany
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ConnXus
5155 Financial Way | Mason, OH | 45040 United States
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Corcentric
200 Lake Drive East, Suite 200 | Cherry Hill Township, NJ | 08002 United States
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CreditRiskMonitor
704 Executive Boulevard, Suite A | Valley Cottage, New York | 10989 United States
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CreditRiskMonitor is a financial news and analysis service that helps procurement professionals stay ahead of and manage supplier risk quickly, accurately and cost effectively. More than 35% of the Fortune 1000, plus thousands more worldwide, rely on our commercial credit and financial risk analysis covering 57,000 public companies worldwide. Unlike other commercial credit bureaus, CreditRiskMonitor’s primary expertise and focus is
Dhatim
104 Boulevard du Montparnasse | Paris, Ile de France | 75014 France
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Conciliator™ is an award-winning cloud platform powered by Artificial Intelligence , developed by Dhatim, the leading software editor in automation of administrative functions. More than 50 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies use Conciliator™. Conciliator™ helps Procurement, Finance and HR teams by removing the burden of their laborious manual tasks, by identifying new sources of optimization and by taking automated
Freelancer
680 George Street, Level 20, World Square | Sydney, New South Wales | 2000 Australia
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GE GENIUSLINK
3135 Easton Turnpike | Fairfield, CT | 06828 United states
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Genesys Talent
100 Waugh Dr., Suite 300 | Houston, TX | 77007 United States
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A STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTION THAT IMPROVES CANDIDATE QUALITY, LOWERS COST, AND INCREASES AGILITY Genesys combines over 40 years of talent sourcing best practices, SaaS technology, and dedicated curation teams to offer our clients an innovative and more strategic approach to talent acquisition. Our unique approach allows Genesys to efficiently develop and maintain custom built, highly available clouds of talent across
Global Risk Management Solutions
660 Newport Center Drive, Suite 600 | Newport Beach, CA | 92660 United States
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GRMS | Global Risk Management Solutions provides innovative supplier screening solutions that help companies reduce their exposure to business risk and liability. Unlike Do-It-Yourself (DIY) supplier assessment products, GRMS solutions combine off-the-shelf software, premium data feeds and continuous, expert human interventions to ensure supplier compliance on an ongoing basis, effectively delivering risk management-as-an-integrated-service. As a market leader, the company’s solutions
GRI (Geometric Results, Inc.)
500 Woodward, Suite 2150 | Detroit, MI | 48226 United States
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As the world’s largest independent extended workforce solutions provider, GRI provides world-class non-employee labor management. We maintain a conflict-free position with regard to staffing suppliers and VMS technologies, which allows us to meet the multi-faceted non-employee labor needs of some of the world’s largest and most complex companies. Our workforce solutions address program activity management components including SOW management, data
Keelvar
Rubicon Centre, Bishopstown, | Cork, Co Cork | T12 Y275 Ireland
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Keelvar provides optimization-backed sourcing software that is easy-to-use. Large and medium enterprises use Keelvar to manage over $1bn in spend monthly and it is the most modern advanced eSourcing tool on the market. Keelvar's customers have a desire to apply best practice sourcing to a variety of strategies and wish to operate independently without a dependency on consulting support. Keelvar
Kepler Consulting
8 rue Volney | Paris, Ile de France | 75002 France
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LegalSifter
1251 Waterfront Place, Suite 200 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 15222 United States
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At LegalSifter, our mission is to bring affordable legal services to the world by empowering people with artificial intelligence. LegalSifter (the product) helps clients review contracts in a minute or two using artificial intelligence and the advice of their lawyers and leaders. Users start by uploading draft contracts into LegalSifter. Sifters – the software trained to read text, look for
LevaData
60 Market Street, Suite 700 | San jose, CA | 95113 United States
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LevaData helps global enterprises improve gross margins by reducing supply chain costs, with a focus on delivering measurable and accountable supply chain solutions and strategies that transform companies. The unique LevaData Cognitive Sourcing™ Platform allows customers to sense, recommend, act, and learn. Customers include leaders in the top global supply chain organizations, as well as medium-sized OEMs seeking to achieve
Market Dojo
Westend Business Suites | Stonehouse, Gloucestershire | GL10 3SL United Kingdom
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Market Dojo provide a range of affordable, on-demand eSourcing tools to help procurement professionals negotiate more effectively. Market Dojo - Accessible eSourcing Software (RFx/reverse auctions) Category Dojo - Spend Category Analysis Tool Innovation Dojo - 2-Way Buyer and Supplier Collaboration Software SIM Dojo - Supplier Onboarding Tool Sign up for free to discover everything our software has to offer in
NPI
271 17th Street NW, Suite 550 | Atlanta, GA | 271 17th Street NW, Suite 550 United States
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What We Do at NPI NPI is an IT sourcing consulting company that helps enterprises identify and eliminate overspending on IT and Telecom purchases, accelerate purchasing cycles and align internal buying teams. We deliver transaction-level price benchmark analysis, license and service optimization advice, and vendor specific negotiation intel that enables IT and Telecom buying teams to drive measurable savings. NPI
Opus Hiperos
3040 Route 22 West, Suite 110 | Branchburg, NJ | 08876 United States
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Opus (www.opus.com) is a global risk and compliance SaaS and data solution provider founded on a simple premise: that faster, better decisions in compliance and risk management give businesses an extraordinary advantage in the marketplace. Today, the world’s most respected global corporations rely on Opus to Free their Business® from the complexity and uncertainty of managing customer, supplier and third-party
Per Angusta
19 rue Montgolfier | Lyon, Rhone | 69006 France
