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What’s behind the investment in Globality’s services sourcing solution? - [PRO Content]
February 1, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
Globality provides a procurement technology solution that uses AI to enable organizations to source complex services across multiple categories. At organizations across all industry verticals, services comprise, on average, 50%-60% of external spend. Most of these services categories are not well or comprehensively managed, and purpose-built technology solutions have been scarce. Globality recently completed a…
The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insiders’ Hot List: January 2021 - [PRO Content]
January 28, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
Welcome to the January 2021 edition of Spend Matters Insiders’ Hot List, a monthly look at the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) space. For those new to the Hot List, each edition covers the month’s important or interesting CW/S technology and innovation developments. Our last publication was a Special Edition — Hot List, published at…
Contingent Workforce/Services Technology: Considerations for 2021 and Beyond COVID-19 (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
January 19, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
We are entering a new year full of uncertainty driven by the coronavirus pandemic. Over the course of 2021, the coronavirus vaccine may gradually lift most COVID-19 restrictions across the economy. But organizations will continue to be redesigning and reconfiguring themselves through and beyond 2021. With respect to Contingent/Workforce and Services (CW/S) in 2021, major…
PRO Unlimited acquires PeopleTicker in bid for more contingent workforce market data
January 12, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
PRO Unlimited, the contingent workforce management services solution provider, announced its acquisition of PeopleTicker, the workforce rate benchmarking and analytics platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to today’s announcement, by acquiring PeopleTicker, PRO Unlimited “has expanded the capabilities of its contingent workforce management platform.” The announcement also noted that PeopleTicker uses…
The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insiders’ Hot List: December 2020 ‘Special Edition’ - [PRO Content]
December 30, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Spend Matters has been publishing the monthly CW/S Insiders Hot List — our monthly look at new technology and innovation in the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) space — since the start of 2018. Today we are publishing this “Special Edition” to mark a change in our publishing schedule and look back at the key…
MBO Partners’ 10th annual ‘State of Independence in America’ report about independent workers gives COVID-era snapshot
December 11, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
MBO Partners — which describes itself as “a deep jobs platform that connects and enables independent professionals and microbusiness owners to do business safely and effectively with enterprise organizations'' — announced the release of its 2020 “State of Independence in America” report. The report provides a COVID-era snapshot of the characteristics and trends associated with…
Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches rate benchmarking and analytics solution; New job openings rise in October; Honda plans for supply chain disruption in UK
December 9, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann
In today's headlines, PRO Unlimited, the contingent workforce management services solution provider, announced the launch of RatePoint, a SaaS application with hiring intelligence. In other news, advertisements for job openings in the US rose to 6.65 million in October. Also, Honda is experiencing a threat of supply chain disruption with congestion problems at its UK…
The Direct Sourcing of Workers/Services (DSW/S) Solution Market Landscape - [PRO Content]
December 8, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Spend Matters Contingent Workforce/Services SolutionMaps are made up of three maps covering the main enterprise software solutions used by organizations to manage contingent workforce and services (CW/S) procurement. These three maps represent purpose-built solutions for: Temporary Staffing (solutions known originally as VMS (vendor management system) has been the key enterprise technology for over 25 years)…
Supply chain workplace safety improvements — results by region
December 1, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Supply chain risk contractor management firm, Avetta, has examined 10 years’ worth of hundreds of thousands of safety data points from within its supply chain risk management platform of 87000 suppliers, and has produced a global report on safety incidents. It finds, using its own data as a benchmark, that overall firms using cloud-based supply…
The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insiders’ Hot List: December 2020 - [PRO Content]
December 1, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Welcome to the December 2020 edition of Spend Matters Insiders’ Hot List, a monthly look at the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) space. For those new to the Hot List, each edition covers the prior month’s important or interesting technology and innovation developments in the CW/S space. In the last Hot List we covered key…
ProcureWise: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, Roadmap, Competitors & Market, Customer Feedback, Commentary - [PRO Content]
November 30, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of ProcureWise and its extended workforce solution. In the past few years, a number of new extended workforce solutions have emerged to challenge incumbent VMS providers and/or look to penetrate lower, underserved mid-market tiers. We refer to them as “extended workforce solutions,” rather than VMS, because…
Digital B2B platforms for work/services: Are we at a COVID-19 inflection point? - [PRO Content]
November 17, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
COVID-19 has impacted businesses in many fundamental ways. Perhaps most visibly, it has brought about what seems to be a structural shift from predominantly office-based work to significantly more remote work. Many large companies are shutting down entire offices, having made the decision to move to a much more remote workforce model. Now there seems…

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