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Where AI Investment Starts Paying Off
AI investment is accelerating, but adoption alone is not driving performance. AI World Class IT research shows how leading technology…
SG&A Has Reached a Tipping Point
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs have reached a five-year high across Europe’s largest companies. Even with stronger revenue growth,…
Revenue Is Growing. SG&A Costs Are Growing Faster.
SG&A costs have outpaced revenue growth for five consecutive years at North America’s largest companies. Even organizations improving selling, general…
The AI Procurement Performance Gap
AI World Class research shows leading procurement organizations are redesigning procurement around artificial intelligence (AI) to generate up to 200% greater…
AI Solution Providers: 2026 Trends, Capabilities and Strategic Insights – Summary Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can assess, making it difficult to separate market momentum from…
AI Solution Providers: 2026 Trends, Capabilities and Strategic Insights – Full Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping enterprise software, services and operating models at an unprecedented pace – but most organizations still…
Sourcing Solutions
E-Sourcing emerged as a term in the 1990s as Freemarket and others developed technical solutions to enable organizations to negotiate…
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 (with optimization) Solutions
Sourcing optimization is a subset of the broader sourcing segment that goes beyond generalist sourcing applications and capabilities to help…
Spend Analytics Solutions
Spend analytics solutions provide a single view into all historic, current and planned spending to give the perspective needed to…
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…
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…
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),…
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…
Supplier Management Solutions
Supplier management is the default methodology to manage the lifecycle of suppliers. So, ‘supplier management’ concerns itself with ‘supplier lifecycle…