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AI Investment Starts Paying Off

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…

2026 European SG&A Cost Study and Scorecard

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,…

2026 North American SG&A Cost Study and Scorecard

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…

AI Procurement

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

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

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

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

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 (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

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 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 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 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 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 Solutions

Supplier management is the default methodology to manage the lifecycle of suppliers. So, ‘supplier management’ concerns itself with ‘supplier lifecycle…