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Renhead: Vendor Analysis (Solution Overview, Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats, Tech Selection Tips) - [PRO Content]
September 2, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on Renhead and its capabilities that help companies (and their MSPs) manage their sourcing of both contingent and permanent workers. The brief includes an overview of Renhead and its solution offerings, a summary solution evaluation, a SWOT analysis and, lastly, a tech selection checklist for…
Zivio solution overview: A new offering for services sourcing and spend management - [PRO Content]
August 25, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
The UK-based software company Talon (officially Talon Operating Ltd.) has launched a new service/SOW solution called Zivio. The company also offers Talon, a direct sourcing and FMS solution, that is covered in Spend Matter’s Direct Sourcing of Workforce/Services (DSW/S) SolutionMap. Spend Matters has been following the contracted service/SOW solution market segment for some years, including…
Brightfield (TDX): Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, SWOT, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
April 24, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on Brightfield (TDX) and its capabilities. Brightfield provides enterprises with an extended workforce data-management and analytics solution (at this time, specifically enterprises that are highly focused on “digital” contract workers and SOW/services). This brief includes an overview of Brightfield and its solution offerings, a summary…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Contingent Workforce and Services Solutions — How to find the right workers, services in a crisis - [PRO Content]
March 27, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In this installment of our “Coronavirus Response” series, Spend Matters will focus on contingent workforce and services issues now that it’s not business as usual. In the COVID-19 crisis, the level of uncertainty in worker availability drives an increased need for workforce agility and, perhaps, new trade-offs between time, cost and risk. This may be…
Transforming from Contract Management to Commercial Value Management (Part 1): Setting the Table for Digital Transformation (especially for procurement) - [PRO Content]
December 11, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell and Nick Heinzmann
Are you looking to find that perfect business area for digital transformation this holiday season? Well, look no further than contract management. We know what you’re thinking: Improve the efficiency of processing legal documents? That doesn’t sound very festive, or even high impact! However, contract lifecycle management (CLM) itself is being transformed toward a more…
Brightfield (TDX) Raises a Whopper of a Round: Analysis + Implications for Contingent Workforce/Services Technology - [PRO Content]
October 1, 2019 | Jason Busch
Earlier today, Spend Matters reported that a $53 million Series A funding round was raised by Brightfield (TDX), formerly a consulting firm that became a provider of AI-derived market intelligence for the contingent workforce/services community. Spend Matters believes the size of the round — very large for a series A — is indicative of a…
VectorVMS: Vendor Analysis, Analysis and SWOT - [PRO Content]
September 11, 2019 | Andrew Karpie and Nick Heinzmann
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on VectorVMS and its capabilities that help companies with their contingent workforce programs. The brief includes an overview of VectorVMS and its solution offerings, a summary solution evaluation, a SWOT analysis and, lastly, a selection checklist for companies that might consider the provider.
Shortlist: Vendor Analysis — Analysis, SWOT, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
August 22, 2019 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO research brief provides an introduction to Shortlist, which describes itself as an FMS (freelancer management system) or, alternatively, a software-as-a-service platform for businesses to engage, on-board, manage and pay independent/freelancers. Shortlist was covered in the Spend Matters SolutionMap for software solutions that enable businesses to manage their direct-sourced, independent contract workforce…
Commercial Value Management (Part 3): Critical Commercial Use Cases to Align Extended CLM with the Enterprise - [PRO Content]
August 14, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
In our last installment of this CVM series, we highlighted a graphical framework to depict how commercial value management is about extending CLM into a more commercially enabling role in all enterprise areas where contracts (and value promises) are stored. In this next installment of this series, we’ll highlight these areas and how to unlock…
GoProcure: Vendor Analysis (Part 2 — Product Strengths and Weaknesses, SWOT and Selection Checklist) - [PRO Content]
July 17, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
In our last Spend Matters PRO brief, we introduced you to GoProcure, a four-year-old provider based out of Duluth, Georgia, that is deploying a B2B marketplace and platform for tail-spend management. Bringing together basic RFQ and requisitioning tools, a marketplace for procuring goods and services, and complementary services like a buying desk, GoProcure is positioning…
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…
Coupa, Services and Coupa Contingent Workforce: A Progress Report (Part 2) - [PRO Content]
March 5, 2019 | Andrew Karpie and Jason Busch
In this two-part PRO series, Spend Matters provides a review and analysis of Coupa’s recent evolution in addressing the category of services spend, including Coupa Contingent Workforce. In Part 1, we provided an overview of where Coupa is at with the integration and leveraging of DCR Workforce. First, we revisited the Coupa “services procurement” background/context…

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