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GEP: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Fall 2020 analysis) - [PRO Content]
April 8, 2021 | Spend Matters Team
GEP is a source-to-pay (S2P) suite provider that also offers managed services, including full BPO and transformation services. The combination of these individual capabilities from a single provider, especially as they become increasingly synergistic, makes GEP a true standout in the procurement technology space. The SolutionMap Fall 2020 release reinforces this position, putting GEP in…
Workday and Scout RFP: Customer Recommendations - [PRO Content]
November 12, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell and Jason Busch
This Spend Matters PRO research brief provides analysis in support of Workday and Scout RFP customers following last week’s news that Workday is acquiring the sourcing provider. Previous coverage of the transaction with content aimed at CEOs, strategy / corporate development leaders and investors can be found on Spend Matters Nexus (see Part 1, Part…
Allocation: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
November 11, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
Direct materials procurement technology has always been a bit of a blind spot for North American manufacturers. Many such businesses are already using indirect materials-centric and services-centric applications (e.g., procure-to-pay, vendor management systems), but few also have specialized direct materials-centric procurement tools as a part of their solution belt. A host of factors, however, is…
Online Platform RigUp Raises $300 Million: Maybe Not Just Another Unicorn? - [PRO Content]
October 28, 2019 | Andrew Karpie
Online marketplaces for connecting workers and businesses have been around since the early-to-mid 2000s. But it has only been in the past eight years that larger organizations have begun to take notice of them (more, perhaps, as curiosities than as full-fledged, digitally enabled suppliers of workers and services). The reality is that few, if any,…
Ivalua: Vendor Analysis (Part 4) — Product Strengths - [PRO Content]
August 12, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell, Andrew Karpie, Nick Heinzmann and Jason Busch
Anything Ivalua still lacks in global brand and market awareness along with sales/marketing infrastructure and prowess, it makes up for by delivering a source-to-pay platform designed to emphasize functional depth, suite-based capabilities and industry-specific enablement scenarios in the private and public sector. Ivalua delivers a no-compromise set of capabilities and an underlying platform that is…
Ivalua: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background - [PRO Content]
July 29, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell, Andrew Karpie, Nick Heinzmann and Jason Busch
A lot has changed since Spend Matters’ last full snapshot on Ivalua in December 2016, when we said (with apologies to the late comic) that Ivalua was the Rodney Dangerfield of procurement suites in terms of not getting any respect. At the time, we clearly noted that “if we add up the differentiated combination of…
2019 M&A and Investment Dynamics For Procurement Technology and Solutions: Segmenting the Market (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
June 10, 2019 | Jason Busch
Private equity — and other — buyout and M&A interest in the procurement solutions market is at an all-time high. We define procurement solutions as technologies and services that target a range of areas that include: — Core procurement (i.e., source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, etc.) — Direct procurement — Services procurement — Contract management (that goes beyond…
Bid Ops: Vendor Analysis, Solution Overview, Selection Checklist (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
June 4, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
When it comes to bringing artificial intelligence into procurement software, there’s been a lot of hype and very few real advances. This is especially true of sourcing tools, which despite their potential for integrating AI and machine learning, have rarely moved beyond simple use cases like auto-fill of an RFX or automatic identification of the…
Simplify Workforce: Vendor Analysis, Analysis and SWOT - [PRO Content]
April 18, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Andrew Karpie
Because of recent M&A consolidation and multiple external drivers, the market for vendor management system (VMS) solutions has become fairly complex. Competing vendors have been absorbed or combined, draining the field of vendor choices that can be applied in a wide number of scenarios. Concurrently, businesses have shifted away from their focus on temporary staffing…
SAP Ariba Sourcing: How It Compares Today and What’s Coming Tomorrow (Part 1: Benchmark Performance, Product Roadmap) - [PRO Content]
April 15, 2019 | Jason Busch
The strategic sourcing or e-sourcing technology market — we simply call it “Sourcing” in SolutionMap — has undergone significant transformation and bifurcation in recent years. On the one hand, disruption has come from simplicity and ease of use (e.g., Bonfire, Keelvar, Market Dojo, Scout RFP, etc.). And on the other hand, it has come from…
AI in Supplier Discovery: Tomorrow - [PRO Content]
March 25, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
In Spend Matters’ last PRO article for the AI in Supplier Discovery series, we overviewed some situations where you can find it today, or at least functionality that looked like it was enabled by artificial intelligence (even if it was not), and set ourselves up for a discussion of true AI that is going to…
K2 Sourcing: Vendor Analysis, Analysis and SWOT - [PRO Content]
March 20, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
The history of e-sourcing software stretches back to before the dot-com bubble burst, yet few of the original providers of RFX and auction management tools exist today as they did at their inception. Some were bought and consolidated into the mega organizations we know today (e.g., SAP Ariba, which acquired FreeMarkets and Procuri), while others…

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Incremental to exponential: 5 overlooked benefits of procurement automation : Michael Shaw said : Good summary. Great points, Alan....

Modernizing the healthcare supply chain in the coronavirus era : Jam Saeed Ahmed said : yes, investments in advanced manufacturing capabilities make it easier to build products in the Unit...

'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Thierry Jaffry said : I truly agree with Mark's analysis. And I would add a couple of things from the SI point of view: mo...

What Really Drives Valuation For Technology Companies These Days? : Pranav Trivedi said : Interesting read indeed !...

'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Jason Busch said : To be revisited! I've been involved in far too boring stuff of late, but I too look forward to the r...