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Per Angusta is reinventing Procurement Performance Management (PPM). With Per Angusta’s cloud-based Procurement Performance Management Solution, procurement teams can create a step change in their productivity — all while managing and sharing their performance with Finance in all simplicity. The solution enables purchasing teams to drastically increase agility and efficiency in their day-to-day strategic sourcing management activities. Since 2012, more
Previse
2nd floor East Side Kings Cross Station York Way | London, London | N1C 4AX United Kingdom
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PRGX Global
600 Galleria Parkway, Suite 100 | Atlanta, GA | 30339 United States
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PRGX Global, Inc. is a global leader in Recovery Audit and Spend Analytics services. With over 1,600 employees, the Company serves clients in more than 30 countries and provides its services to 75% of the top 20 global retailers and over 25% of the top 50 companies in the Fortune 500. PRGX delivers more than $1 billion in cash flow
Randstad Technologies
10 Presidential Way, Suite 101 | Woburn, Ma | 01801 USA
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Simfoni
549 W Randolph St | Chicago, Illinois | 60661 United States
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Simfoni is a market leader in the field of apps and analytics for procurement and supply chain. Clients deploy our state-of-the-art analytics platform, Virtuosi™ to help understand better where there are opportunities for business improvement. The Virtuosi analytics output helps clients identify how they can make procurement and supply chain operations easier, more efficient and more effective. Where appropriate, we
SirionLabs
One Market St. Spear Tower, 36th floor | San Francisco, CA | 94105 United States
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SirionLabs is transforming the contracting engagement between enterprises by bringing the contracting parties closer together across the full lifecycle of the contract – from authoring to performance to closure. Sirion’s award-winning platform serves as a single source of truth for both parties across all key disciplines – contracts, performance, financial, risk and relationship management. This collaborative and holistic approach materially
Sovos
200 Ballardvale Street, 4th floor | Wilmington, Massachusetts | 01887 United States
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With the ability to convert the world’s most complete and accurate regulatory analysis into scalable, reliable and secure cloud software, Sovos is trusted by half the Fortune 500, including many of the top manufacturers, retailers and financial services companies.
Spendata
PO Box 464 | Southborough, MA | 01772 United States
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Spendata is the first true do-it-yourself spend analysis tool. It’s powerful, easy to learn, and inexpensive to own at $699/year. Any organization can find valuable […]
State of Flux
128 Southwark Street | London, London | SE1 0SW United Kingdom
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Headquartered in London and with offices in the USA, Australia and central Europe, State of Flux has been supporting clients in procurement for over 15 years. As the global expert in supplier relationship management (SRM), we help large organizations achieve both financial and non-financial value benefits, through working with strategic suppliers to identify innovative and collaborative ways to compete in
Suplari
1525 4th Ave, Suite 700 | Seattle, WA | 98101 United States
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Suplari is the pioneering Spend Accountability & Financial Performance System, indispensable for enterprise procurement and finance to optimize the cost-risk-compliance trifecta. Customers gain better spend visibility and operational agility – from rehabilitating their fragmented data to making use of a fluid user experience, advanced analytics, and AI-persistent insights algorithms – in order to reveal and resolve cost saving opportunities.
Tipalti
1810 Gateway Dr. Suite 300 | San Mateo, California | 94404 United States
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Tipalti is the only end-to-end global payables automation solution that streamlines the entire accounts payable and supplier payments operation. More than just a global remittance engine, Tipalti also provides supplier onboarding and vetting, digital tax form collection and validation, invoice processing, PO matching, proactive supplier communications, early payments, enterprise-grade financial controls, real-time payment reconciliation, and AP reporting. The seamless nature
TrustWeaver
Kungsgatan 27, 4TR | Stockholm, Stockholm | SE-111 56 Sweden
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TrustWeaver provides a comprehensive cloud-based compliance service for electronic invoicing and other legally critical documents for more than 55 countries. From a single technical interface and through our unique Compliance Map ™ concept, more than 60 world-leading B2B integration brokerage vendors in our partner network automatically provide interoperable legal certainty to trading partners that use their solutions, regardless of changes
Upwork
441 Logue Avenue | Mountain View, CALIFORNIA | 94043 United States
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Upwork is the largest global freelancing website. As an increasingly connected and independent workforce goes online, Upwork helps business break through the barriers of traditional hiring to quickly identify the best talent online. It offers three core services to help businesses of all sizes hire freelancers for short and long-term projects: Upwork’s flagship offering is its self service marketplace which
VNDLY
8301 Cherrydale Ct | Mason, OH | 45040 United States
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Vroozi
15000 Ventura Blvd, #201 | Sherman Oaks, CA | 91403 United States
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Vroozi provides mobile-first spend management, marketplace, and invoicing automation solutions for midmarket and enterprise customers. With the Vroozi SpendTech® platform, organizations optimize how they purchase, invoice, and collaborate with their suppliers centered around an intuitive and elegant user interface that allows for immediate end user adoption and minimal training for employees and trading partners. Vroozi provides a powerful API library
Yooz
8951 Cypress Waters Blvd, Ste. 170 | Coppell, Texas | 75019 United States
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Yooz is a fast-growing, award-winning software firm that solves for today’s finance professionals’ top invoice and payment processing challenges by providing innovative, cloud-based AP automation. Yooz offers an intuitive, simple, secure, purchase to pay invoice processing solution that integrates seamlessly with more than 200 ERP platforms. Simplicity, transparency, security, savings, and mobility form the hallmark foundation of the Yooz platform