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Taulia: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
May 27, 2020 | Xavier Olivera
Taulia is known for its working capital solutions, which include both of its early payment programs: self-funded and funded by third parties. But as mentioned in Part 1 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, Taulia’s platform also offers e-invoicing and AP automation solutions. In Part 2, we'll give our insight into the strengths and…
Taulia: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Solution Overview, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
May 26, 2020 | Xavier Olivera
In 2009, Taulia started in the U.S. as one of the few dynamic discounting solutions in the market, and through the years, Taulia has become a leading SaaS platform for working capital. It enables a supplier early payment offering that can be funded by the buyer (dynamic discounting) and/or funded for supply chain finance (SCF)…
Coupa Pay: Solution Review and Analysis - [PRO Content]
February 4, 2019 | Xavier Olivera
Spend Matters has analyzed dozens of solutions that span procurement and payables processes. This includes procure-to-pay (P2P), invoice-to-pay (I2P) and accounts payable automation solutions. Yet while each of these technology areas extends transactional capability into payments to some extent, each solution targets this area in a different manner. Some of this has to do with…
Tradeshift: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
October 25, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Besides the likes of “mega” players like Amazon Business, is there a market for marketplaces? When Tradeshift embarked on its journey to create a platform between organizations in 2010, it had to believe such a need would eventually become mainstream, otherwise its vision and reality would fail to intersect. Fortunately for those that backed Tradeshift’s…
Yooz: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Competitive and Summary Analysis - [PRO Content]
October 16, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Yooz is one of the dozens of providers that frequently compete in the accounts payable automation market. This specific market is a bit difficult to “bound” as it represents a narrower “cut” of the functional requirements in Spend Matters’ invoice-to-pay SolutionMap — yet with more granular requirements in support of specific AP-centric (and sometimes industry-specific)…
8 Quantifiable Levers Where Invoice-to-Pay Solutions Deliver ROI — Beyond Accounts Payable (Part 2) - [PRO Content]
September 27, 2018 | Jason Busch and Xavier Olivera
Invoice-to-pay (I2P) solutions can provide significant leverage for a range of business functions that extend beyond accounts payable alone. In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the topic of where to look for value levers and ROI outside of AP enablement alone from I2P solutions and explored the initial four levers to pull: managing,…
8 Quantifiable Levers Where Invoice-to-Pay Solutions Deliver ROI — Beyond Accounts Payable (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
September 26, 2018 | Jason Busch and Xavier Olivera
Invoice-to-pay (I2P) solutions exist to serve the broader business, not just accounts payable functions. Spend Matters defines the I2P area as a combination of electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) and e- payments, which may leverage a supplier network model for connectivity and value-added capabilities. I2P solutions not only reduce paper-based processes and increase efficiency (e.g., reduce cash…
Program Management: The Missing Link in Procurement Technology Modules and Suites (Part 10: E-Procurement Components, Continued) - [PRO Content]
September 11, 2018 | Xavier Olivera, Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
In this series, we have been discussing the glue that binds together different areas of procurement workflow: the overall program management of both individual tasks and collective activities across the source-to-pay continuum, along with the technology components that support this end-to-end perspective. As a whole, this Spend Matters PRO series provides deep insight into what…
Yooz: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
August 28, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Yooz is a specialized middle-market software provider in the accounts payable automation sector with particular expertise in rapid deployment and broad-based support for payables processes. Its capabilities include invoice capture, ERP integration, AP workflow and payment integrations. (Given its focus on the middle market, areas such as supplier portal, global compliance and supplier financing are…
Yooz: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
August 27, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Primarily targeting the middle market, Yooz is a specialized accounts payable automation software provider that also offers adjacent capabilities in e-invoicing. It supports 2,000 customers in a subset of the broad-based procurement software category Spend Matters describes as invoice-to-pay (I2P). Yooz competes in the diverse, sometimes confusing and overlapping procure-to-pay (P2P), e-invoicing and accounts payable…
APEX Analytix: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
August 13, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
APEX Analytix is far more than just a recovery audit and spend analysis software provider. It’s also a specialist in supplier management. This third and final installment of our Vendor Snapshot covering APEX Analytix’s supplier management solution provides a SWOT analysis of the company along with a competitive segmentation analysis and comparison. It also offers…
APEX Analytix: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
August 8, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
Better known for its broader portfolio of recovery audit, overpayment and self-audit software, APEX Analytix also offers a specialized supplier management solution. APEX provides unique, out-of-the-box capabilities that support core supplier information management (SIM), validation and financial controls, as well as working capital optimization solutions. In addition, its supplier management solution delivers the broader configurability,…

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Q&A: ‘Unless procurement takes a different view to management of services spend, it will continue to be difficult to get it right’ : Outsourced Procurement said : Procurement should always be seen as a collaboration. Whether that's with internal departments and s...

Suppliers and Ariba: Prisoners or Not? : K said : Agree!!! Suppliers should not have to pay for access to a customer mandated system. If they want us...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : Andrew Karpie said : Hi James, This article is from 2017. So not sure of what is the current status at WorkMarket for t...

5 Themes That Excite Me About Procurement & Finance Tech Venture Investing : Peter Smith said : Great stuff Jason. I might add that despite the maturity, there are still some major areas with big ...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : James Calbert said : Is this saying that, as a service provider, workers comp is covered by WorkMarket?...