Technology Insights
Research
Where AI Investment Starts Paying Off
Featured Insights
ZBrain® Platform
Technology leaders are accelerating generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) success by turning strategy into scalable execution. ZBrain® is The Hackett…
Digital World Class® Matrix: CLM Solution Provider Perspective – Summary Report
Digital World Class® Matrix: Contract Life-Cycle Management and Intelligence Solution Provider Perspective research report evaluates and ranks 21 top software…
From Risk to Readiness: The Executive Playbook for Scaling AI in Technology
Most technology functions are advancing AI, but few are ready to scale. The Hackett Group’s Technology AI Readiness Playbook reveals…
2026 Technology Key Issues
The Hackett Group’s 2026 Technology Key Issues Study shows a clear divide emerging – leading enterprises are redesigning workflows to…
Supplier Management Solutions
Supplier management is the default methodology to manage the lifecycle of suppliers. So, ‘supplier management’ concerns itself with ‘supplier lifecycle…
Spend Analytics Solutions
Spend analytics solutions provide a single view into all historic, current and planned spending to give the perspective needed to…
Sourcing (with optimization) Solutions
Sourcing optimization is a subset of the broader sourcing segment that goes beyond generalist sourcing applications and capabilities to help…
Sourcing (for direct) Solutions
Direct material sourcing solutions are a subset of the broader sourcing category. They share similarities with generic sourcing solutions, specifically the ability…
Sourcing Solutions
E-Sourcing emerged as a term in the 1990s as Freemarket and others developed technical solutions to enable organizations to negotiate…
Source-to-Pay Solutions
Source-to-pay (S2P) solutions are end-to-end solution suites that span spend/supply analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier management and transactional procure-to-pay (P2P) to manage…
Source-to-Contract Solutions
Source-to-contract (S2C) solutions suites are for automating upstream procurement processes, which include spend/supply analytics, sourcing (sourcing strategy and e-sourcing execution),…
Risk Management Solutions
In today’s volatile business environment, the importance of risk management in procurement and supply chain management cannot be overstated. Recent…
Procure-to-Pay Solutions
Procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions are advanced software systems designed to streamline and automate the entire procurement process. They make operations more…
Intake and Orchestration Solutions
Intake solutions aim to provide a user-friendly, fit-for-purpose data collection process to route, communicate and execute procurement requests by the…
Expense Management Solutions
Expense management solutions help businesses streamline and automate the handling of employee expenses. This includes capturing and creating expense reports,…
E-Procurement Solutions
An e-procurement solution automates, guides and approves the purchase and receipt of products and services through an electronic interface. These systems…