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Beeline, a provider of workforce management software, announced Thursday it has been acquired by New Mountain Capital, a New York City-based private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount, according to a press release. Founded in 1999, Beeline represents, alongside SAP Fieldglass, one of the “Big 2” vendor management system (VMS) providers. Its current incarnation is the result of a December 2016 merger with IQNavigator (IQN), which saw Beeline, part of staffing giant Adecco, acquired by GTCR, the owner of vendor-neutral IQN. Following the merger, Beeline and IQN were combined into a single company, renamed Beeline.

Payroll and human capital management provider ADP announced Monday it is acquiring WorkMarket, a cloud-based workforce management solution, for an undisclosed amount, the company said in a press release. The acquisition reflects a number of important human capital trends, including the increasing use of skilled non-employee labor to perform tasks or projects and, more recently, the growing recognition that businesses need to more deeply integrate their internal employee and external contract workforce, an approach also known as total talent management.

Coupa has acquired procure-to-pay (P2P) provider Simeno, extending the platform’s marketplace strategy to provide deeper and pre-integrated supplier connections and opening key markets to support continued expansion. Based in Basel, Switzerland, Simeno offers key capabilities in cross-catalog search and advanced catalog management. Large enterprises often use Simeno as a shopping front-end for systems such as SAP PM, SAP MM and Oracle iProcure to augment cross-catalog search capability.

Jaggaer announced Wednesday that it will acquire procurement suite provider BravoSolution for an undisclosed sum. The combination would make Jaggaer the “largest independent, vertical spend management solution provider in the world,” the company said in a press release, with more than 1,850 customers connected to 3.7 million suppliers in 70 countries. News of the planned deal comes nearly six months after Jaggaer’s acquisition of Pool4Tool, a provider of sourcing and purchasing solutions for direct materials procurement. This latest move would make Jaggaer, which rebranded from SciQuest in February, the No. 2 player to SAP Ariba in the procurement technology market by revenue.

Confirming the spend management industry rumor mill, Ivalua today announced its acquisition of Directworks. The deal lends serious credence to Ivalua’s tag line — “One Suite. Infinite Possibilities” — as it has the potential to establish Ivalua as the market’s only native, end-to-end S2P solution.

In terms of indirect spend know-how, Ivalua is a thought leader and its software is top drawer. On the direct side, Directworks goes deep, delivering Ivalua an arsenal of hard-won intellectual property based on battle-tested experience.

WorkMarket announced Wednesday that it has acquired OnForce from The Adecco Group for an undisclosed amount, forming a strategic partnership with Addeco as part of the deal, according to a press release. The acquisition of OnForce will increase WorkMarket’s existing footprint in the field tech contractor work execution vertical. OnForce, founded in 2003, was a pioneer in that segment, which WorkMarket entered in 2010.

Jaggaer and Pool4Tool announced Monday the two providers would merge, revealing what was probably one of the better known procurement and supply chain industry secrets in recent memory. The combination creates the only technology provider in the market with end-to-end indirect and direct materials procurement coverage, the companies said in a press release.

SAP Ariba and IBM Emptoris announced this morning at Sapphire 2017 that they were creating a strategic partnership. The deal represents a significant commitment by both organizations that spans applications, cognitive collaboration (SAP Leonardo and IBM Watson) and professional services. The combination of efforts is not, however, an acquisition of IBM Emptoris by SAP Ariba, which had been a rumor in the market for a number of weeks. Earlier today, I had the chance to speak to Alex Atzberger, president of SAP Ariba, and Michael O’Leary, director of procurement solutions and supply chain insights at IBM Watson Customer Engagement, to learn more about the partnership.

Ivalua, a procurement technology suite vendor, announced Wednesday it had raised $70 million in a minority investment round from private equity firm KKR. Originally a France-based firm, Ivalua moved its headquarters to the U.S. in recent years and has continued to expand globally. While terms of the investment — nor Ivalua’s revenue — were not disclosed, Spend Matters estimates the transaction values the firm at less than the price/revenue multiple of Coupa and more than what Accel-KKR paid for Jaggaer (when it took SciQuest private).

After market close on Friday, Coupa announced it had entered into an agreement to purchase Trade Extensions, a specialist e-sourcing and strategic sourcing optimization vendor.

Coupa will pay $45 million for Trade Extensions when the transaction closes — $41 million will be paid in cash and $4 million in stock (which will be issued, it appears, to employees). Spend Matters estimates the valuation range for Trade Extensions (as a multiple of revenue) is in line with other typical SaaS companies, and that Coupa did not pay a premium for Trade Extensions, especially considering how unique the asset is in the market.

Tradeshift announced Wednesday it had acquired acquired IBX Business Network from Capgemini. Spend Matters believes the transaction is, by a significant margin, Tradeshift’s most important acquisition to date. And from the “seller” side of the deal, Capgemini suggests that the transaction represents, from a corporate development perspective, more than just the divestiture of a business unit. Spend Matters will be speaking with Tradeshift later today and will provide additional information and analysis on the transaction later this week. We are particularly keen to understand how Tradeshift plans to rationalize the proven e-procurement capability within IBX with what it is in the early stages of rolling out to customers in 2017.

Earlier today, SciQuest, a source-to-pay technology provider, announced it had rebranded itself as Jaggaer.

The new name is “a derivation of the German word for hunter, and reflects the company’s brand promise of delivering comprehensive, focused spend solutions for a broad range of businesses.”

For us, the name conjures up memories of sticky bar room floors from college.