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Outlaw: Vendor Analysis, Analysis and SWOT - [PRO Content]
January 31, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Pierre Mitchell
When people think contracts, they think lawyers. And when people think lawyers, they think semantics, tedium, inefficiency. It’s no surprise, then, that the contract management process at many businesses is perceived as lawyer-like: slow, plagued by error-prone review processes and more inclined to risk-aversion rather than to embracing the new or innovative. But these flaws…
Coupa CLM: Vendor Analysis Update - [PRO Content]
January 24, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
Coupa is a full suite provider of source-to-pay (S2P) applications (which Coupa calls Business Spend Management), but we’ve not yet included a formal analysis of its contract lifecycle management (CLM) application other than our ongoing coverage within the SolutionMap framework. Coupa is a bit of a conundrum because, relative to its competitors, it has some…
Wax Digital: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background & Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
November 14, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Michael Lamoureux
Some vendors prefer to wax poetic. Others prefer to wax digital. One such source-to-pay provider likes waxing digital so much, that it even calls itself Wax Digital. And it is our latest source-to-pay vendor to get the in-depth PRO treatment here on Spend Matters (before its debut in Q4 SolutionMap). By now you are all…
Tradeshift: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
October 29, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Unlike Salesforce, Tradeshift embarked on building both an applications and platform technology business at the same time, commingling the value proposition of each to create something that it hoped would prove larger than either could be individually. Flash forward less than a decade since the provider launched, and Tradeshift has remained true to this vision.…
Tradeshift: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
October 15, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Tradeshift is a cloud platform that connects buyers and suppliers with the goal of digitizing supply chain relationships, processes and information, while also enabling everyday procure-to-pay activities. Its capabilities span the buying of goods and services through to financing and payment — and significant capability in between, especially in the invoice-to-pay area. In addition to…
Apttus Acquired by Thoma Bravo: Can a One-Time Sell-Side ‘Unicorn’ Become a Viable Pony for Buy-Side CLM? - [PRO Content]
September 25, 2018 | Pierre Mitchell
Apttus announced recently that it would be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Calling itself a leader in the “middle office,” Apttus offers a platform primarily focused in the area of configure, price, quote (CPQ), but it also supports enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM). The terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, but given the…
Want to Buy a Contract Management System? Here Are a Few Questions You Need to Ask - [PRO Content]
May 8, 2018 | Pierre Mitchell
Buying a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) application can seem daunting. There are so many stakeholders who touch contracts. We can’t imagine any more foundational commercial business application than contract management that affects so many stakeholders. And at the same time, there are so many market choices. Trust us, we live these every day. We have…
LegalSifter: Vendor Analysis, Analysis and SWOT - [PRO Content]
March 29, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
Contract lifecycle management is becoming a priority in many procurement organizations for several reasons. First, sourcing activity is increasingly driven by contract renewals on various types of managed services agreements. Second, sourcing results (e.g., savings) only matter when executed against a contract that gets matched against. Third, outside-in supply risks are ever-present and must be…
Icertis: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
March 21, 2018 | Pierre Mitchell, Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
Icertis is one of a select number of contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions that can equally support the needs of both legal and procurement organizations. Its solution provides role-based dashboards and workbenches that enable diverse users across global organizations to interact with contracts, related information and documents not only within the context of core CLM…
Icertis: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
March 20, 2018 | Pierre Mitchell, Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
The contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology market is not one market. Rather, this technology comprises several subspecialties, each served by a diverse set of vendors with varying degrees of capability. Because of this, procurement, commercial, legal and other users have significant choice between broad-based suites and independent CLM vendors today. Within this market, Icertis is…
Icertis: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
March 19, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux, Pierre Mitchell and Jason Busch
As our Q4 2017 CLM SolutionMap highlights, the range and depth of functional capability between suite-based contract lifecycle management solutions and independent, top-performing CLM vendors is increasing, not decreasing. Icertis, one of the top-performing CLM providers in the analysis, is driving this change. It is less than 10 years old but already used in 40…
Zycus: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
February 8, 2018 | Xavier Olivera, Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
Aatish Dedhia, Zycus’s founder, has long preached the benefits of technology provider self-sufficiency, including management-driven investment, profitable growth and organic, suite-based product development. It is based on these principles that Zycus “grew up” from a razor-focused pioneer in the spend classification sector nearly 20 years ago into a strategic procurement technologies suite and, eventually, a…

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