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ConnXus brings its ‘Smart’ approach to supplier discovery with new SmartSearch product - [PRO Content]
December 4, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
The supplier relationship experts at ConnXus on Wednesday announced the launch of SmartSearch, a new supplier discovery capability based on business intelligence that enables granular search across category, geographic and diversity criteria for millions of validated global vendor records. SmartSearch takes advantage of ConnXus’ database of 22 million global suppliers to help buying organizations quickly…
Community-based Procurement — Get a Buy with Some Help from Your Friends (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
September 16, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
The Oxford dictionary defines “community” as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common” and secondarily as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals.” Procurement practitioners inherently have kinship with each other based on shared experiences, pain, rewards…
GEP: Vendor Analysis (Part 5) — Solution Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
September 10, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell and Jason Busch
In Spend Matters’ previous installment of our seven-part GEP review, we called out some of the real strengths of the SMART by GEP platform, including some that are rare in the market today. In this Part 5, we are going to balance our analysis by also pointing out some of the "weaknesses" of the platform,…
Mastercard Track: A Gateway to a New Kind of B2B Ecosystem (Part 2) — SWOT Analysis and Market Implications - [PRO Content]
June 25, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
Over a decade ago, American Express led the payments way in making innovative investments aimed at procurement organizations and their suppliers, primarily through its venture and partnership arms. (Remember MarketMile/Ketera, anyone?) But more recently, it appears that Mastercard has picked up the B2B innovation mantle, opting to organically build a solution aimed at buyers and…
Mastercard Track: A Gateway to a New Kind of B2B Ecosystem (Part 1) — Vendor Introduction and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
June 24, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
B2B payments represent a significant opportunity for payments providers. Within the U.S. alone, Deloitte research suggests that B2B payments are expected to reach $23.1 trillion by 2020, following a 5.8% CAGR since 2014, with large enterprises accounting for more than 60% of all transaction volume. Financial institutions, however, have placed comparatively less emphasis on the…
SAP Intelligent Spend Group is future for Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur (Part 3): How can the SAP spend platform ‘Run Simple’? - [PRO Content]
May 29, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
The integration of SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP Concur into a single operating entity within SAP, the “Intelligent Spend Group,” will be far more straightforward from a commercial and go-to-market perspective than a technology architecture and platform vantage point. This Spend Matters research brief, the third in our series analyzing integration considerations for the…
Tealbook: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
May 8, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann, Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
In our last Spend Matters PRO brief, we introduced you to Tealbook, a five-year-old provider based out of Toronto (with an office in New York City) that is deploying a new platform for supplier information management (SIM) and discovery. Combining machine learning to accelerate data cleansing and gathering with a social media-like user experience to…
Tealbook: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
May 7, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann, Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
Procurement organizations today talk a big game about automating transactional processes so that they can focus on upstream value creation opportunities. The thinking goes like this: The biggest opportunities for procurement are not in squeezing diminishing savings out of the usual vendors year after year but in identifying and contracting with the most innovative suppliers…
AI in Supplier Management: Tomorrow (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
May 6, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
In our last pair of Spend Matters PRO articles about AI in supplier management today, Part 1 and Part 2, we overviewed some situations where you can find AI in e-sourcing platforms today, where we define AI as “assisted intelligence” because, as we've stated in our series about AI, there is no true artificial intelligence…
After EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019: Product Strategy, Roadmap and Prospect/Customer Analysis (Part 3) - [PRO Content]
March 22, 2019 | Jason Busch
EcoVadis, which provides vendor ratings and scorecarding for sustainability and broader CSR metrics as a component of an integrated “many-to-many” supplier network and platform, has an aggressive product roadmap to expand how users interact with and leverage the supplier intelligence, which is at the very core of its value proposition. Today, in this final installment…
After EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019: How Its Offering Fits With Supplier Management, Risk Management Solutions (Part 2) - [PRO Content]
March 21, 2019 | Jason Busch
Last week, I represented the Spend Matters analyst team at EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019 customer event in Paris. In between lessons on sustainable supply chains, vendor CSR ratings and French labor unions I never knew existed — thank goodness for British Airways when the Eurostar shuts down because a handful of customs workers at Gare du…
After EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019: Company Update, Solution Overview and Technology Enhancements (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
March 14, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This week, Spend Matters founder and analyst team member Jason Busch represented the Spend Matters team at the EcoVadis Sustain 2019 customer conference in Paris, where about 500 attendees gathered. EcoVadis, a sustainability/CSR solutions provider that combines ratings content (CSR focused) and a technology platform, is not so dissimilar from providers such as Avetta and…

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“Ariba Doesn’t Have Customers, It Has Prisoners” : Loran Hancock said : I would go one step further, the fee calculation is wrong and overcharges the users that are require...

Procurement Leaders moves its event to the fall as a coronavirus precaution : Loqualist said : Tough times for business. Entreprises have to be strong. Where can we find the exact new dates for t...

AI will shift our industry even more than the internet did 20 years ago. Here’s why. : Peter Smith said : "AI will shift our industry even more than the internet did 20 years ago" Nope. Don't think s...

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : David Gustin said : Yes, because they do not offer an einvoicing or AP automation software. They are more a Treasury to...

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : Robert Solomon said : Hasn't C2FO made an entire business based on taking gain share from dynamic discounting?...