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Last week, in its first official week as a standalone subscription offering, Spend Matters Nexus covered the Workday-Scout RFP acquisition in detail, with deep dives and competitive landscape views that are unparalleled in the research and intelligence market.
ICYMI, check out the entire range of coverage in this four-part Nexus series:
- First Take Analysis: Workday’s Acquisition of Scout RFP (Part 1: Scout Background, Strengths/Weaknesses, Deal Rationale)
- Workday’s acquisition of Scout RFP (Part 2: ERP competitors analyzed)
- Workday’s acquisition of Scout RFP (Part 3: Suite and Best-of-Breed Competitor Analysis and Recommendations)
- Workday acquiring Scout RFP (Part 4: Potential Areas of Solution Integration)
*Please note: in light of last week’s flurry, Spend Matters Nexus will be taking a ‘break’ for the rest of this week and resume the following week.
However, keep an eye out on the first PRO briefing to be published tomorrow morning on the deal.
And for some freely available, non-paywall primers, check these out:
- Workday scouts its 14th acquisition: Scout RFP (Deal Summary, Company Background and Coverage Highlights)
- This week, Spend Matters Nexus starts with a bang! Thank you, Workday and Scout RFP
Spend Matters welcomes a new analyst, Magnus Bergfors
Welcome, Magnus! Here's his intro to the world of (and for) Spend Matters readers.
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