Market Dojo vs Vendorful: Sourcing head-to-head technology evaluation and comparison

Sourcing providers that target mid-size organizations include Market Dojo and Vendorful — our two contenders for today’s head-to-head analysis that provide very similar capabilities. We know these solutions’ capabilities from doing demos and evaluating their functionality and customer feedback for our Spend Matters’ SolutionMap vendor rankings.

But what exactly differentiates the two vendors, and how do each one’s relative strengths factor into customer shortlist creation and ultimate selection?

In this Spend Matters PRO post, we’ll give readers insights from our detailed Sourcing SolutionMap analysis of Market Dojo and Vendorful.

For readers who are not subscribers to our PRO analyst content, here’s a preview:

When it comes to the SolutionMap functional benchmark, based on aggregate scoring for individual fields within each area: Market Dojo falls short of the functional benchmark in all 15 areas; Vendorful falls short of the functional benchmark in 14 areas (all but supplier portal); Market Dojo exceeds Vendorful’s score in six categories (category management, configurability, cost modeling, RFX, services and technology); Vendorful exceeds Market Dojo’s score in six categories (analytics, contracting support, demand management, modern sourcing platform, supplier discovery & intel and supplier portal). The providers tie in three categories (project/program management, reverse auctions and sourcing optimization).

Join us in this unfiltered analysis from our SolutionMap data.