The procurement technology market, decoded.
We map what 992 vendors publish, and what the wider world publishes about them, then decode it into one structured view of who does what.
- 2,055,114pages mapped across vendor websitesplus 136,325 posts, 14,289 videos and 17,415 job adverts
- 501,136claims extractedfrom 282,920 sources on 36,022 websites
- 8,886intelligence items kept after checking
- 992vendors decoded
- 96capabilities
- 12domains
Every vendor is also scored on four dimensions, built from 34 measures.
The procurement software market is congested, and changing. Researching it is a nightmare.
Hundreds of vendors, all claiming the same things, in language no two of them share. We did the work from the inside, and assessed every vendor on the evidence, not their marketing. We keep re-reading every vendor, and we keep every change.
Clarity
The whole market in one place, in one language. Faster, however you consume information.
Independent Objectivity
Every finding traceable to published evidence you can interrogate.
Education
The materials and the framework to bring your colleagues with you.
Four questions, in the order you'd ask them.
One market tracker, built from the evidence, answering each in turn.
Have you seen the whole market?
Coverage of 992 vendors, each mapped from its own website, its LinkedIn presence and independent research. One place, one language.
What do they actually do?
One taxonomy: 96 digital capabilities in 12 domains, tested against every technology vendor. Each is there or it isn't, backed by evidence, not the vendor's own label.
See the frameworkWhere do they fit?
Not what vendors sell, but what a procurement system relies on them for: where each sits in your architecture, and its technology generation.
See the market mapAre they any good?
Four dimensions built from 34 evaluation criteria, every one traceable to public evidence. But good is never absolute: what suits one organisation can be wrong for the next.
It guesses the question. It invents the language. It keeps nothing. We settled the questions first, and put them to every vendor in the same words, every time, with every finding tied to the source it came from and kept. Read the full answer
Two questions every procurement leader is actually asking.
Which one do I buy?
Three vendors all claim to do the same thing. Compare them side by side, on capabilities, enterprise readiness, technical maturity and market signals. See past the pitch decks to which one you can actually deploy, and which is right for you.
Where are the gaps in my stack?
Overlay the vendors you already own on the capability radar, see the capabilities nobody you own actually covers, then find the vendors that fill them. Stop buying overlap; start buying what's missing.
Your analyst team, on demand.
Powered byAskDPGThe work of an analyst at the speed of a search, grounded in our framework and data, never the vendor's marketing.
Every vendor briefed as if your own team wrote it, in seconds. Go Deeper switches on full analyst mode.
Up to five vendors side by side, with a written verdict on where they genuinely differ and which fits you.
The questions you'd put to a top-tier consultant, answered from a framework built by people who've run procurement at BT and Maersk.
Describe the problem in plain English, not by filtering categories, and find the vendors that fit.
Built for the people making the decision.
Procurement and CPO leaders
Evaluating software and building a shortlist you can defend.
Transformation leaders
Building the business case and choosing the partners to deliver it at scale.
Consultants and advisors
Building recommendations your clients will act on, grounded in evidence, not vendor decks.
Investors and operating partners
Assessing a target's procurement maturity in diligence, then tracking capability across the portfolio.
Technology vendors
Seeing exactly how the framework scores you, and making sure the market gets your story right.
Anyone can review this market. We've actually built in it.
The analysts and list-makers describe procurement technology from the outside. We've run global procurement functions, advised on them, and scaled the technology that powers them — so we know not just what each tool claims, but how it fits together and how you actually build a procurement platform that works. We check every vendor against one consistent framework. No vendor writes their own scorecard — every classification, score and recommendation rests on evidence, not relationships.
Adam Brown
Digital procurement leader, BT & Maersk · 15+ years
Guy Strafford
Co-founder of Proxima (acquired by Bain & Company) · 25+ years
Ben Jackson
CEO of Oxygen Finance · procurement fintech
David Bush
CEO/CRO at Simfoni, SpendHQ & Determine (NASDAQ)
The Dr. Elouise Endorsement
Dr. Elouise Epstein's personal mark for the most exciting early-stage vendors in procurement technology. She alone decides, with no application and no payment.
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